Unanticipated, tragic incidents have resulted in very high private and public costs.
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It is necessary to divide costs into public costs and private costs.
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Should individuals be required under the force of law to modify his or her eating habits because of the associated public costs, such as a spike in weight-related diseases?
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Domestic abuse is a major driver of the break up of families, the loss of self-sufficiency of victims, the perpetuation of poverty, intergenerational trauma and the rising public costs of housing, health care and legal services.
According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
Once we stop concentrating dirty, legacy power sources in poor communities, our public health costs will drop and the quality of life for millions will improve.
So there are no public net costs to alcohol consumption.
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Given that public sector costs and prices tend to spiral upwards, we are going to be hearing a lot more about "efficiency" - how to make the money go much further.
Mark Friedman of Accruent says he cannot take his firm public because compliance costs might erase his profits.
In addition to the volatility, going public means diverting costs, energy and attention away from the core of the business.
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All this inevitably costs public money: an average of 10% of GDP in previous episodes, though much more in some countries, notably Ireland.
Mass advertising is contributing to many other consumer addictions that imply large public-health costs, including excessive TV watching, gambling, drug use, cigarette smoking, and alcoholism.
She says the proposed payouts which are pegged to 2010 state public-tuition costs won't be enough for her nine- and 14-year-old daughters when they head off to college.
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"I'm just not buying it, " says Barnstable Town Manager Thomas Lynch, who worries about public-safety costs to the town if there were a problem at the wind farm.
So while each dollar spent on grants to students reduces final tuition costs less than one for one, each dollar spent on subsidies to public institutions reduces tuition costs by more.
And there are other costs to public utility regulation, including long histories of scandal and corruption.
Worse, each dollar spent eventually costs the public collateral economic damage due to tax-generated disincentives and distortions.
They are also scaling back on lavish banquets and taking public transport to cut costs, the newspaper adds.
Public pensions and healthcare costs careen toward a certain collision with fiscal reality.
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The exclusions result in added costs to public insurers while insurance corporations reap the profit from lower risk policies.
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One guide might be the net present value of future tax payments, minus the net costs of public services disbursed there.
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Perhaps the real reason why public-sector pension costs have not been tackled is that the full bill has never been revealed to taxpayers.
"Such a move would allegedly save huge amounts of public funds in the costs of caring for disabled, elderly and supposedly unproductive people, " he added.
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Various techniques have been adopted in a bid to increase efficiency in the public sector and reduce costs by transferring management control to profit-motivated private firms.
Iscaro suggests that Ireland should also try to make the economy more competitive and diversified, partly by capping wage increases in the public sector and cutting costs.
Private-home prices have now surged 59% since the market's most recent cyclical trough of 133.3 points in the second quarter of 2009, prompting growing public complaints over housing costs.
Moreover, at the G20's request, the IMF is producing a study on the various ways in which the financial sector could help recoup the costs of public-sector crisis support.
Hugh Evans, leader of Denbighshire, said a prison in north Wales would reduce the costs of public services and families, supporting offenders and improve the rate of rehabilitation of offenders.
This contract is where the public sector pays the private sector to secure a substantial improvement in the way of life for a specific group, in order to reduce the public sector's costs in the long-run.
But the severe recession from which we are still recovering has caused serious budget problems for many state and local governments, which fund the vast majority of the costs of public elementary through high school education.
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