Sentences with phrase «lows during the recession»

Despite much optimism, no one sees this as a panacea in post-Proposition 13 California where investment in education has, for decades, languished below the national average and sank even lower during the recession.

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«Importantly, the series also shows a sharp decline in the flows of illegal immigration at the U.S. - Mexico border during the last recession, and those flows have remained at historically low levels since then.»

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Still, the temptation now to use historically low - interest money from mortgages, personal credit lines and 401 (k) plans to invest in the stock market is great, especially as the Dow is reaching historic heights at more than 26,000 — a milestone unfathomable in 2009, during the Great Recession.

Youth unemployment is actually pretty low by historical standards; the only time it was lower was during the boom years just before the recession.

The Bank of Canada, for example, presently maintains its overnight rate at 1 %, up marginally from a low of 0.25 % during the worst moments of the recession.

During times of recession the economy is stimulated with low interest rates and once they get low enough, the yield on bonds and other fixed investments becomes so unattractive that money starts to flow into equities.

The fall in the natural rate during the recession is explained by low expected productivity growth.

During times of recession the economy is stimulated with low interest rates and once they get low enough, the yield -LSB-...]

But the multiplier varies over the economic cycle — higher during recessions or when short - term rates are near zero, and lower when an economy runs near fully capacity.

DETROIT / SAO PAULO, April 25 General Motors Co is planning for long - term profitability in South America built on the back of draconian cost cutting during Brazil's recession and the same low - cost vehicles it is developing for Chinese consumers, which are due to hit dealerships in 2019.

«During the recession and in its aftermath fewer people voluntarily left jobs because the chances of finding a new or better one were low compared to a healthier economic cycle,» says Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder.

An important part of reducing your risk during a recession is lowering your fixed payments.

For example, the loss of existing firms and the low creation rate of new firms during and after the Great Recession have not only directly reduced investment but also impaired the dynamism of the private sector, causing persistent, adverse effects on productivity growth.12

As I mentioned earlier, business investment collapsed during the Great Recession, and its much - weaker - than - expected recovery since, despite historically low financing rates, has been a major source of disappointment in advanced economies.8

, San - Lin Chung, Chi - Hsiou Hung and Chung - Ying Yeh examine the predictive power of investor sentiment for different kinds of stocks during bull (low - volatility, expansion) and bear (high - volatility, recession) equity market regimes.

10 - year Canadian government bond yields had declined to as low as 0.90 % during mid-February, when recession fears hit an apex but ended the quarter at just over 1.2 %.

Rates could easily eclipse the lows we've experienced during this cycle as we try to make our way out of the next recession.

Because of this long history, we know for a fact that stocks and bonds have low or negative correlations with gold, particularly during periods of economic recession.

Credit conditions were overly tight during the Great Recession, and now credit is flowing back to low credit score individuals who are purchasing cars at a fast clip.

Unemployment topped out at 10 % during the Great Recession but now sits in the low 4s.

These lows have never been penetrated, even during the great recession of 2008 - 09.

McAleese says the company also provides convenient, low - cost products that have proven popular during the recession as people eat out less frequently and spend more time at home.

The planned low tax hikes contrast with the current school year's average 3.27 percent increase, as well as jumps of 7, 8 or even 9 percent recorded during the economic boom years preceding the Great Recession.

Legislators said the money should be distributed through an «equitable formula» to help low - performing schools close the $ 6 billion gap created during the 2008 financial recession.

Gordon Brown claims low interest rates and high employment put the UK in a better position than during the last recession - do the figures add up?

Like other locusts, desert locusts can switch from a solitary phase with low population densities during recessions (periods of calm), to a gregarious phase with high population densities during invasions, when hopper bands and swarms can devastate agriculture.

In the case of this recession, Groshen attributed the structural nature of unemployment to overinvestment during the 1990s (e.g., Y2K - related acquisitions), monetary or fiscal policies (e.g., low interest rates or tax rebates) that provide consumers with temporary cash infusions, and the success of many companies in hunkering down and weathering the storm.

Some countries with low fertility, such as Austria, Switzerland, or Spain prior to the 2008 recession, have experienced robust population growth driven by immigration during the recent decades.

• As with teachers (and many non-education professions) principal turnover was lower during the recent recession.

Credentials issued to new teachers are at an historic low at the very time districts have increased their hiring to expand programs and restore teaching positions eliminated during the Recession.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

The total demand for and resulting cost of the Pell Grant program grew exponentially between 2007 and 2011 as a result of more Americans enrolling in college and lower family incomes during the Great Recession.58 In 2011, to compensate for an inadequate reserve to fund the growing demand of Pell Grants, Congress cut year - round Pell Grant eligibility, which was restored this year, and eliminated graduate student subsidized loans.59 This affected the student aid packages of students nationwide.60 By cutting the Pell Grant reserve, President Trump and Secretary DeVos risk the ability to fund future upticks in Pell Grant demand, thereby requiring either future reductions to eligibility, lower awards, or cuts to other education programs.

10 - year Canadian government bond yields had declined to as low as 0.90 % during mid-February, when recession fears hit an apex but ended the quarter at just over 1.2 %.

Even at 8 % return (low if not including a recession during that period) that's a 46 % gain on principle.

But the multiplier varies over the economic cycle — higher during recessions or when short - term rates are near zero, and lower when an economy runs near fully capacity.

Even though Providence's full - service / fast food differential and per capita restaurant spending are a bit below the national averages, it gets the number five spot because of its impressive growth in restaurants during the recession, as well as a very low people - to - restaurant ratio.

Other times, like during recessions, they might want to lend to fewer people, and having a low score will hurt more than during other times.

When demand is low, such as during an economic recession, banks can increase deposit interest rates to encourage customers to lend, or lower loan rates to incentivize customers to borrow.

Consider this example from the 2008 financial crisis: $ 100,000 invested in the S&P 500 would have lost half its value between October 2007 and March 2009 — the market's low point during the recession.

But the assumption in our RFE research note was that you would simply «buy and hold» the stock market during periods of low recession risk.

I like this company because it has very low volatility during recessions.

In 2012, during the rollover, the stock market had increased substantially since the recession lows of 2008 and 2009.

The peak is when business activity has reached its maximum level followed by a slowdown or recession during which business activity reaches its lowest level.

Residential construction peaked in California in 2004 at over 200,000 units, and reached a low of only 36,400 units in 2010 during the recession.

Emissions for 2010 were within budget - but that was mainly due to the recession, which lowered economic activity and therefore emissions during 2009.

As a result, Staten Island has been able to keep pace with New York City's lowest unemployment rates, even during the Recession.

It was a good idea that unhappily arrived ahead of its time — these programs were launched during the post-crisis recession, when it was hard to persuade new graduates to turn down high starting salaries in favour of lower - paying «training opportunities.»

Economic conditions can also play a role for term life insurance rates as it did during the Great Recession when investors became wary of lending money at low rates as insurance companies, to cover a policy, must put up a large amount of capital.