Sentences with phrase «than a safety net»

«When you have credit it becomes part of you, rather than a safety net,» she says.

And life insurance can be more than a safety net.

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Because of this shift, older adults have started to see technology as more than just a safety net.

Total commitment — without a safety net — will spur you to work harder than you ever imagined possible.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

«You don't take a safety net program that has been operating for more than 50 years and change it in fundamental ways without having a single hearing to evaluate its impact,» she said.

Most safety net programs are currently administered at the state or federal level, rather than the local level — meaning that states have a greater capacity to cover independent contractors through government safety net programs.

Since non-cash and tax - based benefits constitute a much larger part of the safety net than 50 years ago, the official poverty measure's exclusion of these benefits masks progress in reducing poverty.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

Even so, I believe that it's essential to carry a significant safety net at present, and I'm also partial to tail - risk hedges that kick - in automatically as the market declines, rather than requiring the execution of sell orders.

Done right, entitlement reform could strengthen the safety net rather than weaken it.

Rather than funding an entire project upfront and risk losing the entire investment if the company's strategic plan and actual results do not parallel each other, the VC has the «safety net» of incremental funding, which offers a level of assurance that precise objectives will be met before the VC takes more financial risk.

The fixed price aspect of these options provides a safety net in a sense that you can not lose more than the option cost.

This makes sense, since often times, high net worth individuals seek the safety and yield of munis, and the market infers a slight spread above Treasuries since a municipality is more likely to default on a loan than the US government, which can always just print more money under the US Fiat currency model.

Programs like these are called safety nets for a reason — yank them away and people get hurt, today more than ever.

So what happens when, in ten years or so, there will be more retired and elderly Chinese than there are Europeans, in a country that has nothing resembling western social safety nets?

Canada is far less religious than the US (way more atheists per capita), and yet has fewer abortions per capita, far less gun violence per capita (despite being just as ethnically diverse), is a peacekeeping country, less divorce per capita, has universal health care, more social safety nets, and Canadians are considered much nicer than Americans.

($ 753 billion for all three programs) Safety net programs ($ 482 billion) provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to individuals and families facing hardship.

For less than a penny on the dollar, we provide the critical safety net for people around the globe who live on less than a dollar a day.

Eventually, the bottom bun became useless and more in the way than anything, so it was cast aside and the burger flipped so that the large top bun was the new safety net.

It's still a risk for an NL team to get him without the safety net of the DH, but it's the bat that the Phillies are interested in, and their lineup is unquestionably better today than it was yesterday.

In the light of more recent evidence of the value of breastmilk it's clear that, rather than preventing them from eating other foods, breastmilk provides an important safety net for a child whose appetite for other foods is small.

The most affordable option for each of these safety hazards is a sheet of custom Plexiglas: It is safer and more attractive than netting, and it can easily be removed when your child is old enough to understand the hazard.

It was a safety net when we needed it but more than that, it felt like home.

The drugs are still there, and people are still using them just as much if not more than before, but the safety net that offered some hope of harm reduction has been torched in the name of prohibition.

According to the legislation, safety - net hospitals would be defined as those where at least half of patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, 40 percent of inpatient discharges are covered by Medicaid and no more than 25 percent of patients are commercially insured.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

SNAP as it's known provides safety net support for more than 2.8 million people in New York or 1.6 million households.

Other county officials, including those working for County Executive Mike Hein, have complained that municipal governments have spent the Safety Net savings, rather than pass them along to residents in the form of lower property taxes.

Governor Cuomo announced more than $ 45 million in funding for the Vital Access / Safety Net Provider Program to support projects over the next 3 years by 37 facilities that were selected due to financial condition and critical role in providing services... Continue reading →

Eventually, more than $ 4.5 billion in costs would be shifted to states, counties and hospitals that act as safety net over the next four years.

Ultimately, Hein produced something less than a third of a loaf, convincing a skeptical county legislature to phase in Safety Net expenses over a three - year period, beginning with $ 1.6 million in 2013, but taking no action on election costs.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

These cuts also diminish the quality of health care received by more than 2.8 million New Yorkers who are served by our public and safety net hospitals.

The Ulster County Legislature approved a budget, flow control and a phased - in takeover of Safety Net costs from the towns by better than three - to - one margins at its meeting last Tuesday night, but not without some grumbling about how County Executive Mike Hein advanced his initiatives.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

According to the county executive's office, Safety Net (and election costs, which account for less than 10 percent of the total) have totaled $ 22 million (projected through 2016) since the 2013 county phase - in.

As a result, Kingston and a few other communities with a large proportion of low - income residents have to deal with far greater Safety Net costs than better - off towns.

Dairy farmers in Upstate New York would benefit from an investment of more than $ 1 billion into a safety net program for family farmers who have seen prices drop by one - third or more since 2014, Schumer said.

The federal government gave the state $ 55 billion in Social Security payments, $ 47 billion for Medicare and more than $ 46 billion for Medicaid and other safety net grants during the 2016 federal fiscal year.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«Community health centers represent the backbone of the nation's safety net, providing high quality care to more than 20 million Americans who live in underserved neighborhoods,» says Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

If this funding is not restored, and if more states do not expand Medicaid, the number of patients cared for by safety - net health centers could fall more than 25 percent — or 7 million patients — by 2020.

Safety nets are understandable, but they can become a tempting escape when things are less than perfect.

This is a much better situation to be in than in the early days of the Net when dating safety was not considered as well as it might be.

That girl - narrated backstory at the beginning sounds like it would have made a more interesting piece of thorny geopolitical sci - fi than the CGI glop we get instead: How do 18 countries, led by the U.S. and China, come together to battle horrible climate change effects by installing a galactic safety net of thousands of satellites with the ability to balance extreme weather conditions around the world?

So by having Ethan lead a capable, constantly present team (Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, and the returning Simon Pegg) brings a fresh energy to a plot line that more than slightly recalls the first film, with our intrepid hero — or, rather, heroes — being disavowed after being blamed for a tragic catastrophe and, without any government back - up or safety net, work to find the actual culprit and foil his larger diabolical scheme.

This means more than the usual «safety net» of specialized services and demands a fresh approach that rejects a «victim» mentality.

Washington — The Reagan Administration's promise to keep the Head Start program in its «social safety net» was nothing more than a «charade,» according to one Democratic congressman, who joined other members of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources in sharply attacking proposed policy changes for the program during a routine «oversight» hearing last week.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.