Sentences with phrase «disproportionate burdens»

A legislative approach could provide an efficient price signal and generate revenue to promote growth, reduce the unsustainable deficit, and compensate those who will bear disproportionate burdens.

Granted, owners at the low end aren't paying big bucks, but in terms of the percentage of the home's value, property tax rates represent a disproportionate burden.

In addition, because of the crushing and disproportionate burden of Dodd - Frank's regulations on smaller banks, the law has promoted consolidation of the banking industry and forced many smaller banks to exit certain product markets, especially mortgages.

Women bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, and children growing up in poverty are often permanently disadvantaged.

And, of course, girls bear the disproportionate burden of this sort of thinking.

«The provision excludes New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on City residents to cover the state's exorbitant Medicaid expenses,» Donovan said.

The proposed amendment exempts New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on City residents to fund the entire state's share of the Medicaid bill.

«It has become clear to us... a disproportionate burden will be placed on low - income communities and communities of color.

The Democrat, up for re-election this year, says homeowners and residents throughout 25 unique neighborhoods bear a disproportionate burden of the Albany's tax levy.

«Moreover, downstate accounts for 92 percent of all personal income tax revenues generated by New York's highest earners, putting a disproportionate burden on the region that is producing the most jobs and economic growth for the state.»

The imbalance, combined with the state's more than $ 3.5 billion in tax - exempt land, places a disproportionate burden on property taxpayers and an unsustainable way to fund city services.

That imbalance, she said, places a disproportionate burden on the city's property owners, who would face an estimated 22 percent tax increase if the current deficit were to be closed through revenue - raising alone.

«The provision excludes New York City, putting an unfair and disproportionate burden on city residents to cover the state's exorbitant Medicaid expenses,» Donovan said in a statement to the Observer, noting that New York's Medicaid program is among the most expensive in the nation.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with less developed regions suffering a disproportionate burden from the disease.

Those communities with the weakest voice in Washington are called on to bear a disproportionate burden when the country goes to war.

«Preventing uptake and eliminating tobacco use in this demographic is central to addressing the disproportionate burden of smoking - related death and disease, while also improving overall health and life expectancy.»

«We have shown that HIV - infected and HIV - exposed children experience a disproportionate burden of pneumococcal disease.

As young adults work to break the cycle of poverty or strive toward being the first in their family to go to college, they experience a disproportionate burden of stress — and were not resilient in terms of their future health due to the combined burden of lived adversity and striving to change it.

Prevention programs for sex workers currently occupy a tiny proportion of overall funding for HIV, despite the disproportionate burden of risk in this group.

An international team of economists has found that large cities may shoulder a disproportionate burden from climate change due to the amplifying effect of urban heat islands.

Women in the Amazon basin bear a disproportionate burden as climate change impacts their traditional territories and environment, their homes and their livelihoods.

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

It found «that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental right to equality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

It became apparent to us that homework demands represented a disproportionate burden for children of the poor and became a real factor in their decision to leave school.

It became clear to us that homework is a contested issue not merely because its pedagogical rationale is questionable nor even because it constitutes a disproportionate burden for poor and working - class families but also because of very widespread time pressures on a large majority of our population.

Citing two earlier cases that forced changes in state laws regarding students» rights to quality education through money spent and time of instruction provided, as well as evidence in Vergara, he said the plaintiffs «have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental to quality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

I want a system that measures the progress that children make throughout their time at primary school fairly and accurately, a system that recognises teachers» professionalism in assessing their pupils, and a system which does not impose a disproportionate burden.

If they are not, then the «renter» is shouldering a disproportionate burden on maintaining the property (and thus its market value).

Poorer households bear a disproportionate burden of the health damage due to low air quality because they tend to live in more heavily polluted areas, such as near main roads.

There is a real risk that negotiators and civil society groups will continue to consider the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement as the pinnacle of necessary action on climate change, when in reality the Parties to the Agreement must increase their ambition to cut carbon emissions and support the massive mitigation and adaptation financing of developing countries who bear a disproportionate burden of climate change impacts.

The current LPP levy is ill conceived and creates a substantial & disproportionate burden for many students contemplating participating in the licensing process.

This does not however apply if such measures would impose a disproportionate burden on the employer.

To allow the Claimant to attempt to prove his case at trial would place a disproportionate burden on the Defendants to resist it and they would be obliged to expend resources in investigating and defending a claim which relies almost exclusively on the fading memory of the Claimant.

I would require clearer evidence that the production of the database in the revised format was of benefit to both parties in the litigation or to the court or that the costs of the electronic production resulted in a disproportionate burden for one of the parties.

Is there disproportionate burden?

For example, the option of requiring «self - referral» by patients was insufficient for many reasons, including a disproportionate burden on vulnerable and marginalized groups.

Family violence is an issue in Australia beyond Indigenous communities and it is important to understand that despite the disproportionate burden of violence against Indigenous women, violence against women is not normal in Indigenous culture.

«The findings indicate that Ontario renters are carrying a disproportionate burden of property tax,» says the report.

Not exact matches

Mattis also said that America's allies must contribute as much to security as the US does and that the US can not shoulder a disproportionate share of the security burden.

Conservatives argue that the bulk of a tax cut should go to the wealthy since they carry such a disproportionate amount of the burden; besides, they're more likely to invest their tax cut instead of spending it, and investment is where economic growth comes from.

For years in our marriage Charlotte felt burdened by a disproportionate share of the dirty work; I felt the full load of breadwinning.

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BRONX, NY — Today, New York City Council candidate, Mark Gjonaj, standing with a group of Bronx community leaders, announced the filing of a lawsuit charging that the City of New York is unduly burdening the Bronx with a disproportionate level of supportive housing facilities.

Ministers in Britain are currently concerned the UK is sharing a disproportionate share of the military burden in Afghanistan, leaving its troops overstretched across the Middle East.

In central Europe, falls cause a disproportionate amount of disability and health burden, ranking as the second leading cause of disability in 11 of 13 countries.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

The burden of disease is even more disproportionate among 13 - to 24 - year - olds, an age group in which African - Americans or blacks (government agencies tend to use the terms interchangeably) account for 57 % of new infections.

When we consider planning, it isn't about writing a detailed lesson plan that talks a good game, taking a disproportionate amount of time to create and therefore increasing the workload burden, to the contrary, squeezing every last drop of learning out of every lesson should be about planning sequences of learning whereby it challenges all students, relative to their starting points.

The purpose of the Executive Order is to ensure that regulatory agencies and the SBA Office of Advocacy work closely together as early as possible in the regulatory drafting process to address disproportionate impacts on small entities and appropriately reduce their regulatory burden.

At DOT, we analyze the costs and benefits for all of our rulemakings to ensure that potential impacts of draft rules on small entities will be properly considered, and, where possible, we try to alleviate any disproportionate regulatory burden on small entities.