Sentences with phrase «new economic measures»

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In a new analysis, Business Insider culled data across five measures of labor - market and general economic health for the 40 metropolitan statistical areas with the largest 2017 populations.

«The direct economic impact on Japanese producers may be limited — only 2 percent of Japan's steel exports go to the U.S. — but Tokyo's failure to convince Washington to spare it from the new measures could be a sign of a more contentious turn in the bilateral relationship,» he said.

While lucrative, the EU deal was always treated as a sort of stopgap measure, something to bolster Canada while it worked through the political, cultural and bureaucratic nightmare involved in expanding our trade with the world's new economic superpowers, China and India.

CNBC Rapid Update will offer new measures of how much an economic report changes the outlook on Wall Street for US growth forecasts.

The changes come even as Powell conceded during his first press conference that the likely economic effects of the new fiscal - policy measures were «very uncertain.»

But as Brazil seeks to keep its economic momentum going, and begins to define its ambitions on the global stage in measure with its new - found clout, some question whether the 62 - year - old Rousseff will be able to handle what's heading her way.

They are divided over whether future economic growth will benefit the many or the few, but they agree that we need new metrics to measure prosperity going forward.

The trend worries economists because new businesses play a vital role in creating jobs, improving productivity and spurring economic growth; some researchers believe the decline in entrepreneurship, and in other measures of economic dynamism such as labor mobility, could be part of the reason the U.S. has experienced such a slow bounceback from the past two recessions.

The Council for Community and Economic Research (ACCRA) Cost of Living Index that measures the relative cost of U.S. metropolitan areas examines a new 2,400 square foot, four - bedroom, two - bath home with an attached two - car garage suitable for a management household.

A new study, backed by Facebook, wants to go beyond measuring the impact of internet shutdowns on the formal economy and measure the impact of internet cut - offs on «shadow economies,» namely economic activities that circumvent government regulation, oversight, and taxation.

For instance, the New York Federal Reserve has an inflation measure, the Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG), that aims to capture sustained movements in underlying inflation from a broad set of price, real economic activity, and financial data.

On April 7th, 2017, the Broadbent Institute released exclusive new polling from Stratcom, looking at Canadian opinion on economic security and levels of support for progressive policy measures.

Minister Flaherty had done an excellent job of pre-conditioning on what to expect: a commitment to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16; no new «risky» spending; some funding for infrastructure and skills training; and further restraint measures to offset revenue losses due to slower economic growth in 2013.

For each of the indicators measured (New Orders, Backlog of Orders, New Export Orders, Imports, Production, Supplier Deliveries, Inventories, Customers» Inventories, Employment and Prices), this report shows the percentage reporting each response, the net difference between the number of responses in the positive economic direction (higher, better and slower for Supplier Deliveries) and the negative economic direction (lower, worse and faster for Supplier Deliveries), and the diffusion index.

Fleming, M (2003): «Measuring Treasury market liquidity», Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Economic Policy Review, vol 9 (3), September, pp 83 - 108.

There was justification for some of this — economic data was supportive of risk assets and the new US administration is still promising a raft of measures that may support corporate earnings (at least in the short term).

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, who has made balanced budgets a key plank in his campaign, suggested Monday that new measures may be required should the economic situation worsen.

There is no escaping the fact that economic and financial conditions have worsened since the ECB eased three months ago, which is not exactly the intended effect of new policy measures.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

This measure is especially damaging to high - tax, progressive states like New York, Cuomo said, calling the measure an «economic civil war» where increased taxes from blue states will subsidize red states.

The budget would include measures to restore fiscal discipline and good economic governance, transparent and accountable use of public resources in accordance with the new Public Financial Management Law and to provide a credible basis for economic policy clarity going forward, the statement added.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to sign the measure, called the federal SALT cap «an economic arrow aimed at the heart of this state's economy.»

She criticized Brindisi for supporting Cuomo's economic development measures through the Start - Up New York program.

«Fewer New Yorkers are now worried about the financial impact of gas and food than at any point in the nine years that Siena has measured the household economic impact of those necessities.»

He went on to claim that the new Government would adopt «a more credible approach», with economic and fiscal forecasts in future provided by the newly created independent Office for Budget Responsibility, taking into account the measures in the Budget.

In a speech to a conference organised by Google, the internet search engine provider, Mr Cameron called for a new measure to assess people's general well - being, or GWB, similar to gross domestic product (GDP), which analyses a country's economic activity.

«The L.A. increase nudges it forward,» said Dan Cantor, the national director of the Working Families Party, which was founded in New York and has helped pass progressive economic measures in several states.

«Not just to not have to play defense, but to work proactively with members of the legislature and the governor's office to reduce that tax burden, to try to reclaim some measure of economic competitiveness in New York State and put people back to work.»

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

Calls for ethics legislation — varying measures have been approved virtually every year Cuomo has been governor — come as still more investigations are underway into the state's economic development programs in upstate New York and Mayor Bill de Blasio's political activities in New York City.

A good - government watchdog on Monday called for a halt to economic development spending until transparency measures and other new controls are put in place as a safeguard against corruption.

Supporters defended Cuomo's liberal credentials throughout the campaign, noting his work to pass same - sex marriage and gun control measures while also working to cut state government dysfunction and boost the economy through business - friendly tax policies and initiatives designed to spur economic development in western New York.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Democrat from Buffalo who chairs his chamber's economic development committee, supported the funding for Western New York but has been pushing other reforms, including a measure that would require members of the regional councils to formally file financial disclosure forms currently required of lawmakers and other officials.

Amid a push to clean up Albany following a series of scandals that rocked the Senate and Assembly — including the convictions of both legislative leaders last year — as well as ongoing corruption probes into economic development spending in upstate New York, most voters, 56 percent to 27 percent, believe the measures approved in June won't lead to a significant reduction in fraud and corruption.

He referred to the deal as the basic human rights and economic security measures every New Yorker should have.

They also call for affirmative measures to reduce racial and socio - economic segregation, which is the most extreme in New York of any state in the nation.

The president also said his economic team is «hard at work» on a series of new measure designed both to spark short - term hiring and lay the foundation for long - term economic growth.

Assembly Republican Leader Brian M. Kolb said New York state economic development spending outpaces every other state by a large measure.

And then there's Cuomo's economic platform — which, by the way, the W.F.P. signed onto in 2010 when it was begging Cuomo to endorse it — of a property - tax cap, reducing pensions for new public workers and cutting taxes, including some measures targeted at major banks and people with million - dollar estates.

In addition to providing a window into the financial pressures — from work disruption to added expenses — that families face when a child is being treated for cancer, the new study utilizes an alternative measure of economic need.

Tienken, now at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, has since done a similar analysis of the 2003 PISA mathematics rankings and two measures of economic success: per - capita GDP in 2010, and the 2010 - 2011 Growth Competitiveness Index.

This paper presents a new data infrastructure for measuring economic activity.

The new report focuses on a controversial measure called the social cost of carbon (SCC), an estimate in dollars of the economic consequences of CO2 emissions.

Dr. Carlson has also developed a number of new technical and economic metrics for measuring the progress of biological technologies.

Global Education Rankings to Measure Tolerance (BBC) Project Zero collaborated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to develop a new framework for the 2018 PISA test, which will focus on measuring and understanding students» global competence.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An analysis of a new report by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 trillion.

The austerity measures introduced by the Greek government, its weak governmental system, politicians» broken promises and the new economic situation spread an intense climate of frustration and social unrest across the country.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

Despite the nation's troubled economic times, voters across the country approved several state and local ballot measures Nov. 5 that call for billions of dollars in new spending on school programs for students of all ages.