Sentences with phrase «percent raises went»

The staff and teachers are receiving a pay raise, with a 13 percent raise going to administrators and a 7.7 percent raise to teachers, Swayze said some teaching positions have been reclassified as administrators, thus providing more individuals with higher raises.

Not exact matches

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

Further, we do not expect the bond market to sell off and interest rates to go shooting up when the Fed raises the interest rate from zero by an eighth or a quarter percent.

After meeting the scholarship student, the amount of money the average call center employee raised in a week shot up 142 percent and the number of minutes spent on the phone went up 171 percent.

While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women: Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to female CEOs.

Just 3 percent of the funds raised by the four charities actually went to charitable causes, the suit said.

About 80 percent of TechStars start - up graduates go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel - funding round, versus maybe 1 percent of all startups who seek funding.

Yet when we went out to fund raise this year after 4 years of a 200 percent revenue CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) the first firm that we spoke with said,

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

Cruz would have to raise 10 percent of the bond amount to go free as he waits for his case to be resolved.

To find a relevant precedent, one has to go back to 1994, when the Fed raised rates by 25 bps despite the market assigning only about a 30 percent chance (around what is expected now) of a tightening.

A Morgan Stanley survey found that analysts estimate 43 percent of tax cut savings will go to stock buybacks and dividends, while 13 percent will go to pay raises, bonuses, and employee benefits.

So, if the Fed raises rates by.25 percent, does that mean that mortgage rates go up.25 percent?

The plan would raise the effective tax rates on higher earners who don't have minor children, but the top marginal income tax rate would go down to thirty - five percent from today's 39.

By partnering with an organization as dynamic as SoldierStrong, Rosati Ice will be making a direct impact on the lives of veterans, as over 90 percent of the funds that SoldierStrong raises go straight to providing these rehab devices.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

Proponents of this idea argue that raising the threshold would keep free meals from going to kids who aren't actually economically distressed, while critics charge that doing so would harm children legitimately in need of assistance because the 40 percent threshold doesn't come close to capturing all the impoverished kids in a given population.

FORTY PERCENT of all sales on this party Will go to raising money for my nonprofit for grieving parents.

To do that, to get our name off of his list, we would have to raise taxes 28 percent I'm not going to do that,» Brooks said.

But the daunting challenge is anyone who receives income in the state of New York just got a 25 percent increase, how can we go back and restructure the code so those sources of income are taxed and get to deduct it rather than raising the income tax?»

A substantial portion of those companies» donations — at least $ 370,400 — went to the pro-Republican independent expenditure committee Jobs for New York, which raised about 40 percent of its money from donors who are also among Cuomo's top 25 largest donors.

The pair of Democratic committees tasked with raising money for House and Senate candidates — and doing so at a time when the party holds its strongest position on Capitol Hill in a generation — have watched their receipts plummet by a combined 20 percent with little more than a year to go before the November 2010 midterm elections.

The raises, which averaged more than $ 8,000 or 11 percent, went to employees including 18 law assistants who each received salary hikes of $ 7,000 after passing the bar exam and being promoted to assistant district attorney.

We also know that after telling us last July that he was going to raise our town tax by only 1.9 percent St. Lawrence increased our town tax by 9.4 percent.

The deal offered to Civil Service Employees Association Local 058, to run through 2022, is similar to a contract recently approved by one of the state's largest unions, the Public Employees Federation, with 2 percent annual raises going forward.

The Mayor intends to raise tube fares by 3.9 percent in January and London bus fares will go up by an astonishing 12.7 percent from January.

At today's public protection budget hearing, a fairly stark Republican - Democrat debate formed over whether, facing a 2 percent cap, additional court funding should go to judicial raises or an increase in civil legal services, which helps the poor get legal representation in court.

With just seven dissenters, NYC Council members today went above the recommendations of a salary commission to award themselves a 32 percent raise — from $ 112,500 to $ 148,500.

On the other hand, people are truly outraged that our town board is going to do what I predicted before the last election — to raise its taxes far beyond the 2 percent cap.»

Under the Republican tax reform framework, 80 percent of the tax breaks would go to the wealthy while raising taxes on the middle class and deflating home values.

Raising the minimum wage — which last went up a dime three years ago to meet the current federal rate — could mean passing along a 17 percent increase in expenses to her clients.

It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.»

A «pay bill» that enacts a 2 percent retroactive raise for members of the Public Employees Federation has gone to Cuomo's desk for signing.

HH: If you go back to the 1970's tax structure, we would cut taxes for 95 % of us and we'd still raise $ 30 billion more in revenues, which is 20 percent more than the current state budget.

Of course, the council bill also aims to go above the commission's recommendation: not a 23 percent raise, but 32 percent.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

Finally, the referenda in the East End towns to extend the Community Preservation Fund (CPF) another 20 years and allow up to 20 percent of the money raised to go to improving water quality passed — by 69.5 percent on Shelter Island.

One compensation is that districts next year will be allowed to raise more money through local property taxes, because the state's baseline cap restriction on taxation will go up to 2 percent — the highest limit since 2013 - 14.

Of the $ 53.5 million they've given, more than 22 percent has gone to Cuomo; his total is nearly 20 times that of the top - raising Senate Republican.

Administration officials decided that since the management confidential employees were denied 3 percent raises and step raises last year because of budget shortfalls, it was fair to allow the raises to go forward this year since the unionized work force are receiving them this year and got all raises last year, said Matt Anderson, a spokesman for the Division of the Budget.

The contract included a 4.5 percent raise that went into effect on May 1 — higher than the current rate of inflation.

With just seven dissenters, City Council members on Friday went above the recommendations of a salary commission to award themselves a 32 percent raise — to $ 148,500.

Union President Richard Canazzi said the county has had a history of allowing expired contracts to go unresolved for six or seven years, and getting the Legislature to support zero percent raises each year.

One hundred percent of all money raised by E.A.T. goes to the researchers and scientists who are dedicated to finding a cure.

Also contributing to the jump in affiliated charters between 2011 and 2013 was a 2011 decision by L.A. Unified to raise the minimum percentage of low - income students schools had to have to receive federal funds through the Title 1 program, going up from from 40 percent to 50 percent.

And even higher percentages of people surveyed — 77 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Independents and Democrats — think higher raises should go to teachers who improve student achievement, according to recent polling results from the Teaching Commission.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

It wasn't until 2014, an election year, that lawmakers offered teachers an average pay increase of 7 percent, with the bulk of those raises going to beginning teachers and experienced teachers getting next to nothing.