Sentences with phrase «subsidies pay»

«As a result, the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the WHO all recommend the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies to protect human health... Ultimately fossil fuel subsidies pay the polluter instead of making the polluter pay.»

ALEC states, however, that federal, state and local subsidies pay for at least 30 % of solar power equipment and «often much more», and that every increment of solar power increases overall taxpayer burdens to pay for the subsidies.

The Prime Minister is casting doubt on the vast subsidies we pay for «renewable energy».

Though federal, state, and College Board subsidies pay all or part of their AP fee, currently $ 82 per exam, only 10 percent of last year's AP examinees came from low - income families, according to the DOE.

«Our law will require developers who receive major taxpayer - funded subsidies pay a living wage for the jobs they create,» she said.

The proposed law requires that businesses accepting $ 1 million or more in city subsidies pay their workers at least $ 11.50 an hour, or $ 10 with benefits.

Making matters worse, India, one of the world's largest fertilizer customers, has cut the potash subsidies it pays to local farmers.

In a strange twist, many consumers shopping for health insurance during the current Obamacare enrollment period can actually get even cheaper coverage thanks to President Trump's decision to cut off certain subsidies paid to insurance companies.

The bonus subsidies paid to employers of mature aged apprentices was cut by 11 per cent to 1,300.

Strictly speaking, the liberalization of the agricultural sector in the North should have resulted in an end to the huge subsidies paid to the European farmers.

Labour says the increased tuition fee charges will cost the taxpayer because of the subsidy paid on student loans.

We are supposed to use the subsidy paid to us to buy the equivalent of what is due to our foreign suppliers, but the banks say there is no dollar.

Supporters of organic farming acknowledge that production methods are currently more expensive, but point to the subsidies paid to conventional agriculture and funding provided for research in contrast to organic farming as making the comparison unfair.

Undo the monstrous federal farm subsidies paid to Big Agra and reduce all our taxes, and level the farming field (but that's the fight for the next Congress).

Latest news from Europe is that companies providing pumped hydro power in Germany and other countries are trying to sell off or mothball these assets because they are not profitable due to subsidies paid for «renewables».

31 July, 2017 — The fossil fuel subsidies paid to the industry that exploits them is a fraction of their cost to people's health in the rich world.

This «licence to pollute» is effectively a subsidy payed by everyone on earth to the owners of the power stations.

The subsidy pays you more if you burn more wood pellets.

Summer 2015: Officials move to cut the subsidy paid to businesses, which has no cap, after realising an error in how the initiative was set up means companies could make hundreds of thousands of pounds off it.

In the case of the RHI, there is no mandated quantity of biogas that companies must use, there is just a fixed subsidy paid per MWh that they inject into the grid.

On the cost issue, some of the media have been getting increasingly shrill: «Subsidies paid to windpower companies are forcing up to 50,000 households a year into fuel poverty», claimed the Sunday Times in June, using figures from a House of Commons Library paper.

I am sure you know that Ontario has lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 8 - 10 years, mostly due to the high subsidies paid to wind and solar developers.

Germany plans to slash subsidies paid to households generating electricity with their own solar panels by up to 15 percent, and six months earlier than planned, the government said Thursday.

It's claimed that the overall savings is greater than the subsidy paid for wind.

The subsidy pays the rest.

The Section 8 provision, part of the VA / HUD appropriations bill (see below), cuts costs by lowering the amount of rent subsidies paid by the government; it protects tenants and owners by allowing owners to restructure their mortgages to lower their monthly payments; and it allows HUD to terminate contracts with owners who've egregiously violated federal requirements.

Not exact matches

Here's the TL; DR version: Repeal of the mandate would drive up premiums in Obamacare's markets, but federal subsidies would still have to be paid out to those who qualify.

Jennifer Greenfield, a professor of social work at the University of Denver, explains: «Families normally pay modest copays that gradually increase as their incomes go up, but then all of a sudden there's this huge jump where the subsidy falls away completely, and they just can't absorb it.»

NEW DELHI, May 2 - India's cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to help sugar mills by paying the cane farmers that supply them a subsidy for their produce, a government source said, as part of efforts to help a sector struggling with a glut.

The Trump administration's moves on Obamacare last week — including the decision to stop paying subsidies meant to lower low - income enrollees» out - of - pocket medical costs to insurance companies — have dominated health care headlines.

The electrical industry has been spared having to find an extra $ 5 million a year to pay apprentices after Training and Workforce Development Minister Peter Collier rejected proposed subsidy cuts.

Those jobs are already very well compensated, so this is acting as a wage subsidy to high - income workers, paid for by the general population.

That is a question no - one seems to be asking in the debate over solar - power subsidies, or the bigger question of who pays for the state government's debt binge.

«If cost - sharing subsidy payments are pulled, insurers would still have to provide lower deductible plans to low - income consumers, but they wouldn't get paid the $ 7 billion a year it costs to do that,» Levitt told Business Insider in an email.

The fund had managed to reduce expenditure by cutting the number of payments made to subsidise apprenticeships; it paid out 5,199 subsidies to employers of apprentices, down 6 per cent.

The fund relies on a 0.2 per cent levy paid on building projects for income, which it then uses to fund subsidies for apprentices.

The move came in contrast to other insurers, who have blamed Republicans for creating instability by not guaranteeing to continue paying Obamacare cost - sharing subsidies next year.

I mean the problems don't exist and people will never pay to use the service after the investor subsidy has disappeared.

Far too many policymakers and employers see policies, such as childcare subsidies and paid leave, as too costly.

Benefits offered: Bank of America offers 16 weeks fully paid parental leave, adoption reimbursement of $ 8,000 per child and up to $ 240 in monthly child care subsidies.

Lower - paid employees qualified for subsidies, while higher - paid workers could afford plans or went on their spouses» plans, he said.

They say that, based on the language in the law, the subsidies may only be paid in states that have their own online health insurance exchanges.

In a plan unveiled in mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidies.

For now, the Trump administration is considering whether or not to continue paying the law's cost - sharing subsidies, which have helped lower premiums.

Thanks to government subsidies, low - income workers pay only 13 percent of their salaries for rent, and many are encouraged to buy the apartments with part of the otherwise untouchable savings that they are forced to put into a national retirement fund.

The House is currently engaged in a lawsuit alleging that the Obama administration's decision to pay these subsidies was illegal because they weren't specifically appropriated by Congress.

And the system set up to pay for rides — a unique municipal subsidy that covers 20 % of any ride that begins and ends in the city, 25 % if it begins or ends at the local light rail station — has already gotten others cities in the surrounding Seminole County interested in replicating it, even though it just started running yesterday.

One of the easiest ways to ensure that Obamacare does «explode,» as President Donald Trump has repeatedly predicted it will, would be to stop paying insurers a specific type of subsidy meant to reduce lower - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs.

Health insurance premiums rose, in some cases heftily, in many Obamacare markets as insurers prepared for Trump to end critical federal subsidies that help pay for consumers» out - of - pocket medical costs (a move the president eventually made) and the repeal of the individual mandate.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.