Sentences with phrase «goes toward reducing»

Each month when you make a mortgage payment, part goes toward interest, part goes towards real estate taxes and homeowners insurance (unless you have opted out of an escrow for taxes and insurance, as is allowed in some states), and part goes toward reducing your loan's principal balance.

Keep in mind that when you make a mortgage payment to your lender, interest is calculated first and the difference goes toward reducing principal.

In addition to earning unlimited two miles back per $ 1 spent on everything (including travel), you can redeem the miles for a 1 - point - to -1-cent ratio (e.g., 10,000 points to redeem $ 100) on travel statement credits, which is credit that goes toward reducing your balance.

The interest goes toward reducing your premiums, with the excess amount, after funding the cash - value and the carrier's take, going to a modest increase in the growth of the cash value.

The extra payment goes toward reducing the loan principal, which results in the early payoff of the loan (typically 11 to 16 years).

The trick, however, is to make higher payments, so that more of your money goes toward reducing the principal balance and decreasing what you owe faster.

Second, any remaining portion of your payment goes toward reducing your loan balance.

Potanovic says he hopes the money from the rate increase goes toward reducing demand for water and conservation measures.

Therefore the six cents will go toward reducing the program deficit.

The district is scheduled to receive $ 149 million in federal stimulus funds, but only $ 11 million of this can go toward reducing the deficit.

That means that, in the following month, the principal is slightly smaller, so you owe less interest and even more of your monthly payment can go toward reducing the loan balance.

All payments made during that time will go toward reducing your balance.

Every dollar saved should go toward reducing what you owe.

More of your payment will go toward reducing the principal, and your debt will be reduced much faster.

Think of a mortgage as forced savings, with a portion of every monthly payment going toward reducing your loan's principal balance.

More than half of this, AU$ 36.6 million (US$ 28 million), will go toward reducing the pollution in the water by supporting farmers to prevent run - off from their properties.

Not exact matches

The funds also have gone toward manufacturing developments like a frying technique that has helped reduce the amount of fat in a potato chip by 20 %.

It wouldn't go very far toward reducing the overall concentration of deposits at the country's largest institutions.

As energy prices go up, more customers will look to energy efficiency and distributed energy resources to reduce their energy bills, which will continue to push electricity prices up and drive customers toward other energy sources and services.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

Proponents of scrapping Illinois» constitutionally protected flat tax make three key claims: a progressive tax would cut taxes on the middle class, it would go a long way toward reducing income inequality and it would benefit the state's economy.

That removal would go a significant way toward reducing the mountain of zero - interest hot potatoes that have provoked economically fruitless and financially reckless speculation.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

I think I am going to attack the cloth napkins, it will be a step toward reducing paper towel usage.

It should go a long way toward reducing that diaper smell.

In turn, knowing what to expect from that first contraction to that final push will go a long way toward reducing your anxiety and preparing you for the incredible journey you're about to go through.

Capping how long cases can go on and putting pressure on the system to speed up case processing will help move Rikers toward the 5,000 - population goal while also reducing the impact the criminal justice system can have on individuals, she added.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

A statewide supportive housing program consisting of 35,000 units — 30,000 in our city, 5,000 in localities across the state — over the next ten years would go a long way toward reducing the number of homeless residents in city and state.

According to AQE, this funding has in the past gone toward basic school improvements like reducing class sizes and providing pre-kindergarten classes.

Ensuring universal access to basic water and sanitation contributes to the realization of the right to the benefits of scientific progress, and goes toward redressing systemic discrimination while reducing health - related costs.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

Still, experts have argued that hospitals could go a long way toward reducing readmissions just by ensuring that patients receive proper follow - up care after discharge.

The bill that died in committee earlier this year, S.B. 1574, would have authorized a cap - and - trade program, with its revenues going toward activities that reduce emissions, explicitly including road improvements.

«Raising taxes on alcohol would go a long way toward reducing excessive alcohol consumption, but there has been a lot of resistance to doing this.

An ongoing study conducted at a large metropolitan NICU, however, shows that a little skin - to - skin snuggling between mothers and babies can go a long way toward reducing maternal stress levels.

So even without concerns about the warming effect of carbon pollution in Earth's atmosphere, the Paris agreement goes a long way toward reducing harmful air pollution worldwide.

According to critics, such efforts wasted money that could have gone toward hiring teachers and reduced to rational analysis what should have been a complex political process.

Fortunately, the Clean Air Act has gone a long way toward cleaning up the air we breathe across the U.S., reducing key air pollutants overall by a whopping 68 percent since it first became law in 1970.

Limiting the use of antibiotics for animal - growth promotion is an important step toward reducing bacterial resistance to medical drugs, says Levy, but he emphasizes that doctors also must be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics if medicine is going to combat growing drug resistance in microbes.

With the political divide over health care reform still strong going into this year's elections, a new analysis of state - level decisions shows signs of an emerging middle way toward reducing the ranks of the uninsured.

According to HIV.gov, an official website of the HHS, even a vaccine that only protects some people would go a long way toward reducing the number of new HIV infections.

Women have many different pregnancy and childbirth fears, but proper preparation and understanding can go a long way toward reducing them.

According to Bea, carrying totes and cloth bags to the store can really go a long way toward reducing packaging waste.

Cosmetics are a major source of exposure to toxins for many people, and making your own cosmetics and adopting a natural skin care routine for your skin type can go a long way toward reducing this exposure.

While a variety of factors can influence a woman's symptoms during this time (including genetics, nutrition, medications, etc), it is largely controlled by hormones, and getting hormones in proper balance can go a long way toward reducing symptoms.

Making math more understandable, useful, and beautiful will go a long way toward reducing symbolic math's tricky side, and it can help children pair their natural math sense with symbolic math — for a bright math future.

Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.

The LCFF first went into effect for the 2013 - 14 school year and is intended to drive extra money toward students who are English learners, eligible to receive a free or reduced - price meals or foster youth.

RTTT money should go toward societal reforms aimed at reducing poverty.