Sentences with phrase «long economic decline»

Between the island's decade - long economic decline and the impact of Hurricane Maria, things continue to worsen in Puerto Rico by the day.

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That kind of growth would cause problems within the country, especially if job losses mount or growth remains slow for the long term, but Dollar said a steep decline economic expansion may be just what the country needs.

These shifts help explain why homeownership, long a source of middle class identity and economic opportunity, has started to decline.

How has this happened, when everybody from the Bank of England to the International Monetary Fund, from Barack Obama to Shinzo Abe, from the Trades Union Congress to the Confederation of British Industry, have all warned of the major financial shocks in the near term and economic decline and geopolitical irrelevance in the long term after a vote for Brexit?

Without embedding intergenerational equity into Canada's labour market policy we will be headed for long - period of reduced economic growth, stagnation, or even decline.

Economy: Long term interest rates in both the US and Australia have declined sharply over the past week as the economic outlook in both Australia and US point to a slowdown in economic activity.

But I don't think anybody expected the economic decline we had in 2008 and how long that stuck with us.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economicEconomic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economiceconomic future.

This gain in credibility contributed to a rapid decline in long - term interest rates, which in turn significantly reduced public debt charges and contributed to stronger economic growth and government revenues.

Hold debt levels static, and that rate of economic decline would force Italy's debt to GDP ratio to rise to 122 % from 118 % - clearly the wrong direction if the hope is to ease long - term solvency concerns.

Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 10 %, as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a slump in oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.

Erstwhile, the long - term rates — which look at some of the more important economic fundamentals — are actually declining.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

The last bastion of American economic autonomy, the family farm, has long been on the decline.

But long - term trends in marriage, economic development, and women's education, employment, and access to contraception are responsible for the decline too.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

As part of that tax package, Cuomo is also promising to scrap taxes on manufacturers operating upstate as he tries to reverse a decades - long decline in the region, a former economic powerhouse that has been hit by an outflow of people and jobs.

Ultimately, the decline of teachers» unionization across the United States may have negative consequences on student outcomes and long - term economic growth.

Their clearest statement is that they seek «to preserve capital from permanent loss during periods of economic decline... [and post] long term returns above an equity - like absolute return and the MSCI All - Country World Index.»

The reason why an inverted yield curve is predictive of economic weakness is that long - term bond investors will settle for lower yields if they start to believe the economy will slow or decline in the future.

Imagine if, in 2008 and 2009, you saw Royal Dutch Shell price's decline into the $ 30s as the price of oil got cheap and the backdrop of an economic crisis made the stock cheaper than long - term projection of oil fundamentals warrant.

To further lower interest rates and to encourage confidence needed for economic recovery, the Federal Reserve committed itself to purchasing long - term securities until the job market substantially improved and to keeping short - term interest rates low until unemployment levels declined, so long as inflation remained low (Bernanke 2013; Yellen 2013).

Offering further context for the main installation, «The Contemporary in Context» presents the artist's graphic timeline of the Contemporary relative to specific historical and speculative events of the twenty - five - year period and longer term social and political transformations including the decline and growth of economic inequality.

Frazier's practice spans photography, video and performance and focuses on the artist's deeply rooted and long held concerns exploring the legacies of racism, inequality, economic decline, access to healthcare and environmental justice.

Buyers who are still waiting on the sidelines must learn a basic economic fact of life: if fundamentals aren't supporting a market decline, then it's not going to decline for very long.

African retailers and consumer businesses were facing long - term growth prospects despite the decline in global economic growth, which resulted in sharp rising prices.

Things have changed dramatically since then — 2008's stock market declines have hammered retirement nest eggs, forcing anyone approaching retirement to take a long, hard look at economic realities.