Sentences with phrase «on public benefits»

Although the outcome tends to support the notion that the deal made in the prenuptial agreement years earlier was unfair to that spouse, courts routinely enforce prenups that result in an unfair outcome, but will take a second look when enforcing the prenup would create such a disparity of wealth that the disadvantaged spouse would end up close to destitute or on public benefits.

After cutting back on public benefits like library hours and reducing pay for city workers, it is now looking at selling municipal water to a private corporation for a gain of around $ 50 million.

In 2001, when a developer first proposed building a tower on Tate Modern's doorstep, Serota slammed the plan, calling it «an opportunistic attempt to cash in, for private gain, on the public benefits that have been created» by the gallery.

Contact your creditors, particularly your credit card issuers, and let them know that you are disabled, out of work or surviving on public benefits.

The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission is developing a new, customized, best practice model for disability employment that could be replicated by vocational rehabilitation agencies and community rehabilitation providers across the country with the goal of increasing employment, reducing reliance on public benefits, and promoting self - sufficiency through earnings and preventative health benefits.

EAST HANOVER, N.J. January 18, 2017 — Kessler Foundation has awarded a two - year, $ 250,000 Signature Employment Grant to the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) to launch Career Pathway Services, an initiative to develop a customized employment and peer support model to work toward reducing unemployment and reliance on public benefits for people with disabilities.

«When individuals with disabilities are employed, they have a better quality of life, gain financial self - sufficiency, pay taxes and lessen their reliance on public benefits.

Two formal processes exist: formal clearance by the ACCC (based on competitive effects) and authorisation by the Australian Competition Tribunal (based on public benefits).

The ACCC's warning shot prompted Murray Goulburn to test 2007 merger authorisation legislation for the first time by going straight to the tribunal for merger approval on public benefits grounds.

As a key player in Maine's economic development, FAME provides a host of services to help expand business opportunities through our willingness to invest at a greater risk based on public benefit.

In Australia it is possible for parties to apply to have a merger «authorised» on public benefit grounds, notwithstanding it might otherwise contravene the prohibition in s 50 of the Act.

Briefly the Tribunal has the power to authorise a proposed merger / acquisition (s 95AT) on public benefit grounds, provided satisfied that the «proposed acquisition would...

The carrot offered is that the ACCC would be able to formally clear a merger on public benefit grounds.Currently, the formal process only allows competitive effects to be considered, and the ACCC's track record when challenged on merger decisions is rocky.

* These positions are being filled on our public benefit corporation payroll, they are not NYS Civil Service positions.

The Ohio Arts Council, for example, restructured its grants program so grant eligibility became based on public benefit rather than organization type.

Briefly the Tribunal has the power to authorise a proposed merger / acquisition (s 95AT) on public benefit grounds, provided satisfied that the «proposed acquisition would...

He acted for a substantial group of charities in relation to the Attorney - General's reference to the Charity Tribunal on public benefit in poverty charities.

General guidance for charities on public benefit has been published by the Charity Commission.

It's another to know with enough certainty to engage in large - value transactions, or to confer on them some public benefit, like a welfare payment or a student loan.

The average pay for child care teachers is barely more than $ 10 per hour, lower than for most other jobs, including parking lot attendants and dog walkers.26 These low wages contribute to economic insecurity among the child care and early education workforce, with one in seven living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.27 Currently, about half of people working in the child care sector rely on public benefit programs such as Medicaid and nutrition assistance.28 Low pay contributes to high turnover rates, which can threaten quality in early childhood programs during children's critical developmental period.

In fact, the average wage for a child care teacher is just $ 10 per hour.16 As a result of their low wages, nearly half of the early childhood workforce depends on public benefit programs just to meet their basic needs.

Not exact matches

... lawyers» work on behalf of clients positively requires — both for its justification and its successful functioning for the benefit of those same clients in the long run — that lawyers also help maintain and refresh the public sphere, the infrastructure of law and cultural convention that constitutes the cement of society.

Dunkelman declined to comment on the suit, but said that «BusBuddy is a free app for the benefit of the public and... has not derived any profits.»

It certainly doesn't benefit the driving public, who will save less on gas than they would under the existing rule.

Trying to go public during the financial crisis was like being a public company without any of the benefits of being public: briefing analysts on a quarterly basis, reporting financials — all the encumbrances of public company but none of the financial benefit.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

It could also have a public benefit if it lessens the need for governments to build highways designed for rush - hour commuting or for workers to spend $ 100 a week or more on transportation, parking, coffee, lunches and so on.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

The problem lies less with layers of government and excessive numbers of government workers providing services than with the generous salaries and benefits of those who are on the public payroll.

«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.

This fall, with the support of his investors and employees, he even reincorporated the company as a public benefit corporation, which legally requires it to prioritize its effects on society as much as its profitability.

The second step is to begin a dialogue on how to reduce the need for legislation on every aspect of business life and instead implement regular independent reviews of large companies to identify the ones that pose risks that are not overwhelmingly balanced out by the public benefits they provide.

In what may be the clearest sign that Morrison is intent on doing more than «putting the barn on the package,» she backed Plum's decision in 2013 to become a public benefit corporation, which codifies the business's social and environmental purpose in its charter.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»

«We have been working closely with the local planning authority and meeting with the public in the surrounding communities on the proposal, and we are partnering with local organisations to provide public benefits from the mast, including community radio, wireless broadband access and education initiatives.»

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

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).

Taxable municipal bonds The interest on some municipal bonds is taxable because the federal government will not subsidize the financing of activities that do not provide significant benefit to the public.

Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world - renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.

We have argued in previous articles that spending by governments on public infrastructure that would provide services to Canadians for many decades in the future is not the same as spending by governments on programs and services that only benefit current generations.

C corporations can also deduct fringe benefits such as qualified education costs, group term life insurance up to $ 50,000 per employee, employer - provided vehicles and public transportation passes, pre-paid legal assistance, child and dependent care, discounts on company products and services, and qualified achievement awards.

It would have been better if the paper had been released after the Prime Minister's statement in Davos and before budget 2012 to allow for a public discussion on the elderly benefit system, but that was not possible because the paper did not address the issue of the long - term fiscal sustainability of elderly benefits.

The calculations are based on the status of the Account at the end of 2009 - 10 as per the Public Accounts of Canada and extrapolated using the March 2011 Budget projections for EI premium and benefits.

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

For example, the Public Accounts / Budget / Updates includes employment insurance program costs, as the government has full control over this program, determining the premium rates and eligibility and the amount of the benefits, whereas the Estimates excludes them, on the basis that they are included as part of a specified purpose account.

A report by the California Public Utilities Commission is due out this fall on the costs and benefits of rooftop solar that may help determine the direction regulators and lawmakers take on net metering programs in the state.