Sentences with phrase «pushes local money»

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The «Mad Money» host reminded viewers that Amazon started collecting state and local sales taxes years ago, and that if the Post Office pushed back on their deal, Amazon could simply take its business to FedEx or UPS.

Oddo also sent letters to government agencies to push them to maintain and cleanup their properties, called on local businesses to donate money to help expand the mobile response team, and Oddo said his staff has been working with the MTA to start an Adopt - a-Train station program.

Being open about how taxpayers» money is spent will push central and local government into rooting out waste and duplication.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

«It is deeply concerning that the Government is spending millions of pounds of taxpayers» money to push the Conservative political agenda ahead of the local elections.

A plan by Cuomo to save the state money on high - cost specialty drugs has local pharmacies pushing back, saying they could be forced to discontinue carrying those medicines.

What this could mean: Lawmakers in an election year will almost certainly be spurred to push for more money in the state budget that would flow to schools and their local municipalities.

Bloomberg spent $ 7 million of his own money pushing nonpartisan elections in a 2003 referendum that failed 70 % to 30 %, but never wavered in his belief that removing party labels in local elections would lead to better competition and decrease the power of political bosses.

Republican Congressman Richard Hanna is joining fellow New York Congressman Louise Slaughter in a push to restore federal funding for local public transit systems.The money would be cut in the new federal Highway bill.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for more federal money to help fix local bridges.

Cuomo in his remarks praised the latest push to share services as a means of reducing taxes on the local level through having county and municipal governments develop shared services agreement that in the process save money.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

Meanwhile, in the House, a key member last week told local officials that he would push for more money for teacher training in the city.

A group of community - based organizations including E4E - Los Angeles is pushing state and district leaders to ensure money from the governor's Local Control...

The «money follows the child» funding proposal — pushed by a private group that operates several Connecticut charter schools — has ominous consequences for local school budgets.

Enactment of such a proposal — which has been pushed by a private company that runs several of Connecticut's state charter schools — would drain money from local school budgets.

The push comes amid a heated debate over the voucher program, which the state teachers union and local officials contend pulls money away from traditional public schools.

ConnCAN has relentlessly pushed a funding scheme called «money follows the child,» which funnels public state and local dollars from public schools to privately run charter schools, which educate only 8 percent of the state's public school students.

If I want to transfer money between my online savings account and the local bank, it's as easy as pushing a few buttons to start the process.