Sentences with phrase «percent said their policies»

Not only that, but 43 percent said their policies were too complicated and 29 percent said they were confusing.

Not exact matches

Nearly 20 percent said they don't know enough about export regulations and policies, and a slightly lower percentage than that said exporting was costly, confusing, or took time away from domestic duties.

«Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic conditions, the committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25 to 0.50 percent,» the FOMC's post-meeting statement said.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ripped the current state of the U.S. economy, saying it would be growing at a 3 percent clip with the proper policies.

The Bank of Canada couldn't ignore an annual growth rate of 4.5 percent in the second quarter, which was much faster than expected: «That's kind of what data dependent looks like,» Lane said, repeating Governor Stephen Poloz's mantra that the newest information will guide policy.

Growth did, in the end, accelerate to a projected 2.3 percent versus 1.5 percent — although it's hard to say how much of that was due to Trump - era policies.

The central bank kept its inflation forecast for this year at 2.7 percent but said that some of its monetary policy committee members «moved a little closer» to their limits for tolerating an overshoot in the bank's inflation target.

«We remain firmly convinced that an extraordinary amount of monetary policy support, including through our forward guidance, is still necessary for the present level of underutilized resources to be re-absorbed and for inflation to return to and durably stabilize around levels close to 2 percent within a meaningful medium - term horizon,» Draghi said.

The one policy change that the respondents said would support small business was strengthening the economy, at 52.28 percent, followed by tax cuts at 19.35 percent.

The result of this policy can be seen by the fact that 58 percent of marketers who are using video said they were looking for «short - form content».

The report said fiscal stimulus and a series of cuts by the Federal Reserve to its policy rate will help the U.S. economy to bounce back in 2021 and grow by 2.1 percent, followed by growth of 2 percent in 2022.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

These four insurers lead in market share, with around 45 percent of the cyber policy market, says Fitch Ratings.

In its 2017 Mind the Workplace mental health survey, Mental Health America found that in organizations deemed mentally healthy, 75 percent of employees surveyed cited relaxed workplaces with an open - door policy, 69 percent reported professional development opportunities and 52 percent said they had some type of flexible work offering.

More than a quarter (27.3 percent) of council members responding to a quarterly poll say U.S. trade policy is now the biggest risk their company faces.

She says this policy has played a role in the company's 60 percent reduction in sick days over the past two years.

Nearly 90 percent of small businesses have an Internet use policy, and 95 percent say they try to enforce it.

Alistair Brown, the policy officer for the Museums Association in London, said the switch to free admission saw attendance rise 150 percent but many lost up to 40 percent of their government funding.

However, only 44 percent said their company had a known IoT security policy.

Despite the exemptions, nearly two - thirds of the 40 survey respondents, including economists, fund managers and strategists, see the president's trade policies as negative for overall economic growth, with 23 percent saying it's too soon to tell.

Bianca DiJulio, a Kaiser policy analyst, said that because some sample sizes were so small, the organization didn't have the 95 percent confidence they liked for many of the size categories.

Fourteen percent said they will wait to see how events such as the fiscal cliff and tax policy play out.

According to the Millennial Impact report, 39 percent of millennials surveyed said that a company's volunteer policy affects their decision to apply and 55 percent said it affects their decision to take the job.

A huge number of doctors — 89 percent — said they believed that consumers had not been adequately educated about how the exchanges» policies will function, and more than 9 percent didn't know if there had been adequate education of consumers.

«What we thought and we had envisioned is the cost of the newly enrolled would end up approaching that of the [employer - insured] group market, but we're seeing in the data we have today it is actually about 20 percent higher than in the group market,» said Alissa Fox, senior vice president for policy and representation at BCBSA, in an interview with Morning Consult.

Rosengren however said there remains «strong rationale for continuing our highly accommodative monetary policy,» and he predicted inflation will remain «well below» the 2 - percent target over the next two years, paving the way for more easing.

Forty percent of respondents to a recent poll said they wanted her to resign over her refugee policy.

«The policy of promoting an overvalued dollar gave us the record trade deficits that eventually peaked at almost 6 percent of GDP in 2006,» Baker said.

He presided over fiscal policy at a time of major expansion of the Vietnam War, eventually lobbying vigorously in 1968 for a 10 percent tax increase that many analysts said should have been imposed sooner.

The Fed said in a statement after its latest policy meeting that it expects «further gradual increases» in rates and says it's moving close to achieving its 2 percent target for annual inflation.

«If the stock market were to fall by 20 percent, that would change Fed policy significantly,» Sohn said.

While the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says 80 percent of Americans will see a reduction in their taxes this year, only 44 percent will see a reduction of $ 500 or more, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

«The bottom 95 percent would see little or no change in their taxes,» says the Tax Policy Center.

In a related statement, Fed officials said: «Given the economic outlook, and recognizing the time it takes for policy actions to affect future economic outcomes, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/4 to 1/2 percent.»

At the same time, he said, the Fed is not the world's central bank, and will calibrate policy based on its domestic objectives of fostering full U.S. employment and 2 percent inflation.

«In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the committee will assess progress - both realized and expected - toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation,» the Fed said in a statement after its latest two - day policy meeting.

It wasn't even having 53 percent of the voters in the 2012 exit poll saying they believed Romney's policies would primarily favor the rich.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

«Clarifying and standardizing date label language is one of the most cost effective ways that we can reduce the 40 percent of food that goes to waste each year in the United States,» said Emily Broad Leib, Director, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC).

Switching to 100 percent cage - free eggs by the end of 2016 is a tremendous commitment that will quickly improve the lives of countless animals and further cement the future of egg production as being one without cages,» said Josh Balk, Senior Food Policy Director, The Humane Society of the United States.

The Chicago depository serves about 70,000 Latinos in the area every year, about 14 percent of the nearly 500,000 people served, said Lisa Koch, director of public policy for the depository.

They found that 96 percent of participants received anaphylaxis training, 81 percent said their school had stock epinephrine auto - injectors and 61 percent said their classrooms had strict policies for bringing food in the classroom.

Sixty two percent of New York voters said they supported making marijuana use legal for people 21 and older, with only 28 percent opposed, according to a poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation and the Drug Policy Alliance.

«You can't have an all of the above policy that magically gets you to 100 percent of renewables,» Beauchamp said.

Economic growth in 2016 was at a low of 3.5 percent, though the IMF said improved growth was expected in 2017 - 18, owing to an increase in oil production, declining inflation, and lower imbalances with the right policy implementation.

«And so now it's just really just a question of execution of core policies including the 50 percent by 2030 renewables program that was adopted last August by the Public Service Commission,» Morris says.

Senator Jose Peralta argues that means business will be discouraged from hiring older workers, who the Fiscal Policy Institute says currently hold about 90 percent of low - wage jobs.

Not to mention, a poll conducted by the DPA and the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) last year found that 62 percent of New Yorkers support marijuana legalization for adult use, indicating «this is actually really popular across demographics,» Moore said.

«New York should set a goal of 100 percent green energy by 2030 and then scale up its policies and investments to meet that goal,» he said.

A December Quinnipiac University poll showed that while 50 percent of voters statewide believed the governor should become a national leader by challenging Trump's policies, 56 percent said he shouldn't run for president in 2020.