Sentences with phrase «much an incentive program»

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Last year, San Antonio approved a similar program, but the mayor's office in Austin says that version failed to get much traction because it lacked enough incentives to make drivers want to participate.

The truth is, Panama has so much going for it, including the «world's best» Retirement Program that offers a myriad of hefty discounts and other incentives.

It's no surprise such money - driven competitions have surged in popularity, given that multiple highly credible studies have underscored the value of employing financial incentives and peer support to positively influence weight loss. HealthyWage.com's own diet - for - dollars program allows participants to make a wager upfront ranging anywhere from $ 20 a month to as much as $ 500.

Third, there is way too much incentive to the schools to have more and more kids on the program.

Fruscher ominously notes that a «much more significant downsizing of our entire workforce lies ahead,» but the OTB is awaiting legislative approval for an early - retirement incentive program and a joint effort with the union that represents most of the operation's workforce in accordance with a MOU.

But five years later, as comptroller, he said the program was much less effective at cleaning up polluted sites than programs in other states that offered far fewer incentives.

Broadband: In 2009, the FCC began developing the National Broadband Plan, a work - in - progress that aims to increase broadband access across the country by providing additional infrastructure, incentives for companies to create low - cost access, educational programs, and much more.

By contrast, recent research about federal Teacher Incentive Fund merit pay found far smaller learning effects and lower pay supplements, with fewer than half of districts indicating an ability to continue the program, much less scale it up.

It sounds great to create an incentive program to juice sales, but what motivates a driver personality style is much different than an amiable personality.

Recent research has suggested that because of generous financial aid programs (i.e. student loans), colleges have an incentive to raise prices to capture as much of this as possible.

Participating banks in the program can benefit from government - issued incentives, while requiring them to reduce the total amount of mortgage payments by as much as 38 percent of a borrower's monthly income.

When pretty much every retailer is offering a program with points per purchase, tiers offer that extra incentive to choose one over another, said Jeff Berry, senior director of knowledge development for LoyaltyOne.

Since the fares are so much higher in Canada, there is much more incentive for the average person to understand and try to use their loyalty program points to offset their airfare.

With the recent news that Xbox One users are gaining the EA Access program, there has become much more incentive for players to join up on PlayStation Plus to get their monthly member game fix.

Much like Green Man Gaming, GamersGate provides a great deal of discounts and incentives for purchasing games, including Blue Coins, a virtual currency which basically serves as their rewards program.

After much thought and reflection, we decided to close down the program and make all of the incentive content available to anyone who preorders Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or purchases a Day 1 edition of the game.

In Germany, a country with a much more robust government incentive program, solar's share is much larger, but still only 1.1 percent of that nation's electricity.

«Today, the Baker Administration built a much - needed bridge between the end of the current solar incentive program and the beginning of the new one,» said Sean Gallagher, Vice President of State Affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

The adder incentive for power from solar carports could be as much as 6 cents per kilowatt hour more under the SMART program there.

This conference has highlighted just how much local leadership there is on the issue of climate change and how many innovative new projects are going on in cities around the country: Seattle's incentives for greening existing buildings, Los Angeles's million tree initiative, Miami's bus rapid transit program — and the list goes on.

That incentive alignment may not be the case for a government - funded climate researcher whose career benefits from promulgating the shared political program of heavy intervention against fossil fuels and would be very much hurt by not going along with that.

Anand's idea is to offer financial incentives, much like the programs now in place to bring more doctors to rural practices.