Sentences with phrase «spending than the shelter»

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Does Mr. Brownback not factor in the fact that most people still need to spend a minimum amount of money to live in modern society (food, shelter, etc.), and it is those people who can not afford to spend more than a minimum that consumption taxes affect the most (which, as you noted, has often been an argument for income tax)?

Over recent years the number of homeless people has soared, camps of rough - sleepers have sprung up around the UK and, according to the charity Shelter, more than 100,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation.

Analysis submitted by the IBO predicts that in 2017, city - funded spending to shelter homeless families and adults will cost $ 101 million more than currently budgeted under the mayor's plan.

Rather than spend money to house families in shelters, city and state agencies should instead spend money on resources to keep them in their homes, like social workers and housing attorneys, he said.

Humans could hardly have stayed in shelter all the time; food gathering would have required them to spend a lot of time outside (and probably a lot more time than most modern urban humans).

I have spent more time than I care to during the spring in a tornado shelter.

Estimating that it will spend more than $ 41 million responding to disasters which have struck America since March 31, the Red Cross, making a similar plea for assistance in a recent press release, said «The Red Cross is still on the ground in Joplin, Missouri providing meals, safe shelter, relief supplies and emotional support for people affected by the May 22 tornado.

VANCOUVER — A new study says the average Canadian family was spending more on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing combined.

My rule of thumb is to spend no more than 35 % of your income on shelter.

Shelter accounts for roughly 30 % of this total, transportation takes up another 21 %, and food eats up 14 % — of which more than a quarter is spent on restaurants.

As he puts it, «I would rather spend my money on things that I need like food and shelter than to give it back for a service that should have been provided for me.»

I like to make my dollars all do more than one job so I hate it when I have to spend it on money protection (life insurance) or shelter (mortgage) in a way that doesn't give me cash back.

So much for the traditional rules of not spending more than 30 % of your income on shelter costs and ensuring you are diversified in your assets.

The average American spends more on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing combined.

Don't spend more than 30 % of your income on shelter costs.

«The Healey - Grisham team has spent more than a decade photographing homeless animals once a month to enable shelters to find homes for their rescues.

Solution: While it may seem unfair that your pet has to spend time alone, it is still better than making him take his chances in a shelter!

The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) spends more money on Receptions and Award Dinners in Hollywood and Washington DC for entertainers and celebrities than it does in direct financial support of animal shelters for dogs and cats.

It would make more sense for me to spend less money and have a known adoption fee from the shelter where the animals are in more dire circumstances than to go through a rescue group where the dog is 2 1/2 times as much to adopt and in a foster home.

Rather than spending thousands of dollars at the local pet store, rescuing an animal from a shelter is much more rewarding since you are saving a life and also much less expensive.

Many older cats and dogs spend more time in shelters than others, simply because of their age.

County government spends $ 508,000 each year on animal control, including more than $ 130,000 in contract fees to animal shelters that house and destroy unwanted pets.

I have 4 cats whish we saved from the street, so initial cost was nothing, but we spent much more in the long run than we would have adopting from a shelter.

Rather than spending time surrounded by friends and family, Ray Elliott, ACO for the Lunenburg County Animal Control, will be locked up inside of a kennel run at the shelter facility.

«When I first started working with Greg, I wondered why people were coming in and spending so much more to adopt here than many local shelters,» continued Berlin.

In California, more than $ 50 million per year (coming largely from taxes) is spent by animal control agencies and shelters for cat - related expenses.

She said when she started working with Project Pet as a volunteer 9 years ago, «I was shocked to learn that we as a community had 23,000 pets abandoned by their owners every year, euthanized over 19,000 of them and spent more than $ 3 million in taxes to run the local municipal shelters.

Because the mites are transmitted from animal to animal, pets that spend time in shelters, kennels, dog parks, groomers, and clinics have a higher risk of infection than other pets.

A recent study adds to a growing body of literature that should put to rest, once and for all, the false notion that dogs in shelters are in shelters because there is something wrong with them: «Nothing in the prevalence estimates we reviewed suggest that overall, dogs who come to spend time in a shelter (and are not screened out based on history or behavior at intake or shortly thereafter) are dramatically more or less inclined toward problematic warning or biting behavior than are pet dogs in general.»

What better way to celebrate their birthday than coming and spending time with shelter cats here at the EHS?!

They believe most of all, that anyone can foster - they just have to see the simplicity in the idea: for pets in need, 10 minutes on your couch / lap is far better than any time spent in a cold shelter... they encourage you to consider giving fostering a chance - even just once.

And who can forget about precious Carrie, who arrived at the shelter in 2011 and after spending more than 1,300 days with us, finally found a special place to call her own.

Dogs not quickly adopted that spend more than one week at the shelter get very excited to come back to Nose Works and they get right to work on finding the chicken or hot dog prize.

We spent more than two full days giving core vaccinations plus rabies shots to over 150 head of horses, 60 dogs, and nearly 90 cats to help boost their immune systems and to help prevent the spread of disease in our make shift animal shelter.

That's why volunteers with the Detroit - based nonprofit Bark Nation spent last week fixing up special holiday dinners for more than 2,000 shelter dogs.

Resources conserved by preventing, rather than treating, illness can be better spent on programs to further the shelter's overall life - saving mission.

In 2014, these organizations spent an estimated $ 118.4 million sheltering more than 278,000 animals.

Hetts said that recent studies show that pets that are sexually intact, are acquired at one - to - three years of age or are less than six months of age, have never been to obedience class, and spend much of the day in crates or in the backyard are at high risk of surrender to shelters.

I'm Lovely, a beautiful young 10 - month - old Chesapeake Bay Retriever mix who spent more than my fair share of time in the shelter.

Madore, along with his peers and troop leaders, spent more than 100 hours planning and constructing the outdoor obstacle and agility course for the Newington shelter's fenced - in dog play area.

I don't trust any organization that collects money under one pretense (animal shelters) and spends less than 1/2 of 1 % on that purpose.

According to Steinberger, approximately $ 2 billion is spent annually in the U.S. just to shelter unwanted dogs, yet less than 3 percent of that amount is spent on prevention.

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Recent studies show that pets that are sexually intact, are acquired at one - to - three years of age or are less than six months of age, have never been to obedience class, and spend much of the day in crates or in the backyard are at high risk of surrender to shelters.

Statistics Canada classifies families and people who live alone or with non-related others as having low after - tax incomes when they spend 20 percent or more than the average on food, shelter and clothing.

CMHC states that a person who spends more than 30 % of their income on shelter can't sustain their residence.

The only thing worse than paying an accountant is spending the many hours doing it yourself only to have the IRS come knocking on your door asking for more money or not knowing that there was a tax shelter you weren't aware and therefore didn't take advantage of.

Almost half of survey respondents reported less than $ 30,000 income per year, and a significant percentage of these individuals spend more than 30 per cent of their income on shelter costs, meaning that many seniors continue to reside in homes they are unable to afford.