Sentences with phrase «including lower house»

JeSPA's board members consist of high - profile figures including lower house councilor Yasutoshi Nakamura as CEO, advertisement juggernaut Dentsu corporation's Akira Hirakata, and Kadokawa co. executive Hirokazu Hamamura who's well known in the gaming industry as the former cheif of Famitsu magazine.

«Other factors attracting demand to Montreal include lower housing prices and a relatively strong economy.»

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Several factors are at play, experts say, including low housing inventory, pent up demand and increasingly optimistic sellers.

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It may only be one tool to help low - wage earners — others include reforms introduced this week by the Province of Ontario, more affordable housing and child care, and more ways to pursue collective action — but it's a big one.

Examples might include banks participating in low - income housing projects or business incubator programs.

It's quite impressive that Netflix's rate is so low, considering it frequently turns out high - quality original series and movies, with big stars attached including «House of Cards,» «Stranger Things,» «Okja,» and «To the Bone.»

House and Senate Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at lowering drug prices through a series of aggressive measures, including by requiring biopharma companies to reveal far more information about their R&D, manufacturing, and other costs.

However, he says there's good reason to think Canada can manage the risks from debt, which he says is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

The fees are one of many factors driving up the cost of buying or renting a home, including income inequality, restrictive zoning, low construction productivity, a historic slowdown in housing production, and high prices for land, materials, and labor.

New housing development — including affordable housing — will be critical to ensure that Amazon's arrival does not price out lower - and working - class families.

The Missouri speech will be the first in what is expected to be a heavy push by the White House to get the Republican Congress to pass a tax package including lower rates for corporations and individuals and send it to Trump's desk to sign by the end of the year.

Significant debate remains between the White House and Hill Republicans on elements of any final tax reform package, including which deductions to target, how low to push the corporate rate and how companies deduct business investments.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

Other mortgages: Home loans backed by the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration both have looser credit requirements, including low to no down payment requirements and DTI up to 54.9 %.

The FHA, once a niche player focused on low - income housing, now backs about a third of new mortgages including super-sized ones for wealthy home buyers.

The House plan would lower the maximum pass - through rate to 25 percent, but a host of small and medium businesses — including service providers such as doctors, lawyers, dentists, architects and accountants — would be blocked from obtaining any benefit.

The 29 markets where the benefits of homeownership are now significantly less than before the legislation was passed include Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Previously, mostly smaller markets with lower housing costs saw these benefits for their renters.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

When a buyer closes on a low down payment house, the buyer is underwater on the mortgage after netting all the costs that are included.

Poloz said debt is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

The Gang of Eight deal also includes an enormous increase in low - skill immigration and one can expect that the House Republican leadership will attempt to do the same thing.

Active social reform (or involvement in the structures of society) will follow such proclamation, but it will be left by and large to concerned individuals.23 According to the editors, individual Christian involvement will include responsible public criticism of the errors of government (e. g., detente, price freezing, opposition to capital punishment, corrupt leadership, lack of low - rent housing) while remaining always orderly and loyal in the process.

According to a report from Politico, the White House's soon - to - be-unveiled plan to combat the opioid crisis includes one detail that should terrify and outrage pro-life advocates: The death penalty for even low - level drug dealers.

These include: developing prenatal care for expectant mothers, providing low - cost housing for the elderly, forming political coalitions with Hispanics, Asians, and Caucasians, waging war against drug traffic, and conducting a Job Information Center for all unemployed persons.

At higher densities, hens are more evenly distributed across all areas of the house, including the litter, which may explain their lower levels of aggression and feather pecking (DEFRA, 2007).

The debate comes as minor and micro populist and protectionist parties vie for seats in the Senate and the lower house, including the Palmer United party and Katter's Australian party.

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

We absolutely love the product so much we now have one at both grandparents houses and always take one when travelling as our baby loves to be included at the table and house a meltdown if a high chair / buggy is too low.

Her previous work experience includes the Center for Community Change as a policy analyst on transportation issues and Housing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant orgaHousing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant orgahousing coalition, as director of tenant organizing.

The Cuomo administration announced $ 91 million in low - income loans and tax credits for 33 affordable housing projects, including $ 4.4 million to assist in the «adaptive re-use» of Albany's vacant Philip Livingston Magnet Academy.

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

He helped enact several key bills, including empowerment zones, low - income housing tax credits, and Obamacare.

Funding for the approximately $ 40 million redevelopment project comes from several sources including: New York State Homes and Community Renewal's Housing Finance Agency (HFA) provided $ 20.73 million of tax - exempt bond financing, a $ 5.27 million New Construction Capital Program low interest subsidy; HFA Middle Income Housing Program loan of $ 2.76 million and a 4 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credit annual allocation of just over $ 1 million which leverages nearly $ 10 million of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equilow interest subsidy; HFA Middle Income Housing Program loan of $ 2.76 million and a 4 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credit annual allocation of just over $ 1 million which leverages nearly $ 10 million of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equiLow Income Housing Tax Credit annual allocation of just over $ 1 million which leverages nearly $ 10 million of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equiLow Income Housing Tax Credit equity.

Funding includes financing from NYS Housing Finance Agency tax - exempt tax exempt bonds; HCR subordinate funding of $ 4,375,000 from HFA, $ 2 million through the Homes for Working Families program, $ 250,000 through the Community Investment Fund; $ 10 million Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity; $ 2.5 million State Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity; $ 2.2 million of subordinate funding from Citibank; existing reserves and rental income.

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Members of Congress, including House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva, are expected to host an «ad hoc hearing» at 3 pm regarding taxpayer - backed low - wage employment.

The St. Barnabas Wellness Care and Affordable Housing project, which will be developed by L+M Development Partners and Hornig Capital Partners, will create 314 affordable homes for low - income residents and incorporate more than 50,000 square feet of health and wellness space that includes a fitness area, an ambulatory care center, a pharmacy, and a teaching kitchen with produce grown on a rooftop farm; and offer comprehensive programs on smoking prevention, fitness, nutrition, stress reduction and life skills.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

The state invested more than $ 12.2 million to finance the Doe Fund's development of Webster Green Apartments, including: a $ 1.2 million allocation of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and a $ 4.5 million Medicaid Redesign Team program loan through HCR; $ 6.5 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program funds through OTDA; and a $ 159,000 New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency grant.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins should join with the new president and their colleagues in Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also supported EITC expansion — to ensure that no working American is taxed into poverty by working to expand the EITC for low - wage workers not raising children in the home.

New York's $ 182 million share of the nationwide $ 7 million Citigroup settlement includes at least $ 90 million in mortgage relief as well as directing funding for land banks and community development agencies aimed at housing for low - income earners, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Monday announced.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock's warning to the House of Lords came as he made concessions over press regulation, including regular reports on the effectiveness of low - cost arbitration and how personal data is processed for journalism purposes.

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the lower house in Washington to act quickly on renewing the National Farm Bill before the end of this year, otherwise Americans could be paying a lot more for dairy products — including twice as much for a... [Read more...]

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

One of its major themes will be support for first - time homebuyers, including a new initiative to help low income families get on the housing ladder.

Some of Dinkins» accomplishments include creating the city's Economic Development Corporation, launching the «Safe City, Safe Streets» initiative, which many credit with putting New York City on the path toward its recent record crime lows and building many units of affordable housing.