Sentences with phrase «public benefits almost»

Being comfortable speaking in public benefits almost every worker in almost any profession.

Not exact matches

That not only makes debate almost impossible — all we can do is assert the perceived benefits and consequences of different world views — but it affects how we perceive public personalities and their work.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the national agricultural research systems (NARS) have served the rice - growing community for almost 40 years as providers of international public goods of benefit to rice farmers and consumers worldwide.

In his will, Heath left almost all of his # 5m plus estate to a charity to be established to maintain Arundells, its contents and his papers, «for the public benefit».

In that case, how come that huge amount of military personal and powerful equipment isn't used for the sake of public benefit like disaster control (helping clean up after the hurricane etc.) or maintaining public order, considering that almost all military personel have VASTLY better training compared to the average policeman.

But while the child benefit cut will make a big difference to the lives of already struggling families it will make almost no difference to Britain's huge public sector deficit.

In a culture in which it can almost seem eccentric not to be «of counsel» to a major law firm that represents clients with state business, say, or to have a beef with the practice of steering pork, tax breaks or other public benefit to political donors, this sets significant precedent.

It's almost incredible that after public spending and benefit cuts of # 109bn went through with scarcely a murmur of rebellion, the reform of the Lords now look set to be the issue that splits the Coalition in two.

It required many meetings for almost a year with sometimes countless people in the room from: all levels of government; public benefit corporations from ECIDA, to the Power Authority, to the Water Authority, and Empire State Development; our private sector partners like land owners — Tecumseh, Gateway and South Buffalo Railway; from Welded Tube; a lot of help from organizations like the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise and Partnership; and, then about 5 layers of lawyers in between.

Public school teachers are almost universally covered by traditional defined benefit pension systems.

Almost all of this firepower is employed to the benefit of Democrats, whose constituencies already incline them to favor policies the teacher unions want - more spending, higher taxes, higher public employment, more regulations, more job protections, more restrictions on competition, more collective bargaining - and who, with union backing and pressure, can usually be counted on for support.

For the public schools, this cost is almost entirely contributions to defined benefit pensions.

This means that the Milwaukee attainment analysis almost certainly underestimated the benefits of remaining in private schools throughout high school by diluting the private school group with students who transferred to public schools.

Doing this will require complete candor and transparency about the current status of public education in Texas in addition to confronting the enormous vested interests that sustain not only the current system that has been in business for almost a century as well as those who benefit, politically and otherwise, from the image of the «Texas Miracle».

Arrogant politicans like Dan Malloy, who have lived off public money for almost their entire carreers, bring their skewed sense of entitlement to their positions of leadership and rather than try to fix what is broken they attempt to re-create the system for their benefit.

To be purposely excluded from a tax measure intended to benefit all public school students is disingenuous on behalf of the board, as it is in essence treating the almost 9,500 students who attend charters schools as second - class citizens and putting their needs on the back burner.

You'd want to look into that if you were a reporter covering schools because compensation makes up 80 percent of school budgets in America, so budget squeezes are almost ALWAYS about salary and benefits (Last year, according to the Census» survey of public school finances, school systems in American spent $ 523 billion, $ 419 billion of which was salaries and benefits).

Indeed, the percentage of pension - plan assets invested in stocks dropped from 60 percent to 55 percent during 2007, representing a shift of almost $ 60 billion worth of plan assets from equities into fixed - income and other investments, according to the firm's study of the 100 U.S. public companies with the biggest defined - benefit pension assets whose 2007 annual report was released by March 15, 2008.

The state's Public Utilities Commission is expected to review the net metering rules in 2018, and it is almost certain that the utilities will continue to push for policies that will increase costs and reduce benefits for solar providers, while improving the bottom line for dirty and climate change inducing fossil fuel facilities.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

You will almost certainly be able to find the least expensive coverage in the Marketplace, while private insurance may provide cost and choice benefits that public insurance doesn't.

A 2012 cost - benefit study from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy estimated long - term benefits of almost $ 23,000 per participant in Nurse Family Partnership.