Sentences with phrase «economic center in»

Bigger picture, SV will be the center of technology for the foreseeable future, and like New York for finance, will continue to be a major economic center in the US.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second - largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago.

The Los Angeles combined statistical area (CSA) has a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $ 831 billion (as of 2008), making it the third largest economic center in the world, after the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York metropolitan area.

Today, the city is a major economic center in its own right, thanks to its booming manufacturing industry.

Curitiba is an important cultural, political and economic center in the country.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras defended on Friday his presence in Russia amid negotiations between his country and its creditors by hinting that traditional economic centers in the world are shifting, away from the European Union.

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Another report, published by progressive advocacy group Center for American Progress and FWD.us, found that repealing the program could cost the U.S. $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, and that contributions to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could drop by $ 24.6 billion.

A recent Pew Research Center survey of scientists and other analysts showed a deep divide in opinions on the economic and employment implications of robotics.

But she also stresses creating the environment for long - term economic growth, which is why a significant increase to the capital - gains tax for investments less than six years in duration is at the center of her plan.

«This is a pro-business issue,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. «You have a lot of firms that lose workers; making child care accessible and affordable can increase the labor pool.»

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Income - tax - evasion rates in Argentina are roughly 60 percent, and evasion of the value - added tax is roughly 40 percent, according to Marcelo Bergman, a professor at Mexico City's Center for Economic Research and Teaching and the author of Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America.

Today, that deal no longer looks sustainable, so a new, unspoken one now lies on the table: In exchange for a (further) loss of freedoms and (now) economic hardship, the Russian people will swell with national pride at a Russia — once mocked and belittled by the West — now retaking its rightful place at the center of global power politics.

The slowdown in economic growth has centered around consumer spending, trade, inventories and manufacturing.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

The left - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research noted the other day that the share of the prime working - age population with jobs is still below where it was in December 2007.

Earlier this year, in his most direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber threats pose «one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.

Indeed, the Center for Economic and Policy Research says the median net worth of near - retirees — those ages 55 to 64 — was $ 165,700 in 2013, down from $ 177,600 in 1989.

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy.

BERKELEY, California - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John C. Williams participates in a panel discussion on interest rates at the 2017 Clausen Center Conference on Global Economic Issues - 2100 GMT.

«These tariffs make for a very uncertain environment,» suggests Dean Baker, the co-director of the non-partisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C..

Heavy snow falls outside the Congress Center ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.

When Amazon opens and operates offices, warehouses, data centers, or Whole Foods locations in cities across the US, it often accepts economic incentives.

Gerald Udell, director of the Center for Business and Economic Development at Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield, Mo., is betting that you're not.

Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

«He is a long - shot,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, in Washington, D.C..

From 2008 to 2012, the board member in question — Susan Arnold, who chairs the compensation committee at Disney — received fees from Disney that were 70 % greater than the average received by Fortune 100 directors, according to an analysis by the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).

Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found in their recent report, «The Economic Value of College Majors,» that education majors are paid the least — specifically those specializing in early childhood education, who earn a median annual salary of $ 39,000.

In that missive, she mentioned how data center consolidation, cloud adoption, and cybersecurity could improve the internal workings — and economic outlook — of the U.S. government.

As he notes, China will, in the coming years, become the center of East Asian trade and economic integration, giving it even more power.

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Chapin has won numerous awards to support her work, including the John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History and a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to sucEconomic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suceconomic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to suceconomic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that most households have less wealth now than they did in 1989.

Join us for a tax reform Q&A with economist Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, on September 29 at 2 PM in The Weeds Facebook group.

Alicia Glen, the city's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said Amazon would probably get hardly any tax breaks if it chose to locate its second headquarters in Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the city's two traditional business centers.

«We should be ready, if we don't have 100 percent participation and if Europe doesn't want to give us more money,» Christos Staikouras, a member of the Greek Parliament from the center - right New Democracy opposition party and its economic spokesman, said in an interview.

The researchers at Strathmore University's Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) in Kenya used a 2013 estimate by the economist Friedrich Schneider which showed the average unrecorded economic activity in 49 African countries stood at 37.6 %.

He taught Economics and Finance at McGill University in Montreal from 1968 to 1973 and has lectured at economic, financial and investment seminars and conferences in various international centers in North America, Asia and Europe.

The New York Fed employs far more workers than any other Federal Reserve Bank — some 3,500 at our headquarters in Manhattan and our operations center in East Rutherford, New Jersey — and thus has a large stake in the economic and social well - being of the metropolitan area.

Fighting under the banner of «free markets,» it is now fighting to centralize economic planning power in Wall Street, the City of London and other financial centers.

The city has seen job losses in oil, gas, mining and construction sectors, according to the South Texas Economic Development Center.

Annual U.S. economic growth has averaged 2.1 percent since the economy began growing again in 2009, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.

Additionally, the Tax Policy Center has argued that many businesses with too little income or are losing money don't benefit from bonus depreciation, especially in times of economic recovery, and that it may not have much of an impact on long - term investment.

And whereas the old capitalism used a nationalist rhetoric to expand throughout the world, the new finance capitalism uses an internationalist one - world rhetoric while in practice creating economic polarization and asymmetries between the financial centers and the rest of the world.

He is active in organizing alternatives to global economic collapse for the Center for Process Studies in Claremont CA, and writes on liberation psychology, dealing with psychological principles and the societal macrosystem.

GrowFL is funded in part by the Florida High Tech Corridor Council and certified by the National Center for Economic Gardening through the Edward Lowe Foundation.

Perez along with White House National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., and other lawmakers will publicly announce the final rule at an event scheduled for Wednesday at the Center for American Progress in Washington.