Sentences with phrase «national cost of»

One surprise: Despite the common perception that contractors are hungry for work and therefore willing to wheel and deal, the average national cost of every project surveyed has gone up, though at a slower rate than in the previous year.

Adding a wood deck is much more economical, with an average national cost of slightly more than $ 10,000.

It's an admittedly pricey project, with an average national cost of nearly $ 50,000, but it generates an average national return of 83.1 percent and a better - than - 100 percent return on investment, according to REALTORS ® in 14 of the 80 cities surveyed.

When marriages fail, a range of social services must be activated to prop up the lives of those families, and the national cost of this has been assessed at $ 112 billion per year.

The national cost of workers» compensation coverage come in at $ 1.27 for every $ 100 in wages, or $ 612 per employee.

Of course, the national cost of a private insurance policy on HealthCare.gov has increased 22 % year - over-year, so maybe that's not a great option.

The index is one of the following three National Cost of Funds Indexes: National Monthly Median (1), Quarterly National Average (2), Semiannual National Average (3) Cost of Funds for OTS - regulated, SAIF - insured institutions.

The average national cost of non-sectarian private schools is approximately $ 17,000 a year, and the yearly tuition at schools in urban areas such as New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. can be more than $ 40,000 for just a day school program.

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The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

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Some experts call this dollar - cost averaging, says Daniel Laverdière, senior manager of financial planning and advisory services with National Bank Financial, but it's really about making sure that some saving is occurring on a regular basis.

Blame the full - size sedan's slow demise on the national obsession with SUVs and Ford Motor Co.» s need to slash costs and remake itself for a new era of self - driving cars and shuttles.

Canada's big six banks — Royal Bank, Toronto - Dominion, CIBC, Scotia, National and Bank of Montreal — are apparently concerned about costs and security.

«Based on data from the Council for Community and Economic Research in the second quarter of 2017, we ranked the [10] cheapest cities to live in based on [its] cost - of - living index score,» compared to a national average benchmark of 100.

Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$ 20 billion to $ 50 billion annually.

National and international conference and trade show booth fees can cost upwards of $ 10,000.

National Australia Bank is doing things «a little differently» from other banks by taking a big restructuring cost, says David Marshall of CreditSights.

Women's Business Centers represent a national network of nearly 100 educational centers throughout the United States designed to assist women in starting and growing small businesses with no cost business counseling and low cost trainings.

While television commercials can give you access to significantly more people, smaller companies might not be able to afford the cost of advertising on state, national, or international television.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

The resulting standard of living in the most expensive urban area, Manhattan, was more than twice the national average at 223.9 percent, whereas the cost of living in the least expensive urban area is 20 percent below the national average.

Those laws include state usury laws that limit interest rates and the Truth in Lending Act, which requires lenders to provide certain disclosures on total loan cost, said Stuart Rossman, director of litigation at the National Consumer Law Center.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

In fact, the new infrastructure should add $ 2 to $ 3 to the cost of a barrel of Western Canadian crude, say Enbridge documents submitted with the National Energy Board.

Similarly, the National Federation of Independent Business, in a study released in December, claims a proposed wage increase in New York to $ 8.50 from $ 7.25 with an index to inflation would cost the state 22,000 jobs and $ 2.5 billion in revenue.

The national average cost of a gallon of gas stands at $ 2.76, marking the highest it's been in three years.

Riverside's above - average cost of living is largely driven by housing, but entrepreneurs looking to rent a small apartment won't pay much more than the national average.

Large employers who combine the benefits under one insurer have begun to demand insurers hit a specific dollar figure of medical cost savings per member, per year, said David Dross, national pharmacy practice leader at Mercer, part of Marsh & McLennan.

Orlando's cost of living is below the national average, making it an affordable place to live and work.

Intensive care costs about $ 10,000 for a typical stay and accounts for 4 percent of national health care expenditures, according to research cited by Chang's team.

As Nerdwallet notes, Austin, Salt Lake City, and Midland, Texas «offer costs of living below the national average,» adding that «by reducing living and office space costs, entrepreneurs have more cash to invest in their growing businesses.»

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

Jerry Dias, national president of Unifor, said his union's members at Canadian Ford plants won't be affected in the short term by the accelerated cost - cutting program announced Wednesday.

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

The national average for a gallon of gas has climbed to $ 2.76, marking the highest it's been since summer 2015 when the cost peaked at $ 2.81, according to online gas station database GasBuddy.com's latest weekly survey of 135,000 gas stations across the country.

«I don't think anybody doubts that the cost of fighting fires has gone up,» said Debbie Miley, executive director of the National Wildfire Suppression Association (NWSA), a trade group for private wildfire fighters.

Both the U.K. and Canada manage their national air traffic control through private corporations, but Delta, one of the only major carriers opposed to air traffic management privatization, says costs have actually gone up in the U.K. and Canada since privatization.

Check it out for its Midwest charm and a cost of living that's 6.7 percent below the national average.

There's more to Atlanta than Outkast and Georgia peaches — the city's cost of living is astonishingly low, with food and gas prices hitting the same level or lower than national averages.

DBL's due diligence confirmed that the falling cost of solar panels and the availability of government subsidies made it a national brand that could multiply its revenues with incremental costs.

Setting aside the enormous costs of the war (direct spending of over $ 700 billion on everything from construction, payouts to families of killed civilians to nonsense like designer goats and a $ 36 million unused command center), an even harder truth is this: There is nothing beyond the most tenuous of linkages between Afghanistan's security and governance and America's national security.

CORPORATE fraud affects more than 50 per cent of Australian companies and costs between $ 15 billion and $ 20 billion a year, according to the latest national KPMG National Fraudnational KPMG National FraudNational Fraud Survey.

What they're saying: «National shortage of Class - A drivers and the increased demand for logistics is resulting in an increase in the cost of goods,» said one manager in the accommodation and food services business.

In a study of 5,140 crashes during four months in 2008 and 2010, Golub et al. [21] found that mini flash crashes increase transaction costs through the «detrimental impact [mini flash crashes have] on the Exchange Spread and NBBO [National Best Bid and Offer] Spread.»

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

Housing - related expenses including rents and mortgages are by far the most burdensome at 2.5 times the national average, according to the Cost of Living Index, but other expenses aren't too far above average.

For instance, local and national governments would receive the help they need to meet the vast capital costs of investments required to protect cities and infrastructure from increasingly frequent extreme weather events.