Sentences with phrase «states helped millions»

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States helped millions of people who had less rights than others and those who where discriminated against because of who they are or what they looked like.

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The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said Sunday he would donate $ 4.5 million to help cover some of the United States» financial commitments to the Paris Climate Accord.

Alongside partner nference (an AI platform company whose stated goal is «automated extraction of knowledge from the commercial, scientific and regulatory body of literature»), the organizations are launching a new firm called Qrativ with the help of $ 8.3 million in Series A financing.

The Trump campaign said measures like tariffs would level the playing field and help bring «millions of manufacturing jobs back to the United States.»

A total of 47 state sporting associations will share $ 7.2 million in funding over the next three years to help develop sport and recreation from grassroots to elite levels.

West Kimberley pastoralists have been promised $ 15.5 million in state funding to help the region become a major beef supplier to China and south - east Asia.

The state government has announced a $ 40 million package to reduce charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by up to $ 2.50 per tonne, in an effort to help junior miners continue to export iron ore.

In the United States election last year, we helped more than 2 million people register to vote and then go vote.

Zarin Mehta, Green Music Center, and Sanford Weill, former Citigroup chairman & CEO, discuss how Weill's $ 12 million donation to Sonoma State University will help the school finish its music center and develop one of the best music programs in the country and attract some of the best students in the world.

This crisis will not only impact retirees, but the next generation of workers, who will be left with the tab when federal, state, and local governments are forced to expand to help millions of additional elderly Americans who will be living in poverty.1

The Baltimore County Council is weighing whether to support a potential $ 2 million loan from the state to help build it.

A 0.68 % APY helps $ 1 million in a savings account to last 19.86 years in the state.

The lower costs help $ 1 million in savings stretch for nearly 19 years in the state.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

The state has provided Flint with over $ 250 million to help with water quality improvements.

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.

The British government diverted 1.85 million pounds ($ 3 million) of foreign aid money to help pay for the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI last year, lawmakers charged Thursday.

A government spokesman said the state is helping millions of households meet their living costs but added it wants «to go even further to help ordinary families».

The office's tasks — to advise State Department leaders on religion - related policy matters and to help diplomats navigate religious dynamics overseas — and its million - dollar budget should be moved under the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF), according to a proposal laid out this fall.

Then yesterday I read an article in a leading Christians news magazine about a plastic surgeon who gave up an income of $ 7 - 9 million here in the States to go help Ethiopians who have facial birth defects.

Officials in Los Angeles have declared a «state of emergency» because of the area's growing homeless community, and will spend nearly $ 100 million to help them.

Every year the company donates more than 1 million bars to the Oregon Food Bank Network, which helps an average of 900,000 people across the state each year.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

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Two large - scale batteries connected to the Victorian energy grid will be installed in regional Victoria to help boost the state's electricity supply in a project worth $ 50 million.

The report states that Hazard is valued at # 80 million by the Pensioners, but that the Citizens will be willing to break the bank and bring in a superstar in order to help tempt Pep Guardiola to the Etihad Stadium next summer.

The Bulls unsurprisingly rejected the Golden State Warriors» advances — with $ 62 million committed this year and $ 55 million in 2013 - 14, the Warriors don't offer much payroll help for Chicago.

At a news conference in Atlanta he announced that he was donating $ 2.5 million to Michigan State, where he played from 1987 to» 91, to help build a $ 6 million learning center that will be named in Clara Bell's honor.

These two cities are also full of graduates from Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State, and other Big Ten schools, which helps the whole conference make millions off the Big Ten Network.

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) announced recently that more than one million coaches and other individuals has taken the online course it developed with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Financed by a three - year, $ 40 million federal allocation, Team Nutrition is designed to help schools change to healthier meals, improve nutrition education for children and their families, and provide state - of - the - art training and technical assistance for food - service personnel.

To date, the School Nutrition Foundation has awarded SNA members over $ 2 million in scholarships, which have helped provide opportunities for SN professionals to pursue higher education, career training, and attend professional conferences across the United States.

But with the help of government leaders ranging from Illinois Senate President James «Pate» Philip (R - Wood Dale) to the DuPage County Forest Preserve District to the village's Park District, Redmond's vision of a state - of - the - art recreational facility slowly evolved into a $ 5 million reality.

Turf would require approval from the state, which helped fund the $ 2.2 million project with a $ 400,000 Illinois Outdoor Recreation grant, Bissias said.

Proposing more than $ 2 billion in new funds to encourage states to develop paid family and medical leave programs and announcing that the Department of Labor will use $ 1 million in existing funds to help States and municipalities conduct feasibility studiestates to develop paid family and medical leave programs and announcing that the Department of Labor will use $ 1 million in existing funds to help States and municipalities conduct feasibility studieStates and municipalities conduct feasibility studies; and

Westmont Park District officials are seeking a state grant that would help fund the construction of a new $ 3.3 million recreation arts center in Ty Warner Park.

The district has also applied for a $ 500,000 state land acquisition grant that would help defray the $ 1 million purchase.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

The recently enacted state budget creates a new affordable housing pilot program designed to help those who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing, and initially funds it with $ 15 million.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

A reworked deal at the state Capitol yesterday will mean $ 55 million in aid to help victims of Lake Ontario flooding, instead of $ 90 million approved by the Legislature earlier this month.

New York City may be hit with $ 200 million in added costs — and no state funds to help cover them — because of a recent criminal justice reform and a key provision in Cuomo's proposed budget.

As legions of Zucker - punched Facebook users threaten to log out permanently, states attorneys from around the country — including New York — demanded that the social media giant explain the unauthorized use of personal data from millions of accounts to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

New York state lawmakers have included $ 40 million dollars in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Fully implemented, this will produce $ 600 million in permanent, annual tax reductions that will benefit small business and farm owners, and help retain wealth in communities across New York state.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York state shut down its out - of - control Empire Zone business incentive program in 2010 after providing millions of dollars to companies that state officials never intended to help.

They also allegedly used influence to try to generate commissions for Adam Skelos by helping AbTech with steps that included pressuring Nassau County to approve a $ 12 million contract and pushing for state approval of fracking.

«The bottom line is that Republicans are spending millions less than Democrats did when they controlled the Senate, have 370 fewer people on the payroll, and have helped put the state back on sound fiscal footing,» Cummings said.

Auburn Mayor Michael Quill is pleased that the state will pony up about $ 2 million to help pay for filtration systems meant eliminate toxins produced by the blue - green algae blooms that plague Owasco Lake.