Sentences with phrase «than the private sector does»

The government contribution is unimpressive; the private sector provides the lion's share of funding, 4 many times more than the private sector does abroad.

Not exact matches

These efforts are about all of us, and the initiative has inspired more than 200 communities to redouble efforts to create pathways for all youth and led to more than $ 500 million in private - sector commitments to do the same.

More than one - third of private - sector workers do not have a single paid sick day, and only 13 percent of private - sector workers have paid family and medical leave.7 Furthermore, it is often the workers who can least afford unpaid time off from work who do not have access to these policies.

Globalization means that capital is more mobile than labour; private sector employers can walk away if they do not get the contract they want.

Recent data suggest that more than 35 percent of private - sector workers do not have access to paid sick leave.

One wonders why then they do not use their own forecast rather than adjusting the private sector average forecast.

Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty - three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private - sector jobs.

What makes the government greed worse than the private is that the American public didn't vote for the private sector people.

And that's not even to mention the media - saturated propaganda about how much more efficient the private sector is, how the profit motive means it gets more things done better for less money than the public sector.

Ok, that's a very generous salary, but his peer group in the private sector are doing so much better than him, and he's gained all the skills and experience that make him very employable outside.

Despite being appointed by the Government to champion business in the UK, Lord Sugar seems to have no grasp of the hard work small businesses do and the role they play in employing six in 10 of the country's private sector workforce and contributing to more than half of UK GDP.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

Does Buffalo have more private sector jobs than ever before?

In essence, this involves two things: growing the private sector, and reforming the public sector so that what the Government does — and the money it spends — boosts, rather than undermines, Britain's competitiveness.

«If I had wanted to be a businessman in an office doing paperwork, I would have gone into the private sector and made a heck of a lot more money than I'm making now.»

When it comes to instruction in character and values, parental satisfaction within the private sector varies less than it does in either the charter or district sector.

And when layoffs do occur, they are generally less severe than in the private sector.

The dreaded emphasis on profitability means that private sector ventures have much more cause to pursue efficiency and scale than do non-profits or public ventures.

On average, teachers enjoy considerably larger pension benefits and health - care packages than do comparable professionals in the private sector, a point of contention in recent policy debates.

The private, non-profit sector may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

Moreover, the program has been found to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars every year because the private sector educates students more economically than does the public sector.

Many private schools do lay claim to a broader range of educational goals than do their public - sector counterparts.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

Most students will continue to attend public colleges for the foreseeable future, but the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

When 4th graders themselves were asked how often a language other than English was spoken at home, 18 percent in the public sector replied «all or most of the time» as did 12 percent in the private sector.

• Black, white and Hispanic parents express higher satisfaction with private schools than with schools in both the charter and district sectors, but Asian parents do not.

I would argue that educators have done far better, overall, than the private sector dot - coms, although the story is also mixed on the education side.

TPS and LGPS Pensions are viewed as a benefit but, at the end of the day, someone has to pay for them and the pensions in education — and all the public sector — are so much better than in the private sector; the figures just do not add up and both pension schemes have been underfunded for years.

This story doesn't fit with the popular perception of teacher pensions as more generous than private - sector retirement benefits.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Libraries have two fundamental problems here: they have less control over the situation than publishers do, and they are about to get some serious competition from the private sector.

The vast majority (more than 97 percent based on risk in force) of CRT transactions to date have been done on the back - end, with the GSEs warehousing credit risk before transferring to the private sector.

Retirement tendencies also reveal that two thirds of boomers employed in the private sector do not have a retirement plan aside from social security, while having less than $ 25,000 saved and invested.

The best news is there are many young, bright, dedicated professionals out there willing to labor for less than the private sector might offer out of passion and belief in what they do.

The private sector has much stronger mechanisms than science does.

Private sector forecasting continues to do better in many instances than the NWS forecasters.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

One does not trim down the departments in the public service which used to deal with such projects, systematically subcontract an increasing number of tasks to the private sector (often less on the basis of technical skills than favors for politically well - connected campaign supporters), or engage in a policy of «let the private sector figure it out for the best» without arriving at a stage where even dedicated teams can not do things, because they simply no longer have the experience required to do things.

Only private sector funding can drive it up to more than $ 100 billion a year, and even if it does, it's not clear whether this will keep global warming to the 2 degree target.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

It is worth noting that Bill 203 applies to private and public sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

Initial building costs are possibly higher, given that the private sector typically pays more to borrow than governments do.

Fortunately, the private - sector economy creates several times more employment than the federal government does; four of five employed veterans are in the private sector, according to the BLS report.

But many don't realize that the product is very different than their private sector counterparts.

While the application process is generally more time - intensive than the private sector, do not be intimidated.

So he decided to speak with Kathryn Troutman, president of The Resume Place, about his military and private - sector healthcare experience, the kinds of federal positions he might apply for, and the less - than - obvious keyword searches he should do on the USAJOBS database.

«Applying to work for the federal government is different than in the private sector and much more mysterious for most people,» noted Kathryn Troutman, who is leading the Federal Career Training Institute team doing the training.