Sentence examples for benefits distorted from inspiring English sources

The National Academy of Sciences panel that advised the Census Bureau on its new poverty measures agreed that health benefits distorted the picture of poverty.

"Our understanding of risks and benefits is distorted.

Though the Iraqi economy is growing, the benefits are distorted by corruption, mismanagement and regional antagonisms.

UI policies must balance the provision of liquidity and support for consumption smoothing during unemployment against the tendency of such benefits to distort incentives to search for and take new employment (Baily [1978]; Chetty [2008]).

"It's a tax burden without a benefit that distorts both the ethanol market and the food-ingredient market," said Richard E. Pasco, counsel for the Sweetener Users Association, a lobby group for food companies that use sugar.

A rise in U.S. exports and a bigger-than-expected drop in jobless benefit claims, though distorted by the storm that disrupted life in the U.S. Northeast this past week, helped stabilize U.S. stocks early in the session.

Faisal Siddiqui, a lawyer, told the BBC that "sensational stories" about extreme punishments had distorted the benefits of Islamic law.

Why it matters: As costs for sports continues to increase, the cost-benefit equation will become distorted.

Again, I saw this as another way in which the integrity of this democracy has been distorted to benefit special interests over the people's interests.

This finding corroborates the argument put forward in favor of active labor policies and against passive labor policies, like unemployment benefits, which may distort incentives to improving employability, taking up a job or searching actively.

In this paper, I document evidence that this intergovernmental incentive inherent in public sector defined benefit pension systems distorts the amount and timing of income for public school teachers.