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But people do not really vote their pocketbooks as much as they vote their  feelings  about their pocketbooks, security, status, etc.
For those voters, Republican leaders highlight fear for their pocketbooks.
VICE: What's going to happen to people's pocketbooks under Trump?
The rest of the year is tough on pocketbooks too.
Specialty dental work tends to hit patients in their pocketbooks.
" Or else, "they are potentially putting their pocketbooks at risk.
Consumer confidence points to open pocketbooks in the short run.
But the Wealth X isn't just interested in billionaires' pocketbooks.
I think the economy is also local to people&aposs pocketbooks.
Why it matters: These companies have deep pocketbooks and global reach.
What is new is their potential to hit hardworking Americans' pocketbooks.
Here are pocketbooks, metal mirrors, extra trousers and bloody, abandoned shoes.
" The case "raises issues that hit both American pocketbooks and ideals.
But it's an important issue that absolutely will impact their pocketbooks.
It's up to the flying public to vote with our pocketbooks.
Americans vote with their pocketbooks, which day by day are getting fatter.
What happens on the Internet affects our pocketbooks and even our democracies.
So skip the lofty rhetoric and emphasize issues of pocketbooks and corruption.
This is about our members: their livelihoods, their futures, and their pocketbooks.
The owners may control the pocketbooks, but the players control the product.
"  More generally, Mueller added, "people vote their pocketbooks not their Twitter feeds.
Likewise, Trump's early trade agenda could hit a surprising number of American pocketbooks.
The U.S. education system already favors those with big pocketbooks, in legal ways.
Outsized multinational companies are involved, and so are  venture capital firms' big pocketbooks.
Obesity doesn't just hurt individuals' pocketbooks; it also affects the national budget deficit.
Voters did open their pocketbooks for local classrooms, if not for those statewide.
Keeping interest rates low is driving up inflation, which is hurting people's pocketbooks.
Large foreign investors in the West or the Gulf haven't opened their pocketbooks.
Americans deserve more honesty and responsibility when politicians talk about the people's pocketbooks.
In August, Trump warned such a Democratic effort would hit Americans in their pocketbooks.
Pocketbooks, not politics, will determine how the people vote in the election this year.
Voters who are going to the polls here have their pocketbooks top of mind.
Doing so would be bad for our health and our pocketbooks in myriad ways.
Americans need leaders who rise to the occasion, not worry about their own pocketbooks.
The currency's decline, as well as other factors, has hit Turks in their pocketbooks.
To claim nationwide tolling as "revenue-neutral" shows a willful disregard for people's pocketbooks.
Clinton would pillage the pocketbooks of regular Americans and work to enrich her cronies.
Pre-wedding festivities that require travel also hit friends and family members in their pocketbooks.
That's in contrast to dividend cuts that would come out of Alaskans' pocketbooks, said Knapp.
Women in Latin America with healthy pocketbooks can circumvent any restriction on abortion or contraception.
If the wealthy voted according to their pocketbooks, their choice for president would be clear.
Now, it's opening itself up to the pocketbooks and the scrutiny of the public market.
Health reform is a critical policy issue impacting the lives—and pocketbooks—of every American.
Keeping ObamaCare as-is will devastate American consumers' pocketbooks and decimate the American healthcare system.
As home prices rise, buyers have less padding in their pocketbooks for higher mortgage rates.
Tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump could have a major effect on American parents' pocketbooks.
If the wealthy voted according to their pocketbooks, their choice for president would be clear.
Experts largely dismissed those pledges as political bandages with little real effect on patients' pocketbooks.
When the Arab Spring struck in 2011, many governments responded by opening up their pocketbooks.
But it may be better for investors' pocketbooks, including the most important investor -- Masayoshi Son.
And rural voters have largely hurt their pocketbooks by buying into the vilification of unions.
Yet in several key congressional districts, voters are feeling the economy's strength in their pocketbooks.
New Yorkers are going to get hit hard in their pocketbooks when this shakes out.
It's also an economic issue, he said, as it hits voters squarely in their pocketbooks.
Voters care about their pocketbooks, and tend to pay far less attention to foreign policy.
And it was garbage that touched the French in a very sensitive area: their pocketbooks.
But the bill's Medicaid cuts would still leave a deep dent in many poor families' pocketbooks.
These increases in premiums are going to hit Americans where it hurts the most – their pocketbooks.
They seem to be focused only on the present benefits to the economy and their pocketbooks.
The U.S. must hit Maduro and his pals where it hurts the most — in their pocketbooks.
"I think banks are going to be more willing to open up their pocketbooks," Johnson said.
And it does nothing to dodge lawmakers' privacy and antitrust concerns about Facebook getting into people's pocketbooks.
First off, there is just too much regulation affecting the daily activities—and pocketbooks—of America's farmers.
We should have a pragmatic, useful discussion about how corporate concentration negatively affects consumers' pocketbooks every day.
Broad economic policy changes may take years to work their way into our pocketbooks and retirement accounts.
The Trump administration's ACE plan would move our nation backward, hurt our pocketbooks and cost America jobs.
"That shift could be a really positive thing for the economy and for people's pocketbooks," Pollak said.
We live in such a polarized environment now that many Americans do not vote with their pocketbooks.
The current government of Zambia wants foreign diplomats to be compliant, with open pocketbooks and closed mouths.
"While markets tumbled and American families' pocketbooks took a hit, Donald Trump cheered and celebrated," he continued.
The Saudis have effectively skated by after their existential crisis, successfully handcuffing Silicon Valley with their pocketbooks.
INGRAHAM: Why would people want to vote against their own pocketbooks then and vote for Democrats in November?
And anyway, the extra taxes levied to build the stadium will mainly come out of tourists' bedazzled pocketbooks.
Three in particular are draining Americans' pocketbooks, paralyzing economic growth, and in some cases, actually doing environmental damage.
"For TVs, just one of the 1,300 products on the administration's list, American pocketbooks will suffer," Shapiro said.
The higher prices have hit American pocketbooks harder than usual, as insurers have increasingly shifted costs to patients.
A chunk of that support comes from pragmatic voters who are more interested in their pocketbooks than politics.
Who knew that the federal government would play so fast and loose with the law and taxpayers' pocketbooks?
In our globally interconnected economy, major climatic (and economic) disruption in other countries will inevitably affect American pocketbooks.
And the longstanding verity that Americans vote with their pocketbooks may be tested in 2020 like never before.
Roving around the company's workshops, she collected rejects (dinged pocketbooks, scarves with a snagged string) and other detritus.
Democrats want 2020 presidential candidates to start talking about subjects much closer to their pocketbooks, Morning Consult reports.
"Ironstache" Randy Bryce grabbed the nation, and its pocketbooks, with a viral ad challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Like every other retailer, Gap has struggled lately with increased online competition, changing consumer tastes, and stretched pocketbooks.
Campus leaders defended themselves by pointing to their pocketbooks, and the need to secure federal funds to remain viable.
A third reason is that it takes a long time for policy to make its way into people's pocketbooks.
"The tax bill is what you use to appeal to moderates who look at their own pocketbooks," he said.
According to conventional wisdom, voters in the Midwest support protectionist trade policies, even if it hurts their own pocketbooks.
The recent Department of Labor Overtime Rule negatively affected many small businesses and hit them right in their pocketbooks.
Many Americans were underwhelmed by the legislation, and didn't see much of an impact on their lives or pocketbooks.
When falling oil prices tanked the oil industry in 2014, builders scrambled to retool their offerings for smaller pocketbooks.
Real consumers may be more likely to let their pocketbooks decide, particularly in an industry so dominated by price.
He explained why banks could be ready to "open up their pocketbooks" and what it means for startup valuations.
He began menacing his neighbors, they said, snatching pocketbooks, drinking openly and hustling people in the building for money.
Female consumers will often pay up to 7% more for products engineered specifically for women and, by extension, their pocketbooks.
It may not be a real tax levied by the government, but it has a real impact on women's pocketbooks.
That's where we'll see 3 or 4 percent growth, higher productivity, more and better paying jobs, and fatter family pocketbooks.
Sanders promised radical measures aimed at the pocketbooks of companies that relocated from Vermont in search of more profitable pastures.
I spoke with Juicero's founder, Doug Evans, and I can almost understand how investors felt when they opened their pocketbooks.
That is to say they are focused on the overall state of the economy as opposed to their own pocketbooks.
We need to demonstrate a little more patriotism, and a greater sense of fairness, even if it affects our pocketbooks.
Those costs will hit the pocketbooks of American consumers and the dollar menu will become a relic of the past.
By uniting the economic success with much-needed racial and gender representation, Marvel Studios has touched hearts and pocketbooks alike.
If they don't get big bucks out of tax "reform," they might close their pocketbooks for the 2018 midterm elections.
Officials could be reluctant to enforce the law if they know that their own pocketbooks could be on the line.
Top administration officials have repeatedly tried to sell last year's tax cut as a lift for middle-class Americans' pocketbooks.
Warren brought the question back to her strength: talking about the lived experience of working-class families and their pocketbooks.
For some of those suburban voters, the GOP had hurt their pocketbooks in a meaningful way with its only signature achievement.
It's targeting low-income and middle-income families, hurting their pocketbooks, their jobs, their small businesses, and making income inequality worse.
Most companies just need to know that we're voting with our pocketbooks and they will take the path of least resistance.
The amount of damage this would do to so many Americans' benefits and pocketbooks could well be unprecedented in US politics.
Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette issued a similar warning, saying another round of tariffs would almost certainly hit consumers in their pocketbooks.
That's especially true for lower income families, where sharp declines (or increases) in gasoline prices play an outsized role on pocketbooks.
Delaying approval of the trade pact hits the pocketbooks of the workers and families in North Carolina and across the nation.
Not only would Sanders' plan put a roof over these families' heads, but it would also help their health and pocketbooks.
The proposal was so empty of illustrative detail that few people could even begin to calculate its impact on their pocketbooks.
Moreover, instead of merely playing identity politics and supporting nontraditional candidates, Democrats need to understand that people vote with their pocketbooks.
Such rollbacks would be bad news for Americans' pocketbooks and our energy security, but they would not doom the Paris Agreement.
Furthermore, Congress really does take into account public opinion and feedback from constituents — particularly on matters that affect those constituents' pocketbooks.
Voters, however, tend to vote with their pocketbooks, and their homes take up an awful lot of space in those cluttered bags.
Meanwhile, consumers can make a difference on their own, by voting with their pocketbooks and taking their accounts to locally based banks.
The skyrocketing price of prescription drugs is among the public's top health concerns, as it's hitting them where it hurts — their pocketbooks.
Ms. Warren's many policy plans take aim not only at multimillionaire pocketbooks, but also the financial responsibilities of banks and investment firms.
There is no avoiding this pain—and we're not just going to feel it in our pocketbooks, but in our personal lives.
Best of all, millions of Americans would see a positive and immediate effect on our nation's economy and more importantly, their pocketbooks.
It's being taken out of their pocketbooks as the debt that will be incurred by the permanent tax cuts for the rich.
But there is no shortage of investors who have voted with their pocketbooks for the more cautious approach of the original Bitcoin.
HEALD Those iconic bands you've really got to open up the pocketbooks for — the Guns 'N' Roses and Metallicas of the world.
So thanks to these historic tax cuts and reforms, Americans do in fact have more money in their paychecks and their pocketbooks.
Let's just say they don't have "NRA" stitched on the side of their pocketbooks, and they really haven't considered any of this.
Morgan Stanley's $13 billion E-Trade deal is a sign banks are ready to 'open up their pocketbooks' for fintechs, insider says.
The district apologized and asked people to donate to help pay off the lunch debt -- and people opened their pocketbooks in droves.
"So will voters there turn out to support Trump and the Republicans once they get hit in the pocketbooks?" asks the bean.
Mr. Robot learns he's been played for a patsy by corporate overlords who unleashed a seeming economic revolution to line their own pocketbooks.
But Trump, a populist focused on filling Americans' pocketbooks, opposes the output cuts because he wants prices to fall at U.S. gas stations.
It is time to turn our next generation communications infrastructure into "green networks" that benefit our environment, our national security, and our pocketbooks.
The problem is social capital: Low-income people lack it, and so their personal networks do not often contain millionaires with open pocketbooks.
One lesson from this race is that the final straw for many conservatives comes when they find their wallets and pocketbooks under siege.
Consumers should have this type of information beforehand so they can compare prices and make the best choice for their families and pocketbooks.
If adopted, this Internet service provider (ISP) tax would hurt the pocketbooks of all Internet users in Canada—hitting Indigenous communities the hardest.
Representatives will consider whether PBMs are representing the best interests of patients or whether they are working to unfairly line their own pocketbooks.
The threats were "unprecedented tactics designed to extort public officials into undertaking actions that would benefit the pocketbooks of its members," he wrote.
Now is the time to tackle these problems head-on and ensure stability and security for the pocketbooks and health of every American.
But in my opinion, they are necessary because Pakistan will only respond to punitive action that hits where it hurts: in their pocketbooks.
People do vote based on their individual pocketbooks, and when they do, they're time-indifferent: Benefits a while ago still count for something.
And it has convinced conservative leaders that voters, particularly suburban parents, are looking for full-throated support, and open pocketbooks, for public education.
The crisis involving the internet giants is not hitting our pocketbooks — it is straining our confidence in what we know about the world.
"They're employed, [have a] good savings rate, and they've got a lot in their pocketbooks," said Michael Haydock, IBM fellow and chief scientist.
But many fear that higher gasoline prices will increase costs for food and public transportation, hitting the pocketbooks of even the poorest Mexicans.
In practice, this policy would function as a severely regressive tax, transferring money from poor households to the pocketbooks of politically trendy companies.
The government shutdown has delayed more recent readings of consumer spending, but economists don't expect downbeat sentiment to translate into tighter pocketbooks just yet.
"Residents of these regions could see a direct hit to their pocketbooks," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday in a phone interview.
From self-driving cars to cryptocurrencies, tilting the scales in favor of established players with deep pocketbooks is unlikely to benefit the little man.
When Thomas announced in 2013 that he was launching a Kickstarter for a fan-funded Veronica Mars movie, fans went immediately for their pocketbooks.
"  We have to connect with their emotions, we have to connect with their pocketbooks and we have to connect with their values," she said.
In the U.S., this isn't taken as seriously because it doesn't harm consumers directly—Google's consumers don't feel its market share in their pocketbooks.
No matter how angry Republicans were at Clinton's perjury in the Monica Lewinsky case, the bulk of the voters cared more about their pocketbooks.
Once again, the powerful and wealthy pay-TV industry is playing politics with Americans' access to vital programming in order to pad their pocketbooks.
Human mistakes and inefficiency come with a cost, a cost that consumers ultimately pay with their pocketbooks through higher electric fees and higher taxes.
It's often said that Americans vote with their pocketbooks — so it's no surprise that for most millennial women, equal pay is a major issue.
Economic growth is slowing, and the country's hundreds of millions of middle-class shoppers seem to be holding on more tightly to their pocketbooks.
"When you're reaching for the cranberry sauce, Republicans are going be reaching for your pocketbooks to give handouts to multinational corporations," Mr. Wyden said.
"I have a hard time imagining that we will get to the 2020 election without seeing a significant impact to people's pocketbooks," Ashton said.
He touted the cuts as part of a "broader agenda that speaks to people's pocketbooks," including efforts on vocational training, student loans, and childcare.
It also creates an opening for Republicans to argue their policies will eventually fatten the pocketbooks of average families even if they haven't already.
What's happening in West Virginia is that, whether they're Democratic or Republican, they serve their pocketbooks and industry, but they don't serve the communities here.
But they want help that keeps their dignity, and their pocketbooks, intact, and the guy telling them he loves them sounds like he means it.
But Democrats will also make the case that Pruitt's policies are harming the pocketbooks and health of average Americans at the behest of big polluters.
Voters should ignore all the sideshows and make their decisions with their pocketbooks in mind because their dollars are truly on the ballot this year.
For consumers with 30-year mortgages and other longer-term loans, the effect of the Fed's move on their pocketbooks will be far more gradual.
But the agreement reflects concerns that eliminating the CSRs would harm insurance companies, and then would hit consumers' pocketbooks when insurers raised prices in reaction.
So will local retailers, who will suffer when the newly uninsured need to cut back on other expenses after health care costs devastate their pocketbooks.
The appropriately named Ratepayer Fairness Act is an uncontroversial way to ensure utilities focus on the pocketbooks of those most vulnerable to rising electricity prices.
Voters noticed too and backed her during the debate with their pocketbooks, according to the campaign, giving individual online donations at 67% above the normal rate.
Budget-wise, Kalamazoo is easy on retiree pocketbooks; GoBankingRates found that Michigan residents pay 1303 percent less, on average, for common living expenses than other Americans.
American consumers would feel a pinch in their pocketbooks if Trump goes ahead with a 123 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S. from Mexico.
Americans value health insurance and want real change that lowers costs, provides quality, affordable care, and protects pocketbooks as well as our most at-risk neighbors.
These billions in higher electricity costs would hit consumer pocketbooks in battleground states (Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia) located within the affected U.S. power markets.
Fortunately, Americans have a long, proud legacy of using their own pocketbooks, private organizations and corporations to push forward where government fails or drags its feet.
Critics say that's ridiculous: "In our globally interconnected economy, major climatic (and economic) disruption in other countries will inevitably affect American pocketbooks," Revesz and Lienke wrote.
Merchants and operators of book stores, music clubs, movie houses and futon shops managed to find ample customers among its hipster-readers, despite their thin pocketbooks.
The protesters hope their efforts will rally the 64 million Americans they claim make less than $15 an hour to vote with their pocketbooks in November.
Why it matters: These differences impact enrollees' pocketbooks, the burden on taxpayers and the amount of disruption a public option would have on the existing system.
"He knew that this was about saving people's lives and making it possible for people to keep more money in their pocketbooks," said Cummings, a Maryland Democrat.
But there is power in our pocketbooks, and Iris Kuo recognized that after hearing an interview with Sallie Krawcheck (founder of Ellevest, an investing platform for women).
"I think the best outcome is that we send a message that people shouldn't have to choose between principles and their pocketbooks in this country," she says.
He said "people haven't really seen [the effect] in their pocketbooks" and thinks consumers will notice the benefits of the changes more when they file their taxes.
But most of the alternatives also carry little or no harm (except to patients' pocketbooks) — which makes them all the more appealing amid the historic drug crisis.
That chart ran out of steam, eventually, ending in 2014, but it was a decent way to line the pocketbooks of the record industry for a while.
Notwithstanding all the talk about the impact of the health care legislation, the bottom line to Americans' pocketbooks will matter a great deal come the midterm campaigns.
House Republicans have included a provision in their tax plan that could hit the pocketbooks of private universities with large endowments, such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale.
"Corporate America needs to stand up for LGBTQ people, because sometimes people aren't able to change their hearts and minds until we affect their pocketbooks," Cox says.
"Hedge fund and private equity managers are really the one-tenth of the 1 percent, and the carried interest rule hits their pocketbooks directly," Mr. Wilensky said.
Either businesses right themselves to cater to the strong household sector, or the household sector will stop spending as the business sector starts to affect people's pocketbooks.
At my private practice in Louisiana, I hear complaints from my patients almost daily about how high drug costs impact their pocketbooks, retirement savings and even health.
And for antitrust enforcers the lodestar is the impact on consumers, ensuring they benefit from a healthy marketplace that drives better products and prices for their pocketbooks.
"The conspiracy to fix prices on these household staples had direct effects on the pocketbooks of American consumers," said a lawyer from the Justice Department's antitrust division.
The last time that happened was in 2007, he said, but when the Great Recession hit, people started to care more about their pocketbooks than the environment.
"Congress should stop this assault on the American people's health and pocketbooks by curbing the company's flagrant drug-price gouging and tax dodging," the group said. Rep.
Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, with their seemingly bottomless pocketbooks, needed to fill the catalog and, in order to do it, brought in a range of new voices.
"The president will be traveling to Minnesota to talk about the tax bill and focus on what he's done for everyday Americans and their pocketbooks," Olorunnipa said.
These brackets would hit the pocketbooks of big pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, the real estate industry, fossil fuel companies, Wall Street firms, and electric utilities the hardest.
" Given the populist surge, "We need Europeans to feel these positive economic figures in their pocketbooks, to show people that they are better off with Europe than without.
While we have heard this argument for months, it is important for voters to understand exactly how a major investment in our infrastructure will positively impact their pocketbooks.
From The Washington Post: In a 2013 podcast with the Heartland Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank, Simmons argued that pursuing renewable energy could harm people's pocketbooks.
While $26 trillion may sound like a pretend number, the reality is that her ideas would hit every American where it hurts the most, right in their pocketbooks.
That is leading more entrepreneurs to tap into other people's brains — rather than just their pocketbooks — to test new products, set pricing and bring ideas to market faster.
The Toomey-Warner measure would ensure that policies affecting the pocketbooks and livelihoods of millions of people are made with greater coordination between the legislative and executive branches.
At the same time, just as the former restaurant prices its fare to Mayfair pocketbooks, the latter is a place where a theatergoer can go small if needed.
"Early indications are that people are using their pocketbooks in accordance to their values," said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the executive director of T'ruah, a rabbinical human rights organization.
At the heart of any climate policy is this tough task: Make fossil fuels more expensive without hitting American pocketbooks too much, and/or making cleaner energy technologies cheaper.
So while Trump's use of tariffs, like Brexit, will probably do more harm than good to supporters' pocketbooks, that alone won't necessarily be enough to sway their votes anymore.
But that is not translating into a major change in willingness of Americans to open up their wallets and pocketbooks and donate to candidates in the 2020 presidential election.
If Americans vote their pocketbooks, the GOP might just contain some of the damage going into the midterm at a minimum -- holding onto their majority even if it's narrower.
Protectionist tariffs will not change the realities of global markets, at least not immediately and without massive dislocation of corporate strategy and supply chains and ultimately jobs and pocketbooks.
Beijing's response to the US's attempt to address trade differences was to directly target and attack both US farmers and, incredibly, the stomachs and pocketbooks of China's own people.
But for those primarily focused on their pocketbooks, it is imperative to recognize that Trump's proposals are extremely damaging to our economy and our Social Security system, in particular.
After the pandemic or natural disaster subsides, these families will need to continue to receive additional food assistance as lost wages will put a financial strain on their pocketbooks.
Tuscany's temperate climate suited her frail health — and Italy's reasonable prices suited both poets' slim pocketbooks (which were even slimmer after Elizabeth's father, furious at her marriage, disowned her).
I hope Elon Musk sells enough of those cars that he can make a profit on his own, without needing to dip any further into our pocketbooks and wallets.
It's time to remove protectionist policies and unleash the competitive spirit that drives a thriving marketplace – our water systems, roads, bridges, dams, and pocketbooks will be better for it.
The question is whether a rare confluence of public outrage, political will and presidential leadership can bring about a meaningful change that will slow the drain on consumers' pocketbooks.
Since our coordinated strike in 2017, we've been organizing nonstop, and the ability to flex our political power through our pocketbooks has given us a sense of power and agency.
Governments may need to open their pocketbooks at the same time "across economies" if the slowdown becomes more serious, Gopinath said, adding that loose monetary policy might also be needed.
It would also hit the pocketbooks of drivers and airline passengers, as refiners pass on the nearly $663 billion that the tax could cost them each year on crude imports.
This tension gets at the heart of the challenge of addressing climate change: Make fossil fuels more expensive without hitting pocketbooks too much and/or make cleaner energy technologies cheaper.
"When you're reaching for the cranberry sauce, Republicans are going be reaching for your pocketbooks to give handouts to multinational corporations," Mr. Wyden said during a Finance Committee meeting Thursday.
This countywide legislation and the state bill have been championed by women of color — a clue to how demographic shifts in political leadership can directly affect citizens' pocketbooks and potential.
"This hurts the pocketbooks of typical Trump voters in swing states who live paycheck to paycheck," said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service.
If implemented, these policies will hurt the pocketbooks of everyday Americans, which in turn will stall local economies, slow innovation and ultimately lower the quality of life for many Americans.
Now their bill can be compared side-by-side with the Affordable Care Act based on how it affects enrollees' pocketbooks — including both premiums and out-of-pocket costs for care.
As the Trump administration touts its as-yet-unannounced $2178 trillion infrastructure program — most recently talked up by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao this week — private equity firms are readying their pocketbooks.
"They had no interest in people, their pocketbooks or what the cost of drugs meant," said Robin, a Baltimore ophthalmologist, researcher and adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Medical School.
That would mean duties on $2628 billion in goods from China, which would more than cover all of its exports to the U.S. and eventually hit American consumers in their pocketbooks.
At the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal this week, more than 2,000 start-ups vied for the attention, and pocketbooks, of venture capitalists, big tech companies and investment firms.
"The conspiracy to fix prices on these household staples had direct effects on the pocketbooks of American consumers," said Makan Delrahim, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's antitrust division.
But Amazon also gave investors the numbers they love to see, a 34 percent jump to $43.7 billion in revenue, as it continued to nibble away at the pocketbooks of customers.
And even though Russians have taken a considerable hit to their pocketbooks in recent years — real income, or wages adjusted for inflation, declined through the recession — he remains the overwhelming favorite.
Instead of envisioning what should or could be best for the greatest city in the world, New York, politicians continue to think of themselves and their own pocketbooks first and foremost.
For decades, leaders of both political parties have sacrificed comprehensive government services to protect the pocketbooks of the wealthy, refusing to raise desperately needed revenue by raising income or property taxes.
That's sure to disappoint other policymakers, including Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari who has wanted the Fed to make bigger rate cuts in part to aid the pocketbooks of regular Americans.
WULONGQIAO, China — A devastating disease spreading from China has wiped out roughly one-quarter of the world's pigs, reshaping farming and hitting the diets and pocketbooks of consumers around the globe.
"Jon Ossoff is all in for Nancy Pelosi's agenda of bigger government, higher spending and more taxes that is crushing Americans' pocketbooks," CLF Executive Director Corry Bliss said in a statement.
The insanity of the Trump era has prompted a newfound willingness among consumers to vote with their pocketbooks, and boycott campaigns targeting the president and those who associate with him have flourished.
When barges stack up along the Ohio River because a lock is out of service, those delays may never register, but we feel it in our pocketbooks, whether we notice or not.
It could very well cost the economy more money than it saves by hurting the ability of businesses and government to make critical decisions that affect all our lives, and our pocketbooks.
Technologies are created not just to support their makers' own pocketbooks; they are guided by values that benefit the communities they live within and the sustainability of the natural environment around them.
Few weekenders consider fly-fishing an expression of rage and depravity (quite the opposite), and sushi diners ordering kuromaguro are apt to feel pangs from their pocketbooks more than from their souls.
But theatergoers hoping for Ms. Ebersole and Ms. LuPone to whack each other with pocketbooks or hurl drinks like Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in "The Turning Point" are due for disappointment.
If the economy continues to grow this year and voters are optimistic about their personal pocketbooks, President Trump's economic policies could trump the historical trend in midterm elections going against a president.
The "misconduct" in question was the packaging and selling of billions of dollars of mortgages that the Justice Department says banks knew were faulty — and which devastated the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans.
While the full effects of the trade war between the United States and China have yet to hit the pocketbooks of most Americans, many parts of the US economy are feeling the pinch.
But he also said that in the depths of the crisis policymakers had "major questions" about whether promising good times ahead "would really have moved the hearts, minds, and pocketbooks of the public".
So it is very passe for leaders to say that women should be voting according to their lady parts, as opposed to with their brains, with their pocketbooks, and voting for their futures.
As Americans are increasingly frustrated by the failure of Congress and state legislators to regulate weapons developed for military deployment, they may resort to using their pocketbooks and investment portfolios to force change.
" But in the sense of, "We're building something that has a serious reason for being and we're doing it for more than just our own pocketbooks and for more than just this month.
It. The apparent suicide of Kate Spade, the designer whose eponymous pocketbooks swung from the shoulders of Manhattan's coolest teenagers, reverberated painfully on Tuesday through a rarefied set of young New York women.
"From protecting our pocketbooks, veterans, public lands and Second Amendment rights, Daines always puts Montana first, and Montanans know they can always trust him to continue doing so when he's reelected in November."
Average hourly earnings jumped 2.9 percent in January from a year earlier, the Labor Department said on Friday, the latest sign that the long, slow economic recovery is at last reaching Americans' pocketbooks.
These bills will hit them in the pocketbooks, affect the roads they drive on every day, and even determine if they can legally live and work in the only country they've ever known.
Card-reading devices that allow law enforcement to both check and seize the balance of prepaid plastic cards are the latest technology to come under fire for potentially threatening citizens' privacy and pocketbooks.
But these behemoths' size and influence will almost certainly be diminished by new tech-powered players, whose pocketbooks and ambitions seem limitless — companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and possibly Twitter and Snap.
Why it matters: Per Axios' Bob Herman, CVS will soon absorb a gigantic health insurance business into its pharmacies, pharmacy benefit manager and clinics, inevitably affecting the health care and pocketbooks of millions of Americans.
But for those primarily focused on their own pocketbooks, it is imperative to recognize that these efforts by Trump and his compatriots are extremely damaging to our economy and our Social Security system, in particular.
Lerner's childhood memory of the women in her mother's bridge club, "their hair frosted, their nylons shimmery, carrying patent leather pocketbooks with clasps as round as marbles," conjures the magic mothers hold for little girls.
Trump needs his famous base, but what he also needs are big business conservatives, Wall Street investors, small business owners and prosperous suburban middle class families who are pleased with the state of their pocketbooks.
For a sign of how ostensibly progressive Democrats can recoil at tax changes that affect their pocketbooks, nearly all Democratic senators recently voted to eliminate a cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes.
That is good news for U.S. energy producers and consumers alike, and it will truly make a difference in the pocketbooks of families and businesses that depend on affordable and reliable energy for their success.
The shorthand here is that in blue states, where Democrats run everything and have been taxing suburbanites to pay for services, the suburbs can hold in any negative feelings about Trump and vote their pocketbooks.
Hanging over all that is an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, one that involves Biden, who is having to tell rooms filled with donors that the Ukraine scandal shouldn't keep them from opening their pocketbooks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Environmentally conscious investors are using their pocketbooks to protest President Donald Trump's plans to slash environmental regulations, fueling a rally in funds that only invest in companies that meet progressive criteria for sustainability.
Rather, it was that — unlike other historic attempts by the Democratic party to expand entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — it adversely affected the lives and the pocketbooks of a large portion of the American electorate.
Why it matters: If this merger does indeed proceed, CVS would soon absorb a gigantic health insurance business into its pharmacies, pharmacy benefit manager and clinics, inevitably affecting the health care and pocketbooks of millions of Americans.
But Jessica Trounstine, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, believes that people who move to the suburbs, apolitically, can also become part of a political ideology that they find benefits them and their pocketbooks.
"The current government of Zambia wants foreign diplomats to be compliant, with open pocketbooks and closed mouths," he wrote, explaining that the Zambian officials have long misappropriated millions of dollars in donor funds meant for the public.
If they target let's say the farm-belt states which is where a lot of that 30 percent comes from, that's going to be very focused and pocketbooks is one thing, the ballot box may be another?
Both Proenza Schouler and Rodarte say the decision to swap cities and time periods, (made for the first time last season), has been good for business: They can deliver earlier, and benefit from retailers with full pocketbooks.
Calling it an "unprecedented proposal" that would hit consumers' pocketbooks, the president of the American Petroleum Institute came out swinging against the idea, which will on Tuesday be part of the final federal budget Obama proposes as president.
In perhaps the most direct hit to consumers' pocketbooks, the interest rates on fixed-rate 22016-year mortgages rose to 4.40 percent this week, a level not seen since April 2014, according to home finance agency Freddie Mac.
And although the competition circuit is still an insider affair, the notoriety that comes with championships helps open the pocketbooks of investors to fund start-ups like Sudden Coffee, an instant coffee company from former world champion Kalle Freese.
That decision had many technical legal consequences, but chief among them — it's harder for plaintiffs to win high-dollar damages, so older workers have less leverage, and they can struggle to attract legal help unless they have deep pocketbooks.
Instead of protecting consumers and ensuring the public's safety from dangerous fitness trainers, for example, these "government permission slips" protect the pocketbooks of established businesses in the regulated field — all at the expense of job seekers, especially younger Americans.
There is strong evidence that a majority of the region's residents, while perceived as being opposed to global trade and sensitive to economic dislocations caused by trade, appreciate the positive benefits from trade for their communities and their pocketbooks.
In perhaps the most direct hit to consumers' pocketbooks, the interest rates on fixed-rate 22016-year mortgages rose to 4.40 percent this week, a level not seen since April 2014, according to home finance agency Freddie Mac (FMCC.PK).
The disease ravaging China's pigs, known as African swine fever, has now spread to nine other Asian countries, wiping out roughly one-quarter of the world's supply and hitting consumer pocketbooks not only in China but around the globe.
Just a week before two powerful House committees plan to vote on the measure, opponents spent hours making the point that almost no one has actually seen legislation that would affect the lives and pocketbooks of millions of Americans.
It could help some of the Democratic senators in red states who are in some trouble on other issues, giving them an issue that goes to people&aposs pocketbooks in some of the states that President Trump carried in 2016.
Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen has added $11 million in Series A funding to its pocketbooks as it looks to weather some waning investor interest in VR and build up its technologies while the VR headset market builds itself up.
This is a truly, truly volatile game at this point; the swings didn't appear as consequential when the market cap rested in the low billions, but as institutional pocketbooks push that cap to nearly $300 billion, the stakes are raised considerably.
"I will be looking closely at what this merger means for consumers and their pocketbooks and whether it stands up to the rigorous review standards set by the Department of Justice's antitrust division in the last few years," he said.
Had the CPP ever taken effect, it would have given power plants until the year 2030 to curb their carbon emissions by about 30 percent, a move that the Obama administration said could protect the environment, public health, and consumer's pocketbooks.
Between January and July, fines resulting from settlements have been significantly lighter on polluters' pocketbooks on average compared to previous administrations in the same time period, according to a report released by the Environmental Integrity Project, an environmental watchdog nonprofit group.
But in reality, the party's ideas on health care generally focused on cutting back government spending on health care for the poor and sick — meaning that if they were implemented, voters across the country would be hit in their pocketbooks.
If the Democrats are to be the party of the people, in contrast to the GOP as the party of the one percent, it should consider treating voters less like sentient pocketbooks and more like partners in a political movement.
"I will be looking closely at what this merger means for consumers and their pocketbooks and whether it stands up to ‎the rigorous review standards set by the Department of Justice's antitrust division in the last few years," he said.
With markets plunging on Monday and China announcing retaliation against U.S. farm exports, fears are growing that the fight could take a bite out of pocketbooks and even pose a threat to GOP senators at the ballot box next year.
We've all seen (or maybe even carried) pocketbooks full of stolen Sweet'N Low or used a guest bathroom where the towels were Egyptian cotton, the countertops were Carrara marble and the soap was a tiny rectangle from a Holiday Inn Express.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, who has wanted the Fed to make bigger rate cuts in part to aid the pocketbooks of regular Americans, on Friday said monetary policy had a "huge role to play" in keeping the labor market strong.
If the USDA wasn't willing to take meaningful enforcement action, at least the public could keep an eye on which businesses had faced scrutiny and had been warned by the agency and could decide who to support with their pocketbooks.
At a time when the real N.B.A. is thriving, Soderbergh and McCraney work to expose the racial and economic dynamics of the league, which favor the priorities and pocketbooks of white owners over the mostly black athletes who drive ticket sales.
I'm actually working with a number of First Amendment legal societies to come up with strategies to make sure that powerful people don't just use their pocketbooks to shut people up ... So you think that that is a real concern?
The bottom line: The health care costs that are hitting patients' pocketbooks hardest aren't the same ones that are driving health care spending through the roof, meaning that political action to address costs may be somewhat divorced from our long-term problems.
"This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests," she said.
Donald Trump may well make the colossal mistake of letting polluters and destroyers of our wildlife and natural resources run rampant, but he cannot keep us from wielding our voices, our votes and our pocketbooks to insist that the polluters regulate themselves.
"I will be looking closely at what this merger means for consumers and their pocketbooks, and whether it stands up to stands up to the rigorous review standards set by the Department of Justice's antitrust division in the last few years," he said.
For months, the president's 2020 campaign has relied on rising wages, low unemployment and a steady economic expansion to make the case to voters that Trump has been good for their pocketbooks and can do even more with another four years in office.
Scientists have for the first time drawn concrete links between the planet's warming atmosphere and changes that affect Americans' daily lives and pocketbooks, from tidal flooding in Miami to prolonged water shortages in the Southwest to decreasing snow cover at ski resorts.
And Trump wouldn't be able to get around this with snake oil — people would be hit right in their pocketbooks, as Ezra Klein wrote Monday: What happens when voters realize their new tax credit doesn't cover anything close to the insurance they had?
Still, they say regulators under Trump aren't falling over themselves to keep Wall Street in check and Americans' pocketbooks protected, and Mulvaney at the CFPB has been especially aggressive in rolling back oversight and undermining the agency of which he is temporarily the head.
On Sunday, voters will get their first chance to give their verdict on the bitter pill economic policies that Macri says are needed to put the economy on a firmer footing but have helped to fuel soaring inflation, hitting Argentines hard in their pocketbooks.
"This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests," she said in a statement.
They recently enjoyed what the senator described as a "cordial, pleasant phone conversation" and, just this past weekend, Graham encouraged donors at a fundraiser in Florida to open up their pocketbooks in support of Republican candidates, up and down the ballot -- though not specifically Trump.
But six months after the president signed into law the most sweeping reform to the nation's tax code in over a generation, many Americans continue to be confused about the law's impact on their pocketbooks and how to take advantage of the new system.
In addition to her potentially deep pocketbooks, the dirt she may or may not have collected on Jackie, and her strong approval ratings with the public, Claire may also get wind of the conflict Frank now finds himself in with Petrov, the Russian president.
The tax "would be a boon for producers but it would be a negative for consumers — it's going to hit the pocketbooks of his supporters the hardest," said Ed Hirs, a managing director of Hillhouse Resources, an oil and gas company based in Houston.
Finally, more affluent liberals usually vote against their own pocketbooks, willing to pay higher taxes for measures that would help both rural and urban families, such as a $15 minimum wage, family parental leave, free public colleges, job retraining and health care for all.
I think we need a change, and more than that, I think we need someone who can deliver an economic message — someone who can come out to North Dakota and talk to farmers and ranchers and explain why Democratic policies are better for their pocketbooks.
But while both Pence and Trump sought to raise the stakes of the election by painting the health care law as disastrous to the US economy and Americans' pocketbooks, neither offered any significant new details to flesh out how their replacement plan will affect Americans' health insurance.
China is on a path this year to surpass Canada as the biggest single trading partner of the United States, and its factories provide American consumers with lower-cost products ranging from clothing to computers, so such steep tariffs could hurt the pocketbooks of many Americans.
Forcing use and sales tax on internet sales is unconstitutional and would slow the growth of the e-commerce industry, one of the few bright spots in our economy over the past decade, as well as needlessly knock American consumers where it hurts the most — their pocketbooks.
"With the ongoing trade dispute front and center, worries that worsening household and business confidence will lead to people closing their pocketbooks may give the Fed one more reason to do a preemptive rate cut," said Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. chief economist for S&P Global Ratings.
"If your concern is improving public health, either as a matter of altruism and ethics or pure concern for taxpayers' pocketbooks," she said, "your policy should generally be to keep vapor taxes lower than cigarette taxes to incentivize people to try to quit smoking using them."
"Given the $3.8 billion hole the comptroller's hedge fund gamble already has dug for the state pension system, taking away the checkbook may be the only way to safeguard the pensions of state employees, and the pocketbooks of taxpayers on the hook for system deficits," Vullo said.
Those who supported the plan saw an opposition led largely by a few shareholders who were focused squarely on their own pocketbooks and were unable to see the long-term benefit to the building should it create a system that every apartment could someday tap into.
In the weeks leading up to the election, Benioff sparred on Twitter with tech leaders such as Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who opposed the measure, and accused some San Francisco billionaires of hoarding their wealth instead of opening their pocketbooks to help the city's most needy.
But the Turkish Hoteliers Federation says any decrease in Russian tourism to the country, which was down by 18 percent in 2015 from the year before, had more to do with Western sanctions and a decrease in oil prices putting a pinch on Russian pocketbooks than the plane incident.
While overall interest rates are low, credit card interest rates have soared to 15.3% -- the highest in almost 03 years -- and with over $1 trillion in credit card balances, rising interest payments are hitting consumers' disposable pocketbooks which begs the question: How strong and confident is the consumer really?
"This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests," the presumptive Democratic nominee said in a statement.
The State of the Union offers Trump a rare opportunity to cut through the partisan filters of the mainstream media and speak directly to Americans about how policies that favor growth and workers, such as trade deals, tax cuts, and deregulation, are padding the pocketbooks of workers across the nation.
That is the finding of a new survey from financial giant MassMutual, which discovered that nearly half of the Americans surveyed in the 2018 Financial Wellness and Community Involvement Study believe that community involvement helped their own pocketbooks - not just their emotions or their sense of belonging, but their actual money.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff helped bring national attention to Prop C by sparring on Twitter with tech CEOs such as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in defense of the measure, and accusing some San Francisco billionaires of hoarding their wealth instead of opening their pocketbooks to help the city's most needy.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg and Laura and John Arnold, billionaire philanthropists who have identified soda taxes as a potentially impactful public health measure, along with the American Heart Association, have opened their pocketbooks much wider, giving 17 times more money in 2016 than in 2014 ($12 million, up from $720,000) to this fight.
"The fuel efficiency standards penalty rule is a common sense measure that would protect consumers' pocketbooks while reducing the carbon emissions that harm our health and drive climate change," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), who participated in the lawsuit that led to the ruling, said in a statement.
For those who argue that tariffs are not a one-way street and U.S. farmers and consumers will pay a price when China retaliates, the answer must be that when the national interest is genuinely at stake, Americans always have been willing to sacrifice in far more traumatic ways than in their pocketbooks.
When, for example, Warner Brothers balked at putting up the money to produce the version of "Malcolm X" Lee wanted to make, he was able to circumvent the studio and petition the most prominent members of the black 1 percent, including Magic Johnson, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Cosby, to open their pocketbooks.
There is little question consumers benefit from these changes and thus critics of the FTC's prompt resolution are really urging delay for delay's sake — but miring this deal in a bureaucratic quagmire would just be taking money out of consumers' pocketbooks and slowing down the tide of e-commerce innovation it has unleashed.
Ticketmaster (and its parent company, Live Nation) – and a handful of competitors – have used the power of their pocketbooks for years to lock up teams, leagues, and arena owners with rigid long-term contracts that force these stakeholders to use their platforms exclusively, leaving consumers with little choice other than to accept their considerable fees.
It remains unclear, however, how long parts of the country can continue to remain under lockdown, both from the perspective of making sure they are supplied with food and other necessary items, and from an economic point -- both the national finances and people's personal pocketbooks will be taking a massive hit from next week.
Some research suggests that is better for their pocketbooks: Paying in cash tends to drive home just how much one is spending, according to a study by Avni M. Shah, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and other researchers that was published in The Journal of Consumer Research in 2016.
Organizations are responsive to who pays them, and therefore, the only way to connect politics back to the everyday lives of people is to connect more pocketbooks of voters directly into the revenue model of DC. Lawrence Lessig, in his book Republic, Lost, believed such a system would likely tamp down the passions that exist in the present system.
Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Laura and John Arnold, billionaire philanthropists who have identified soda taxes as a potentially impactful public health measure, along with the American Heart Association, have opened their pocketbooks much wider, giving 17 times more money in 2016 than in 2014 ($23 million, up from $720,000) to this fight.
Under their proposal, multibillion-dollar payments like those made by global banks JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to settle cases for their sales of mortgage-backed securities in the years before the financial crisis would result in exposure for their executives, which at least puts their pocketbooks on the line even if the bulk of the penalty is absorbed by shareholders.
But as Wesley Yang points out in a review of "The Age of Entitlement" for The Washington Examiner, there's little evidence that American public policy actually transfers lots of money from whites to minorities; the spending that Reagan's deficits funded was for the military and old-age entitlements, both of which flowed far more into white pocketbooks than black ones.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has asked Congress to provide tax cuts for Americans so average families will see the benefits in their pocketbooks from tax reform right away.
But she also noted the need for "calm, steady, experienced leadership" — trying to draw a clear contrast between herself and Trump — in the face of the global economic uncertainty Brexit caused: This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans' pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests.
All of these claims are as demonstrably unhinged as the lunatic "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory that insisted  Hillary Clinton  and John Podesta were running a sex-trafficking pedophile ring from the basement of a pizza shop in Washington, D.C. Here are the facts of the matter: Because of  Mr. Trump 's policies, liberals like everyone else, have more money in their pocketbooks, are keeping more of the money they earn, are earning higher wages, are safer from domestic and international threats and have reason to be optimistic about the future.

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