Sentences with phrase «meaningful incomes for»

From chocolate making, to packaging production, to the farming of the cocoa, spices and fruit, Madécasse has created meaningful incomes for over 200 people in Madagascar.

Fair trade, and every purchase generates a meaningful income for the artisans and their families.

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One of the most pressing issues for our society today is income inequality: The rich get richer while the poor struggle to access meaningful opportunities.

Likewise, they may reward for charitable work or adjust income distributions higher if their heir opts for a lower - paying but meaningful profession, such as teaching or social work.

It's no mystery at all that foreign purchases of US bonds have been meaningful support to the broad US fixed income markets for really decades now.

The museum is committed to providing meaningful learning opportunities for families throughout Chicago by offering an array of free and discounted visit options for qualifying community and educational organizations who serve low - income families.

Flanagan needs to allow meaningful campaign finance reform and limitations on outside income to come to the floor for every member to take a position on this session or he will be sitting in the back row of the minority caucus come January!

More meaningful proposals, like cutting the tax rate for capital gains (which are now treated as ordinary income) haven't won serious consideration.

The legislatures failure to enact meaningful reforms to end NY State's «pay to play» political culture is the strongest possible argument for a Constitutional convention to address legislator outside income, limitations on political donations (bribes), and the end to the LLC loophole.

If a good portion of the corruption comes from downstate Dems that is more reason for Flanagan to stand up for limits on outside income and meaningful campaign finance reform.

On each topic, they issued failing grades, with the exceptions of Sen Skelos getting an F - for not only being inactive on meaningful job creation for low - income communities but for actually fighting against efforts that might otherwise be helpful.

Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

«Our annual clean - ups deliver much - needed services to our Oneida County senior citizens who either can no longer physically do the work themselves, or due to a fixed income, can't financially afford to have the work done for them,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «They also give our youth the opportunity to give back to the community in a productive and meaningful way.»

NEW YORK, NY (08/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Meaningful job creation programs, increasing the minimum wage, strong support for affordable housing, and an overhaul of the way elections are run in New York State are desperately needed, but Governor Cuomo and Senator Skelos, two of the three most powerful politicians in Albany, have refused to respond to the needs of low - income New Yorkers and their communities.

This episode simultaneously taxed my visual / spatial system for three separate tasks: the intense spatial planning of where the heavy tree branches were to be cut, and would fall; the meaningful interpretation of the incoming barrage of sensory input; and the essential need to keep my balance based primarily on the constantly moving visual input.

The researchers from Georgetown University and MedStar Health representing medical research, policy, and law, say their findings may provide timely and meaningful insight into what could result from the expansion of Medicaid, a state and federal program that provides health insurance for those with very low income.

You will need to work persistently and imaginatively at promoting your business and your site for several months or possibly longer before you can expect to receive any meaningful income from it.

Take for example the popular online dating site Elite Singles, a dating service that connects 30 + upper - income, college - educated singles looking for meaningful connections.

This is because it, first, aligns with the understanding I described above; second, would result in a meaningful tax benefit for middle - income families and thereby soften criticism that the benefits of the proposed tax package flow disproportionally to the rich; and third, has the backing of the Trump administration.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

Equal educational opportunity means ensuring schools have the resources they need to provide real and meaningful opportunities for all students to succeed, regardless of family income or race.

The deduction amount is far below what would offer truly meaningful choice for parents, especially parents on the lower side of the income scale.

If we want to prepare low - income students for college, policymakers need to do something meaningful to change the reality of these children's lives.

But we have to face the reality that these initiatives have yet to produce any sustained meaningful change for our children, particularly for those from low - income families.

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

Making the situation even more unfair, Malloy has provided no meaningful additional support for public schools in Connecticut's middle - income communities meaning that the burden of local property taxes has become even more unfair for middle - class families.

But Duncan called for improvements in key areas as the bill moves forward, including expanding federal support for high - quality preschool, bolstering resources for schools with high proportions of low - income and minority students, and ensuring what he calls «meaningful accountability» for persistently underperforming schools.

This is especially meaningful for low - income students in India because English language skills and math skills are essential to future employability, and girls tend to be under - educated relative to boys due to cultural norms.32

This process includes procedures to provide meaningful opportunities for public involvement by minority and low - income populations, including input in identifying potential mitigation measures for DOT actions.

By ensuring opportunities for minority and low - income communities to influence the transportation planning and decision - making processes through enhanced engagement and meaningful input, the Department actively prevents disproportionately high and adverse effects of transportation projects on minority and low - income communities.

Ideally, there should be a wide gap between your income and expenses (with your income exceeding your expenses) so you can use the surplus for something more meaningful, like savings or investments.

Last, if you don't think you can pay off your debts in the next three to five years — maybe because you don't expect a meaningful change to your income in that time — opt for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

We strive for meaningful income to replace our day job income.

A high dividend growth rate plus a high savings rate is the right formula for building a meaningful future income stream.

This means income splitting will provide a meaningful saving opportunity for Canadian families, but not as much as previously thought.

Do this for a couple decades, and you are going to benefit from rising rent checks that give you even more money to invest, and then the investments from years gone by start to throw off meaningful income all of their own, allowing you to spend your life constantly taking incoming cash and making fresh investments.

Many good people who went to college to do something meaningful and make a good income are plagued with debt for a while after graduation.

Conceptualizing organizational culture in this way underscores, for instance, that a lawyer's decision about whether to expose the firm to risk, by deliberately ignoring a potential conflict, may depend on whether the firm offers junior lawyers meaningful professional training opportunities, and whether it provides income partners with guidance on how to engage in business development.

Particularly, at a time when the gaps in access to justice continue to grow, when there are no meaningful increases in funding for Legal Aid, and as litigants and accused increasingly represent themselves in court, it is essential that protections are in place to ensure that every citizen has access to equal justice regardless of income level or ability to pay.

Specifically, this report seeks to bring the SDG targets for children in high - income countries into meaningful operation (while staying true to the ambitions of the global agenda) and to establish a point of departure for reviewing the SDG framework in these contexts.

Variables for child's functioning (cognitive level [BAS Standard Nonverbal Composite (SNC)-RSB-; daily living impairment [VABS DLS Standard Score (SS)-RSB-; emotional and behavioural difficulties [SDQ Total problems]-RRB- and socioeconomic factors (income and educational level) were dichotomised into clinically meaningful subgroups in order to better capture their significance, as well as to facilitate the interpretation of the parameters (Ragland 1992).

A transaction has economic substance if: (1) the transaction changes in a meaningful way (apart from Federal income tax effects) the taxpayer's economic position; and (2) the taxpayer has a substantial purpose (apart from Federal income tax effects) for entering into such transaction.

Since then, she has inspired thousands of volunteers — including college students from around the country who flock to Spartanburg to use their time off from school in a meaningful way — to complete free home repairs on more than 800 homes for low - income seniors, people with disabilities and veterans.

«While this is a welcome signal, softness in consumer attitudes that drive housing demand will make for a subdued recovery and should persist absent more meaningful and sustained gains in household income.»

However, it turns out that after controlling for the effects of job, income, and house price growth, these two don't have a statistically meaningful relationship with homebuilding.

«While there is no magic policy bullet, allowing the FHA to reduce its insurance premiums for first - time and lower - income homebuyers will provide a meaningful boost.