Sentences with phrase «social impact economy»

Adding cryptocurrency will help to set up a new social impact economy by leveling the farmer's playing field, grocers, and also independent truckers.

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«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

Means testing for Social Security benefits could have the greatest impact on those who work hardest and provide the most jobs of any sector of the American economy: entrepreneurs.

The social media giant hired the accounting and consulting firm Deloitte to tally up the company's impact on the global economy.

I want to turn to DACA and its impact on the economy because this week, some 400 business leaders sent the president a letter saying if the 780,000 DREAMers who now work are put at risk of deportation, the economy will lose $ 460 billion plus $ 24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes.

Throughout the world, a growing number of social impact - motivated entrepreneurs like Mycoskie are doing well by doing good, truly making a difference in people's lives while generating economy - boosting profits in the process.

But this is less of a check on power than it first appears because the impact of social media on society and the economy is still poorly understood, and regulation takes time to catch up.

Our business strategy is to generate competitive financial returns and positive economic, social and environmental impact by providing financing to SMEs, primarily in developing economies.

Cutting Social Security payments could potentially have a greater impact on these state economies.

Built on the strong foundation of social economy and enterprise activity in Québec, these initiatives will provide valuable infrastructure to support social entrepreneurs and impact investing in the region.

Nearly 200 delegates from around the world, representing governments and leading technology company executives, were in attendance at the annual conference and awards presentations to discuss and recognize ways that broadband communications is making a practical but profound impact on the infrastructure, economy, businesses, governments and social growth.

Many predict growth will slow again in the April - June quarter, as the impact of higher Social Security taxes and government spending cuts begin to weigh on the economy.

As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.

Canada will continue to slide down global innovation rankings and the economy will suffer as a result negatively impacting job creation and our strategic social - economic advantages.

Yes our quality of life is still quite good relative to SOME other countries... that not really what people are thinking though when they use the term «3rd world country» — they are talking about the trending that they see — and the media reflects a perception out there that things are trending in a negative direction... look, if you read my original posts, you will see that they have much less to do with our economy as they have to do with WHY we are involved in the middle east and the SOCIAL impact of that.

Our projects and services facilitate greater understanding of the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our food choices, and promote the purchase of locally grown and produced foods to keep our farms and food businesses viable and to strengthen the local economy.

In this economy, I see this as a social issue of serious impact — the big retail giants are getting richer by manipulating information sources to support their casues, rather than provide facts that could really help inform people and change lives.

It featured contributions from Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy), Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber), William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy (Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation).

Economic recovery will be another casualty, as the government's attack on pay for nurses, social workers, paramedics, and PCSOs will hit spending power, and the 25 per cent department cuts will have a devastating impact on jobs, driving down much - needed demand in our economy.

Economic recovery will be another casualty, as the government's attack on pay for nurses, social workers, paramedics, and PCSOs will hit spending power, and the 25 per cent departmental cuts will have a devastating impact on jobs, driving down much - needed demand in our economy.

The implications are important: Correlational studies have suggested that street patterns may impact local economies, physical activity levels, public transportation use, crime rates and social inequality.

Not only could this negatively impact a teacher's health, family and career aspirations; the substantial amount of absenteeism depletes the British economy due to the unprecedented costs on the medical and social support systems.

Rapid and deep changes in society, the economy and policy over the last decades are having an increasing impact on the delivery of social housing in North Western Europe.

While the able - bodied can begin their job searches as soon as they hear of an imminent layoff, the disabled and elderly who rely on social security are also being impacted by the economy.

Customers are realizing they can use their buying power to impact social change, whether by helping stimulate the economy (buying local) or by reducing environmental impact (choosing sustainably produced products and eco-friendly items).

Rather than grouping the artists geographically, the exhibition explores the thematic and material relationships between the artists to address themes that transcend particular locations such as peace and social violence; race, power, and identity; informal economies and corporate impact on the environment; memory; architecture, light and space.

Lefebvre's method of rhythmanalysis begins with observing the rhythms of the body and how they are impacted by the natural and synthetic rhythms of the economies and cultures we live within, which in turn produces social practices and public space.

Social scientists, including Matthew Nisbet of American University, had already published evidence that the impact of «An Inconvenient Truth» and the surrounding publicity was transitory, well before the economy collapsed.

* global warming is not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects of warming.

«As I scratch my head in an effort to figure out the AIG bonuses and wonder how the economic stimulus is going to impact my life and business, I can't help but think about what makes real economic sense to me.Over the last 20 years, we have run an economy based upon who can supply the lowest price, not considering social and environmental impact.

In order to estimate the impact on the economy of the Clean Power Plan's regulatory scheme, based on an estimated SCC of $ 37 per ton, we have modeled the impact of an equivalent tax of $ 37 per ton carbon emissions [14] instituted in 2015 and increasing according to the EPA's annual estimates of the social cost of carbon.

This analytical report highlights ways to reduce the environmental impact and improve the environmental, economic and social sustainability of traditional and emerging ocean - oriented economies.

The «social cost of carbon» was developed in large part to compare long - term costs from coastal flooding and other impacts of emissions of climate - warming carbon dioxide with upfront costs to the economy from curbing the burning of fossil fuels, the main source of such emissions.

They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death — but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially complex and impoverished society... Once you understand the transition in this way, the need is not for a supercomputed Five Year Plan — but a project, the aim of which should be to expand those technologies, business models and behaviours that dissolve market forces, socialise knowledge, eradicate the need for work and push the economy towards abundance.

Renowned economics professor Robert Pindyck of Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recently canvassed the value of so - called «integrated assessment models», which attempt to calculate the optimal social price for emitting a tonne of carbon given its ultimate impact on the climate and the economy.

It's actually pretty simple, a strong economy is more important than social issues, even when the social issue might impact me.

A report he wrote in 2002 on the social impact of the Manwan Dam on the Lancang (Mekong) River — the dam had decimated the local fishing economy and turned many villagers into scavengers — was endorsed by the prime minister, leading to a change in how Beijing provided for the affected communities.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

Apart from decreasing the impact of social housing building in new environments and improving neighborhoods economies with densification, the add - on houses would prevent the ghetto - effect that new housing complexes usually create.

I see social franchising having a major transformational impact on creating new economies in a very positive and possibly unexpected way.

My concern is the impact of a future blockchain - driven trust economy on social cues.

The rise of social media, the state of the economy, and personal branding all deeply impact landing a C - level job today.

If the social unrest is not curbed in time, then it could pose a serious risk to the harmonious working environment in organizations and it would definitely have a negative impact on the economy as well.

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There is strong evidence that shows that universal community - based systems of high quality early childhood education and care are part of the backbone of strong economies: ECEC has short - term, medium - term and long - term economic and social impacts on children, their parents, the labour force, local economies and the larger economy.

Lost chances for success for our young children impact Nebraska's future economy and social vitality.

Reconciliation Australia commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to undertake an analysis of the impact on the Australian economy, if, in 2031 the gaps in social and economic outcomes between -LSB-...]

«Whatever the social and emotional impact, the broad economic effects of the increase are clear: It is contributing to the formation of new households; boosting demand for housing, appliances, and furnishings; and spurring the economy,» Bloomberg News reports.