Sentences with phrase «percent called cost»

As I wrote last week, small firms that didn't offer insurance to their employees cited a variety of reasons, but 79 percent called cost an important factor, while 76 percent said the same of firm size — their businesses were just «too small.»

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It will also have to negotiate increased pressure on labor costs, with unions having called for a strike on Feb 22 to support demands for a 6 percent pay increase.

(The ACA has been in effect for larger employers — those with 100 or more employees — since the beginning of 2015) This is called the employer mandate, and generally speaking, such business owners must offer plans that cover a minimum of 60 percent of plan expenses, and must cost no more than 9.5 percent of an employee's annual household income.

Specifically, she has called for shoring up spending for early childhood education and capping families» costs for it at no more than 10 percent of their income.

Between insurance charges (also called mortality and expense fees), underlying sub-account fees for variable contracts and administrative fees, overall annual costs can be more than 2 percent.

In fact, I've been called a liar when I tell people that we created a campaign that on a single day had an 11 percent click - through rate and a cost just $ 0.30 per install.

Major U.S. companies such as General Motors and Caterpillar were outsourcing aggressively to bring down costs and at the peak of the outsourcing movement, about 30 percent of call center jobs were sent overseas.

TIRRELL: So, Regeneron and its partner Sanofi struck a deal with pharmacy benefits manager express scripts, agreeing to lower the cost of the drug called Praluent to a range of $ 4,500 to $ 8,000 a year, a 70 percent discount at the lower end.

Oak Brook, Illinois - based McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant chain, raised U.S. menu prices 1 percent in March to help offset higher commodity costs, Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen said during an April 21 conference call.

The TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar told the press that, the free roaming regime, will result is cross-subsidization as only 13 percent of the mobile subscribers use roaming facility and telecom companies could recover their cost by the local call charges, and the impact of this move will be reviewed after a year instead of three years.

The agreement also calls for the park district to continue to pay 5.53 percent of the cost of utilities when it uses the building.

The deal, which would affect approximately 54,000 Public Employees Federation members statewide, calls for three years of annual 2 percent wage hikes, compounded, and no increase in health care costs, according to news releases from the governor and the union.

Collins has called for states to assume more of the costs of Medicaid, including from counties which now pay about 13 percent of the costs.

Councilman David Testa is also skeptical about the cost, noting that the plan already calls for an annual.74 percent property tax increase.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal and a coalition of nonprofits rally to call on de Blasio to fund a 2.5 percent increase to contracted community service nonprofit budgets to help pay for the increased cost of supplies and repairs, equipment, technology, food, and rent, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Most Assembly members are calling for the 2 percent cost - of - living increase in the budget.

The Legislature also approved an estimated $ 1.5 billion in homeowner tax relief tied to local governments staying within a 2 percent tax cap the first year and enacting cost - saving plans the second year, benchmarks for Cuomo, who called his property tax relief «the single most transformative part» of the budget.

But last year, the renewal of NY / NY became the casualty of yet another squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio — with Mr. de Blasio asking Mr. Cuomo to increase the number of units to be built in the city, and with Mr. Cuomo demanding that Mr. de Blasio pick up more of the tab — calling for a 50/50 split of the cost instead of the state paying 80 percent, as it has done in the past.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon on Thursday called on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to investigate the hike in the cost of EpiPens after its manufacturer boosted the price in the last year by 75 percent.

Trump's decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the very people who helped him win the presidency, as nearly 70 percent of those benefiting from the so - called cost - sharing subsidies live in states he won last November.

Calling it an issue of «economic justice,» de Blasio said he would raise income tax rates on the wealthy from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent for five years, an amount he likened to the daily cost of a «small soy latte from Starbucks.»

And while wind energy had been growing at an average annual rate of 27 percent and solar photovoltaic, too, was surging as costs fell sharply, so - called clean coal remained a long way off and governments» ambitions for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles were well ahead of reality.

So - called «green schools» — which are designed specifically to provide healthier and more productive learning environments — cost just 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent more than conventional schools, but provide significant long - term financial benefits, concludes a study by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough.

The government now offers two kinds of benefits: a dependent - care tax credit — equal to 20 to 30 percent of expenses, depending on parents» income level — that limits expenses to $ 2,400 for one child or $ 4,800 for two or more children; and so - called «salary reduction plans» that permit parents to have day - care costs withheld from their salary and reimbursed by employers without being taxed.

Local districts now pay for more than 40 percent of the cost of special education out of their general budgets, an impact called «encroachment.»

In addition to the base tax of 1 percent of assessed value, property owners often pay additional school taxes for two purposes: to pay off bonds issued to fund school construction and to fund ongoing education costs through what are called parcel taxes.

Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.

Get more minutes for your buck Government regulatory authority Ofcom has announced a reduction in the call costs between the four major mobile phone companies in the UK, by up to 80 - percent.

The adjustments — sometimes called above - the - line deductions because you can claim them whether or not you itemize deductions — include (among other things) deductible contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), SIMPLE and Keogh plans, contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), job - related moving expenses, any penalty paid on early withdrawal of savings, the deduction for 50 percent of the self - employment tax paid by self - employed taxpayers, alimony payments, up to $ 2,500 of interest on higher education loans and certain qualifying college costs.

My take is that high - cost indexing is an oxymoron, and 2.29 percent isn't even a close call.

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Only about 15 percent of credit cards offer travel cancellation insurance, so it's worth calling your provider to see if it offers it and will reimburse you the cost of nonrefundable flights in an emergency or if you become ill.

At zero percent penetration of PV with a hypothetical value of $ 90 per megawatt - hour and a cost of $ 100 per megawatt - hour, Mills said, «the renewable premium, or what the PUC is calling Net Market Value is in the range of $ 10 per megawatt - hour.»

Most states have passed laws allowing net metering, but a 40 percent drop in the cost of residential solar installations in the last five years has prompted some to review those policies amid calls by utilities to roll them back.

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... a June, 2008 report by the McKinsey Global Institute... estimates that the macroeconomic costs of what it calls the «carbon revolution» would be between 0.6 and 1.4 percent of GDP by 2030.

Brown calls this a conservative estimate, as the math is based on the notion that only 25 percent of the legal research costs are attributable to primary law, whereas he believes the actual proportion to be much greater.

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Last year, Roku addressed consumers» interest in low - cost devices by updating its Roku 1 to be called Roku Express — a 75 percent smaller form factor, with double the processing power, at $ 30 — only a few dollars more than Chromecast is right now.

During a call with Wall Street analysts to discuss Microsoft's Q3 FY 2015 earnings results, CEO Satya Nadella noted that even though Lumia phone sales were up 18 percent in volume for the quarter, the company plans more cost cuts in its first - party hardware.

If adopted, the legislation would call on the federal government to allocate $ 200 million annually in 2004 and 2005 to cover downpayments and closing costs of first - time homeowners who earn less than 80 percent of their area's median income.

For about 3.5 percent of his marketing costs, he generates more than one - third of his calls.

In a conference call, CEO Stanley Tanger said he hopes to reduce occupancy costs at the Charter Oak properties, currently about 8 percent, closer to Tanger's own 7.2 percent rate.

American Capital came under activist pressure in November when Elliott Management Corp. unveiled an 8.4 percent stake in the asset manager, calling for new directors, a strategic review, cost cuts and a review of its portfolio and capital allocation.

But the cost of so - called shelter, an owned or rented dwelling, has jumped to 19.2 percent from 15.9 percent.