Sentences with phrase «new federal studies»

Young people with disabilities are meeting with «mixed success» as they struggle through high school and search for meaningful, well - paid employment, data from three new federal studies indicate.

More than half of all high - school students have consumed alcohol recently, and more than one - third report that they have recently had more than five drinks on one occasion, the results of a new federal study indicate.

So it is with the new federal study of charter schools.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

State efforts to improve teacher quality by requiring that candidates pass a test before receiving their licenses may weed out only the most incompetent teachers, according to the coordinator of a new federal study.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

A new federal study found 40 states lacked expertise to help school turnaround efforts.

Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A new federal study shows Utah had the lowest rate of alcohol - related deaths over a five - year period among eleven states that participated in the report.

Fires, floods and hurricanes are already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars a year and climate change will drive those costs ever higher in coming years, a new federal study warns.

Getting that message across may be difficult in the U.S., where about a third of people aged 18 and older say they sleep six hours or less a night, according to a new federal study.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwinew study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwiNew York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

A new study from Germany's Federal Highway Research Institute again raises concerns regarding the Tesla Autopilot system.

Jaison R. Abel is an economist and Richard Deitz a research officer in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

2See Macroprudential Policy: Case Study from a Tabletop Exercise, Tobias Adrian, Patrick de Foutnouvelle, Emily Yang, and Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report No. 742, September 2015.

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Jerome Powell, the new chair of the US Federal Reserve, took office in early February under a spotlight as global markets study his leadership in the more volatile, inflationary and protectionist economic environment.

William Dudley, President and CEO (Speaker) Date: Friday, April 7, 2017 Time: 12:15 PM EDT Subject: Remarks on the State of Financial Regulation and the Potential for Reform Event: Special Luncheon with William Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Organizer: The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University Location: Princeton Club of New York, 15 W. 43rd Street, New York, NY (4th Floor — West Wing)

According to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a college education is still worth the money.

While the produce industry and the federal government have made great strides in protecting the nation's food supply with steps like the Produce Traceability Initiative and the Food Safety Modernization Act, a new study from the University of California - Davis suggests reusable plastic containers may represent a backdoor for contamination.

A brand - new study in the journal Pediatrics (released online today) found that regulating the sale of «competitive foods» (any food or drink sold outside the federal meal program) may help keep students at healthier weights.

New research data from a federal study by the NIH, comparing almost 140,000 births, shows that average labor time was longer in the early 2000s than it was in the 1960s (when most labor patterns were recorded).

I've walked the fields of mega-tournaments, watched countless instructional DVDs and books, appeared on television to promote new football helmets, and, over the years, have turned down the chance to promote hundreds, if not thousands, of products, many making claims that could not be backed up by peer - reviewed studies, some whose advertisements were later found to be misleading by the Federal Trade Commission.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

After multiple recent studies showing that feeding peanut - containing foods to infants can reduce the risk of peanut allergies, there are new federal guidelines for parents about when to start feeding their infants such foods.

At the same time, my study of the use of poetry in Yemen's jihadist journals brought me to a new political interest in how Yemen's transition to a federal system is playing out in Yemen's eastern regions.

«This office will continue to review all options moving forward to ensure that the federal government meets its clear legal obligation to fully study the potential risks to New Yorkers» health, environment and public safety before allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

At the time, the New York district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a statement: «The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers appreciates Sen. Schumer's continued interest in the South Shore of Staten Island Study and we're working with our partners at the federal, state and local levels to take a look at this issue.»

DiNapoli and Cuomo have conducted separate studies showing that New Yorkers give over $ 40 billion more in taxes to the federal government than the state gets back, an imbalance that has doubled in recent years.

The study was supposed to have been released in June, after it was reviewed by the federal government, and as recently as this morning, New York State's transportation commissioner was apparently still unaware that the review was complete.

In 1981, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York studied the economic costs of declining subway service.

The attorney general said he is giving federal officials a month to agree to the study that would focus on the impact of hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, which includes the New York City watershed and portions of Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie, Green, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties.

Rep. Lee Zeldin announced a new proposal that would suspend the sale and marketing of Plum Island to private buyers and require an additional federal study of the sale.

Wildstein testified that it was his «understanding» from his former superior Bill Baroni — a Christie appointee now facing federal charges — that that the New York and New Jersey governors colluded to blame the shut down of lanes headed into Fort Lee on a fraudulent «traffic study.»

That's just one of the many notable findings in data compiled by New Organizing Institute, a liberal group, which took a broad look at federal campaign staffers in their study.

Even though the federal government, New York and surrounding states have tackled the issue over the decades, experts who study wage issues are sharply divided.

The study is being conducted through the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, a regional transportation planning organization mandated by the federal government that identifies, plans and seeks federal funding for such projects.

There was a time when the administration was preparing to allow a limited number of wells in the Southern Tier, as trial - ballooned in the New York Times in 2012, and as evidenced by its extraordinary care in editing and delaying a federal fracking study around that time to lessen the appearance of environmental risk.

We have been studying participation by small donors and volunteers in all state and federal elections, as well as in New York City.

Meantime, efforts to study the chemical PFOA in New York and southern Vermont has gotten a boost from a federal grant.

«We'll see if there are any specific elements of this study that might have to be adjusted or augmented to satisfy the federal as well as the state requirements, we'll work closely with the State of New York to make sure that those additional elements are then included in the study.

A 2014 State Comptroller's study found that over one - half of renters and over one - third of homeowners in New York State pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing, which is the federal standard for affordable housing.

He said the study should also look at the effects of legalization in Massachusetts — and possibly New Jersey — on New York, as well as any future federal intervention.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says he will will not turn over information about New York state voters to a federal election panel that President Trump created to study possible voter fraud in last year's elections.

A study of three upstate counties of New York found fewer than 10 percent of polling places fully compliant with state and federal laws.

In 1990 Rick Strassman, a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, got federal clearance to do the first psychedelic studies on humans in nearly two decades.

It was a good move by both the federal governments and the Länder (states) to agree on two new goals: increasing the number of foreign students by 50 % and doubling the number of German students who spend time abroad during their studies.