Sentences with phrase «including public subsidies»

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l Includes housing choice vouchers, Section 8 project - based rental assistance and housing certificate fund, public - housing operating subsidies, public - housing capital subsidies, and rural rental assistance program.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

This could include denial of all government loans, grants, subsidies and public contracts to tax avoiders.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

«Reducing such public subsidies to trade unions is a practical way that councils can save money, to keep council tax down and protect frontline services for local residents - including union members themselves.

She told the committee she supports different contracting reforms, including the creation of a «Database of Deals» that would allow the public to see the total value of all subsidies awarded to different businesses.

Liberal groups and voices have for years painted the IDC as a block against progressive priorities, including public campaign finance and extending college tuition subsidies to undocumented immigrants.

The FitzPatrick announcement comes just more than a week after the state Public Service Commission approved a long - term clean, renewable energy standard that includes subsidies for nuclear power.

Cuomo has previously fought to include changes to the way public school teachers are evaluated into the budget, and on Sunday, said his budget would include language renewing the 421 - a subsidy for housing developers.

Just more than a week after the state Public Service Commission approved a long - term clean, renewable energy standard that includes subsidies for nuclear power, the state on Tuesday touted Exelon's planned acquisition of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant from Entergy Corp..

Exelon has spent $ 430,000 on lobbying in New York in the last two years, including the push for subsidies, public lobbying records show.

Exelon gave Gov. Andrew Cuomo credit for helping facilitate the transaction by asking the state Public Service Commission to adopt a Clean Energy Standard that included subsidies for upstate nuclear.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

For more information on G20 fossil fuel subsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Psubsidies, including public finance, read Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute's report: Empty Promises: G20 Subsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal PSubsidies to Oil, Gas, and Coal Production

The methods used to correct market failure include: • Indirect Taxation • Subsidies • Government expenditure / state provision • Buffer stock control • Price controls • Legislation and regulation • Information provision • Competition policy • Public - private partnerships • Tradeable pollution permits These methods are used to correct the following types of market failure: • Negative consumption externalities • Positive consumption externalities • Negative production externalities • Positive production externalities • Merit goods • Demerit goods • Public goods • Information failure • Inequity

By charging tuition, progressives argued that the system could bring in more resources from students who could afford to pay, while enabling any given level of public subsidies to go further by targeting assistance to the neediest (including efforts to reduce pre-college disparities in achievement).

In addition, the office administers several important aviation regulatory programs, including the initial and continuing fitness of commercial airlines to serve the public, subsidy and grant programs for air service to small communities, access to slot - controlled airports, the setting of mail rates within Alaska and in international markets, and administers three statutorily mandated programs.

The task force suggested the new department include the Federal Aviation Agency, the Bureau of Public Roads, the Coast Guard, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Great Lakes Pilotage Association, the Car Service Division of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the subsidy function of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and the Panama Canal.

HDF Multifamily loan products include Predevelopment Loans (Loans with terms between one to two years), Acquisition Loans (Loan with terms up to two years), Construction Loans (Loans with terms up to twenty four months), Mini-Permanent (Loans with terms up to ten years), Permanent loans (Loans with terms up to thirty years), and Bridge loans for committed project subsidy sources (Loans with terms up to two years) which bridge public subsidy sources and low income housing tax credits.

This new veterinary assembly line could include productivity improvements like wellness plans, pet health insurance, employer - paid pet care, high - volume limited - care models, telemedicine, veterinary nurse practitioners, private / public partnerships, pet care tax deductions, philanthropic subsidies and more.

This is a letter I just finished and submitted to the Fort Wayne, IN newspaper editor: Gov. Pence continues to gut our public school subsidies, forcing Indiana public schools to make unpopular decisions, including school bus transportation route changes, which has left many parents justly enraged.

These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.

Hunts in recent years have relied on public subsidies, including money drawn from funds earmarked for Japan's post-tsunami reconstruction.

Friends of the Earth Slovakia deals with a number of issues, including controversial subsidies, regulation of corporations, the privatisation of public services, international financial institutions, EU funds, sustainable development in the region, transport, energy, forestry, waste and biodiversity.

A report published in September by Climate Action Network Europe and ODI identified 87 subsidies and support measures and estimated the total support to fossil fuel production, including through fiscal support and public finance, was nearly EUR 36 billion a year between 2014 and 2016.

With this track record, it's not surprising that nuclear power has failed to attract private - sector financing — so the industry has looked to government for subsidies, including loan guarantees, tax credits, and other forms of public support.

While the details have yet to be finalized, city council plans on replacing automobile transportation in the city centre with alternatives that include 60 kilometres of new bike lanes, a new subsidy for the purchasing of e-bikes and a significant expansion of its already - robust public transit system.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

The subject matters involved in these trials included many complex «white collar» matters, including criminal violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, environmental fraud, health care fraud, obstruction of justice, computer - related crimes, fraud in government subsidy programs, and public corruption.

The public inquiry is in response to a petition filed by more than 30 groups, including the American Library Association and the NAACP, asking the commission to continue rolling out internet subsidies through its Lifeline program.

So much of our health policy (including massive public subsidies for the private health insurance industry) has served to reinforce rather than undermine the inverse care law (which was coined in 1971 and holds that «The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.

To examine whether state child care subsidy policies can combine goals of increasing maternal employment and increasing access to quality child care for children in low - income families, the research team studied one state's comprehensive policy, through a cross-sectional survey of 665 randomly selected families using centers, Head Start programs, family child care homes, public school preschools, or informal care, including a sample of families on the waitlist for child care subsidies.

Regulated (state registered) child care providers may accept public funds and including the child care subsidy program for low income parents and the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program in which reimbursements are made for qualifying meals served.

Instead, section 25 (3) lists the criteria for compensation: «The amount of the compensation... must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interest of those affected, having regard to all relevant circumstances, including --(a) the current use of the property; (b) the history of acquisition and use of the property; (c) the market value of the property; (d) the extent of direct state investment and subsidy in the acquisition and beneficial capital improvement of the property; and (e) the purpose of the expropriation.»

The Budget also includes $ 10.8 billion for the Project - Based Rental Assistance program, which supports 12 months of funding for rental assistance contracts with public and private owners who maintain affordable rental housing for 1.2 million families, and $ 6.45 billion in operating and capital subsidies to preserve affordable public housing for 1.1 million families.