Sentences with phrase «reduce overall contributions»

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In recent years, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has sought to reduce overall pension contribution rates for local governments and taxing districts, which are squeezed amid a cap on property tax increases.

That means they'll need to be replaced less often and you can buy fewer clothes overall, thereby reducing your contribution to the costs of fashion in the long - term.

Despite lower plan benefits, new teachers still need to contribute the same percent of employee contributions as more senior teachers, reducing overall net pension benefits even more.

Districts can take policy actions — such as pooling a portion of parent donations or regulating the use of those donations — to benefit higher - poverty schools without substantially reducing overall parent contributions.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

We found that policies that equitably redistribute donations — or divert a portion of the contributions to affluent schools to high - poverty schools with more significant need — did not substantially reduce overall parent contributions.

The use of the CFRP roof makes a major contribution to the coupe's low center of gravity and reduces overall weight.

This achieved two objectives — on the one hand, they increased the torsional stiffness of the chassis by 12 percent to provide improved handling precision and, on the other, they were able to reduce weight by 20 kg (44 lbs), making a significant contribution to the reduction of overall vehicle weight.

When Harry Markowitz started an intellectual revolution with his seminal paper «Portfolio Selection» in 1952, one of his key contributions was quantifying the impact that correlations between pairs of investments had on reducing a portfolio's overall risk.

Contributions are tax deductible, which means it lowers your overall income that is taxed (page one of the 1040), thereby reducing your tax.

Since contributions to the Minnesota College Savings Plan are considered completed gifts, it can reduce the amount of your client's overall taxable estate.

The key question in Fiscal 2010 will be whether our overall net sales and net profit will primarily reflect revenue contribution from new customers or the decline in revenues from existing customers that have indicated reduced order flow in Fiscal 2010.

In exchange, we offer a range of benefits to reduce the overall costs of pet guardianship, including a «welcome home» contribution towards pet food and other essentials, and discounted pet care through local veterinary partners.

Each person's contribution to overall A pollution is so slight — given that there are 6 billion others out there — that, guided purely by informed self - interest of the sort the market is based upon, he has no incentive to reduce his emission of pollutant A.

In other words, the U.S. is leading all industrialized nations in CO2 reductions — the greenhouse gas responsible for three - fourths of global warming, according to this report — and is also reducing methane emissions that represent a relatively minuscule contribution to the overall GHG radiative forcing (i.e. global warming) identified in this report.

The parties agreed that each country would submit a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), with an overall goal of reducing global greenhouse gas...

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Selected Achievements and Contributions • Reduced overhead costs by 58 % by suggesting use of alternative energy sources during rush hours • Successfully reconciled an entry that had been in limbo for 6 months, placing a positive impact on the overall accounts of the company

«The sale of Princeton Pike reduces New Jersey's contribution to just 5.5 percent of overall company revenues and amplifies our shift to a more urban and transit - oriented portfolio with better growth characteristics,» said Brandywine President and CEO Gerard H. Sweeney in a statement.