Sentences with phrase «years supporting people»

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: «We continue to spend around # 90 billion a year supporting people, including those who are out of work or on a low income.

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The party would set a $ 15 minimum wage for federally regulated industries, and establish a Youth Community and Environment Service Corps, which would support jobs for 160,000 young people over four years at the new minimum wage.
When Grace Antonio, manager of support operations, joined the company nine years ago, it consisted of all of 20 people.
Florida developer Larry Hall is creating a 15 - floor complex with facilities and supplies to support between 36 and 70 people for more than five years while off the grid.
If people support small businesses just one day a year, that's not enough to keep them open.»
Although I have and have had various part - time support for years, my business is essentially a one - person training company.
«If I had to speculate, [the layoffs occurred] because Fancy isn't making enough money to support the business and pay salaries, and the investment money from last year (about $ 60 million) is pretty much all gone,» one person says.
While Google Ideas was touted as an organization to support disadvantaged people around the world, it couldn't escape criticism over the years.
Thirty - two percent of shareholders supported the split in roles, down significantly from last year's tally of 40 percent on the same issue, a reversal that will emboldened companies that still embrace having one person serve in the chairman and chief executive roles.
Rove concluded: «Putin has temporarily succeeded through the popular support of the Russian people, but that will decline after another year of economic stagnation.
The new facility in Sao Paulo may employ up to 7,000 people by the end of the year, providing technical support for around 9 million users in Brazil along with thousands of drivers, the company said in a statement.
Prevent works in much the same way the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program works — a group of people (12, in Omada's case) take classes, engage in challenges, and generally support one another with the help of a health coach for several months to a year, with the goal of losing 7 % body weight and preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.
President Donald Trump has signaled support for the Iranian people over the last week, sending tweets about Iran on New Year's Eve.
Perry Chen has been working with a team of volunteers every Monday night for the last year to come up with an organization that helps people discover and support nonprofits for $ 1 a day.
Furthermore, Angola's government granted Americans almost no tourist visas for years because of American support for Angolan rebels in a 27 - year civil war that began in 1975 and killed more than half a million people.
«The point of this bill in those states that get a waiver to do what they need to do to make it work better in their particular states has support exactly for that very person who, if, in the course between a year, get extra aid for support for pre-existing conditions,» Ryan explained, citing what he said were successful examples in Wisconsin and Maine.
That's because people have been using Botox to cure headaches and control bladders for years — with Allergan's tacit support.
The company's solution: Every year it sends eight employees to another continent to see firsthand how the nonprofits it supports are helping people in impoverished countries learn to read.
«I think people have over the years come to believe that they have to make this difficult choice between supporting local businesses... or getting a great price,» he said.
This year they pledged $ 12 million over the next five years to go to 15 non-profit organizations that support culture, education and cultural activities for Indigenous people across Canada.
Journalist Phili Mwaniki tweeted in support of Lathan: «Years from now,» people will ask, «Where were you when this dude shut Kanye up?»
One person said both parents worked to support a family of four, while a 73 - year - old said, «I don't feel nearly as financially secure as I expected to be at my age.»
A few years ago, a software developer shadowing the member experience team (the name Achievers gives to its customer support) was puzzled by how many people phoned in with requests to retrieve or renew their passwords.
People are living longer and thus must support themselves for an increasing number of years.
Robbins says that when he divorced several years ago, Renker was the first person to call and offer his support.
Comments to the FCC spiked earlier this year when comedian John Oliver, on his HBO show, called on people to bombard the FCC in support of net neutrality.
DCVC and its principals have supported brilliant people changing global - scale businesses for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth while also making the world a markedly better place.
I've met so many people in the last year, and the amount of support I've gotten from the Rochester community has been just incredible.
In 2015, Starbucks initiated Opportunity for Youth Grants and that same year, to support nonprofits connecting young people to job skills training in North America.
If Mr. Parker did not know, she said, «it negates the times over the years my peers and I sought support and counsel from the people we were told we could trust to bring about change.»
The charity serves as a platform through which individual donors can support the education, health care, job training and personal development of young people from birth to 24 years of age.
Boehner's move marks a fundamental shift for a man who said nine years ago he was «unalterably opposed» to legalization, and indicates that pot is increasingly supported by the American establishment even if the Attorney General still believes «good people don't smoke marijuana.»
«One woman, who had been in and out of prison for about 29 years, found support through the app and told me that for the first time it seemed as if there were people who cared,» said Wasilewski.
«If confirmed, this will be the first time in the past half year that the central government announces supportive measures — not just the local governments — raising some people's hope that there may be more central government support if the housing market does not recover,» Du Jinsong, a property analyst for Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, wrote in a note.
He is also a passionate advocate for youth, promoting the benefits of work - integrated learning and supporting the development of RBC Future Launch, a 10 - year, $ 500 million commitment to help young people build the skills and capabilities required to succeed in a changing world.
«Young black people have been fighting to save lives through gun reform laws for years without the support and energy given to the Stoneman Douglas students,» Lincoln Anthony Blades writes for Teen Vogue.
According to researchers at McGill, using the data from the At Home / Chez Soi project, «Support services for homeless people with mental illness in Canada's biggest cities cost more than $ 55K a year per person on average.»
These funds go directly to Covenant House, an organization that provides food, shelter, safety, and essential support services to homeless and trafficked young people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
@Noah, That book is ridiculous... He claims the universe is likely younger than 13.7 b.y. and backs it up by claiming that 100 + measurements taken over the past 300 years supports the claim that light does not travel at a constant rate... As if people 300 years ago could measure with the kind of accuracy we can today
Two hundred years from now people will look back and say, how could people have supported slavery in the 1800's?
A fundraising letter from the B'nai B'rith Foundation of the U.S. urges people to send in money to help «expose and overturn» last year's resolution of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to support the evangelization of Jews.
Andrea Williams from the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the 71 year old, told Premier: «Simply for holding a perfectly lawful view, a view that many people would hold up and down the country, this gentleman finds himself removed from public office.»
Bass makes light of the reunion, saying «It's so nice to see because when we ended things [over] ten years ago, there was no social media, there was no Twitter [fan base], but it's so cute to see how many people are supporting [us] and NSYNC was even trending.»
so let's get this straight, Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin the C - word, and not ONE WORD from any of you support the women people... but Limbaugh calls out a 30 year old political hack and Rome is now burning.
well, my daughter is gay and i am grateful for people like you standing up for her and for me for supporting her < 3 (she has recently returned to church for the first time in 7 years and fortunately it is gay positive)(i haven't returned to church in 2, but that's another story:P)
This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.
This is the result of years of Feminism and of the support of Feminism by people who ought to know better.
This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.
The young face a more atomized world than did Americans fifty years ago, but even in young people's support for free college, we see their hopes of entering a world with steadier employment and more stable families.
And had those 45,722 babies been born in 2009, there would be 45,722 more people that tax money would pay for to live, as clearly the parents were financially unable to support the estimated $ 10K per year cost to sufficiently raise a child if they were using Medicaid to pay for their heath care procedures.
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