Bancassurance does not spread the burden of costs much, says Andrew Goodwin at Commerzbank.
Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.
Even these numbers, however, mask the burden of health costs.
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In many developing countries, the families of students are often shouldering the burden of these higher costs.
The government is also unveiling plans to ease the burden on local councils of the costs of caring for asylum seekers.
Efforts like these are critical given the surging Latino population and the burden of health care costs as young Latinos age.
Last, stressed American companies are actively backing radical reform, because the burden of health insurance costs is crippling their ability to compete abroad.
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The heavier burden of debt-servicing costs will constrain consumer budgets over the next year or so.
In the U.S., we hear daily that the aging of more than 78 million baby boomers brings with it the burden of entitlements, the inadequacy of pensions, and the rising costs of healthcare.
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When our businesses can compete in the global marketplace without the burden of rising health care costs here at home.
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Regardless of the particulars, the underlying theory is the same: To reduce the tax burden for people who take on the costs of creating new taxpayers (otherwise known as children).
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When the economy is poor, the burden of fixed rent-seeking costs on producers drives surpluses even lower.
The Co-op apparently took the view that it could not adequately cover the costs of the increased regulatory burden on banks, even when enlarged by the Lloyds deal, in the UK's worsened economic climate.
The more that these companies lay off older workers, the more they add to the burden of pensions and health-care costs.
The study, which is being presented to the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) conference in Liverpool on Wednesday, looked at economic losses, health care costs and the burden of unpaid care provided by friends and family.
So Walker turned to the onerous and mushrooming burden of accommodating public-sector pensions and other costs and played chicken with the unions.
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Soon it will be colleges day of reckoning as they have to balance the reality of high costs, debt burden and lower degree value.
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The law also lessened the economic burden of drug development by offering a 50-percent tax credit for the costs incurred during the clinical trial phase.
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For now, the cost burden of reshoring falls upon the private sector, with executives needing to compare upfront costs with operational efficiency, profitability and customer service yield.
Put another way, within 30 years, failure to account for these hidden costs will understate the true burden of health entitlements by more than one quarter.
The United States would be called upon to shoulder much of the burden for nations that are unwilling or unable to handle the costs.
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Advocates of legalization say the costs of prohibition, mainly through the criminal justice system, place a great burden on taxpayers and governments.
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Lawmakers are studying pension reform to reduce the future burden of state payments, and labour reforms to cut employment costs.
Costs are exploding for institutions, and the burden of tuition and room and board is driving families and students into deep and sometimes unrecoverable debt.
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And corporations are shying away from asking obese employees to carry some of the burden of their health coverage, even though they incur much higher costs than non-obese employees.
It is not a unilateral United States effort, and that is a good thing, for a variety of reasons, not just because sharing the burden with our allies reduces costs and risk for American -- for the American military, and not just because we have a lot of other commitments around the world, but because the President is focused, in this and in all things, on the end result.
Meanwhile, the bottlers have an incentive to keep costs low, thanks to their heavy burden of debt.
Cutting down on box-ticking and form-filling will help reduce costs, but leaves government policy, the source of most of the regulatory burden, untouched.
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The indirect costs of providing care for the uninsured, they argue, are too big a burden to be ignored.
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