Sentences with phrase «economic burdens in»

We can all think of potential economic burdens in our retirement years, but few of us would think of student loans as one of them.
I believe that middle and working class families form the backbone of our community, and that we have been carrying more than our fair share of economic burdens in recent years.
Lead author Dr Matthew Jones says, «Smoking during pregnancy is a major global public health issue: a conservative estimate for the annual economic burden in the UK is # 23.5 million and in the US $ 110 million.
Highly hereditable, it is one of the most severe mental illnesses, with an annual economic burden in this country of tens of billions of dollars.

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In the United States, the total economic burden of major depression alone is now estimated to be $ 210.5 billion per year, according to the consulting firm the Analysis Group.
Even in the toughest economic times, our Government has worked hard to reduce the tax burden for Canadian families and Canadian businesses.
The economic burden of today's patent lawsuits is, in fact, historically unprecedented.
«Given these economic realities, there was simply no way for us to justify the cost burden of staying in San Francisco,» Ali Rowghani, Twitter's chief financial officer, wrote.
Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.
We are bringing together fiscal policy, development, and health leaders from around the globe, including Ministers of Finance, to address the enormous and growing health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in lower and middle income countries (LMICs).
In the final outcome, economic developments and political forces, along with unforeseen events will determine where a country's debt burden finally «stabilizes».
In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.
Assuming that the total amount of bad debt in the banking system exceeds total bank capital — something which is almost certainly true — the conversion of debt which can not be serviced into an equity position that is unlikely to generate much more (and in an economic downturn, which is when we are most concerned about the debt burden, we can assume that the decline in value of these equity positions will be highly correlated) leaves the net indebtedness of the banking system unchanged, and so the contingent liabilities of the government are unchanged even as reported debt in the system declines.
Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement today in response to U.S. Senate passage of S. 2155, the «Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act,» which will alleviate regulatory burdens for America's local and community banks:
In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righIn Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righin the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies righin deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.
Economic research on employer payroll taxes finds that their ultimate burden is shifted over several years to employees — via slower growth in wages and salaries.
Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.
In today's Financial Times, Larry Summers just happened to have a piece titled, «WHY THE HOUSING BURDEN STALLS AMERICA»S ECONOMIC RECOVERY.»
The countries that place the heaviest burden of regulation on businesses, according to the World Economic Forum, include many in Europe (Serbia, Croatia, Italy) and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela).
Women need to be able bring their distinctive biological burdens under their conscious control to be free and equal persons in our country's political and economic life.
We are also able to see more and more clearly the political and economic situation in Palestine — the character of Roman rule and of popular reaction to it; the burden of state and temple taxes; the extent of wealth and poverty.
As Lewis Lapham says, the barbarism in Washington today doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban, but wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of a Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields, for the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, for reduced medical insurance, for enhanced surveilance, or for some new form of economic monopoly.
He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.
An overwhelming U.S. military victory may create more problems in the Middle Last than it can solve, such as an unlimited U.S. military presence, more intractable Israeli - Palestinian hostilities, intensified Arab anti-Americanism, masse's of refugees, Syrian and Iranian ascendancy, immense economic burden and unending terrorism.
This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.
Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.
The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding between two and three times as many more mouths than they do at present.
In Europe people are asking how national self - determination and European unity go together in face of such issues as the burden versus economic advantage of guest - workers and refugeeIn Europe people are asking how national self - determination and European unity go together in face of such issues as the burden versus economic advantage of guest - workers and refugeein face of such issues as the burden versus economic advantage of guest - workers and refugees.
It could be that there are economic and societal pressures — external pressures — putting a burden on their relationship, but the fundamental problem lies in the fact of sin, which has been given free reign.
Traditional generational structures of authority have collapsed under multiple economic and political burdens in every region.
All religions are misogynist and based on delusional fantasies (and shifting their economic burdens onto nonbelievers as with property tax exemptions in USA)..
The economic factors of life in many primitive cultures dictated that those members of the tribe who could not share the burden of the struggle for survival were not carried by the tribe, even as revered, elderly dependents of the society.
The report Health and Economic Burden of the Projected Obesity Trends in the USA and the UK is available online.
There is hope that the ministers will acknowledge the strong public health arguments and overwhelming public support in favour of traffic light labels and see this proposal for what it is: a highly cost - effective policy that is likely to reduce the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases.
In turn, the need for special education and institutionalization decreases when children are older, which subsequently decreases the economic burden on families and the government, and helps kids become viable and contributing adults.
If someone chooses to indulge in a vice that puts an economic burden upon their neighbors, then let them pay a tax as part of the freight.
(a) It is in the national interest to promote clean and safe development of our Nation's vast energy resources, while at the same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation.
The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?
Also at 10 a.m., the state Senate Republicans unveil a 2018 «Jobs and Opportunity Agenda» that would provide significant tax cuts for businesses, cut red tape, reduce regulatory burdens, invest in workforce development, and strengthen New York's economic development programs, Room 124, state Capitol, State Street, Albany.
There is strong evidence that Labour is still carrying the burden of being in office when the financial crisis struck, fatally damaging its hard won reputation for economic competence.
The state's «population decline, economic stagnancy, failed jobs programs, highest tax burden in the nation, broken transit system, emboldened culture of corruption, secret government & [Cuomo's] closest aide convicted for selling the office all challenge» the gov's boast, tweeted Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (R), who hopes to unseat Cuomo in November.
The Business Council represents a wide range of enterprises across the state, all of whom are burdened by regulations and we look forward to working with the Governor and the Legislature in establishing in a joint commission to identify ways to eliminate regulatory barriers that make it difficult to do business in New York State and hinder economic growth.
This issue of tax and secrecy jurisdictions also matters to republicanism for another reason: the operation of tax havens has the effect of shifting the economic burdens of civic life from capital onto labour and supporting radical inequalities in wealth without the state being able effectively to regulate these economic dimensions of equality.
In that time, New York has raised taxes, created a culture of out of control state spending, increased regulatory burdens, and stood by as thousands of New York businesses have closed, moved out of state or endured economic hardships that have forced them to reduce their investment in our economy and eliminate private - sector jobIn that time, New York has raised taxes, created a culture of out of control state spending, increased regulatory burdens, and stood by as thousands of New York businesses have closed, moved out of state or endured economic hardships that have forced them to reduce their investment in our economy and eliminate private - sector jobin our economy and eliminate private - sector jobs.
In the Global Competitiveness Report 2011 - 2012, World Economic Forum 2011 it found that the UK ranks 83 out of 142 countries for the compliance burden it places on businesses.
A smoker, for example, tends not to suffer the economic harms that have social costs as a heroin addict as it tends not to impair abilities in the same way, so they have less burden on social programs.
The technology also reduces the global CO2 emission and the burdens on municipal and national governments in dynamically changing planetary and economic times.
«Not just to not have to play defense, but to work proactively with members of the legislature and the governor's office to reduce that tax burden, to try to reclaim some measure of economic competitiveness in New York State and put people back to work.»
As the state with the heaviest tax burden and the least economic freedom, New York ranks at the top in the export of jobs and productive citizens.
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