Sentences with phrase «boost federal spending»

The spending package would boost federal spending on Title I programs for low - income students and for special education, distributing the money according to current formulas.

The measure could boost federal spending for science research, but tough decisions about how to divvy it up are still to come.

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

Not exact matches

Starbucks plans to spend $ 250 million on new employee benefits, including a pay boost for domestic workers, in the wake of the federal tax overhaul.

The new federal government pledges to boost infrastructure investments, but will it be enough to offset continued weakness in private capital spending?

The tax cut and excess federal spending may boost some areas of the economy, but thus far, it has not produced anything more than a modest boost in capital spending (most of it from capital intensive technology companies) but a surge in stock buybacks and dividend increases, Apple being a case in point.

Long maturity (30 year) U.S. Treasuries sank on bets that President Trump will boost spending, while shorter - dated Treasury Notes rallied amid reduced bets on a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in December.

In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kids.

It has come to my attention that some economists claim that our sovereign federal government is more or less powerless to kickstart the economy because of our great dependence on the United States and therefore should do next to nothing: «Mr. Orr and other economists urged Ottawa to ignore pleas to boost stimulus spending further -LSB-...]

That will boost tax revenues and federal and state government spending, and further accelerate growth.

The federal government has tested the public's appetite for a Netflix tax, a new smartphone app for streaming Canadian content and spending on «moonshot» projects like placing a network of balloons on the edge of space to boost Internet access.

The 2018 bill boosts federal health spending by about $ 10 billion, including increases for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and specifically dedicated opioid crisis funding...

The new law also includes a boost in federal education spending, which translates into an additional $ 240 million for Illinois.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

Instead, they used the federal aid to boost spending, knowing full well that the money runs out in two years.

Bloomberg said the city is losing $ 1.86 billion in state and federal funding for education, which forced him to boost education spending from $ 5.9 billion when he first took office to $ 13.6 billion in the upcoming fiscal year to start July 1.

Similarly, the Tea Party Leadership Fund, an outside group that supports tea - party - aligned candidates, spent more than $ 350,000 in the contest to attack Boehner and boost Winteregg, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says a bipartisan agreement he reached today on a two - year federal budget will provide a significant spending boost to Fort Drum, VA hospitals and community health centers in Upstate New York.

Schumer, D - N.Y., the Senate Democratic leader, said the agreement reached after months of negotiations would lift statutory spending limits set by Congress and add about $ 400 billion in federal spending, providing billions to boost the military over the next two years.

The nation spent 2.5 percent of GDP on R&D, a figure comfortably above the EU average of 1.9 percent, and the federal government pledged to boost R&D spending to 3 percent of GDP by 2010.

Although the idea of boosting STEM education enjoys bipartisan support in Congress, Republicans have sharply criticized the tens of billions more in overall federal spending on education during the Obama Administration.

Overall, two - thirds of next year's proposed $ 6 billion increase in overall federal research spending — a 4 % boost to $ 152 billion — would come from mandatory sources.

Congress is on track to increase federal spending for research and development programs by at least $ 3.1 billion in fiscal 2017 over the previous year, a noteworthy boost at a time when overall federal discretionary spending is slated to remain flat, according to AAAS» latest analysis of federal spending programs.

The boost was due to an earlier budget agreement that lifted spending caps across the federal budget, allowing appropriators some wiggle room.

In the end, thanks to the recent budget deal that lifted federal discretionary spending caps, NOAA was granted an overall funding boost, which trickled down to core research as well as key satellite development funding.

Districts, of course, can also seek operating levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.

If so, the state could potentially be granted more flexibility in spending $ 350 million in federal dollars intended to help boost student achievement.

It also expects the federal government's new Canada child benefit and a boost to infrastructure spending to lend a hand to the economy.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada says the federal government's multibillion - dollar spending boost has uplifted what would have been a modest downgrade to its economic growth forecast this year.