Sentences with phrase «federal measures of»

Because of their unique position and small student populations, juvenile justice schools are historically exempt from most common state and federal measures of education achievement.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

According to California Department of Education data for 2014 - 15, 68 percent of Long Beach students qualified for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of economic need.

Not exact matches

President Obama announced a number of federal student loan reducing measures, which may also benefit entrepreneurs.

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

The federal government has a team of 10 cybersecurity professionals to help improve cybersecurity measures.

In economic news, the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation posted its slowest pace of annual increase since November 2015.

The Company's effective income tax rate and comparable effective income tax rate (a non-GAAP measure) from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2018 decreased to 29.5 % and 25.6 %, reflecting a lower federal tax rate related to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Reform).

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of U.S. inflation, the core personal consumption expenditures index, is seen stuck at 1.6 % for the year to September, exactly where it has been since March.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

TORONTO — The federal government is taking steps to ease emerging risks in the country's housing market with new measures to slow the injection of foreign cash and to tighten eligibility rules on prospective borrowers.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Partisan Conflict Index, which measures federal political tension by counting newspaper reports of disagreement each month, jumped after Trump was eFederal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Partisan Conflict Index, which measures federal political tension by counting newspaper reports of disagreement each month, jumped after Trump was efederal political tension by counting newspaper reports of disagreement each month, jumped after Trump was elected.

The measures would provide some variation of federal support, including grants, for states to beef up security of their election infrastructures.

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

U.S. data on Monday showed that consumer prices accelerated in the year to March, with a measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target as last year's weak readings dropped out of the calculation.

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold measures.

Trump may already have broad executive powers to institute measures like a travel ban, and his administration long ago set out to unwind decades of federal regulations across government.

The core PCE price index is the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Fixed - rate loans provide a measure of certainty, although your monthly payments on a federal loan can still go up over time if you choose an income - driven repayment plan.

But a continuation of favorable economic growth and low default levels — which we expect — and measured Federal Reserve tightening — which we also expect — should support more narrow high - yield bond spreads for some time to come.

The provision of the bill that has garnered the most attention is one that would raise the threshold at which banks are subject to certain federal oversight, including stress tests that measure a bank's ability to withstand an economic downturn.

An assessment of the impact of the upcoming federal budget's fiscal measures will be incorporated into the Bank's April projection.

Recent federal budget announced measures to bring Bitcoin transactions within scope of Canada's anti-money laundering law

The exit would be preceded by a gradual decrease in the size of asset purchases (i.e., a slowing in the amount of extra easing), followed by the end of asset purchases, a gradual withdrawal of excess liquidity from the system, measured increases in the federal funds rate and, eventually, a normalization of the Fed's balance sheet.

ATLANTA — Visa and MasterCard are using security measures prone to fraud, putting retailers and customers at risk of hacking attacks by cyber thieves, The Home Depot Inc. says in a new federal lawsuit.

However, the Bank has not yet incorporated the positive impact of fiscal measures expected in the next federal budget.

In addition, PBO's forecast for nominal gross domestic product (GDP)-- the broadest measure of the federal tax base - is considerably lower than the average of the private sector economists» forecasts released by the Minister of Finance on October 29, 2012.

Nominal gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the tax base for federal revenue, is projected to be about 6 per cent higher in 2010 than in 2009, which should impact positively on federal revenues.

Follow up submission to the Department of Finance Canada on the Second Consultation on the Review of the Federal Financial Sector Framework Potential Policy Measures

Submission to the Department of Finance Canada on the Second Consultation on the Review of the Federal Financial Sector Framework Potential Policy Measures

Now, in a consultation paper released July 18, the federal government proposes measures to constrain the use of private corporations to gain tax advantages.

However the most recent available data — from 2008 — showed that only 416 of those federal workers earned the minimum wage, leading some to say the NDP is exaggerating the measure's potential impact.

For instance, the New York Federal Reserve has an inflation measure, the Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG), that aims to capture sustained movements in underlying inflation from a broad set of price, real economic activity, and financial data.

(May 3, 2018) Telecompaper reports Germany's Conference of State and Federal Data Protection Authorities has released the measures it wants Facebook and social media networks to take following the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

In summary, we believe that the Institute's fiscal projections understate the magnitude of the federal deficit and that the some of the proposed restraint measures are unrealistic and will not yield their estimated savings.

One of the ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) measures hurricane damage is by the Waffle House Index.

A Federal Reserve - sponsored group that has been working on an alternative is slated Aug. 1 to discuss the timing of the release of the measure.

For example, the federal government implemented a number of one - time measures, including $ 4.0 billion in 2002 - 03 for health care initiatives, $ 3.5 billion in 2003 - 04 for health care initiatives and agricultural support, $ 3.6 billion in 2004 - 05 for the Wait Times Reduction Fund and $ 9 billion in 2009 - 10 to support the auto sector.

The paid leave order is the latest move by Mr. Obama to use his power over federal contracts to institute changes on a small slice of the labor market when he can not persuade Congress to enact those measures for the whole country.

For most of the public, the reputation of the Federal Reserve will continue to be measured mainly by our success in promoting economic growth with price stability, rather than by our interactions with educators and students.

But it also includes measures that the Opposition Parties may not want to support; for example; the increase in annual Tax Free Savings Account contribution limit; changes to the sick leave provisions of federal employees; and retroactive legislation to protect the RCMP from possible criminal charges with respect to the destruction of data under the Access to Information Act.

In a speech delivered Tuesday, the Fed's Charles Plosser hinted that the Federal Reserve should reduce the pace of its asset purchases in measured steps but an increase in interest rates «may come sooner than many...

Over the period 2008 - 09 to 2014 - 15, the federal debt increased by $ 155 billion, attributable to impact of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and the stimulus measures implemented by the government under its Economic Action Plans.

To eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16, the CCPA assumes that the net impact of these measures will result in higher economic growth and increased employment, resulting in increased revenues to the federal government of about $ 4.5 billion, on average, per year.

For example, the dollar as measured by the Federal Reserve's broad trade - weighted index fell in the second half of the 1980s and soared in the 1990s, but both decades saw robust growth.