Sentences with phrase «lower voting rates»

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University of Chicago grad student David Andrew Finer realized that the data could shed light on how Wall Street interacts with the Federal Reserve, especially around the critical times when the central bank is voting whether to raise or lower interest rates.

Some see higher rates as a vote of confidence on the strength of the economy, while others consider increased borrowing costs a threat to the bull market that began amid — and was fueled by — historically low rates and extraordinary Fed stimulus.

James Bullard, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, expects low rates throughout the next two to three years.

Following the British vote to exit the European Union, global economic concerns, coupled with weakness in the Japanese economy, drove interest rates in Britain, Europe and Japan to fresh lows, prompting a burst of yield - seeking speculation that has driven the S&P 500 Index a few percent above its May 2015 peak.

Those who are willing to purchase it presumably will be compensated by a lower per share price than full voting rights stock would command and / or by a higher dividend rate.

After the UK voted to secede from the EU in June, many of SG's clients adjusted their positions in interest - rate derivatives and credit derivatives to reflect the Bank of England's low - rate stance.

Still, Bernanke managed to get a unanimous vote at the December meeting to reduce interest rates as low as they could go.

Conversely, when the FOMC votes to lower the Fed Funds Rate, the economy is pushed to expand.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to keep its trend - setting interest rate at record lows, as policymakers continue to rely on record stimulus to keep the economy humming.

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has voted to keep its trend - setting interest rate at record lows, as policymakers continue to rely on record stimulus to keep...

The presidential vote of confidence for Powell reflects the White House and Treasury's desire for low interest rates to fund the public debt and support high asset prices, as well as the probability that the Senate will quickly confirm the nominee.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

At 11 a.m., low - income NYers hold a protest calling on the NY Federal Reserve president to vote against any rate increases that impact black an Latino workers, 33 Liberty St., Manhattan.

I know of no firm metrics (other than voting patterns, which are flawed as participation rates are so low 38 % - 62 % typically for national elections), though there is a plethora of writing on the effectiveness of government.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

Senators and Assemblymembers were set to vote on bills that would raise rates on New Yorkers earning more than $ 2 million dollars a year for the next three years, but would slightly lower the tax rates for the middle class permanently.

Fewer than 64 percent of eligible residents are registered to vote in New York state — the fourth - lowest rate in the nation.

But I guess voting a man who did achieve the lowest unemployment rate out of all the Hudson Valley and replacing him with a doctrinaire political hack is what stupid people do.

Last month, with Election Day around the corner, that seemed to change as de Blasio renewed his call for a system that will encourage voting in a state with one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

However, the by - election result came at a time when Labour's opinion poll ratings were very low and perhaps represented a protest vote at the government.

Additionally, Ryan called upon the legislature to enact other voting reforms to modernize elections in New York, make it easier to vote, and expand voting options for all New Yorkers to help boost low turnout rates.

The lower rate will not do much good for Milwaukee when offered to companies moving from, for example, a neighboring county, said Milwaukee Alderman Robert Donovan, who on Wednesday voted in favor of the plan based only on company water use and job creation.

Municipalities already play within the state's flexible tax cap (which restricts tax - levy growth to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower) which requires a supermajority vote to override.

Latinos historically have voted at a much lower rate than whites and blacks in the district.

Miliband, for example, it was reported, bequeathed South Shields a voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) as low as 0.2 % — or roughly 100 people.

• Voter registration restrictions that give New York one of the lowest rates of election turnout in the nation, prohibiting same - day registration an mail - in voting.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Concur — Vote Passed (224 - 201, 7 Not Voting) Brady, R - Texas, motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the tax overhaul that would revise the federal income tax system by: lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent; lowering individual tax rates through 2025; limiting state and local deductions to $ 10,000 through 2025; decreasing the limit on deductible mortgage debt through 2025; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Request Conference — Vote Passed (222 - 192, 19 Not Voting) Brady, R - Texas, motion that the House disagree with the Senate amendment and request a conference with the Senate on the bill that would revise the federal income tax system by lowering individual and corporate tax rates, repealing various deductions through 2025.

Tax Overhaul — Vote Passed (227 - 205, 2 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would revise the federal income tax system by: lowering individual and corporate tax rates; consolidating the current seven tax income rates into four rates; eliminating the deduction for state and local income taxes; limiting certain deductions for property taxes and home mortgages; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

We will vote as a body on Thursday, Dec. 7, which will be too late to report on in this month's column, but I expect at the end of the process we'll have a budget that lowers the tax rate, funds critical services and invests in our community.

That is why it has high approval ratings from Tory voters, and much lower ones even from that half of the LibDem vote which is sticking with them.

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

Republican leaders did not speak, though some individual GOP members said they voted no because taxpayers should not finance college aid for the children of undocumented immigrants, and that they are already eligible for lower in - state rates at public universities.

Sean also voted to lower tax rates for middle class New Yorkers to the lowest rates in over 50 years.

In Mark Ferguson's excellent expose of «community campaigning» in South Shields under David Miliband's watch, he reveals that the voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) in the constituency was as low as 0.2 %.

Tax Overhaul — Passage — Vote Passed (51 - 49) Passage of the bill, as amended, that would revise the federal income tax system by lowering individual and corporate tax rates, repealing various deductions through 2025, specifically by eliminating the deduction for state and local income taxes through 2025, increasing the deduction for pass - through entities and raising the child tax credit through 2025.

Tax Overhaul — Motion to Proceed — Vote Agreed to (52 - 48) McConnell, R - Ky., motion to proceed to the bill that would revise the federal income tax system by: lowering individual and corporate tax rates; consolidating the current seven tax income rates into four rates; eliminating the deduction for state and local income taxes; limiting certain deductions for property taxes and home mortgages; and creating a new system of taxing U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries.

Horner said, «New York is really notorious in terms of having difficult obstacles for voters to surmount in order to vote,» and that the rules contribute to New York having one of the «lowest voter participation rates in the country.»

Good government groups have long pushed for the change, noting New York's historically low voter turnout rates and saying that a more flexible voting system might help.

Hochul opposes the Ryan budget, but she was one of 13 Democrats to vote for a GOP bill that would pay for extending lower college student loan interest rates for another year by cutting $ 6 billion from a preventive health fund — an idea opposed by the White House.

Farage added that Ukip had won three recent council byelections in the north and predicted that in many parliamentary seats it would increase its percentage of the vote in 2015 from low single figures to closer to its current poll ratings, which have been as high as 15 %.

Carlucci said, «Working closely with Governor Cuomo, I voted to cut over $ 13 billion dollars from the state budget without raising taxes, pass a property tax cap, and cut taxes for middle class families to the lowest rate in 58 years.

Katko has said he voted for the GOP plan because it will benefit most taxpayers in Central New York and help businesses across the state thrive under a lower corporate tax rate.

Compared to other states New York has low voter turnout rates and is one of a minority of states that still doesn't allow early voting.

New York State, for example, which has had lower than the national average voting rates, has low turnout rates from its younger voters.

The analysis indicates that — once you control for all other place - specific factors like political institutions and levels of economic development — warmer than normal temperatures in the year prior to an election produce lower vote shares for parties already in power, driving quicker rates of political turnover.

Naturally, whenever there's such a massive divide between certain online voting metrics and everything else, it's easy to suspect some sort of brigading of the vote, campaigns from unruly and discontented fans who (for whatever reason) slam the lowest - rating button over and over again — or program a bot to do so for them — in hopes of dragging down the overall score.

The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest - rated public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious schools.