Sentences with phrase «like economic programs»

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Another report, published by progressive advocacy group Center for American Progress and FWD.us, found that repealing the program could cost the U.S. $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, and that contributions to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could drop by $ 24.6 billion.

It's something the innovation - friendly government is trying to mitigate through programs like the Global Skills Strategy and the Economic Strategy Tables.

Demand for programs like the one at UNC partly stems from China's growing status as an economic heavyweight.

Skeptics feel that these figures are mostly repercussions of a combination of the ECB's quantitative easing program and cheap oil, but positive indicators like rebounding business and consumer confidence show clear signs of economic improvement.

Add in to that equation the rich investing in automation technology like those ordering kiosks at Panera, self - checkout machines, autonomous vehicles, and even automated web design programs and it's a perfect recipe for pending economic disaster.

Also: «German finance officials said trying to persuade the Greek government to draw up a rigorous economic policy program is like riding a dead horse.»

Several high - profile economists and pundits are both frustrated and perplexed that initiatives like cash - for - clunkers, the $ 800 + billion U.S. stimulus program, and Japan's 20 installments of government spending juice (over recent years) have failed to trigger anywhere close to the expected multiplier1 impact on economic activity.

These programs were developed to blunt the negative consequences of problems like illegitimacy and lack of economic opportunity.

In looking over the Feingold site, it looks like they've done lots of research on additives, which is great stuff to know, but it doesn't look like they've focused on the economic and political realities of the massive school lunch program.

The investigations into SUNY Polytechnic and economic development programs like the Buffalo Billion shouldn't stop state investment into growing private - sector jobs, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Tuesday said.

Lawmakers on Monday passed extender resolutions to keep the government running through the end of May, but also to fund pretty much all of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program — not to mention a $ 2.5 billion water infrastructure package that pretty much all sides want — but not contentious issues like education / charter school funding, raise the age and 421 - a.

Start Up NY is an economic development program with no taxes tied to the state's network of higher education institutions, like UB or Canisius.

No big box stores, lawyers, power plants can cash in The Empire Zone program allowed big box stores like Lowe's and Home Depot to qualify for tax credits, even though they were shifting shoppers from one county to another without creating a lot of new economic activity.

Republicans in the State Assembly say they are frustrated that there's been no increased oversight in the state's billions of dollars in economic development contracts, including the governor's signature programs like the Buffalo Billion.

But lawmakers who support increasing oversight for the governor's pet projects like the START - UP NY program and the regional economic development councils in recent days have been more assertive, saying they can act on their own on the oversight issues, even with a potential veto by Cuomo.

Dubbed «The Hunger Games» for the competition - like effort that pits regions against each other for funding, the program is run through Cuomo's economic development agency.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

I'd like to thank the State Department of Labor and its commissioner, Peter Rivera, for launching this program in conjunction with the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation and my office.

Unlike Phase I of the economic development program, BB2 isn't about headline - grabbing mega-projects, like SolarCity's solar panel factory or a new IBM data analytics center, like the original initiative was.

An Assembly Committee on Wednesday grilled Howard Zemsky, Cuomo's top economic development official, asking him to explain why programs like Start - Up NY haven't created more jobs.

But the corruption scheme outlined by federal prosecutors has strained the entire nanotechnology program, threatening to knock economic progress off course in places like Utica, where growth was never certain in the best of times.

Both firms are also big Cuomo donors and, like Percoco, are caught up in a federal probe into the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program and nanotechnology initiatives.

«Although he gave specific mandates to the Acting President, he needed to be brought up to speed on the developments in the Supreme Court, the Niger Delta, the economy with particular reference to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERPG which was launched in his absence and programs like the Small and medium Enterprises Clinic which have strong connections to the agricultural strategy of the administration.»

In the Senate, it means more comprehensive public reporting about how economic development funding for programs like the Buffalo Billion is spent.

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

When looking at economic programs like those alone, Western New York received about 25 percent of the state's spending over that time.

As the only legislative leader who has owned and run a successful business, I will continue to promote measures like the «Small Business Full Employment Act» (A.5898 - A), which would create an environment for small businesses to grow by eliminating unnecessary taxes, and «Grow NY» (A. 6105, Kolb), which is an economic pilot program that would stimulate growth in the state economy by providing technical assistance for expanding businesses, and by eliminating certain taxes on manufacturers (A. 6758, Kolb).

Lawmakers approved $ 385 million for the program in the 2013 - 14 budget, offering support for capital projects — not one - time operating subsidies, as member items often were — for a broad variety of purposes like «preserving and protecting infrastructure» or to support «economic development projects... that will create or retain jobs in New York State.»

The groups say they would also like to close corporate tax loopholes, end some ineffective economic development programs, and ask Wall Street to help out.

«I like assessing all the variables — political, logistical, and economic — and then trying to figure out a program and corresponding technology that works across all the layers,» Bergman says.

«And some of these surprising successes, like in Mexico and Central Africa, result from national programs and other economic policies that did not work as initially designed.»

-- The College of Medicine's increasing activity related to technology transfer — the process of moving promising research discoveries into the marketplace for development, testing and commercialization — including a $ 425,000 Discovered in PA, Developed in PA (D2PA) program grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to support initiatives like the Executive - in - Residence Program and Innovatioprogram grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to support initiatives like the Executive - in - Residence Program and InnovatioProgram and Innovation Cafe.

But Jessica and Kennedy are just getting started - they have expanded their model to connect essential services like health care, clean water, and economic empowerment programs.

With the tapering of the government stimulus program and positive economic data like the shrinking of the unemployment rate, interest rates in the US are expected to go up.

In February, the G20 called for a coordinated stimulus program to be implemented by the world's major economies — or at least the ones that can afford it — that would see countries borrow to spend on infrastructure like subway lines and power - generating stations, assets that will provide a short - term economic boost while laying the foundation for longer - term growth.

Another problem is the private student - loan market, which generally charges students higher interest rates than the federal student - loan program and offers students fewer protections like economic hardship deferments.

In fact, transferring points to hotel partners rarely makes economic sense unless you're topping off for an award or transferring to a program like Hyatt or for a Hotel + Air package with Marriott.

I have a feeling a program like this would create a bigger environmental win and the right financial incentives versus a tax where the economic incentives of the stakeholders are not aligned.

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) is a pro-climate and pro-labor group advocating that such workers get a deal like the 1944 G.I. Bill: three years of full wages and benefits, four years of education and retraining, and job placement in community economic development programs.

They could begin Kyoto already looking like heroes, despite the fact that the reductions from 1990 - 1997 were almost all due to economic and political happenings unrelated to CO2 abatement programs.

Economic growth was driven by the arrival and expansion of high - tech firms, like Sony and Hewlett - Packard, and federal programs that retrained former loggers and mill workers for diverse new employment opportunities, including in the high - tech manufacturing sector.

The funds are part of the Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce Development and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative, a federal program to support coal - reliant communities in states like Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky where mines are shuttering and coal - fired power plants are closing due to rocky market conditions and tougher environmental regulations.

If the government insists on picking winners with subsidized technology programs, then nuclear strikes me as much more fruitfull, as it is already proven and close to economic and investment can be concentrated on marginal problems like waste disposal, rather than fundamental problems like «will this approach even work.»

This is not a top - down program but one run in each case by a democratically elected Fair Trade worker committee that decides how the funds will be used, whether designated for social, economic and environmental community projects like private health care or a child care center, or as a cash bonus that gets workers directly closer to a living wage.

In California, where that model has been changed — where utilities like PG&E are initiating programs to help their customers use less electricity — power use has remained steady while economic growth has continued.

Maybe I'm making that up or I'm foggy on the details, but it seems like a similar program funded by the law society, government at some level or in some form (including Legal Aid Ontario or some sort of economic development group) in those rural areas could provide some assistance in the form of interest / debt relief, boarding / billeting, and / or a stipend.

Facebook's internship program was ranked # 1 on the site two years in a row; Microsoft reviews are full of words like «potential,» «impact,» «benefits,» and statements that «Microsoft definitely takes care of its employees, including interns»; ExxonMobil's intern program covers «virtually all aspects of the engineering and the economist work: process simulation, safety studies, monitoring software, economic studies, etc..»

The first free MOOC on digital currencies and the first course in the UNIC's English - taught program me for MSc in Digital Currency covers «both a technical overview of decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin, as well as their broader economic, legal and financial context.»

«Eliminating vital preventive programs like the national family planning program and attacking women's health providers will mean that millions of women would lose access to basic, preventive health services, and those are economic issues for millions of families.»