Sentences with phrase «economic benefits even»

I have proposed a carbon tax in a way that would be a net economic benefit even if one totally dismisses the threat of man - made global warming.

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And, these numbers do not even include the benefits to productivity and economic growth that would stem from innovation by better educated Americans.

«China wants to be included in economic benefits here, that is the reason for their involvement even if they do not possess legitimate geographical reasons or logic to be considered a member of the region.»

A Royal Bank of Canada report released in early January even suggested that the benefit of a low dollar for exporters, coupled with an upswing in the U.S. economy and increased consumer spending in Canada, could offset the economic hit of low oil prices.

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

However, as long as there is not significant job loss or reduction in economic growth, there does not appear to be a great deal of harm in having a higher minimum wage even if the benefits are relatively modest.

These included overly optimistic economic growth and oil price assumptions; cutting the contingency reserve by two - thirds; selling shares in GM at fire sale prices; raiding EI revenues; and even booking «savings» from unilateral changes to federal employees» sick leave benefits.

Even though many Sino - Russian infrastructure projects could yield substantive economic benefits for both parties, they often face implementation challenges from Russia, which has frustrated China.

A crash in share prices would make a serious if temporary dent in America's economy, even though the underlying economic benefits of IT would continue.

Even so, the railways brought huge economic benefits to the economy long after share prices crashed.

The «Beyond the Border» and Regulatory Cooperation action plans promise to create an even more robust economic relationship and strengthen our global competitiveness to the benefit of our citizens on both sides of the border.

Even if the economic benefits of a limited program would be muted, though, isn't something better than nothing?

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

It is frustrating to see William Chip's well - documented argument of the economic and political evils of illegal immigration rebutted from Scaperlanda's supposedly moral standpoint, when in fact the victims in this scenario are the laborers working without regulations for workplace safety, without employment benefits, and even without police protection (since contact with law enforcement is associated with deportation).

All their successful efforts to stimulate economic activity did not benefit people even in narrowly economic terms.

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

He plumped for a supply - side strategy of tax cuts, even though the strategy failed to produce the private savings, the balanced budget or the economic benefits for ordinary workers that some of his theorists had forecast.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

On the other hand, well - managed tea production landscapes can help arrest or even reverse land degradation, while providing a range of economic and ecological benefits for local communities, downstream beneficiaries, and the global commons.

But even if it can be proven that breastfeeding moms earning trajectories are someone lower than formula feeding moms, I think we need to consider more than just earnings into the economic cost / benefit analysis.

I'm sure if we weren't so pressured to return to work immediately (let's not even get into the Hollywood effect - slim down before your post partum visit), the benefits of breastfeeding, economic, medically and socially (yes, i believe there are social benefits) would be farther reaching.

«It decreases asthma and allergies in babies, decreases the breast cancer risk in mom and there's even an economic benefit because breastfeeding is less expensive than formula - feeding.»

Even here, though, it is unclear whether Labour will benefit electorally - even if we see a quarter or two's economic growth before the electEven here, though, it is unclear whether Labour will benefit electorally - even if we see a quarter or two's economic growth before the electeven if we see a quarter or two's economic growth before the election.

This is what led the UK to make a counter-proposal instead of accepting the EU's first comprehensive offer back in June, even though it looked as if continued free movement (and its associated economic benefits) might have been on the cards for us at that point.

She also said support is growing among the Republican conference, even among members who doubt the medical benefits of the drug but see legalization as an opportunity for economic growth in the state's poorer regions.

He's even dismissing fracking's economic benefits for the economically depressed Upstate region: «There's a great number of people who say jobs aren't going to happen either,» asserted the governor.

And unlike a public sector pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings plan the city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.

So even though the North American canola business is valued at over $ 2 billion and the calculated economic benefit of the new technology is over $ 200 million, the company value before investment may be less than $ 500,000.

This avowed enthusiasm for science, from so close to the top of government, is encouraging, even if the details remain to be thrashed out and opinions differ on how big an economic benefit such a strategy might yield.

The conclusion: Even when selection bias is corrected for, college still makes economic sense, and the benefits are larger in some areas of study than in others.

That carries a big policy implication, Cohen says: It not only «makes both public health and economic sense to clean up dirty places,» but also means there could be significant health benefits from reducing air pollution even in areas that already have relatively tight controls.

«All the measures would deliver multiple economic and social benefits, even before considering their benefits to the climate,» they write.

«We found strong evidence that supplementing the income of poor, elderly populations can have significant benefits to health and well - being, even in the short run,» said study co-author Arie Kapteyn, professor of economics and executive director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

Even if we take the smallest impact estimate from our analysis (a 1.72 percentile improvement in reading scores, which corresponds to a 0.06 standard deviation increase), the economic benefits measure in the range of # 1,375 to # 3,581 over the course of a recipient's lifetime.

The state has one of the highest per - capita incomes in the country, and the average teacher makes $ 66,597, which even with benefits is on par with or slightly behind similarly educated private sector workers, according to Jeffrey H. Keefe, a Rutgers professor who studied the issue for the liberal - leaning Economic Policy Institute.

The long - running slide in mortgage payments 60 or more days past due will continue next year, and perhaps even longer as borrowers benefit from favorable economic conditions.

The economic benefits are at best uncertain for many mortgage investors, he added, even though he expects most players in the industry to participate, if only to avoid a tarnished reputation with the public.

The cowards wanted to hand over an economic benefit without raising taxes, because the rise in pension benefits does not have any immediate cash outlay if one can bend the will of the actuary to assume that there will be even higher investment earnings in the future to make up the additional benefits.

Indeed, it was a «cap» and a «floor» — emission reductions were held to 50 % even though the economic national benefit of additional reductions exceeded the cost by a factor of 25.

(Things can be even worse at the state level, as I learned covering the Hudson Valley for The Times in the 1990s and seeing parochial competition among neighboring counties persistently trumping arguments for economic strategies benefitting the region.)

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

Something to the effect that people tend to become squeamish or otherwise averse to the truly difficult task of challenging a culture's norms of behavior, especially norms that may currently benefit their particular tribe or socio - economic group, even if those norms can be shown to be potentially lethal to the individual or group in the long term.

Even if there are is no significant climate effect, it could be argued that there is a long - term economic benefit from preserving this non-renewable resource.

Significant reductions in energy use are an obvious outcome (with corresponding pressure on energy companies), but even more exciting are the social and economic benefits of being able to preform significantly more work with our existing energy resources.

The numbers are impressive, but the economic and climate benefits they make possible are even more remarkable.

We need to reduce carbon emissions for climate reasons, and should leave fossil fuels in the ground even if it means losing short - term economic benefits, but exposing Australia and the world to greater climate risk for no good reason seems like madness.

EnergyVision 2030 suggests one pathway to advance adoption of clean energy technologies in four core areas — grid modernization, electric generation, buildings, and transportation — and demonstrates that even relatively modest increases of clean energy technologies can significantly reduce emissions while delivering consumer and economic benefits for all.

The prioritization was carried out through weighted scoring taking into account: the ability of the measure to decrease climate change impacts; the urgency for implementing a measure in order to gain maximum benefit; «no regret» strategies that can be justified in economic terms even without climate change; positive secondary effects; and possible climate change mitigation co-benefits.

Even Ray Perryman, the economist hired by TransCanada to assess the economic benefits of the pipeline, said the effect would be «modest» and likely «swamped by the day - to - day factors that impact market prices.»