Sentences with phrase «increases education rates»

As chefs, our work in the kitchen improves health, increases education rates, provides career skills, and creates food businesses.

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But statistics show online education is far from a perfect solution to decreasing unemployment, increasing graduation rates.
The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.
Men respond to increases in the unemployment rates by shifting away from (in order of magnitude of the shift) education, liberal arts and history, literature and language, psychology and sociology.
«Delivering up to 2.5 X more content per click has not only helped us increase conversion rates by 3X and accelerate the path to purchase by making buyer education frictionless, it has also cut the time it takes to create a new nurture from 7 days to 3 - 4 hours.
Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
In the context of post-secondary education, the Party promises to reduce tuition fees to 1999 - 2000 levels and fully fund a tuition freeze thereafter; reduce student loan interest rates; increase the availability of post-secondary and trade spaces in the province; and support initiatives to build additional student housing.
«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.
The journal Sex Education published an earlier article of mine in which I found some evidence (though not conclusive since the data on STIs available to us is far inferior to that on pregnancy rates) that STI rates amongst teenagers have increased fastest in those areas promoting the EBC the most.
Oh yeah, as the country heads towards a debt we can not recover from, crime and drug use escalation, failing education system, increasing unemployment rate, lets solve all these problems ourselves.
The increased differentiation of institutions and their autonomy from religion, the expansion of the power of the state, the higher rates of participation by both men and women in the wage economy, the increased delegation of family functions like education, leisure and food preparation to the market and the state — all these trends weaken family functions.
Of course, after years of sex education in schools we have not managed to stem the high rates of teenage pregnancy or been able to prevent ever increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease.
In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.
ANNAPOLIS, MD, March 5, 2013 — Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate Education,
The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.
Voters in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 approved a 50 - cent increase in the education fund rate, to $ 2.60 per $ 100, while their counterparts in Huntley Consolidated School District 158 agreed the district should sell $ 18 million in bonds to fund the construction of two new schools.
Woodridge 68 - Seeking to increase the education fund tax rate to $ 2.43 from $ 2.08 and to increase the operations and maintenance fund tax rate to 55 cents from 25 cents.
The rate of breast - feeding increases with education, income and age; black women are less likely to breast - feed, while Hispanics have higher breast - feeding rates.
It's true that concussion incidence rates have increased 16.5 percent annually since 2010, but Dr.. So says part of the increase likely comes from increased awareness and education.
According to one article, it's the fastest growing form of education, increasing at an annual rate of between 7 % and 15 % per year.
She often cites research that breastfeeding success rates increase with prenatal education.
Various forms of education on breast feeding are effective but only by increasing rates of initiation of breast feeding
The recent NICE evidence into practice briefing on promotion of initiation and duration of breast feeding, 4 however, recommended that education and support should be targeted at women with low incomes to increase rates of exclusive breast feeding.
He advocated positive environmental policies, free higher education and practical increases on corporate and higher rates of tax.
«The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3 % of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth (from 3.6 % to 7.9 %), increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3 % to an estimated 5.6 % of GDP?
Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.
«Alberto M. Carvalho is a nationally recognized expert on education transformation whose leadership drove Miami - Dade County Public Schools to unprecedented increases in student achievement and graduation rates.
Although Syracuse graduation rates have increased in recent years due to successful career and technical education initiatives, there's still room for improvement.
Cuomo called for replacing automatic increases in the budget on various items with a more reasonable formula, contending that if education and Medicaid rose only at the rate of inflation, there would be only a $ 1 billion deficit.
Besides low birth rates, higher life expectancy, longer education time and an increasing share of single - parent households, Germany is also the poster child of labour market dualisation: pampered workers in the industrial and unionised core contrast with part - time and irregular work in the peripheral service industry.
We have done many great things in coalition; raising the basic tax threshold; making university education funding cheaper for the poorest; creating the pupil premium scheme to replace EMA; scrapping ID cards; banning wheel clamping on private land; and increasing CGT for higher rate tax payers, to name just a few things.
The credit rating agency Moody's in a report released Thursday enumerated the challenges facing the state's budget, including faltering tax revenue, increasing costs for Medicaid and education, and the capping of state and local tax deductions by Congress.
«Even a very low rate surcharge (of one percent or less) can provide billions of dollars that would allow us to avoid property tax increases and steep cutbacks in education and other essential services,» said Mauro.
This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.
The budget negotiations will take on a more urgent dimension in the coming weeks and lawmakers could fight the governor on taxes (the Assembly wants to increase taxes on the rich; the Senate has stated opposition to a tax hike or extension of the current rates), as well as education spending.
And Assembly Democrats want to keep high rates on millionaires, and increase taxes on those making more than $ 5 million — generating billions of dollars in new revenues lawmakers want to see go toward education.
«The number of programs and proposals is likely to grow because free - tuition programs meet several policy priorities of governments, including increasing higher education participation rates to cultivate a trained workforce while maintaining affordability,» the report found.
These formulas, which predominantly mandate education and Medicaid funding, increase rates annually, calling for an overall 13 percent increase in both areas next year.
«It's a shame that we are celebrating those who had contributed the increased unemployment rate in the country, lack of healthcare services, dwindling standard of education and failed democracy among other challenges.
Local government advocates and education officials in New York have urged state lawmakers to make changes to the cap to allow for more levy growth and discard the provision that limits increases to the rate of inflation.
A coalition of education groups — including the school boards association, the Council of School Superintendents and the state's teachers union — are calling for changes to the cap that would eliminate tying the cap to the rate of inflation, making the limit a 2 percent cap on levy increases.
This added expense could force many of these schools to increase tuition rates or ultimately have to shut down - pricing countless New Yorkers out of having choice in an education for their children.
No 10 said the government is committed to increasing the average childcare funding rates paid to providers, with the Department for Education to shortly begin a review into rates overseen by childcare minister Sam Gyimah.
His higher education policies have included calling for laws to limit the amount of time a student can receive state tuition assistance while in a public university, which he said would increase the rate of graduation in four years.
We will create more good jobs and build a stronger and more balanced recovery by devolving economic power to Britain's towns and cities, boosting vocational education, getting young people into work, cutting business rates, introducing a British Investment Bank and increasing house building to at least 200,000 a year.
«Since mayoral control of education came in, the graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years,» de Blasio said at a news conference in Albany.
The groups called for a return to higher rates for top income earners, more spending on education and municipal aid — which they said would keep locally imposed property taxes in check — as well as increased oversight of several business tax credit programs.
In a letter of support for the project, U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins wrote»... this company's vision includes the first of its kind partnership with the «Say Yes Buffalo» program in which The Phoenix Brewery Apartments LLC will donate 10 % of its projects once stabilized to this board based community education collaborative to increase high school and postsecondary completion rates
EDUCATION Mr. Cuomo proposed a new teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student test scores — an increase from 20 percent.
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