Sentences with phrase «which subsidizes the costs»

In 2006, the Harper government scrapped the EnerGuide program, which subsidized the cost of energy audits for homeowners, and provided grants of $ 200 to $ 4,000 for energy efficient renovations.

Medicare Part D is a federal government program which subsidizes the costs of prescription drugs and drug insurance premiums for Medicare Recipients.

Not exact matches

Their costs for capital, labour, land, energy and other resources are subsidized such that they generate huge retained earnings, much of which is being reinvested in foreign real assets like Canada's oilpatch, says U of T's Dobson.

To tap into broader talent networks at lower cost, HNM is now working with work - force development agency CareerSource Central Florida, which offers a government - subsidized, on - the - job training program.

That reality would seem to suggest that the U.S. should adopt a system similar to those in other countries, which more tightly regulate drug prices and where the government largely subsidizes health care costs (as opposed to employers largely doing so in the U.S.) through what's known as a single - payer system.

Emerging markets that are already feeling the impact of higher food costs will now have to deal with higher energy prices, which many governments already subsidize for its citizens.

There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.

If you are amongst those who use coupons cut from magazines and local newspapers to subsidize your food costs please don't — at least not unless the item for which you plan to use the coupon coincides with an item on the new diet menu.

It would go into a new fund to help subsidize treatment costs, which Cuomo estimates are more than $ 170 million a year.

After much anticipation, the city Economic Development Corp. released a $ 1 million study on living wage policy today, which finds implementing higher pay standards at city subsidized developments would cost jobs.

This year's round of ads, which cost at least $ 539,000, focused on Cuomo's subsidized college tuition program.

Among the items he said needs to be finalized are protections for programs like Recharge NY, which gives upstate industries low - cost electricity, and potential guidelines or controls about how much money the Power Authority can spare to subsidize the canal, which runs at a cost of $ 87 million each year.

But the source also acknowledged that any proposal to slash the rates would run into fierce opposition from universities, which argue that indirect costs are vital for maintaining high - quality research infrastructure and that they are already subsidizing the true cost of running a research lab.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

Instead of comparing the price of organic food with «conventional» foods, what we should use for an apples to apples comparison is the cost of sustainably grown, organic food prices vs. the food price of US tax payer subsidized, toxic food, which is what «conventional» food actually is.

One reason that entrepreneurs have been reluctant to enter the schooling market is that they must compete against heavily subsidized public schools, which limits their ability to charge prices that fully cover their costs.

Please keep in mind that U.S. Federal Work - Study positions, which subsidize employer costs, are available only to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

The total demand for and resulting cost of the Pell Grant program grew exponentially between 2007 and 2011 as a result of more Americans enrolling in college and lower family incomes during the Great Recession.58 In 2011, to compensate for an inadequate reserve to fund the growing demand of Pell Grants, Congress cut year - round Pell Grant eligibility, which was restored this year, and eliminated graduate student subsidized loans.59 This affected the student aid packages of students nationwide.60 By cutting the Pell Grant reserve, President Trump and Secretary DeVos risk the ability to fund future upticks in Pell Grant demand, thereby requiring either future reductions to eligibility, lower awards, or cuts to other education programs.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

Their education is subsidized but EdTPA; there is a cost to do it which invites pushback.

As to cost, you clearly have access to data, but of course, special education costs are picked up by the state, as are the transportation expenses and depending on which charter schools you are talking about, the local municipality may be subsidizing students or certain costs as they do in Hartford and New Haven.

If compare the cost to giving away a free Kindle (or highly subsidized higher - end Kindle) to every Prime member who signs up or re-ups for two years vs. a) the revenue gained from the ebooks purchased by those customers, b) the revenue from new Prime members, and c) being able to offer a package which is basically free shipping on all Amazon orders + Netflix + Spotify + a ton of free books + a free Kindle... that's got ta make good economic sense for them, right?

Vanity presses are also called «subsidy publishers,» which may also mean a slightly different business approach, if the company asks for their costs to be subsidized but then does market the resulting book and pay royalties.

As always, you can get them at a subsidized cost by opting into the «Special Offers» edition which will serve you adverts on the home screen and screensaver.

You can of course subsidize the cost if you elect to participate in their Special Offers edition which saves you around $ 20 on each model in order to serve you advertisements.

Note comments I've added to the question: I'm not in US so the money is worth differently - $ 1000 is more than a monthly wage, and medical costs are subsidized by the government here, so $ 1000 coverage could for example cover recovery from small car crash (broken a bone or two, healing cuts, painkillers, hospitalization for several days, a week of physiotherapy) or a diagnostics, week of hospitalization, exams and drugs for non-chronic disease which can be healed in month or so... But I don't see how I could apply your answer, as I must choose insurance months BEFORE the medical problem occurs?

There are annual limits for Direct Subsidized Loans which, in many cases, will only cover a small portion of the cost of attending college.

Other extensions on the policy would include subsidizing public school costs, which frees up students inheriting new debts.

Unlike subsidized loans, unsubsidized loans accrue interest while they are in deferment, meaning while payments are not being made, which could increase the total cost of borrowing.

Under either alternative, borrowers who lost access to subsidized loans would pay interest on unsubsidized loans from the date of loan disbursement, which would raise their costs.

OptionsHouse, which caters more to the active investor, does not subsidize mutual fund trading costs to win over customers.

Fortunately, the Angel Fund was able to subsidize the cost of the surgery, during which Dr. Mike pulled out this SOCK!

The hotel knew about the program but never helped subsidize costs, which is where CARE Feline TNR first came in.

In either location, Young - Williams Animal Center subsidizes a portion of every surgery, which is what allows us to provide our low cost prices.

Depending on the organization, adoption fees can include a health check upon arrival; vaccines and / or deworming and / or other medications, as needed; rehabilitating sick or ill animals; socializing timid or shy animals to give them a better chance of adoption; providing spay / neuter surgery (which some owners may not do if left to their own devices); microchip and / or tattoo and / or license; information on caring for the pet, including help after the adoption; subsidized or low - cost training / obedience classes; and goodness knows what other extras.

We continue to operate a low - cost, subsidized Spay, Neuter & Vaccine Clinic, which assists in helping to control the epidemic of pet overpopulation and serve low - income pet owners with quality pet care and vaccinations.

V - SNAP (Valerie's Spay / Neuter Assistance Program), which funds or subsidizes the cost of spay / neuter surgeries for low - income families and families on government assistance.

The estimated cost to Saga HS was $ 32,000 which was subsidized through volunteers, grants, donations and fundraising efforts.

And because the school spends so much to subsidize everyone's classroom instruction, regardless of income level, it has almost nothing left over to subsidize the high cost of living in New York, which hits needy students hardest.

The Focus section of the fair, in which Cooper Cole was invited to participate, allows emerging galleries to present by subsidizing booth costs.

I used to think massive investment in basic science might be our only way out, but when I read about the real cost for producing electric cars (ex., greenhouse gases used to make batteries), subsidized solar companies going under because they can not compete with China (which doesn't care about labor needs or pollution), etc., then I wonder about that too.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

Even if [geo - engineering] were able to stabilize climate change — which is doubtful... We still would be addicted to imported oil, still would be subsidizing terrorism with our gas dollars, still would suffer the cost and supply traumas that are inevitable with finite resources, still would send our children off to die in resource wars, still would pollute the air and cause respiratory problems for our children, and still would wipe out species, many of them beneficial to us, as we invade their habitat.

While the cost of wind and solar energy is falling dramatically, which could lead to a major shift in infrastructure46, the fossil fuel industry remains remarkably resilient, subsidized, and still capable of tipping us over the limit47.

And yet we are being told we must subsidize these behemoths — which produce relatively little power — at huge costs to families, businesses, hospitals, factories and other energy consumers.

Then we'll get the honor of subsidizing all this new wind and solar power which will drive up costs in California.

Tax the externality cost, don't subsidize consumption (by others) which is what the Volt will produce.

The fact that American citizens are being assaulted with their own taxpayer and ratepayer money (which is subsidizing the building of these wind factories to the tune of 80 percent of the total costs), in the name of the failed «green» energy boondoggle of wind is shameful, and simply un-American.

This is essentially why stores prosecute shoplifters (which while subsidized by the government, still costs them considerable time and expense for their employees).