Sentences with phrase «because of public funding»

Libraries exist because of public funds and forcing them to become a bookstore in order to carry specific titles is tantamount to extortion.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.

Even so, many entrepreneurs don't pursue the strategy because of difficulty locating funding sources, which can include states, municipalities and nonprofit groups that dole out public funds.

Since no one has been heard to suggest that the funds acted out of sheer public - spiritedness during the crisis, it seems safe to assume that they were buying on Monday because their managers had spotted bargains, and were selling on Thursday because of chances to cash in on profits.

In short, because they pool longevity risk, can offer a well - diversified portfolio with longer - term investments, and are professionally managed, public pension funds deliver the same level of benefits as DC plans at only 46 percent of the cost.15 Any funds invested with the state pension fund would be kept in a separate investment pool from public sector funds.

A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.

This is because contributing appreciated assets to a public charity (including to a donor - advised fund account) may eliminate capital gains tax on the sale of those assets and thereby increase your giving by as much as 20 %.

Because the standard VC fund charges an annual fee of 2 % on committed capital over the life of the fund — usually 10 years — plus a percentage of the profits when firms successfully exit, usually by being acquired or going public.

In California, the risk capital test considers whether there is attempt by an issuer to (1) raise funds for a business venture or enterprise (2) through an indiscriminate offering to the public at large, (3) where the investor is in a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately secured.

From a financial standpoint, the impact is also very limited because most, if not all, of the debt Greece owes is held by public and governmental entities: the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank (ECB).

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

According to CNN, the British government may withhold millions of pounds of public funds because of a «zero - tolerance approach» to Oxfam staff behavior.

Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.

In the 1990s the scientific study of sleep and dreams catapulted into public awareness because of a federal initiative that funded brain research.

Some pro-life leaders have advocated repeal of «Obamacare,» because it requires the public in various ways to fund abortion.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

The problem with public goods, then, is that the market will not provide them in sufficient quantities: those funding them will be unable to capture the full value of the benefit they are providing because so many of the beneficiaries will simply free - ride.

He said: «There's no other part of public state funded institutions where you could be selected or turned away because of your religion.

Because public research funds are often allocated on a strongly socially functional basis, it has only been recently when religious broadcasting had risen to the level of social and political controversy that funds have begun to be allocated for social research into the phenomenon.

«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

Public appeals for funds often make this worse — repeating the myths used by the baby food industry for decades: that women can't breastfeed because of stress or malnourishment.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

«I am voting for this resolution because of the more than half a billion dollars in new funding it asks our state to deliver to non-charter New York City publics schools,» Avella said at the time.

Our request meets the requirements of Proclamation 7750 because grand corruption in Nigeria including the alleged stealing of public funds meant to fight Boko Haram, has had serious adverse effects on U.S. foreign assistance goals in the country and undermined the stability of democratic institutions.»

Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

It is a sound revenue stream for funding future upgrades that improve straphangers» daily commutes, while expanding access to public transportation for hundreds of thousands of our low - income neighbors who face barriers to economic opportunity because they can not afford to ride a bus or train.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

Even with the ever - increasing threat of independent expenditures, almost all candidates participated in the public financing program, likely because the amplification of grassroots support through public matching funds is an effective way to defend against independent spending.

It furthered stated that the sum of N1.2 billion computed by the staff union for payment could not have been budgeted for in 2016 in the first place, not only because of the paucity of funds, but also the fact that the SOT allowance was not part of the remuneration in the Federal Public Service.

Update: Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto responds, saying the use of the funds doesn't violate state law because it's related to the holding of a public office.

However, Cuomo found nothing illegal on either side (Bruno's flights were OK because he did a few public chores while on fund raising missions) just a whole lot of unethical stuff.

Senate Democratic official added: «There are no plans to print this at the taxpayers expense because it won't allow us to use public funds for political purposes to retake the Senate, which is what most of what our public funds are used for.»

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scPublic Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scpublic, private and parochial schools.

«If it's too difficult to take big money out of politics because the public will never accept additional state funding even when the deficit is under proper control, of course we'll never get there,» Sir Christopher added.

«This report contains some important proposals which we will study in detail because we want to build consensus for a reformed system of party funding - one that ends the arms race that drives the big money in politics and one which restores public trust in politics.

«Today is not a public holiday, but I can tell you that many children, from primary to senior high schools, will be on holiday; this is because he funds many of these children's education, sometimes from his own pocket,» he said.

Previously, Mr Prescott had claimed he had no reason to enter it onto the register of interests because it was «entirely on official business and the cost was entirely covered by public funds».

But, he said, because it involved the expenditure of public funds, strict safeguards had to be followed.

State Senator James Seward visited Cortland Friday morning to see how the city uses special state funding that he obtained to offset extra public safety costs because of the state college being here.

I propose $ 40 million to fund the permanent deployment of more New York State Troopers and National Guard at key target areas across the state because public safety must be our priority.

I am voting Green because Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will fully fund our public schools, will stop the over-testing of our students, and will not open more privately managed charter schools.

When alarms were raised over monetary inducements and reckless political spending during the campaigns, none of the major contenders for public offices questioned the sources of funding of the electioneering because doing so at that period might jeopardise their political aspirations.

In 2000, George W. Bush opted out of public financing in his nomination campaign because money was flowing so freely into his campaign war chest and he was worried about rival Steve Forbes's ability to fund his own campaign out of his private fortune.

Imagine living off the public dole for 6-12-18 years and not having your retirement fund go south because of mismanagement or financial greed????

Everyone, BHO's contention that raising 40 % of his funds from small donors is «like» public financing does not make a good sound bite because it is so hollow.