Sentences with phrase «big corporate money»

People are finally raising up against the oppression of mayoral control of schools and the big corporate money that backs it.

«You can keep them in Albany until they take the corrupting influence of big corporate money seriously and close the LLC loophole that currently allows corporations to contribute unlimited sums of money into our political system.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Here is a list of the 20 biggest corporate money - makers

Here is a list of the 20 biggest corporate money - makers

Not exact matches

What are we to think when a CEO slashes his own salary by 93 %, and then uses the money — along with a big chunk of corporate profits — to ensure that every one of his employees makes a minimum of $ 70,000 per year?

It's doubtful that companies, especially big ones, give out money merely to add their corporate logo to a nonprofit's website.

But our democracy is still suffering from decades of darkness and secrecy, with Big Money pouring in from corporate bank accounts and lobbyists running amok.

From tax reform and double - digit stock market returns to big corporate mergers, last year was an eventful one for our money.

The once - sleepy corporate funder has thrown big money behind advocacy work, water and sanitation projects, and more.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

With the corporate tax rate falling from 35 percent to 21 percent — representing the biggest one - time drop in U.S. history — pass - through businesses catching a break, and overall tax reductions expected for most Americans through 2025, business owners considered the best move to make with their newfound money.

Although some big investors showed no sign of activity in 2016, notably the corporate venture arms of Saudi Telecom and Mobily, others, such as Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed and Qotuf AlRiyadah / Flat6Labs Jeddah, are spending time and money developing a startup ecosystem.

Corporate buyout specialists generally raise money from big investors and then buy undervalued or underappreciated companies.

The market strategist sees «no levers left to pull» for a market that has been supported by factors such as a decade of ultra-easy money policy and, most recently, a big juicy corporate tax cut.

When our finance professors stressed that having a job in an international bank was the way to earn big money and rising up the ranks, I applied to Standard Chartered and got accepted into its international graduate program, so incredibly happy to officially be a banker on my way up the corporate ladder.

it's time for this club to put it's money where it's mouth is... no more half measures, no more settling, no more making money hand - over-fist with little to show for it, no more excuses and no more hiding behind the idea that this is «small» club that can't compete with the «big boys»... the only real difference between them and us is what the manager demands and what the owner is willing to give... we play in the League with the richest tv contract in Europe, we have one of the largest home venues with some of the highest ticket prices on the continent, we have several major corporate sponsors, we have one of the largest fan bases in the World whom purchase a ridiculous amount of merchandise, we rake in coin on tour each and every preseason and we have banked countless millions from qualifying for and participating in various competitions at home and abroad

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Many of my fellow food advocates have pointed to the fact that the SNA takes a significant amount of money from corporate «patrons» like ConAgra and PepsiCo, and they therefore allege that SNA's entire effort is being directed by Big Food.

Let them defend McDonald's and the corporate subsidies to the big corporations with your money.

No surprise that Klein — the landlords» best friend in the Senate with a «D, WF» after his name — got tons of money from landlords including at least $ 5000 from the notorious slumlord Larry Gluck — see one of his many corporate names «WB Stellar IP Owner, LLC» Another big corporate donor to Klein and his IDC clan is the check cashing industry.

«While big money corporate executives continue to take advantage of tax loopholes so they can fatten their wallets, our communities are left to suffer the consequences: cuts to classrooms, programs, and services we rely on every day,» said Mark Emanatian, Capital District Organizer for Citizen Action of New York.

She told the audience she won't be accepting corporate money, as she accused the governor of being beholden to his «big money donors.»

Just like blogger Nate Silver across the Atlantic, Warren correctly predicted the electoral college in the 2008 and 2012 American elections, earning big money for his secretive corporate clients and funding his PhD in statistics and criminology at the University of Manchester.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

UK's decision to force overseas territories to abolish corporate secrecy is big step in effort to end money laundering

Even I have to be big enough to admit that after a year or two of wafer thin mattresses and no air conditioning I'd probably be begging to come back to London and earn money for selling my soul in the corporate world.

«We've seen what I call an influx of agricultural investment — that's more of a corporate investment moving into the county in a really big way and spending a lot of money to purchase property and farm it.

A 90 - minute, years - in - the - making comic wind - up machine that begins by mocking its own audience for paying good money to see what it can watch at home for free and proceeds from there through the most wickedly funny arsenal of assaults on big government, organized religion and corporate America this side of «Borat.»

Now he faces his biggest challenge — choosing between an arranged marriage with corporate exec Susan (Jennifer Garner) that will ensure his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with the one thing money can't buy, Naomi (Greta Gerwig), the only woman he has ever loved.

Corporate reformers have always had the money and the big megaphone but still they have not convinced communities, schools, and teachers that their vision of effective education should prevail.

Comment from Margaret Yaukey: Can someone address the effect of big money donations, such as the Gates Foundation, in terms of the increasingly corporate environment and free market ethic that drives the red - lining of low performing populations.

It is funny to see the big - money corporate types behind Governor Dan Malloy criticizing Jonathan Pelto as a «spoiler.»

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

We love high yield corporate bonds; they pay a lot more interest than treasuries and also because these are not the greatest borrowers — I'm not talking little companies; think CitiBank and other very big companies that don't have a pristine credit rating — they can not lend money out very long so the maturities of our high yield bond fund is closer in.

While the money being spent on dividends payments right now looks sustainable, there is one big area of corporate spending that definitely can not keep going like it is: share buybacks.

They won't make a ton of money doing this, but they shouldn't do it for big paydays, they should do it to gain real - world corporate experience.

The biggest difference between a family - run hotel and a corporate resort, says Susan Money, is that guests are able to interact more with each other and staff.

Just so I could make enough money to help me forget that I have to commute every morning to the corporate glass box in the big city.

Often these big galleries are perceived as corporate behemoths that only think about money, and while this might be true of some dealerships, at David Zwirner I've seen first - hand the care the gallery puts into managing artists, and the way it has consistently supported the development of their careers.

When we send money to big oil and king coal, that money gets filtered upward into a top - down corporate hegemony that keeps money out of local communities.

Nearly all of the potential Democratic Presidential nominees have spoken out against «big money» in politics, often decrying the «corporate influence» of large - money donors, specifically...

As if the battle wasn't uphill enough, we now have witnessed the first round of elections post-Citizens United, in which powerhouses like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised tens of millions of dollars from the corporate titans it serves and funneled the money into attack ads, sending a warning message to politicians who aren't bending over backwards for big business, if not delivering a crippling blow to their election campaigns.

Also, that money doesn't go to big corporate conglomerates intent on vacuuming money out of Ontario.

As we discussed in Fitness Alfresco and the Money Problem, many Original Green measures are inexpensive if not free, and will never have big corporate sponsors with lots of promotional mMoney Problem, many Original Green measures are inexpensive if not free, and will never have big corporate sponsors with lots of promotional moneymoney.

Heartland is a bunch of pimps: they use big, corporate money to cast doubt on anything that they perceive to get in the way of their growth model.

The role of corporate money Do big corporations have anything to do with the lessening of interest of average Americans on climate change issues?

Another theory on why they are caving so early comes from The Nation's Johann Hari, whose explosive piece «The Wrong Kind of Green» hypothesized that the influence of corporate money has damaged the credibility of many of the US's biggest green groups.