Sentences with phrase «potential economic burdens»

We can all think of potential economic burdens in our retirement years, but few of us would think of student loans as one of them.

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Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).

And now that more than 35 percent of U.S. adults are currently obese, researchers have been searching for potential links between the two conditions, in hopes of reducing the increasing health and economic burden of obesity.

Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated with demographic aging.

«For the first time, our analyses provide state - specific costs for COPD, which provide state public health practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population Health, CDC.

How the burden can best be distributed among the levels of government and among revenue sources must be determined through political processes that weigh options for transitioning to and implementing a high - quality ECE system and the benefits of such a system against the potential political and economic costs of reducing other public expenditures or raising taxes.

Besides the burden of proof on the borrower to demonstrate a recovery from the «economic event,» the potential homeowner must also complete housing counseling.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.