Sentences with phrase «living increase based»

Social Security provides an annual cost - of - living increase based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Provides for cost - of - living increases based on prices or wages — whichever is less — if the trust funds fall below a specified level.

The tax savings could easily be cancelled out from cost of living increases based on house prices alone, depending on where you move to.

Not exact matches

The PlayStation 4 is heading into a late - stage life cycle, usually the most profitable period for consoles as new titles are sold to an increasing installed base of owners.

Wright - Lacy urged corporate America to increase its use of minority - owned businesses because, by promoting supplier diversity, these corporations are helping to support the economic base of the communities in which they live, work and do business.

Department of Corrections officials justify the soy - based meals as a cost - cutting measure, but increased health care costs and pending liability for not supplying life - sustaining meals have the potential to make the soy - based meals very expensive for the state of Illinois.»

In conjunction with the impairment evaluation, we also reclassified these brands to be definite - lived intangible assets to be amortized over useful lives ranging from 30 to 50 years, which will increase future amortization expense by $ 40.7 million per annum, based on current foreign exchange rates.

The Social Security Administration bases the automatic cost of living adjustments (COLA) increases for social security recipient on CPI - W, which is the Consumer Price Index For Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.

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.

A whole life policy increases in value based on your regular payments and the dividends that it accumulates.

Many types of permanent life insurance policies increase in value over time based on interest rates.

Two additional states will receive automatic increases based on the cost of living effective Jan. 1.

With his stable freelance work and the annual increase of income, now he's able to travel the world with a backpack and share his vision, of independent work and living anywhere, on a weekly basis to his newsletter of creative nomad readers.

Moreover, broad - based benefit increases could actually provide greater benefits (in dollars) to the most affluent retirees since they have higher benefits already and they tend to live longer.

@JW, Yeah, but that would be tantamount to using college to expose young minds to different world views and thought process and allow them to use that exposure to increase their understanding of the world and form a solid and well rounded basis for the views and beliefs that will drive their actions in life.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

Rodgers told Premier that now Xi Jinping is President for life and his power - base is strengthened, Christians in China can expect to see «continuing, perhaps increasing, repression».

It involves a common movement into a technological culture but it also entails correcting the inhumanities like State totalitarianism, increasing impoverishment and marginalisation of the majority of the people, destruction of the ecological basis of life and above all the general mechanization of human life already brought about by the misdirected technological advance.

Too many people cared more about the quality of life based on human relationships than about the hoped for increase in income.

Only one chapter is explicitly theological, dealing with Life, based on the Whiteheadian understanding of God, exploring what enables the development of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immediLife, based on the Whiteheadian understanding of God, exploring what enables the development of life, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immedilife, its increased complexity and capacity for intensity, harmony, contrast, and richness of experience through the lure of novel possibilities to be actualized and the abiding acceptance of all experience, preserved everlastingly with no loss of immediacy.

In a follow - up to its 2008 report that found that attending services increases life expectancy, the Women's Health Initiative observational study based this report on a survey of 92,539 post-menopausal women over 50.

Dr. J. A. Hadfield, one of the most distinguished psychologists of my generation, in an essay on The Mind and the Brain argues on a scientific basis «that in the course of evolution the mind shows an ever - increasing tendency to free itself from physical control and, breaking loose from its bonds, to assert its independence and live a life undetermined except by the laws of its own nature.»

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

It noted Europe - based nutritional technologies benefited from increased demand, particularly from Asian markets, for sustainably - produced nutritional ingredients for all life - stage applications, including infant nutrition products.

if you're definitely living on the sweeter side of life, you might really wan na increase the amount of dates you use, especially for the base and the filling.

It ensures that fruit sensitive to water based coatings, such as kiwis, avocados, berries and plums, can be treated to extend the commercial life, reducing the cost of wastage and increasing the profitability of each harvest.

The technology combines the best of recyclable materials (Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)-RRB- and Plantic's bio based ultra-high barrier material, which dramatically increases the shelf life of packaged meats.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

When children get enough sleep on a regular basis, they're likely to see benefits including better behavior, increased attention span, learning, memory, emotional regulation, and overall quality of life according to the findings of this research.

In order to meet the Healthy People 2020 objectives, it is necessary to increase the number of live births that occur in facilities that fully implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, the maternity practice standards that form the basis of the BFHI.

In a systematic review of school - based interventions aimed at modifying knowledge, attitudes, social norms and intentions to breastfeed, researchers concluded that «Overall, these studies demonstrated positive effects on perceptions and attitudes toward breastfeeding and increased behavioral intention of breastfeeding later in life.

It could also add an estimated US$ 300 billion into the global economy annually, based on improvements in cognitive ability if every infant was breastfed until at least 6 months of age and their expected increased earnings later in life.

Several NCF programs have been highlighted as effective examples of ways to increase father involvement in children's lives as part of a report of recommendations to the President: «A New Era of Partnerships,» produced by the President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Combined with the unique circumstances of the post-war world, the stage was set for an extended period of broad - based economic growth that could accommodate both increased profit rates for capital and higher real living standards for labour (Anderson, 1992, 310).

The same research, based on real interviews with real people, indicated that low - quality, ugly housing increased the negative perception of those living in social accommodation.

With the continued growth of Twitter, more individuals and organizations have begun leveraging this ubiquitous «microblogging» platform to draw attention to unfolding events as they happen.I can state from personal experience the same thing that Twitter says based on studying vast amounts of data: «Live tweeting» consistently increases retweets, mentions, and new followers.

«In fact, it is quite plausible that adopting the living wage on a statutory basis could actually increase overall employment in the UK.»

Ms Flint said: «Over the next 12 months we will be rolling out a series of other initiatives linking in with partner organisations across the public sector, the food manufacturing and retail sector and with voluntary organisations to support families live a healthy life based on a healthy diet and increased physically activity.

«It is sad thay today, Southern Kaduna is known as a battlefield for bloodshed, an area where the number of widows and orphans is on the increase on a daily basis, an area where people run for their lives without hope of being rescued, an area where the few left dare not make an attempy to go to their farmlands for fear of the unknown.

In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

The discovery, based on DNA evidence and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 30, increases the overall biodiversity of the Canidae — the group including dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals — from 35 living species to 36.

«Increasingly in the life sciences, developments are based on an understanding of processes at the molecular level, even where the molecules are large and in complex systems,» says Ashmore, «so an increased hiring of folk with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals is taking place.»

Increase survival from the time of listing by more than 1 year (adjusted for quality of life) as compared to waiting for transplantation based on antibody status.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

In the first large population - based, long - term investigation of the association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment, the research determined that birth before 32 weeks is associated with increased risks of retinal detachment in childhood, adolescence and young adult life.

Removing this financial barrier might increase the use of evidence - based therapies, improve patient adherence to those medications, and potentially save lives.

Given the incidence of lung cancer and the associated costs An inexpensive and relatively easy cancer therapy to reduce symptoms and improve quality of life, like physical activity, could be beneficial, especially for therapy, but clinicians underutilize exercise as a therapy, in part due to the lack of evidence - based consensus as to how and when to implement increasing physical activity.

The result is a hundredfold increase of the spin signal, big enough to be used in real life applications, such as new spin transistors and spin - based logic.

This could more than double the life of rechargeable lithium - ion based batteries and also increase the capacity delivered by those batteries.