Sentences with phrase «higher social spending»

When you do that, you see that PR tends to produce higher social spending and lower inequality.

Not exact matches

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

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.

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.

Social networkers with low household income spending more time than those with high household income (3.7 hours vs. 3.1 hours);

How can U.S. labor compete with foreign labor when employees and their employers are obliged to pay such high mortgage debt for its housing, such high student debt for its education, such high medical insurance and Social Security (FICA withholding), such high credit - card debt — all this even before spending on goods and services?

Credit is a form of infrastructure, and such public investment is what enabled the United States to undersell foreign economies in the 19th and 20th centuries despite its high wage levels and social spending programs.

The high growth in the number of social media advertisers and social media ad spending is a great indication of the effectiveness (or necessity) of social media ads for businesses.

CBO now also projects higher spending on government loan programs, Medicaid, and other programs, offset slightly by lower spending on Social Security and Medicare.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

In 2040, federal spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the subsidies provided in the Affordable Care Act will be 3.9 percentage points of GDP higher than it was in 2017.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

It was a development that saw advertisers threaten to pull media spend from the social network — Mozilla actually did so — and high - profile figures in the tech community adding fuel to the fire with barbed #DeleteFacebook comments.

Many predict growth will slow again in the April - June quarter, as the impact of higher Social Security taxes and government spending cuts begin to weigh on the economy.

Basically, in line with lotteries in other countries, in Britain the poorest social groups spend much higher relative amounts, making it highly regressive, which is significant when we come to look at the services that the lottery is starting to pay for.

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

A high volume of fans had spent the summer using their social media accounts to implore the club to sign Borussia Dortmund star Marco Reus, and others used theirs to champion the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager (via Echo).

There is every reason in the world to not be physically active; reading to our children, providing quality meals, addressing their social needs, researching all medications / foods / education, shopping to have the «best» deals on the highest quality, spending quality play time with our children, limiting screen time, grooming them, keeping house, bonding, learning and executing proper child passenger safety (installing that perfect car seat that took 3 weeks of research and a small loan to purchase), and being sure every minute of their every day is filled with only the best developmentally appropriate activities.

But in recent years officials have become concerned that students who spend too much time perfecting their transcripts may be missing out on some of the important but intangible social and emotional aspects of the high school experience.

Women who are high powered do not generally want men who want to spend their time managing the household social calendar (something that is a HUGE job for a stay - at - home parent.)

Instead of spending the money on high paid social workers and legal systems to take these women's children away and place them in foster care, why can't we use that money for child care, parenting classes, decent housing, job training for single moms.

It is one of the injustices that drives me to be a big active state backing, high public spending supporting social democrat.

In this context it is only to be expected that a consistent centrist would shift from advocating higher taxes and spending (sounding more like a social democrat) to advocating spending restraint and a smaller state (foregrounding the liberal tendancy).

The objectives of Ghana going to the IMF for the bailout was to restore debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability, to foster a return to high growth and job creation through agriculture, and infrastructure investment, while protecting social spending;

Investing # 6bn to build 100,00 extra social and affordable homes would start to tackle the housing crisis and create new jobs in construction and the supply chain, putting money in people's pockets to spend on the High Street.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

Not just guns In the United States, liberals believe in higher taxes and spending on social priorities.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

It gets more complicated because the terms morphed around the WWII era when the leftists started to support more «entitlement» programs like social security, which would mean bigger government and higher taxes, not necessarily tariffs on imports, or support for a monarchy but still more federal spending.

Democratic legislators, who opposed deep cuts in social services and education spending to close a $ 10 billion deficit, tried to alter the tax by introducing a «true» millionaires tax on the highest income earners.

The Danish Social Democrats have just won the General Election by advocating moderately high taxation, moderately high spending and access to services based on citizenship - not (supposed) need.

Ahead of the general election Macmillan will be calling on all three parties to commit to: • deliver cancer outcomes that match the best in Europe • ensure all cancer patients are treated with the highest levels of dignity and respect and that staff are supported to do this • ensure everyone at the end of life is given free social care to support them to spend their final weeks and days in the place of their choosing.

He added: «It would not be right to turn the remarkable and necessary period of catch - up in public service provision over which Labour has presided into some kind of eternal doctrine: that social democracy is about high growth in public spending for its own sake, against which everything else we do is secondary.

After approving the tax increase, House lawmakers quickly signed off on a reworked spending plan that would funnel funds to local schools, social service programs, higher education and other state operations such as the lottery, prisons and road projects.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

There can be no departure from the old order unless the prime minister recognises the economic and social need for higher revenue spending as well as glossy infrastructure investment.

The lower growth forecasts and higher inflation presented in the Budget mean an extra # 12bn spent on social security over the next five years.

Earlier this week, the government set out its comprehensive spending review (CSR) outlining plans to cut funding for social housing by more than 60 per cent, with new tenants in line to pay higher rents.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

The new findings, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and the London School of Economics, suggest that common explanations as to why healthcare costs are so high — such as the notions that the U.S. has too many doctor visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and specialists, and spends too little on social services that could mitigate healthcare needs — may be wrong.

Belief: The U.S. spends too little on social services and this may contribute to higher healthcare costs among certain populations.

In «An Upbeat Crowd: Fast In - store Music Alleviates Negative Effects of High Social Density on Customers» Spending,» appearing in the September issue of The Journal of Retailing, the authors describe a six - week field experiment in 2014 that tested the interaction between manipulated music tempo and measured social deSocial Density on Customers» Spending,» appearing in the September issue of The Journal of Retailing, the authors describe a six - week field experiment in 2014 that tested the interaction between manipulated music tempo and measured social desocial density.

They're not just looking for the salve of $ 15 / hour, more government spending on social services, higher taxes on the rich, or some other minor adjustment to make us all feel better and sing «Kumba - Fucking - Ya» as hundred dollar bills fall from the sky.

He had just spent two years studying the «climate of values» at several midwestern high schools, interviewing students about their academic lives, their social lives, school culture, and their rapidly evolving teen culture.

Education is an investment in the future, leading eventually to higher productivity, better social outcomes and reduced spending on other public services; cuts to this budget are a false economy.»

Its explicit goal is increasing college enrollment by combining an emphasis on factors proven to bolster academic success (high expectations, parental involvement, time spent on instruction) with a novel focus on developing seven character strengths — zest, grit, self - control, optimism, curiosity, gratitude, and social intelligence.

Conversely, a one - point decrease in social competence was linked with a 67 percent higher chance of being arrested by early adulthood and a 64 percent higher chance of spending time in juvenile detention.

The framework points out that financial literacy also involves the development of «higher order skills in saving, spending, growing and giving money... [and engaging] in learning activities that examine the ethical, social, economic and cultural dimensions of money.»