Sentences with phrase «costs by all levels of government»

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Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

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Any cost to employers or government would likely be offset by reduced costs through better retention of working mothers and the greater likelihood of their working to their education / skills levels: Goldman Sachs have estimated an economic boost of 13 % in Europe were gender equity achieved within the workplace.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

New York's state government pension costs could be nearly $ 1.6 billion above previously projected levels over the next four years, according to the Mid-Year Financial Plan Update that was finally issued today — 11 days behind schedule, and nearly a week after Election Day — by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Division of the Budget (DOB).

He lowered state - level rates by merely pushing the costs of government down to the counties and towns thru endless mandates, forcing them to raise their sales and property taxes in turn.

We are driving the cost of government down, we are reducing the budget by nine percent to 2008 levels, we have reduced the size of our organization by twenty - two percent and we are still delivering services.»

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

Although the economic costs for control efforts have not reached the widely - reported $ 4 billion level predicted by government officials in the early 1990s, control costs of $ 120 million have been documented.

Nationwide, if only 15 percent of residential property owners took advantage of such programs, the emissions reductions would contribute 4 percent of the savings needed for the U.S. to reach 1990 emissions levels by 2020 — all at no net cost to local, state or federal governments because owners pay back the loans.

The government now offers two kinds of benefits: a dependent - care tax credit — equal to 20 to 30 percent of expenses, depending on parents» income level — that limits expenses to $ 2,400 for one child or $ 4,800 for two or more children; and so - called «salary reduction plans» that permit parents to have day - care costs withheld from their salary and reimbursed by employers without being taxed.

Some astute investors (such as Hussman and GMO) have argued in essence that the combination of record government deficit spending and unemployment levels has propped up corporate revenues while lowering labor costs, thereby boosting corporate profit margins by as much as 70 percent above historical averages.

It is hardly surprising that such reductions in subsidies would lead to «protests» and «outrage» from the solar industry; an earlier Washington Post article by Faiola in November 2009 took note of the fact that even with subsidies in place, average German families had a hard time adopting solar on a household level since they «can't afford the initial cost, which runs between $ 8,000 to $ 20,000 even after generous government rebates.

Despite over 50 - years of development and government support in Canada, nuclear power continues to be plagued by cost overruns, technical problems, accidents and the ongoing problem of how to manage its legacy of high - level nuclear waste.

This will require urgent and *** unprecedented levels of support — the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report indicates that the global cost of adaptation could be as much as *** $ 200 or $ 300 billion per year by 2050 — but it is right that the rich countries responsible for the problem help to protect the culture, heritage and identity of the most vulnerable communities and countries... Q: What should EU governments be doing about it?

There is a major fight heating up at the State and Federal level on how we set what the government calls the Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to tgovernment calls the Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to tGovernment on the harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to the planet.

The huge scientific uncertainty about the cost of inaction has obscured a surprisingly strong economic consensus about the economic cost of stabilising global CO2 concentrations at the levels currently being debated by national governments, that is, in the range 450 - 550 ppm.

Governments at every level must work together to ensure there are services for all people with psychosocial disability, regardless of their NDIS eligibility, as noted by the Productivity Commission's NDIS costs inquiry.