Sentences with phrase «than costing american»

In both counts, this approach seems to do the best job of protecting rather than costing American lives both at home and abroad.

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According to a study by the Trade Partnership, the tariffs could ultimately cost more American jobs than they would create.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Tanner points out that paying every American $ 12,000 per year, the U.S. poverty line for an individual, would cost the government nearly $ 4 trillion — which is a little more than the U.S.'s entire annual federal budget.

So - called legacy carriers struggle to compete in a world filled with low - cost upstarts like Southwest and JetBlue, along with new international carriers like Emirates Airlines, which enjoy far lower labour costs than their North American rivals.

For more than 20 years, Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, has been a low - cost franchise opportunity that can yield high returns and requires no travel experience.

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Each of his six tickets cost him less than $ 200 and, thanks to some bonus offers, earned him 11,076 miles on American to be used later for a dream vacation.

Between rising costs and stagnant salaries, Americans are saving less than ever.

The government has estimated that hidden fees and backdoor payments cost Americans more than $ 17 billion per year.

Beginning with the auto bailout, which the administration now claims cost taxpayers $ 9.3 billion but saved more than a million jobs, Obama doubled down on his commitment to manufacturing, setting a goal of doubling American exports between 2009 and 2014.

Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace survey of more than 350,000 respondents nationwide estimates that disengaged employees cost the U.S. between $ 450 billion to $ 550 billion each year in lost productivity.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation's survey, turkey dinner and all the fixings will cost about $ 49.48, or just 28 cents more than it did last year.

And its ratio of operating costs to sales is now higher than all of CP's North American peers.

In a 2013 survey, American inbound marketers spending more than $ 25,000 per year saved an average of 13 percent in overall cost per lead ($ 36 versus $ 41 with outbound).

«Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace» of U.S. health - care costs, Sanders said, emphasizing that Americans pay more in health - care costs than any other developed nation, nearly 18 percent of U.S. GDP.

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Americans spend 42 hours on average sitting in congestion every year, costing each driver roughly $ 1,400, and last week the American Roads & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) reported that more than 54,000 of the country's 612,677 bridges are rated «structurally deficient.»

Americans are putting more of their take - home pay toward medical costs than ever before.

So, corporate taxes are way less of a factor in American competitiveness than — I'm talking about overall business — than medical costs.

According to Spitzer, Wells Fargo's African American customers in New York were three times more likely than whites to receive high cost loans, at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup the disparity was 2 - to - 1 and at HSBC, 1.5 - to - l.

More than half of Country Garden's $ 12.8 billion in debt is denominated in American or Hong Kong dollars, though the company said on Wednesday that its overall cost of borrowing had declined.

PHIL LEBEAU, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Here in China, the sales of American - made cars and SUVs are growing, even though they cost thousands of dollars more than comparable models sold in the U.S.

In the US Virgin Islands, which are exempt from the law, US - made goods are about half as expensive, while the cost of living in Puerto Rico is 13 percent higher than on the American mainland.

If optimized correctly, savings from just half of avoidable drug - impacted medical costs are more than enough to fund the uninsured and underinsured, while also reducing premiums for all Americans.

If China runs a current account surplus with the United States, for example, the assumption is that Chinese manufacturers have a fundamental cost advantage over American manufacturers, the result of which is that American households and businesses find it cheaper to import Chinese goods than to buy American goods, and Chinese households and businesses find it cheaper to buy Chinese goods than to import American goods.

The bursting of the last decade's housing bubble wiped out trillions in household wealth, cost more than 5 million Americans their homes and triggered the Great Recession.

Many of the costs faced by typical American households are rising faster than the official inflation statistics indicate.

«With rising costs, and flat wages, it's harder than ever for Americans to save.

The average American makes $ 58,000 a year and it costs more to live than that.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

Ford's North American pretax profit fell 9.2 percent to $ 1.94 billion, with commodity costs accounting for more than the entire decline.

Central American countries are also enjoying ripples from growth in the US, and for them, lower oil costs are more of a boon than a bane.

A month later, it will open American Girl shops within select stores where it will sell the WellieWisher line and American Girl's signature Truly Me dolls, which cost more than $ 100.

The 35 % of Americans who rent pay just a little less than homeowners each year for their rent, maintenance costs, and renters insurance, an average of $ 9,477.

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With the American economy predicted to grow more quickly than that of Canada, softer retail sale predictions for Canadian consumers in 2016, and a favorable exchange rate which reduces costs for American companies buying from Canada, the stars seem to be aligning for Canadian exporters to boost their American sales.

Gasoline prices up: Americans are expected to spend an average of $ 400 per household more on fuel this year than in 2016, as the rebound in crude prices is reflected in the cost of petrol at the pump.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

All of which is not to say that the war doctrine the United States adopted in World War II was anything other than justified given the frightful daily cost in Allied manpower, just that it had its first American notes in the Lincolnian conduct of the Civil War.

In 2007, when Pew conducted its first massive assessment of the US religious landscape, researchers found that slightly more than half of evangelical church members (54 %) agreed that stricter environmental laws and regulations were worth the cost, compared to 61 percent of all Americans.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

The billboards will be up for one month and cost American Atheists, based in New Jersey, less than $ 15,000 each, according to Silverman.

If food is destined to cost more, so be it — Americans spend an average of only 11 percent of their income on food now, while they spent more than 50 percent on food at the turn of the century.

well since most Americans do nt want this pathetic healthcare bill that costs us trillions, i think the numbers are much higher than 50/50.

Preliminary estimates for the work, which includes asbestos removal, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and parking lot improvements, show a cost of less than $ 250,000.

The Chicago Park District was criticized Tuesday for having much higher operating costs than park systems in other major American cities, but it also won praise for its plans to lower its tax levy by $ 3.7 million in 1986.