Sentences with phrase «financial disadvantages of»

What's more, the financial disadvantage of the Labour challengers in numerous North West marginals is highly apparent.

The Victims» Bill of Rights contains additional provisions that operate to the financial disadvantage of those convicted of sexual and other offences who are subsequently named as defendants in civil suits.

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Race and gender play a major role in determining just how big of a financial disadvantage we're likely to face.

He enacted Social Security in 1935 to give financial assistance to the elderly, unemployed and disadvantaged, and formed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934 to regulate the stock market and instill confidence in investors after the crash of 1929.

Is Real Estate a Good Investment — Tony's personal financial advisor, Ajay Gupta, talks about the benefits and disadvantages of owning your own home, and investing in real estate as a whole.

«Whether a self - styled seat - of - the - pants day trader or the kind of investor who intends to buy and hold forever, you're operating at a distinct disadvantage if you lack the skills to break a company down into its financial nuts and bolts.

By carefully measuring the advantages and disadvantages of forming a corporation, and consulting with an accountant, attorney and / or other financial professional, you can decide if incorporation is right for your small business.

One of the disadvantages of connecting with an [online financial organization], you're all alone.

Opinions vary widely about whether it is an advantage or disadvantage for the financial industry that Switzerland is more or less paralyzed in its relations with the European Union and the U.K. because of Brexit, and increasingly depends on the goodwill of the Europeans.

We want a pluralism of approaches, adapted to the complexity of the objects and to the uncertainty surrounding most of the big questions in economics (unemployment, inequalities, the place of financial markets, the advantages and disadvantages of free - trade, globalization, economic development, etc).

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

But «fraud» is a concept that is judged by courts: making false or misleading statements for financial advantage, to the disadvantage of your mark.

Also, while both of them have enjoyed periodic fundraising boosts off debate performances or unexpected wins, they continue to be at a financial disadvantage (Romney and his allies outspent Santorum and his allies by about 2 - 1 in Michigan and by 12 - 1 in Arizona).

This may be because the structure of the dwelling is not suited to basic energy efficiency improvements (e.g. solid walls) or because financially disadvantaged households lack the capital to invest in measures which bring financial benefit (e.g. Feed - in Tariffs).

«Young people have continued to excel despite these challenges which have been compounded for many by the Government's removal of financial support for the most disadvantaged students and its cuts to the system of independent careers advice and guidance.

The UK is not allowed to offer state aid, such as financial assistance, under EU rules that prevent countries from propping up companies and industries to the disadvantage of competitors from fellow member states.

«Young people have continued to excel despite the Government's removal of financial support for the most disadvantaged students and its cuts to the system of independent careers advice and guidance.

Trump entered the homestretch of the campaign at a pronounced financial disadvantage to Clinton, according to figures his team released, and far below the self - funding goal he set for himself earlier in the race.

«For many disadvantaged pupils, poverty of aspiration can be the biggest obstacle and there may be financial pressures pushing them towards early employment,» said education minister Andrew Adonis.

The purpose of this Fund is to assist in providing the financial resources required to mount an effective legal defense for Dean and Adam Skelos in recognition that a central strategy of the prosecution is to place the Skelos family in severe financial hardship and thereby put them at a strategic disadvantage in the courtroom.

Starting at such a financial disadvantage, Topinka (or whoever winds up as the GOP nominee) will need millions of dollars in support from the Republican Governors Association, which has a number of other more pressing priorities in 2006.

«This trial provides further evidence that providing financial incentives for quitting can increase smoking abstinence in economically - disadvantaged pregnant smokers and increase the healthy growth of their fetuses,» says Higgins.

It isn't just a lack of financial capital that puts many working - class students and faculty at a disadvantage; they lack social and cultural capital as well.

The panel also pointed out that financial penalties levied against hospitals may have the unintended consequence of transferring money away from hospitals that treat large numbers of disadvantaged patients.

In addition, a disadvantage may be the financial costs of combination therapy of GH and IGF - I.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

The status quo of complex information, complicated processes, and limited access to professional assistance are nudges in their own right: a confusing financial aid application, an unanticipated application fee, the lack of opportunity to visit a college campus all have the potential to convey the message that «college isn't for you» to a hard - working, talented, but socioeconomically disadvantaged student.

A coalition of nonprofit organizations and financial institutions announced that they had cobbled together a $ 36 million fund from a mix of public and private sources to pay for buildings to house five to seven charter schools in disadvantaged communities.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.

Apprenticeships can offer an important route for young people to get into careers and industries with strong earning potential, but a combination of poor attitudes, low awareness and lack of financial support means disadvantaged young people are losing out across the country.

Additionally, it has also urged the Low Pay Commission to invest in research that examines whether perceived low pay and lack of additional financial support is putting disadvantaged young people off applying.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

«I am still driven to resolve the financial inequities experienced by students in socioeconomically disadvantaged schools and communities, [but] my lens has changed,» he says, noting that he now is also exploring the impact of NGOs — particularly foundations — on these areas.

Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these institutions are denied any direct public support.

Vouchers that are targeted to disadvantaged students could theoretically help address the affordability barrier, but, in general, when governments target attractive financial benefits to one part of the population, politically powerful groups will exert pressure to loosen eligibility requirements to gain their own access.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

Large numbers of Catholic schools serving disadvantaged students in inner cities across the U.S. are closing because of financial challenges.

The goal of Title I is to provide low - income students attending schools with high concentrations of other economically disadvantaged students with additional financial support.

The report will also call on the Low Pay Commission to invest in researching whether perceptions of low pay and a lack of additional financial support are putting disadvantaged young people off applying for apprenticeships.

An article in Pediatric Prevention states: «The harms of poverty are much more than a matter of unidimensional material and financial shortage but, instead, are an encompassing and unremitting experience of disadvantage, trauma, and disease.

The financial strain is greatest for disadvantaged districts with little local wealth and large concentrations of low - income students.

Applications for new free schools should also be assessed on whether the value gained from increasing choice and competition outweighs the «disadvantages of creating spare school places in a local area, including the impact on the financial sustainability of surrounding schools».

The Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program is designed to remedy ongoing discrimination and the continuing effects of past discrimination in federally - assisted highway, transit, airport, and highway safety financial assistance transportation contracting markets nationwide.

The DOT Credit Council members include six representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST): the Deputy Secretary of Transportation (Chair), the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs (Vice-Chair), the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, the General Counsel, the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, and the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization provides technical and financial assistance, small business outreach and training services that help members of the nation's small business community compete for and participate in federally funded contracts.

49 CFR 26 (Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in Department of Transportation Financial Assistance Programs);

OSDBU maintains eleven of these regional offices covering all 50 states to provide financial, procurement, and technical assistance to small and disadvantaged businesses seeking to work with DOT and its grantees.

Other offices include additional elements from OST, the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) and the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)-- as well as the three OAs distributing financial assistance to DOT recipients - the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration.