Sentences with phrase «families paid the price for»

That can only mean the cost of living will soar as ordinary families pay the price for food from abroad.

Crippled economically by unfair competition leading to de-industrialization, families paid the price for «globalization» (a nice code word for the development of multinational corporate monopolies).

Not exact matches

Under this system, tariff s of 200 % to 300 % are imposed on foreign milk and milk products while here at home, prices are manipulated to the point where, according to a paper by former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, a typical Canadian family is paying in excess of $ 300 a year more than they need to for milk alone.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

With Ting's pay for what you use service, families can use their phones as needed, and then pay a fair price for what they used.

But if you had a larger family plan, you previously paid $ 15 a month for the access fee, so this actually represents a $ 5 price hike for every line you have.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

«Whether it is unaffordable housing, cuts to school classrooms, leaving seniors to suffer in understaffed care homes, long waits for basic healthcare, the lack of family doctors, or hallway medicine — ordinary individuals and families have paid the price for Christy Clark's tax cuts to the rich,» said Horgan.

«Christy Clark's delays made her friends in real estate very rich, but everyday families, who are struggling to find housing, paid the price for their profits.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

Now, $ 1,000 a year might not be much for someone like Mike Huckabee, but for a lot of families in this economy, working minimum - wage jobs that barely cover the rent, it's a steep enough price to sometimes put them in the position of having to choose between paying for contraception and paying the water bill.

I guess that is a very small price to pay for having so many family members together for a great day.

The goal, to celebrate family farms, create culinary awareness for heritage breed pigs and tilt the scales to favor today's emerging chef community struggling to pay premium prices for safer, more flavorful food raised by real farmers.

Pitango general manager Wade Gillooly wouldn't reveal the price Sydney - based Beak and Johnston had paid for the New Zealand company, but said becoming part of a family - owned business was a welcome change after a few years of private equity ownership.

A family - owned and operated, organic dairy farm that makes you feel good about paying a higher price for organic products.

He and his family have paid a price for his success and popularity.

Students who do not qualify for free or reduced price meals because their family income exceeds 185 percent of the poverty line may purchase «paid» meals, which receive a modest federal subsidy that supplements the price their parents pay for such meals (see Table 1).

Tim la Haye, says in his book The Battle for the Family: «I predict that this trend will produce millions of future adults who have problems with self - image, emotional security, depression, and hostility - a high price to pay for working, unless it is absolutely necessary.»

But only a small percentage of students at the school qualify for free or reduced - price meals based on family income and apparently fewer still choose to pay for the federally supported food.

The Baby Trend Expedition Double Jogger Stroller is a perfect choice for families of multiple little ones and while you get double the product you won't pay double the price as this stroller retails for right around $ 200.

Which simply underscores the progress she's made in Boulder, where she has to convince so many of the families there to pay full price for the meals.

«New York's working families will continue to pay the price for this of lack of leadership.»

He added: «The ideological drive to introduce markets and competition by creating yet more types of school has been a disaster pursued without thought for its financial cost or the price paid by those children and their families whom the Government has so badly let down.»

«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price of our failure is paid by the working people of this country and their families who do not have a government to stand up for them.

Families shouldn't pay the price for this government's reckless hard Brexit plans.

Leaders of the Working Families Party and their affiliates could pay a hefty price for shunning Gov. Cuomo in favor of rival Cynthia Nixon over the objections of its union...

While millionaires get a tax cut, 7 million striving working families are paying the price for David Cameron and George Osborne's economic failure.»

The human tragedy, of course, is who will pay the price for Cuomo's alliance with the Working Families Party & Co.: i.e., the children of actual working families, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't lFamilies Party & Co.: i.e., the children of actual working families, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't lfamilies, who have no avenues of escape from rotten public schools where they aren't learning.

«As usual, the administration sides with big, powerful special interests over the interests of average American families, who will pay the price for lower miles per gallon and dirtier air,» said Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, in a statement.

For City Hall, fighting homelessness comes with a heavy price tag: the de Blasio administration in one instance paid more than $ 600 per night to put homeless families up in Times Square hotels.

So in the case of this movie, well this movie winds up doing is actually asking a question, and the question it asks is what price do we pay for having all this wonderful technology that we are, you know, using — and you know, I love my computer, I love using e-mail and, you know, [Facebook and] Twitter and all these innovations, [they're] fantastic; and yet you can easily find yourself stuck into this and actually you're spending hours a day staring at a computer screen — and [yet] every moment that you spend doing that is a moment you are not with your family, with your friends, going out for a walk, doing something real in a real world.

They've deliberately done this and the farmers have profited, but the farmers» families and the whole population is paying the price for this with their health.

Susan Carland talks about her conversion, her family and the price she pays for her public

Although proud of his incredible athletic accomplishments and the impact he has on his students, David's family continuously pays a high price for his years of competitive running.

The female host, in the nicest way, rips into these old men for abandoning their wives and families — the people who, in a sense, paid the price for this great art.

Families living at or below 130 percent of poverty level — or $ 28,665 for a family of four — are eligible for meals at no charge, while those who live between 130 and 185 percent of the poverty level receive reduced price meals, paying no more than 40 cents per lunch.

If, as Warren Buffett said, «Price is what you pay, value is what you get,» then exam schools are a good value, indeed a real bargain, not just for thousands of young Americans and their families, but also for the wider society.

In that regard, it is obvious that a family whose total annual income is between $ 10 - 20k will be very unlikely to pay over $ 11,000 a year for center - based care (the mean price paid by families making more than $ 150k a year).

A central factor that seems to be driving differences in the price paid by families for center - based care is what economists would describe as the demand curve: the relationship between the price of a good or service and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase.

And, as before, to the extent that price is associated with quality and long - term outcomes, the disparity between affluent and poor families in the price being paid for center - based care is of concern.

The price paid by parents for center - based care is to the Child Care Aware data as the amount of money that families spend eating out is to a compilation of menu prices of restaurants.

Rather, as is the case for the previously described relationship between parental education and price, families with more economic advantage are paying more.

I don't have any problems with fancy private schools charging a ton and parents with means paying for those schools — I just don't think we should (a) give those parents vouchers or (b) allow those schools to charge those prices to voucher families.

The ideological drive to introduce markets and competition by creating yet more types of school has been a disaster pursued without thought for its financial cost or the price paid by those children and their families whom the Government has so badly let down.

Children and families are paying the price for exercising their right to opt - in to charters.»

Families are generally willing to pay higher housing prices or higher taxes for these coveted «free» schools.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said that Mr Osborne's policies had been a «terrible failure» which were «bad for Britain... and I'm afraid what we're going to see is ordinary families paying the price of that».

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

With low federal reimbursement rates for school meals (42 cents for paid meals, $ 2.81 for reduced - price meals and $ 3.21 for free meals), the added cost of healthy food gets passed on to families that can least afford it.

Two charter middle schools closed earlier this year in Albany, and we can debate whether or not that was the right call — but the fact remains that as another school year starts, there are fewer quality schools for families than there were last year, and it's their kids who are paying the price.