Sentences with phrase «increased social costs»

Renewable subsidies rise but coal subsidies remain stagnant, despite increased social costs to India's GDP driven by air pollution and health care expenses

Adverse early environments create deficits in skills and abilities that drive down productivity and increase social costs — thereby adding to financial deficits borne by the public.

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Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

To cash in on the action, small businesses are using low - cost social media tactics to increase holiday sales.

Now solo as president of social media games publisher Sava Transmedia, he says income statements he's seen indicate about a 30 % increase in gross margin, although he cautions that advertising and customer acquisition costs (e.g. discounts, incentives, etc.) can still bring that down to something closer to parity with physical distribution.

He said founders who do otherwise are «unwitting puppets» of socialism who effectively «tax» customers — because prices would have to increase to cover the cost of all that social responsibility.

As brands acquire more and more fans, followers, and «likes,» and as these social networks get larger and larger, the cost to reach them will continue to increase.

The caller tells the victim they are eligible for an increase in their Social Security benefits for a 1.7 % cost - of - living adjustment.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

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NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

These cost increases can be difficult for retirees who live on nothing more than Social Security.

And this situation is becoming worse as pensions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, life expectancies along with accompanying health care costs are increasing, and even social security is facing a crisis point.

This increase will be driven by increasing costs for Social Security, health care, and interest on the debt combined with insufficient revenue.

Second, as the population ages and the number of retirees climbs, the costs associated with Social Security, government pensions, and healthcare retirement benefits increase.

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Fixing our debt will now require reversing the harm that has already been done with tax cuts and spending increases, in addition to confronting the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare with spending changes and / or additional revenue.

For instance, Quebec is tax uncompetitive compared to many other provinces, and has, for instance, made a choice to fund childcare and certain other social services at the cost of privatized health - care and, now, increased tuition fees.

Medicare can not pass along premium increases above the cost - of - living allowance each year for those whose premiums are deducted through Social Security and those not subject to the income - related monthly adjustment amounts for Part B and Part D.

The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the biggest increase in public spending since the Second World War.

And while Sullivan would presumably not consider this a social «cost,» policymakers would have to grapple with the fact that legalizing gay marriage would probably increase the number of homosexuals overall.

Current efforts at energy conservation are inadequate; while the need for more appropriate patterns of individual and corporate energy consumption is clear, the statement also recognizes the necessity of avoiding unnecessary economic and social dislocations in the transition to energy efficiency (e.g., unemployment or increased costs due to lowered volume).

If there is a human cost for any increase in radiation, the decision is a moral and social as well as a technical one.

That is, our huge level of throughput is now increasing environmental and social costs faster than it magnifies benefits.

However, the increasing financial costs associated with parenthood, coupled with a lack of social support that reflect that reality, is one of the major reasons for the decrease in male parental investment.

Mike Marsh, BJOG Deputy Editor - in - chief said: «Unintended pregnancy has been linked to poor prenatal care, high risk pregnancy behaviours, increased rates of preterm birth and low birth rate, poor social outcomes in childhood and increased medical costs.

No Social Security cost of living increase next year?

This strategy protected the Social Democrats from the losses to the Left Party and the increase in non-voting among outsiders that occurred in 1998, but it had other costs.

Glance at any local authority budget proposal and I am sure you would find, under the heading «budget pressures», a nod the cost of an aging population, and the anticipated increase in social care clients on the next five years.

Social Security recipients in Queens, like the rest of the United States, will not see an increase in their monthly payments to compensate for the increased cost of living for the first time in more than 30 years, which is not sitting well with the borough's elected officials.

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.

The mayor unveiled a $ 47 million proposed bill that would call for Albany to increase disability benefits of «uniformed» public employees hired after 2009 by changing the payment formula, boosting cost - of - living adjustments and ending the policy of subtracting the workers» Social Security earnings from their pension checks.

The Government's own figures show that the increased costs are modest and there is strong evidence to suggest that future proofing our housing will save significantly on health and social costs in the future.

Figures from the right and left of the party, including former education and home secretary Charles Clarke, have put their weight behind radical plans to increase NI and guarantee that the money raised would pay for spiralling NHS and social care costs.

«In particular, I regret the decision not to include in the manifesto a ceiling as well as a floor in our proposal to help meet the increasing cost of social care,» he added.

«In this period of austerity, national economic uncertainty, unpredictability of federal funding, and rising social service costs there is an increasing risk that funding for infrastructure investments will be curbed to dangerous levels,» Ravitch said in a press release.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

For all the human misery they have caused, the household benefit cap is forecast to save just # 110m a year by the DWP, while the bedroom tax will raise just # 490m (and both, as analysts have warned, may end up costing more than they save by increasing homelessness and other social ills).

The Buffalo News found last year that social service costs for refugees increased tenfold in Erie County over the decade when increasing numbers of refugees were moving to Buffalo.

These demographic shifts are driven largely by social and economic trends: the increasing numbers of women in professional occupations, for example, and the spiralling cost of buying a home.

Furthermore, the model suggests that passing some tipping points increases the likelihood of other tipping points occurring to such an extent that the social cost of carbon would further increase abruptly.

Tom Cross, who is a software security researcher and co-developer of the MemeStreams social networking Web site, also disagrees that «if we want to improve America's scientific competitiveness, we need to increase the supply of technical workers, which will reduce their cost.»

The gaming - related accidents, which increased by 26.5 % near Pokéstops over the first 5 months following the game's release, cost the county up to $ 25.5 million in damages, including the loss of two lives, the researchers reported in an online Social Science Research Network publication last week.

The high economic and social costs of early mental illness compound as children get older; for example, adjustment disorders in childhood are associated with poor school performance and increased reliance on social welfare, Heinmeuller says.

«[It has] a fundamental choice between a development path that triggers increasing social exclusion, environmental degradation and significant economic costs.

In human social groups, punishment of uncooperative behaviors increases teamwork, but the benefits of cooperation only outweigh the costs of punishment after a long time.

Online romance scams, a new form of cybercrime, is under - reported and increasing, and has victimized an estimated 230,000 people in England, costing them nearly $ 60 billion a year, according to an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer - reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc..

But in recent years, our costs to operate The Bits have unfortunately increased, from contributors and equipment, to servers, bandwidth, even cybersecurity, even as advertising revenue has dropped all across the Internet (outside of social media), leading to the disappearance of all too many popular websites.