Sentences with phrase «economic facts about»

Here are some quick economic facts about the Baja California peninsula.

Michael Greenstone et al, Thirteen Economic Facts about Social Mobility and the Role of Education, The Hamilton Project (2013) The Pell Institute, Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States: 45 Year Trend Report (2015).

The Hamilton Project released a series of economic facts about K - 12 education in addition to three new discussion papers by outside authors — «Staying in School: A Proposal to Raise High School Graduation Rates,» «Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools,» and «Harnessing Technology to Improve K - 12 Education.»

«A Dozen Economic Facts about Education»: These economic facts about education help illustrate the state of educational attainment in the United States and the growing importance of education in determining people's well - being.

These 4 foldables cover: * The geography of the Argentina * Economic facts about Argentina * The government of Argentina * Cultural facts about Argentina This ebook is a downloadable PDF file.

These 4 foldables cover: * The geography of Brazil * Economic facts about Brazil * The government of Brazil * Cultural facts about Brazil This ebook is a downloadable PDF file.

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Consumer spending is hugely important to the U.S. economy — in fact, personal consumption involves about 70 % of U.S. economic output.

For the same reason that absolutely no relevant information about my economic health is conveyed by knowledge of the fact that I have a large trade deficit with my plumber (who is one of many people with whom I economically interact), absolutely no relevant information about America's economic health is conveyed by knowledge of the fact that America has a large trade deficit with China (which is one of many countries with which Americans economically interact).

There has been a lot of talk in European economic circles about the fact that since Germany's bilateral trade with the rest of the Euro zone is now almost balanced, its CA surplus is no longer an obstacle to growth for the Euro area «periphery».

Recent data show that he may in fact be right about global economic growth and domestic economic fragility.

This understanding draws upon the fact that the housing recession had been going on for about two years before a wider slowdown in economic activity occurred.

They ignore the fact that the EU's 28 member countries comprise the world's largest single market, equal to about one - fifth of global economic activity.

Couple this economic softness with the fact that just about any commodity you can think of from iron ore, to orange juice, to silver, to coffee, to copper is at or near a five year low and it becomes increasingly difficult to find any significant inflationary pressure and hence the imminent need for a (small) rate increase.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

I'm always dismayed, for example, by how confidently analyts and economists talk about the relationship between monetary policy and economic outcomes, when the fact is that the level of interest rates, changes in interest rates, and changes in the monetary base provide very little additional forecasting power for GDP, over and above forecasts based on lagged changes in GDP itself.

This ploy highlights the fact that Smith's advice runs counter to conventional thinking about the economy and society it is also a reminder that anyone can have a valuable perspective on economic problems.

(The important fact I missed about Billy continuing with the Superteam — which actually makes some sense — suggests that maybe their economic future is a little less precarious.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

The facts about these societies - facts about massive terror, repression, and economic misery, and, need it be said, about the persecution of Christians» were systematically ignored, denied, or explained away.

What was particularly astonishing about this economic programme for South Korea was the fact that there was little attempt by the US to hide its hand in the drafting of the programme.

The fact that this man views «economic growth» as all the voters care about sums it all up.

«Jobs and the environment» is a good slogan, but in fact we can not have both economic opportunity and a sustainable environmental policy without a fundamental transformation in some of our ideas about how we are related to one another and what makes life worth living.

To put it very bluntly, it is the fact that people are not very interested, at least they are not interested for long, in hearing any man's opinions about all kinds of things political, social and economic; they are interested in trying to find out what the Bible has to say.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Regardless of your opinions of Alisher Usmanov, regardless of the rights and wrongs of his business ethics and regardless of if we would have suffered due to the Russian economic trouble at present this fact tells you all you need to know about what's wrong with our club.

This response is understandable, but it overlooks the fact that of the 31 million kids who eat school food every day, about two - thirds do so out of economic need.

While oversight and accountability genuinely help the democratic process, representing the proper style of character and the proper valence of emotion mattered more in this referendum than facts about the economic prospects of the UK and of the working class.

At one end of the scale are opinion polls, which sample the whole population but may not reflect a well informed, well thought - out response to questions about government or public service quality, and may in fact reflect opinions on other matters such as economic outlook.

Ogunsola said key features on the website include key facts about Kwara State, economic advisory and management, Kwaras» Shared Prosperity Programme, and the 2015 — 2019 work plan.

Our correspondent Tom Foreman will be fact checking a new ad out Tuesday from the Democratic National Committee about House Minority Leader John Boehner's economic policies.

While I agree we need to resolve the heroin epidemic, address the lead issue, we can't have a discussion about the State of the County without discussing economic development, the fact that NYS is ranked the least friendly state for businesses and addressing the true purpose of county government — delivering quality services to all residents.

Fresh facts have emerged about the N13 billion uncovered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, Lagos.

But lurking quietly in the small print there will also be some hard facts about Britain's economic decline, about the failure of our current finance - and public sector - led approach to jobs, about the politically inspired fantasy forecasting from the Treasury in its pre-budget report just six months ago.

Turning to facts and figures, Next Wave's Vid Mohan - Ram summarizes the current situation of Chinese Ph.D.'s and postdocs in the Western world, telling you all you want to know about the scientific and economic culture in China.

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

In fact I was just talking to an economist this morning; you extrapolate the gross world product, the world economic activity and it has been just phenomenally consistent at about 3 percent growth rate over the last 30 years.

The study aims, in part, to address the fact that the U.S. spends about 40 percent more on health care per capita than the next highest - spending country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of 35 major nations — a figure that leads many to wonder whether there are significant inefficiencies in U.S. health care spending.

This finding from the 2015 edition of the center's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children fact sheet series underscores the magnitude of the problem of family economic insecurity and child poverty in the United States.

«Nearly half of American children living near poverty line: National Center for Children in Poverty's Basic Facts about Low - Income Children Report illustrates severity of economic instability and disparity in the US.»

Basic Facts about Low - Income Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in America, illustrates the severity of economic instability and poverty conditions faced by more than 31 million children throughout the United States.

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The economic fact comes from a new report in Variety about movie star salaries which...

The reward for your close observation is an unexpected conclusion sure to stimulate after - movie discussions about the loneliness, economic class distinctions and the nature of humans to embellish facts and even tell falsehoods to alleviate grief.

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

Key facts about the lesson are: The content covered by the lesson are; location of Mt St Helens volcano, identifying the plate boundary that caused the eruption, the primary and secondary impact of eruption and analysis of the economic, social and environmental impact of the eruption.

al. find that teachers who report greater economic stress and those with characteristics that would predict greater economic stress are less positive about teaching, report a greater likelihood of resigning, and, in fact, come to school less.

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Ryan Nunn, Lauren Bauer, Audrey Breitwieser, Megan Mumford, and Greg Nantz (2016), «Twelve Facts about Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry,» The Hamilton Project: Economic Facts Series, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

The guidelines will provide for a sequential course of study for each of the grades kindergarten through 12 and must include, at a minimum, the following: (1) knowledge of the research process and how information is created and produced; (2) skills in using information resources and critical thinking about those resources; (3) the abilities to evaluate information critically and competently, to recognize relevant primary and secondary information, and to distinguish among facts, points of view, and opinions; (4) access to information and information tools; and (5) an understanding of economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and how to use information ethically and legally.

When someone chastised John Maynard Keynes for reversing himself about a particular economic policy he had previously endorsed, he replied, «When the facts change, I change my mind.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.