Sentences with phrase «from subsidized»

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidized carbon credit forests, and from the remorseless encroachment of fire - prone government reserves and pest havens.

And it's not only the U.S. that continues to experience terrible results from subsidized - green projects designed to enrich wealthy investors - here are recent examples of Australia and Spain, plus the ever - growing German Energiewende flop.

The subsidy all represents extra costs someone needs to pay to get the same amount of energy from the subsidized source.

Belo Monte has been shown to be financially unviable without upstream dams, but it was built anyway with 80 % of the funding from subsidized financing from BNDES, Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development.

Others have been distancing themselves from subsidized coal to liquids and other hairbrained schemes.

Direct Unsubsidized loans also differ from subsidized loans in that you, the borrower, are responsible for paying the interest that accumulates during any period, including deferment, forbearance, and your grace period.

Also, there is an aggregate maximum of $ 31,000 with no more than $ 23,000 coming from subsidized loans.

Sources of mortgage funds will shift from the subsidized rates heretofore provided by the small saver to «bond - backed» sources which will reflect the higher interest rates prevailing in the loan - funds markets.

Removing the private lenders from the subsidized loan program was not without pain.

A recent study (JAMA Intern Med 2016) found that more than half of Americans» calories come from subsidized highly processed junk foods.

Association of Higher Consumption of Foods Derived From Subsidized Commodities With Adverse Cardiometabolic Risk Among US Adults.

The governor and mayor have squabbled over everything from subsidized housing to a dead deer in a Harlem park, with Cuomo usually picking the fight and de Blasio responding with eye - blinking befuddlement.

Over time this means that households will retain a growing share of China's total production of goods and services (at the expense of the elite, of course, who benefitted from subsidized borrowing costs) and so not only will they not be hurt by a sharp fall in GDP growth, but their consumption will increasingly drive growth and innovation in China.

Hundreds of cities and counties have imposed fees on new development, which initially helped relieve local governments from subsidizing roads, sewers, and other expenses associated with suburban sprawl.

My point is, I want to stop the taxpayer from subsidizing the job and make the corporation pay the fair amount.»

«The announcement by Speaker Quinn and Council Members Mark - Viverito and Daniel Dromm that the New York City Council will prohibit New York City's Department of Corrections from subsidizing and supporting the deportation of thousands of non-criminal New Yorkers each year is fantastic news.

I fought for years to stop our bridge toll dollars from subsidizing the state waterways — particularly the upstate canals.

In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the government could save an estimated $ 61 billion from subsidizing student loans, and these savings were subsequently used to increase the yearly Pell Grant award to $ 5,500.

Moreover, according to information from government circles, efforts are being made in general to get away from subsidizing larger photovoltaic power stations through feed - in tariffs — first through cuts in the Renewables Obligation (RO) program and now through the new program «Contracts for Difference» for power stations with more than 5 MW of rated output.

It will also prevent tax dollars from subsidizing animal waste facilities built by factory farms and require that farmers protect our water and soils in exchange for the generous crop insurance and farm subsidies that taxpayers provide.

And in the latest twist, even those with the golden ticket to Big Law (i.e., Bay Street, AM100, Magic Circle, etc...) are confronted with clients increasingly preferring to direct their legal spend away from subsidizing associate training and toward robots, outsourcers, in - house counsel services and (what we used to call) accounting firms.

Not exact matches

Tellingly, only 13 % of registered medical marijuana users in Canada buy from Health Canada's approved (and taxpayer - subsidized) grower, Saskatoon's Prairie Plant Systems.

Not only are the panels fully subsidized, but the program also has another key aspect that differentiates it from its predecessors: 51 % of the energy bill savings must go to the tenant, not the landlord or building owner.

The two most common financial oversights entrepreneurs make are underestimating how many of their everyday expenses are being subsidized by their business — medical and life insurance premiums, club memberships, vehicles, travel and entertainment costs, etc. — and overestimating the amount of after - tax investment income that can be generated from the proceeds of the sale.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross called Canadian suggestions of retaliation, «inappropriate,» and said Clark's and Trudeau's posturing would do nothing to deter the U.S. from targeting lumber imports that it thinks are unfairly subsidized.

I like his penny pinching, and I'm skeptical of the promises I heard from the other Democrats: free college for everyone, more Social Security, and subsidized health care and higher education, even for undocumented immigrants.

The carriers didn't make a profit on the old, subsidized phone plans, so they've benefitted from shifting the expense onto customers directly.

But as a believer in free, open markets the dumping of government subsidized products (steel from China for example) is disruptive to market structure.

They would prevent money from the $ 8.5 billion FCC Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service to poor and rural areas, from being spent on goods or services from companies or countries which pose a «national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or their supply chains.»

When it comes to preventing employees from jumping ship and attracting talent, 45 % of those surveyed cited subsidized training / education and flexible work hours.

From three prepared organic meals a day to unlimited snacks, artisan coffee and tea to free personal - fitness classes, health clinics, on - site oil changes, haircuts, spa truck, bike - repair truck, nap pods, free on - site laundry rooms, and subsidized wash and fold.

Many people point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized from just about every political and technical vantage point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.

Poloz credited the province's subsidized programs for raising prime - age female workforce participation to about 87 per cent, up from 74 per cent 20 years ago.

That's because Penraat «has been profiteering from a rent - controlled apartment partially subsidized by another government program,» wrote Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead in her injunction.

A recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) points out that restaurant company CEOs receive huge tax - subsidized paydays while their companies lobby to prevent an increase in the minimum wage.

«Airlines still face significant operational risks even if their long - haul international flights from second - tier Chinese cities are subsidized,» Cadas said.

In many mid-sized cities the «not for profit» NPR affiliate is the glitziest radio / TV studio in town, with the highest salaries — all subsidized with government funds expropriated from the people.

The money could be used on anything from putting candidates through a battery of personality tests to subsidizing salary in the early months to providing the new hire with coaching services up to a year after he or she is sent into the field.

Unlike the punitive tariffs that the United States frequently imposes on «dumped» or unfairly subsidized goods from specified countries, Trump's steel and aluminum measures would apply to all countries.

Under current law, the individual mandate and its associated penalties increase federal deficits by encouraging people to obtain subsidized coverage — through Medicaid, the health insurance marketplaces established under the ACA, or employment - based plans (which receive indirect subsidies to the extent that premiums for that coverage are excluded from taxable compensation).

If I were an investor that didn't move money from an annuity, I'd ask why I am subsidizing annuity investors by paying higher fees?

«If those with seriously illnesses are going to be subsidized, and there is widespread agreement in Congress that they are going to be subsidized, I think [it's] far better for that to happen from direct tax revenue rather than forcing a bunch of other people to pay much higher premiums,» Cruz told me last week.

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

Also supporting prices is the Commerce Department's decision last week to slap duties on aluminum coming into the U.S. from a number of Chinese producers that were found to be heavily subsidized by the Chinese government.

Tax laws then free these nouveaux rentiers from taxation, while borrowing IMF funds to subsidize their capital flight.

Officials from Canada and the United Kingdom testified in support of Bombardier's case, including David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the United States, who disputed Boeing's claim of unfair subsidies and argued that Boeing itself was heavily subsidized.

In effect, Bezos used positive cash flow from WFM to subsidize the growing cost of Prime fulfillment.

These policies ultimately boost exports by indirectly transferring wealth from households to subsidize the tradable goods sector.

Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector deeply enough and quickly enough, the cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.

Three decades of policies that have subsidized rapid growth with transfers from the household sector have left Chinese households with an extremely low share of GDP.