Benefits and Costs. Generally, motor carriers engaging in interstate commerce with a principal place of business in the U.S. would not experience any regulatory burden as a result of this rulemaking unless the motor carrier: (1) had vehicles with missing certification labels; or (2) had acquired a vehicle that was not originally manufactured for sale or use
Benefits and Costs. The benefit to cost ratio equals the amount of IRMAA B and D adjustments for FY 2018 divided by the cost of the matching operation. Benefits Savings Derived from IRMAA B: (Sum of Two MBR IRMAA B Segments) x 10 $6,089,369,470 Savings Derived from IRMAA D x10 $858,940 Total Benefits of IRMAA B and D adjustment amount for FY 2018 $6,090,228,410 Costs Estimated Costs for Reimbursable Services: Systems Costs (Office of Systems budget staff) $63,200 2018 Inter-agency Agreement Costs $206,111 Total Costs $269,311
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Benefits and Costs. This interim rule is intended to help respond to and work toward the goal of eliminating homelessness. This interim rule provides greater clarity and guidance about planning and performance review to the more than 430 existing Continuums of Care that span all 50 states and 6 United States territories. As reported in HUD‘s Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, there were approximately 1.59 million homeless persons who entered emergency shelters or transitional housing in FY 2010. HUD serves roughly half that many persons, nearly 800,000 annually, through its three programs that will be consolidated into the Continuum of Care program under the XxXxxxxx-Xxxxx Act as amended by the HEARTH Act (i.e., Shelter Plus Care, Supportive Housing Program, Single Room Occupancy). The changes initiated by this interim rule will encourage Continuums of Care to establish formal policies and review procedures, including evaluation of the effectiveness of their projects, by emphasizing performance measurement and developing performance targets for homeless populations. HUD is confident that this systematic review by Continuums of Care will lead to better use of limited resources and more efficient service models, with the end result of preventing and ending homelessness. The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (Pub. L. 112- 55) appropriated $1,593,000,000 for the Continuum of Care and Rural Housing Stability Assistance programs. Upon publication of this rule, those FY 2012 funds will be available for distribution, as governed by these Continuum of Care regulations.
Benefits and Costs. The economic impact of the Uruguay Round is difficult to estimate. If nothing else, think about the logistics: To do an estimate, one must translate an immense document from one impenetrable jargon (legalese) into another (economese), assign numbers to the translation, then feed the whole thing into a computer model of the world economy. The matter is made worse by the fact that as described above, much of the important action is “backloaded,” so that we will not really see some of the important provisions of the round work in practice until nearly a decade after its signing. The most widely cited estimates are those of the GATT itself and of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, another international organization (this one con- sisting only of rich countries, and based in Paris). Both estimates suggest a gain to the world economy as a whole of more than $200 billion annually, raising the world income by about 1 percent. As always, there are dissenting estimates on both sides. Some economists claim that the estimated gains are exaggerated, particularly because they assume that exports and imports will respond strongly to the new liberalizing moves. A probably larger minor- ity of critics argues that these estimates are considerably too low, for the “dynamic” reasons discussed earlier in this chapter. In any case, it is clear that the usual logic of trade liberalization applies: The costs of the Uruguay Round were felt by concentrated, often well-organized groups, while the benefit accrued to broad, diffuse populations. The progress on agriculture hurt the small but influ- ential populations of farmers in Europe, Japan, and other countries where agricultural prices are far above world levels. These losses were much more than offset by gains to con- xxxxxx and taxpayers in those countries, but because these benefits will be very widely spread they were little noticed. Similarly, the liberalization of trade in textiles and clothing produced some concentrated pain for workers and companies in those industries, offset by considerably larger but far less visible consumer gains. Given these strong distributional impacts of the Uruguay Round, it is actually remark- able that an agreement was reached at all. Indeed, after the failure to achieve anything close to agreement by the 1990 target, many commentators began to pronounce the whole trade negotiation process to be dead. That in the end agreement was achieved, if on a more modest scale than...
