When designed well, a results-based finance program does not try to pick winners, does not distort markets, and achieves a very high social return per dollar invested.
While a business typically measures performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs also take into account a positive return to society.
Those bonds were issued to Social Security in the past in return for the Social Security surpluses over the years given to the federal government for its general spending programs, paying for everything from foreign aid to bridges to nowhere.
That should return Social Security to its original mission of providing a safety net.
Gene, in the paper you cite, is measuring the return from Social Security.
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Investing for both return and social good is called impact investing.
It also would return the Social Security system to Roosevelt's idea of basic minimum protection against poverty, and would prod those now working to save more for their retirement.
The House Republicans made a decision to back away from the kind of brinksmanship that was very concerning to the markets, very concerning to business, very concerning to the American people -- the simple proposition that they would insist on cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, in return for doing their job, paying their bills.
They are looking for exceptional social enterprises, defined by strong performance not just in financial return but also in the delivery of social impact.
This will earn a higher return and keep Social Security sound for 55 years.
Right-wingers have learned to bury their philosophical differences for the sake of the collective good: free-marketeers support social conservatives over abortion in return for their support over tax cuts.
This prescription sounds very close to the recommendations of America's top political scholar on Britain, Samuel Beer, in his recent keen affidavit for the Blair government in The Economist (February 7th), who lauds New Labour as a return to the social-liberal spirit of Lloyd George, after the long years in a collectivist wilderness.
This plan, by the way, has always outpaced the return one gets for Social Security.
The higher the social impact, the higher the return earned by the private sector.
For decades, giving for social benefit and investing for financial return have been practiced as separate and distinct activities.
That's attached to your Social Security number, blocking your return until someone has manually looked at it for three years.
Compare it to thinking that Social Security provides a decent investment return.
People are realizing that even if obligations are somehow met, the "return" on their Social Security taxes will be pitifully small or nonexistent.
The finance minister began his speech by saying that if India has to achieve any of its social objectives, it has to return to a higher economic growth path of 8%.
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The Roldosists, for example, might demand legal changes to allow the exiled Mr Bucaram to return, while the Social Christians last year fought against bank closures, and could do so again.
As Haney observed in a review of research findings, prisoners in solitary confinement must be able to withstand the experience in order to be allowed to return to the highly social world of mainline prison or free society.
Taxing away some of the return to capital to provide social insurance against risks is appropriate.
They expect to earn a return, but to see social impact (jobs created, children in school) and spiritual fruit (families seeking prayer from chaplains and churches built).
Fresh Start, which says it is backed by more than 100 Tory MPs, wants the UK to remain in the union, but with "significant revisions" to treaties - including the return of control over all social and employment law.
I'm afraid of Lopez Obrador, because he would return us to a period of social conflict here.
The unions have accepted layoffs in return for a deal that promises social security and less authoritarian management.
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We should then go beyond that and return spending for all programs except Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to their 2007 levels.
Impact investing, a relatively new concept in African investment circles, typically refers to investments that aim to solve pertinent social and economic challenges while generating a financial return.
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More fundamentally, the aged have been misled for two generations into believing that Social Security payments constitute no more than a return to them of the payroll taxes that they have paid during their working years.
In the world of social good, a socially responsible enterprise provides a return while making the world a better place.
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