Sentences with phrase «dollar pay raise»

Breaking tradition: A fixed - dollar pay raise strategy that benefits teachers and school districts In this analysis Marguerite Roza examines both the degree to which pay systems for teachers are more heavily back - loaded than for many other professions and the ramifications of this steep salary curve for teachers, states and school...

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As the industry matures, investors will start paying closer attention to financial statements and put their dollars with companies that are the most transparent, forcing other firms to follow suit and raising standards across the sector.

So if the value of the dollar rose, Mexican companies could raise their prices in pesos to pay for the tariff, and those higher prices wouldn't be felt by American consumers because higher value dollars would compensate for the difference.

The Atlantic reported that Pruitt went behind the White House's back to give a pair of aides pay raises worth tens of thousands of dollars after the administration had already rejected the salary bumps.

Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.

After nine months, she should have a handful of paying customers and some specific data she can use to raise a couple million dollars.

Tesla's record net loss in the first quarter and fast - burn through millions of dollars is raising questions about the company's ability to pay all its bills.

Ponzi schemes were named for Charles Ponzi, a man who raised millions of dollars from investors in a stamp scheme, but in fact was just paying early investors with money raised from later investors.

Coupled with the falling dollar, which raises the cost of imports, those trends could elevate inflation for several years and, he said: «The upside risk to inflation is something markets should be paying more attention to.»

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

But in another sense, Uber keeps raising billions of dollars from investors to pay for its losses as it grows, so it can't easily afford to alienate all the big investors it already has.

Anbang has been under scrutiny since a multibillion - dollar string of global acquisitions raised questions about how it paid for its buying spree, including the $ 2 billion purchase of the Waldorf.

This question was raised in Russia in 1996 - 98, when IMF and U.S. advisors argued that it would be inflationary to pay wage arrears to workers unless the budget deficit were financed by borrowing an equivalent volume of dollars.

QE is misused true, it should be used to pay down debts more and companies less, and the interest rate should be raised half a percent straight away, maybe more to avoid a long - term bear market soon, but the US Dollar is strong right now because the US economy is fairly productive.

These devices have dramatically raised recycling rates while paying millions of dollars to consumers for those unwanted electronics.

Uber also raised salaries for all employees to help close the gender pay gap in July of 2017 — an endeavor that likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, as The Information reported at the time.

It is not clear who will pay for replacement windows, as the National Cathedral still struggles to raise millions of dollars for repairs dating from 2011, not to mention basic ongoing maintenance for a sprawling magnificent church that lacks a strong supporting congregation.

The Democratic Senate «Crazy» Committee will need every dollar they raise to pay for all the lawyers they will need if the «FEDS» investigations lead to indictments of it's leaders.

Of course, Barack Obama paid Blue State Digital and other vendors a big chunk of change for online services in 2008, but he was also raising tens (later hundreds) of millions of dollars at the time.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli noted today that the state's general fund has run a negative balance every day so far this month, which raises questions about whether there will be sufficient funds on hand to pay billions of dollars worth of bills that will come due before June is out.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

Legislators voted to raise their base pay to $ 10 thousand dollars.

Of Republican Gov. George Pataki, Levy said in debate: «The governor is raising taxes by billions of dollars, taxing everything that moves, taxing everything and everyone — except those who can most afford to pay.»

The Campaign for One New York has raised and spent millions of dollars since early 2014 to help advance his plans for universal pre-kindergarten and has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to political consulting firms run by some of his closest allies.

The $ 1,017,752 in pay raises to 104 nonunion employees comes as Nassau struggles to plug a multimillion dollar budget deficit.

Cuomo has said he does not want to raise taxes to pay for programs and to close a budget deficit of at least one billion dollars.

«We have to be mindful if we're going to make them pay $ 15 for a minimum wage, and they're relying exclusively on Medicaid dollars, it just makes sense to raise the cap and the reimbursement rate for Medicaid.»

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

Gelinas says if the state wants to pay for the project, estimated at $ 4 billion dollars, it will have to raise tolls by three times as high as the current rate of $ 5.00.

«But what did they expect running a candidate from Brooklyn whose views on everything from raising taxes, to forcing hardworking families to pay for campaign ads, to giving billions of dollars to Iran to build nuclear weapons with which to threaten Israel are miles outside the political mainstream?

In 2012, Ken Ofori - Atta messed all of us up when he had hoard the millions of dollars NPP had raised from its cheerful giving financiers to the extent that, there was no money to pay for polling agents of the NPP, that was how pathetic it was.

Success Academy raises millions of dollars from Wall Street but then claims they can't afford to pay rent and instead must rely on public resources.

He says he's in agreement that lawmakers should get a modest pay raise but says he wants other items finished as well, including freeing up $ 1 billion more dollars to help the homeless and the expansion of the state's hate crimes law, and the state police authority to enforce them.

As a Republican legislator, Sparaco has voted against tax increases, even as the county's multimillion - dollar deficit swells; he's fought pay raises for county employees; and tried to eliminate the county's Youth Employment program.

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

ALBANY, NY — The Office of the State Comptroller of New York issued an audit of the Westchester County Health Care Corporation («WCHCC») which has raised questions about millions of dollars in bonuses paid out to senior executives with little or no indication that the bonuses had been earned.

When the 109th Congress adjourned, hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding suddenly vanished, to be replaced by the CR's flat budgets, which actually translated into decreased purchasing power because of inflation and civil - service pay raises.

Because Beyond Type 1 Founders and Founding Friends pay all operational and fundraising expenses, 100 % of every dollar raised through these programs directly supports the most promising global efforts working to educate, advocate, and eventually cure type 1 diabetes.

The latest in the long - running series of pay - what - you - want indie bundles has sailed past one million dollars raised in less than 24 hours after going on sale.

Against this backdrop, it's tough for Republican governors to insist, «Well, sure, our party's leaders in Washington can find huge dollars for tax cuts and defense, but we can't afford a pay raise for struggling, hard - working teachers.»

«Our per - pupil spending is up 10 percent in the state of Arizona, and the amount of dollars available for teacher pay — that's both raises and new teachers — is plus - 9 percent since 2015.»

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In reforming teacher pay scale, districts should also consider giving fixed - dollar raises rather than a percentage increase.

DPI spokesman Tom McCarthy said because the Republican - controlled Legislature has cut funding for schools and set limits on the amount of money districts can raise officials have fewer dollars to spend on pay.

SUMMIT, N.J. — A New Jersey high school student has raised thousands of dollars to pay off the lunch debts of students at other schools after she says she was disturbed by the so - called «lunch shaming» she saw at her previous school, according to the Jersey Journal.

In addition to considering how much Apple will pay, an amount that could be in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars under existing anti-trust precedent which allows for triple that amount in cases involving price fixing, Judge Denise Cote will also consider the concerns that the DOJ has raised that Apple's punishment wasn't strict enough to prevent the tech giant from engaging in similar deals down the road.

As the industry matures, investors will start paying closer attention to financial statements and put their dollars with companies that are the most transparent, forcing other firms to follow suit and raising standards across the sector.

HUD's real goal with FHASecure is to have as many people as possible paying risk - based premiums — this raises additional dollars for HUD and the Treasury Department and gets rid of risky borrowers who can not afford steep premium costs.

Likewise, if a person receives no raise from work each year, they actually have received a pay decrease in real terms while still being paid the same amount in nominal terms (the dollar value you see on your paycheque)

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.