Sentences with phrase «as federal government funds»

New Jersey's working class are forgotten as federal government funds fixes for wealthier neighbors

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Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Western Australia has been allocated $ 21 million for research as part of the federal government's $ 363 million national funding package.

Before the SBA funding came through to pump up small - business involvement, the cluster was serving as an innovation accelerator with the federal government.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.

Perth company director Sharon Warburton has been named as the incoming chair of a soon - to - be-established federal government fund that will have $ 5 billion to spend on infrastructure in northern Australia.

When lumped in with still - rising federal levies like the Universal Services Fund, they add 12 percent to the average American's cell bill and as much as 19 percent in many of our most populous states, says Scott Mackey, economist and partner with government affairs firm Kimbell Sherman Ellis.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

For one, federal spending cuts are also likely weighing on state and local government hiring — as about 25 % of their funding comes from Washington.

For example, the outlook for Government of Canada transfers is subject to changes in economic variables that affect federal funding as well as changes by the federal government to the funding arrangements tGovernment of Canada transfers is subject to changes in economic variables that affect federal funding as well as changes by the federal government to the funding arrangements tgovernment to the funding arrangements themselves.

These features include the availability of physical cash and a behavioral aversion by some money market investors to investing at negative rates, and also encompass certain unique features of money markets in the United States, such as legal and regulatory incentives applicable to money market mutual funds and the ability of the government - sponsored enterprises to leave unremunerated deposits at the Federal Reserve.23

The Jenkins Panel recommends that the federal government facilitate increased venture funding activity by having BDC invest both alongside Angel stage funds (called a «sidecar fund»), as well as partnering with later stage professionally managed venture funds which select and place funding into the best young Canadian tech companies.

For state and local governments, the statutory requirements for balanced budgets meant that fiscal policies turned restrictive relatively quickly once budget surpluses and rainy day funds were exhausted, and this was only temporarily mitigated by federal transfers to the states as part of the initial fiscal stimulus program.

The sole investment available is a new Treasury security that earns the same interest rate as the government bond fund available to federal employees.

The idea that real interest rates — that is, adjusted for inflation — will be lower than they have been historically is reflected in the pronouncements of policymakers such as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the medium - term forecasts of official agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office and the International Monetary Fund and the pricing of government bonds whose payments are tied to inflation.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

Opinion: Most provincial and federal climate plans use carbon pricing as a revenue tool to fund government programs that subsidize inefficient carbon reduction strategies

As negotiators stumbled toward an end - of - the - week deadline to fund the government or face a federal shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan dashed to the White House amid concerns Trump's support was wavering.

In her first time testifying before Congress as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen said that «government funding remains critical to the mortgage sector.»

As they return to the nation's capital Tuesday from the monthlong summer recess, members of Congress have only weeks to fund the federal government, raise the debt ceiling, and reauthorize a health insurance program that benefits thousands of Maryland children.

And when it wants an easier monetary policy and targets a lower federal funds rate, the Fed engages in the opposite course of action of buying government securities so as to introduce more money into the system.

That test employs the following five funds, all available to U.S. federal government employees via the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) as of January 2001:

Bush even draws attention to the unique difficulties that present itself to the federal government as a democratic body that represents a constituency with diverse moral worldviews and that therefore has a «duty to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds».

This indirect subsidy attenuates the ability of bureaucrats to attach regulatory strings to funds, as the federal government often does.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

Although the federal government is currently operating normally, as long as funding is being provided under a temporary continuing resolution (CR) there is the possibility that a government shutdown could take place.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

«I request that the federal government treat this as an emergency situation and provide funding for the short - term Penn construction and transportation alternatives and facilitation of a long - term resolution for Penn Station,» Cuomo wrote in a letter to Trump that the governor's office released in an email.

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The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made this known while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting said that all the airports in the country will be concessioned as the Federal government will not be able to fund infrastructure from the national budget.

As appropriators work to craft an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government, one of them is making a pitch for additional funding to combat heroin.

Overall, the report points to the third of New York's all - funds budgeting coming from the federal government as well as the billions sent to local governments, schools and for transportation spending.

«As Congressional Democrats negotiate a deal to fund the federal government, they must not compromise away our basic American values,» Cuomo said.

He stated then that the State presently has a design for the reconstruction of the road as well as the funds to embark on the project but was yet to get the go ahead from the Federal Government.

In 2010, Christie cancelled a tunnel project, known as Access to the Region's Core, but he's now on board with the idea as long as «appropriate and fair funding» is provided by the federal government and both states on either side of the Hudson.

The report also highlights the potential slowing of transportation aid from the federal government in the current 2014 - 15 fiscal year as Congress balks at increasing the 18.4 cent excise tax on gasoline, the primary source for replenishing the Federal Highway Trusfederal government in the current 2014 - 15 fiscal year as Congress balks at increasing the 18.4 cent excise tax on gasoline, the primary source for replenishing the Federal Highway TrusFederal Highway Trust Fund.

Debt held by government accounts or intragovernmental debt, such as non-marketable Treasury securities held in accounts administered by the federal government that are owed to program beneficiaries, such as the Social Security Trust Fund.

«We have lost a tremendous source of funding that used to go to municipalities with the state as a pass - through by not having sufficient money out of the federal government,» Hochul said.

This was even as Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, appealed to the Federal Government to fulfill it's commitment to the MKO Abiola International Airport, by making available it's counterpart funds to the project.

Due to the fact many services provided by the County of Erie, State of New York are fully or partially paid for by the federal government, on March 16, 2017 County Executive Mark Poloncarz ordered certain commissioners and heads of departments that rely on federal funding to review the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint and provide a report on the expected impact of it on Erie County services, including, but not limited to, the identification of any programs impacted by the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint (including the expected cut in funds received), possible reduction in direct county jobs as a result of any cut, impact on third parties that receive funds from Erie County that are received from the federal government, as well as any other known impact.

President Buhari also listed some of Federal Government intervention activities such as the construction of the Pankshin - Tapshin - Gambrar - Sara - Kai - Gindiri Road to Metropolitan Construction Company Ltd; Execution of TETFUND Projects; Bail - Out Funds; Paris Club Refunds and N - Power Scheme and assured that the request for dualization and construction of the road from Abuja to Jos will be put into consideration given its economic viability and status as gateway extending to the North East.

«I request that the federal government treat this as an emergency situation and provide funding for the short - term Penn construction and transportation alternatives and facilitation of a long - term resolution for Penn Station,» Cuomo wrote in the letter.

«It would be totally out of place to move the funds to the federal government asset recovery account as reported,» the statement read.

According to him, the State Government presently has a design for the reconstruction of the road as well as the funds to embark on the project but the Federal Government was yet to grant approval.

He disclosed that the Federal Government would be seeking a Mutual Legal Assistance from the foreign governments to stop those funding the group and deal with IPOB members as terrorists.

If the US government is not providing the same degree of federal funding to territories as states has any study been done comparing the degree of taxes payed in vs federal funds payed to the territories and if so generally is the US receiving more, about equal, or less in taxes as it's providing in services to these territories?

The body further recalled that the federal government funds the orientation camps even as Aderigbigbe was quoted as saying: «It should be noted that once the federal government gives us the figure to mobilize for a particular year, they back it up with funds to take care of that number.

The EFCC subsequently received a petition alleging that over N50bn from the Employee Compensation Scheme fund, paid by Ministries, Departments and Agencies and private companies as well as another N18bn, being the contribution of the Federal Government as take - off grant to the NSITF, was mismanaged and diverted into the personal accounts of Olojeme and Umar Abubakar, a former Managing Director of the NSITF.