Sentences with phrase «economic toll of»

In their 2014 New York Times post, The Economic Toll of Daylight Saving Time, David Wagner and Christopher Barnes go further to state that «their research also showed that employees with inadequate sleep are likely to be less ethical, less morally aware, more prejudiced and more apt to engage in abusive supervision.»

The growing economic toll of the trolls, which came to target everyone from big tech companies to small coffee shops, eventually led to calls for Congress to pass laws to stop them.

The economic toll of capitulating to these demands, however, has been underestimated (or worse, suppressed) and in my view that has been deliberate.

«Those who justify the need for greenhouse gas reductions by exploiting the mounting human and economic toll of natural disasters worldwide are either ill - informed or dishonest.»

Recent studies examining the economic toll of mass incarceration in the United States conclude that the full cost exceeds $ 1 trillion — with about half of that burden falling on the families, children and communities of people who have been imprisoned, and ultimately removed from civic life.

Most of those deaths are concentrated among the world's poorest populations, according to a study published online October 19 in the Lancet that documents the health and economic toll of pollution in 2015.

Mr. Stringer estimates that the overall economic toll of subway delays ranges from $ 170 million to $ 389 million annually.

In his analysis, Mr. Stringer estimates that the overall economic toll of subway delays during the morning rush - hour ranges from $ 170 million to, in the worst case, as much as $ 389 million annually.

Not exact matches

Symptoms include lack of energy, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, substance abuse, anxiety, and thoughts of self - harm, which, while clearly not great for mental or physical health, also take a toll on economic productivity.

Despite plenty of populist opposition, road tolls actually make good economic sense when it comes to building and maintaining roads and controlling congestion.

The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300 miles of coastline in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.

The fact that the NEB asked Enbridge to conduct more detailed surveys and gather more baseline data AFTER the project was approved couldn't make it more obvious that the government's priority is economic development regardless of the socio - ecological toll.

He decided to take a stand, he said, not only because of the economic implications, but also because he could not ignore the human toll that deportation would take on people who have been working and going to school legally and have mostly known only one country — the United States.

Although the chaotic evacuation of 80,000 people through walls of flame will likely haunt its brave participants for years, a slow global economic burn has already taken a nasty toll on the region's workers.

While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S - TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and ps - ychological consequences of ST - Ds, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

While sub-stantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain ST - Ds in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psy - chological co-nsequences of S - TDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S - TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of S - TDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

And she concludes by warning of the epidemic's economic impact, saying that «the bell tolls for thee, globally.»

«Although the tough economic climate is taking its toll on us here in the UK, its impact is being particularly deeply felt by millions of vulnerable people in developing countries, who don't have a safety net to fall back on.

It should be noted that if you include deaths from sweatshops, activities outlined in «confessions of an economic hitman», and a handful of wars... capitalism likely has quite the death toll behind it as well, but where do you draw the line between imperial ambitions and capitalism... and if we're willing to draw that line for capitalism, where does that line lay for the communists death toll?

The Prime Minister has had a bad few months — rebellions on Europe, gay marriage, the lack of economic growth, and the growing sense that Britain is about to be sucked into yet another damaging and costly foreign war have taken their toll on Dave's relationship with his Party.

«Nothing at all reduces economic development like the price of these tolls.»

According to the organization, «In the face of rising poverty and economic inequalities across the country, the Lagos State government should be considering eliminating toll charges rather than allowing the Lekki Concession Company to get away with overcharging citizens and residents and prioritising profits over the public interests.

He said: «Already, in little over 160 days, we have delivered major policies such as restoring free education by abolishing the graduate endowment, scrapping tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges, saving vital A&E units, and establishing the Council of Economic Advisers to help boost growth in Scotland.

I had preferred Teachout... but Cuomo is right the economic impact of Bonespurs tax plan will take a toll on the economic viability of the state with the nations highest per capita Gross State Product for 2016.

Last year, the state's multi-billion windfall was divided up, with money sent to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, an infusion of cash for the competitive economic development project proposals and money to avoid toll hikes on the state Thruway Authority.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode «to take steps to immediately reverse the unfair and discriminatory toll charges at the Lekki - Epe Expressway and Lekki - Ikoyi Link Bridge toll gates by the Lekki Concession Company, if the Lagos State government is not to run the risk of undermining the public interests, democratic values and accountability, and opportunities for participation.»

«The primary beneficiaries will be Staten Islanders... (and) we are committed to the public release of the economic impact study that the tolls have on Island businesses,» said Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye.

So far, the governor has detailed plans to spend $ 3.3 billion: $ 1.5 billion will be doled out in a competition to spur economic development in three upstate regions; $ 1.3 billion will go to the Thruway Authority to help prevent toll hikes and offset the cost of building the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge; and $ 500 million will be used to build out broadband internet infrastructure in remote areas.

Grand Island Town Supervisor Nathan McMurray said they often talk about economic impacts of the tolls, but he said there is also a health impact from the stop - and - go traffic to the antiquated way tolls are collected.

The Centre for Vision in the Developing World, set up by University of Oxford physicist Joshua Silver, says that by 2030 eyesight will be one of the world's top 10 health issues in terms of productivity and opportunities — taking a bigger economic toll than the HIV epidemic.

«El Nino directly affects the climate of more than half the planet, often exacting a heavy toll in human life and economic wellbeing,» says Cane.

There are tens of thousands of unreported protests in China each year, a rising number of which are over environmental disputes in a country where rapid economic growth has taken its toll on the air, water and land.

Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,» said Alan Magill, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which publishes the journal.

From the heavy rains that sent the Seine into the streets of Paris last year to a parade of storms that left southern England waterlogged during the winter of 2013 - 2014, there have been startling examples in recent years of the heavy toll that flooding can levy in both human and economic terms.

The economic, social, and emotional tolls of these deaths are substantial, but some parts of the US are bearing heavier burdens than others.

The deepening economic recession is taking its toll on state budgets, and a number of states enter the new fiscal year without a budget.

According to the Project, the proposed I - 77 High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes will support the growing population of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina area and further facilitate growth, allowing for continued economic expansion with businesses moving to the area and promote economic development.

For mortgage providers everywhere, the economic crises of the last few years have taken their toll.

In today's economic climate of tighter credit requirements and increased unemployment rates taking their toll on some Canadians, there's no doubt that many people may not fit into the traditional banks» financing boxes as easily as they may have just a year ago.

«The equine industry has weathered a tough economic environment since 2007, and it has certainly taken its toll on equine veterinary practices,» said Jeannie Jeffery, Henry Schein Animal Health national director of equine sales.

Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second - costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Recent decades of unparalleled economic growth has taken a drastic environmental toll in China, including record air pollution levels in Beijing.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

The number of heatwaves observed in 2011 and 2012 were triple the long - term average, and require planning for economic, health and environmental tolls.

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The authors say a better understanding of the climate impact of fire will enable scientists develop models to more accurately forecast future future change — important given the rising economic toll from uncontrolled burning.

America's economic slowdown is hurting all kinds of industries, but it is taking an especially hard toll on the favored Green business of recycling.

«These dangerous pollutants can worsen asthma and other respiratory diseases; cause heart attacks, cancers and stroke; and exact an enormous economic toll in terms of health - related costs and lost productivity.

Each additional ton we emit going forward only increases the dangers of climate change, multiplying the economic, environmental, and human toll.