Sentences with phrase «more public subsidies»

on More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

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And the more they seek to gain private benefits in the form of subsidies, the greater their obligations to the public become.

This is a notable intervention into a supposedly «deregulated» industry, and without it the airline industry might require more direct forms of public subsidy.

And does nt the public need to borrow even more to pay this new subsidy?

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

Build business, employ workers, improve skillsets so that people can become self - sufficient and more productive, grow the business, hire more people, teach them to save (not impulse buy $ 1000 rims or whatever the Jones» have)... not only will they actually be able to afford healthcare w / o public subsidy, but they will also be able to save money in order to send their kids to college to become doctors.

One solution would be to dedicate to public broadcasting just 10 percent of the federal take from those high - frequency auctions; from the one auction held so far, the sum would be $ 770 million — more than twice the annual federal subsidy.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Heastie pointed to the Republican support for a subsidy aimed at bolstering upstate nuclear power plants, which is expected to add roughly $ 2 to the average utility bill as a sign some GOP lawmakers are open to tacking on more fees or taxes to help pay for a broader public benefit, such as preserving jobs.

Has received $ 169,204 in supplemental funding from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to continue the operation of its highly successful Wage Subsidy Program aimed at helping public assistance recipients in the tri-county... Read more

While the Kingsbridge Armory battle centered on wages at one project, the wage bill seeks to expand the debate to developments across the city that receive public subsidies worth more than $ 100,000, whether in discounted land sales, tax credits or other incentives.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

Rail links are far more effective and cost efficient than an air link, which time and again has been proven to be a waste of public subsidy.»

City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma may cause an uproar in City Hall, when they propose a bill that guarantees a wage of at least $ 10 for workers of development projects that have received more than $ 100,000 in public subsidies.

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.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

Indeed, while announced plans to increase tuition and child care subsidies will compete with expected increases in Medicaid and public school aid in the operating budget, the state has more options for building projects.

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..

He supports more state funding for public housing, rent subsidies and affordable housing.

«Revitalizing the public sector will do much more for the economy and the business climate across the board than tax breaks and subsidies for special interests.»

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

He went on to criticise the current government for not respecting theatre and said that any theatre that gets large public subsidies, such as The National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, should bring their prices down to become more accessible to future generations.

The paper, by Harvard education professor David Deming and University of California - Berkeley economist Christopher Walters, seeks to determine what is the most effective use of public subsidies to help more students graduate college.

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).

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

Public subsidies of private school tuition fees paid for the education of Prime Minister Trudeau, who leads the most multicultural nation in the world, and are available to the citizens of France, Germany, Belgium, Australia, and many others that continue to attract immigrants through more welcoming integration policies than are available in the United States.

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.

Congestion pricing would probably drive more people, especially at the low end of the income scale, to take advantage of public transportation options, but that would also require additional subsidies since ticket sales would not pay for the service increases that would be required to accommodate the additional demand.

Highlighting these priorities, Indonesia's energy minister announced that by «shifting the subsidy from consumption into more productive spending... [in] 2015, the public works, the transportation sector and the agriculture [sector] will double the [ir] capital expenditure budget.»

«I was disappointed in my fellow public members who voted to table it because I don't think they would have voted if I made a resolution to add more subsidies,» Simmons said.

Is Kleiner - Perkins» business plan to have you press for legislation and regulation favorable to its clients in order to make them more attractive and available for sale to the public, at which time Kleiner - Perkins would cash out, leaving the public invested in not - ready - for - prime - time companies that have dubious financial prospects and that are dependent on taxpayer subsidies?

Through their raw economic clout, transnational corporations (TNCs) are using government officials, public relations firms and the major media to insist that «free market» economics is good for us - even as they hoard taxpayer subsidies and merge into ever - larger businesses to weaken market...» Read more

The study found support for city subsidies to help make existing buildings more environmentally friendly; a $ 2.50 surcharge on the average household monthly electricity bill to support public education on energy use; and support for the installation of solar panels on city - owned buildings, even if the electricity generated is significantly more expensive than what what the government now pays for electrical power.

The rationing system would have to be accompanied by a large, subsidized system to encourage improvements in home appliance efficiency and insulation, in public transportation, and in special subsidies during extreme weather conditions (to buy more «icecaps», not to exceed their ration).

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 fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

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.