Sentences with phrase «on education increases»

The proportion of the nation's gross domestic product spent on education increased from 6.7 percent in 1983 to 7.9 percent for this school year — the highest gain for a 10 - year period, said Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.

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Its work shows that marginal tax increases have little effect on economic growth, provided the revenue is used to pay for things such as education and healthcare.

The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

They are focusing on systems to increase team education to meet the ever - growing demand as they expand.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Culturally, Rappaport also notices an increased emphasis on the importance of personal finance education.

«With increased education and access to information on the Internet, eating right is not going away,» Repole says.

The country is also second only to the U.S. in share of GDP spent on post-secondary education and closely trailed Taiwan in increased manufacturing hours during the recession recovery in 2009 and 2010.

HIV / AIDS took the number two position despite the increase in education on prevention and treatment.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.

Similarly, one of Martin's suggestions for increasing our prosperity is to spend less money on publicly funded health care and more on education.

In particular, as disclosed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amarin's ability to effectively develop and commercialize Vascepa will depend in part on its ability to continue to effectively finance its business, efforts of third parties, its ability to create market demand for Vascepa through education, marketing and sales activities, to achieve increased market acceptance of Vascepa, to receive adequate levels of reimbursement from third - party payers, to develop and maintain a consistent source of commercial supply at a competitive price, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in connection with the sale and promotion of Vascepa and to maintain patent protection for Vascepa.

But instead of increasing spending on post-secondary education, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell recently announced he's saving $ 16 million by cutting college and university budgets by 2.6 education, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell recently announced he's saving $ 16 million by cutting college and university budgets by 2.6 Education Minister Murray Coell recently announced he's saving $ 16 million by cutting college and university budgets by 2.6 per cent.

It's absolutely essential to increase spending on education and health care.

In an era when students and families take on an ever - increasing share of the cost of higher education, having a poor record of student success is fast becoming a brand killer.

At Babson College, Kevin also teaches entrepreneurship for MBAs and for executive education classes and leads workshops on helping companies scale and increase engagement of their employees.

Higher education expenditures on research and development have increased every year from 2006 to 2014, totalling more than $ 100 - billion.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

These pay disparities between pre-k and K - 12 educators are a national constraint on increasing the quality and capacity of early - childhood education.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Education has been underfunded for too long in our province, and this funding increase is helping us get back on track.»

The NDP budget includes modest increases and projected stable funding for health care, education, advanced education and human services — core services that Albertans depend on.

New policy decisions announced in the Budget included personal income tax cuts, increased spending on defence and domestic security, and reform of higher education and Medicare.

Thomas says educators should focus on a campaign for a November ballot measure that would raise education funding from an income tax increase on wealthy residents.

In particular, this means increased focus on education, immigration, social infrastructure and the participation of women and indigenous peoples in the economy.

This «war on christianity» baloney is just pederast priests and embezzling adulterous ministers seeing their cash flow slipping away with increasing education and recognition of their hate - fear - power - based anti-science fraud.

This is due to a number of factors: a main one being an increased focused on higher education for women (hooray!)

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The journal Sex Education published an earlier article of mine in which I found some evidence (though not conclusive since the data on STIs available to us is far inferior to that on pregnancy rates) that STI rates amongst teenagers have increased fastest in those areas promoting the EBC the most.

Christianity is on the decline because as education levels increase, so does the belief in religion.

He lamented, in 2009, the significant decrease in the number of Catholic faculty and the fact that the University's increased focus on research to maintain its status among elite universities was weakening the quality of undergraduate education.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

My theoretical explorations must be seen, however, not only in this context of theological education, but also in the context of my increasing involvement in feminist theological dialogue on a national and international level through lectures and workshops.

In many instances theological education was on the defensive against the increasing power and influence of secular education.

This is an indication of the increasing emphasis placed on education as the church constantly prepares itself for its ministry to a stormy and complex world.

When it prevails such education necessarily becomes indoctrination in Christian principles rather than inquiry based on faith in God; or it is turned into training in methods for increasing the Church rather than for guiding men to love of God and neighbor.

To reach their goals, trade groups support various tactics including increased public education, on - premise recycling initiatives, improved curbside collection practices, expanded state beverage container deposit programs and mandatory recycling programs or landfill bans.

Joe Milner, Milestone Beverages» managing director, said: «We have agreed a clear strategy which is extensively focusing on distribution and education as a way to increase consumer awareness and appreciation of the brand.

In India, increased incomes are more likely to be spent on motorbikes, phones, computers, education, and housing than on food.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

When asked for sources to support the statement, a spokesperson for the Productivity Commission told The Conversation that real government spending on education had increased from $ 40.7 billion in 2004 - 05 to $ 50.4 billion in 2013 - 14.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

Increase in home education in Notts (Nottingham Post, UK, 26-11-17)-- Report on the rise of home education in Nottinghamshire.

The Department for Education today released the following communication regarding its tenders to increase take - up and establish breakfast clubs as part of the School Food Plan: «In light of the recent announcement on free school meals for all infant...

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

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