Sentences with phrase «for social spending»

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

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As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

The takeaway: While Sanders» team may not be innovating in social engagement, it is taking the other candidates to task with strong content marketing and some serious social ad spends to get visibility for his brand and messaging.

According to a report published by Business Insider, ad spend for social media this year is expected to surpass $ 8.5 billion.

For an entrepreneur, time spent on social media might seem like a distraction from the more important tasks central to running a business.

Before founding Social Change Nation, Schukman spent a decade working with companies to develop cause - driven brands such as AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity and World Relief.

The need for sustained fiscal consolidation that protects much - needed social spending and investment while ensuring stability also persists.»

Sometimes my time spent on social media ends up leading me to new trends, products, or styles I wouldn't have otherwise considered writing about or buying for myself.

The package mixed economic and social spending, helping states train displaced workers, for example, extending jobless benefits and assisting with low - income housing.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

The average internet user spends 1.72 hours every day on social media, making social media platforms valuable places for your business to attract new customers.

For habitual social media users, tech early adopters and younger demographics, time - spend can be dramatically higher.

Lower GDP and especially recessions tend to mean higher spending as more people become eligible for unemployment benefits, food stamps, and other social programs.

Zuckerberg, of course, spent the past year facing intense criticism for failing to prevent Russian entities from spreading propaganda on the social network.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

So, high - earning households spend significantly more of their income on Social Security — which is automatically deducted from all earned income for individuals at a rate of 6.2 % — and payments into retirement plans.

Suddenly, Barkan is fighting not just for social justice but his own life prospects and ability to spend more time watching his young son grow.

In tracking all the comings and goings to the S&P 500 for the last 50 years, the study shows that the duration companies spend on the list fluctuates in cycles mirroring the overall state of the economy and disruption from new technologies, including biotech breakthroughs, social media, and cloud computing.

Too much time spent with devices is bad for kids» sleep and crowds out essential activities like physical exercise and social play.

During the six years I spent in Asia implementing social and environmental standards for multinational companies, I visited Burma several times.

It spent a further 140 million roubles in 2016 for general financing of social programmes across Russia, the report said.

For Republicans, the timing provides crucial leverage to force Democrats and the president to cut spending in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, expensive benefit programs that Democrats have long protected, despite escalating costs.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

A recent study by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation found that workers typically spend one hour of their workday browsing social media, rising to 1.8 hours for millennials.

The study also showed that time spent on social media sites is more for personal reasons than for job - related activities, with less than 7 percent of respondents indicating they use social media exclusively for work purposes.

According to the Content Marketing Institute, social media and blogs account for 23 percent of all time spent online.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is set for a second day of grilling by Congress Wednesday after spending five hours fielded questions from Congress the day before on the recent Cambridge Analytica data leak raised questions on the social media network's privacy and how users» data is handled.

In a world of digital transactions, however, you have «no real feel for what you're spending,» says Bloch, who did research in behavioral finance at the University of Florida before embarking on a career that has included turns as a corporate accountant, personal finance video - blogger and founder of a social media marketing company.

Yet despite the enthusiasm for social - media marketing — and estimates that total business spending on it will surpass US$ 3 billion per year by 2014 in the U.S. alone — many questions remain.

While some have argued for ignoring the spending limits, others want to offset the hikes with cuts to either domestic programs or so - called mandatory programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Although Facebook's website remains one of the Internet's top destinations, there have been early signs that the social network is losing some of its pizazz, particularly among younger Web surfers who are starting to spend more time on other fraternizing hubs such as Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, a photo - sharing site that Facebook bought for $ 521 million last summer.

For millennials «more than any other generation, social media and the allure to spend beyond their means could have long - term negative effects on their finances if they're not careful.»

For one, people may be spending so much time on social media that they have less time to get out and do social things in the real world.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Researchers found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to peers who spent less than half an hour.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

For businesses using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, it's easy to get lost in cyberspace and spend hours on the computer.

That leaves the door open for consultants and freelancers looking to help businesses conceptualize, execute, and measure their social media ad spend.

This is helpful for my team and me, as we, like most companies, spend time at the end of the year analyzing performance and looking ahead to changes in social media and content marketing trends to plan and budget for the new year.

Instead of spending tax dollars on programs such as welfare, food stamps, Medicare and Social Security for some of the population, give an equal amount to everyone and be done with it.

For many years individuals, businesses and brands wasted huge amount of money and time paying for adverts, gain more followers or spent a lot of cash on midle companies such as SEO service providers, leads generators or social media management softwarFor many years individuals, businesses and brands wasted huge amount of money and time paying for adverts, gain more followers or spent a lot of cash on midle companies such as SEO service providers, leads generators or social media management softwarfor adverts, gain more followers or spent a lot of cash on midle companies such as SEO service providers, leads generators or social media management softwares.

There may be a four - hour workweek for the social media entrepreneurs who call themselves CEOs while blogging in their pajamas, but for the real deal, if it's a choice between adding to an 80 - hour workweek or spending a few hours with their family, that's a no - brainer — if they want to keep their family happy, that is.

Social blogging can be a great way to scale a small company because the mediums are often free (it doesn't cost you anything to sign up for Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, etc.) and experts agree that most companies will get a solid return on investment from the time they spend interacting with customers online.

As social media and ecommerce become increasingly enmeshed in our lives, the opportunities for them to interact with and bolster each other are innumerable, considering that the average person spends around an hour and 40 minutes browsing social media every day, and the number of internet shoppers in the US will reach 217 million this year.

It has been only a few weeks since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days on Capitol Hill answering questions about data security, and the social network still has a lot to answer for.

Other great features include multichannel support via phone, chat, and social networks as well as smart knowledge base suggestions, time tracking to know how long you're spending on tickets, integrated community forums, gamification for agents, mobile accessibility, and integration with more than 30 applications you may already be using.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and sersocial spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and serSocial Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

In 2012, having spent several years refining its methodology, Stillwell's team began to publish its research, including the ominous - in - retrospect «myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large - scale social research.»