Sentences with phrase «by billions of dollars»

Those schools are now subject to strong improvement efforts, backed by billions of dollars in federal support.

That paved the way for a bizarre 2011 trial court decision holding that the state was underfunding education by billions of dollars each year.

Your predecessor, Jeff Smisek, was very open about his claims that these airlines have been fueled by billions of dollars of subsidies.

Billy Easton, with Alliance for Quality Education, explains report showing schools are underfunded by billions of dollars.

During the lazy, hazy days of last summer, the Cuomo Administration approved a plan to hike New Yorkers» electric utility bills by billions of dollars.

They, their institutions, and a host of politicians, bureaucrats, bankers and corporate executives thus had a direct stake in the science, politics and «renewable energy future» supported by billions of dollars in annual research grants — and in ensuring that no investigation upset this convenient golden apple cart.

Fueled by billions of dollars in government and foundation funding and adopted as a cause célèbre by no less than Bill Gates and Colin and Alma Powell, dropout prevention has been gaining momentum.

In the years prior to 2008, Hollywood saw production explode, fed by billions of dollars flowing in from flush Wall Street funds.

Unsurprisingly, avarice prevailed as some traders speculated in stocks paid for by billions of dollars worth of unsecured checks, causing Kuwait's stock market to inflate like a balloon and pop in a most analogous manner.

As a country, we can choose to increase spending by billions of dollars for very modest results — or, for a small fraction of the cost, we can achieve much more by simply letting great educators open up schools.

The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.

Under the Senate tax bill, middle - class families would pay thousands more, millions would lose coverage, and Medicare would be cut by billions of dollars.

Now, according to this report on the Wall Street Journal, there are so many new alternative lenders, supported by the billions of dollars from venture capitalists, that they're tripping over each other for customers.

Technology mid-caps CGI Group of Montreal and Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates of Richmond, B.C., made strategic international acquisitions earlier this year that will jack up their revenues by billions of dollars.

Last year, health insurer Anthem said it would set up its own pharmacy - benefits management unit, after earlier accusing Express Scripts of overcharging by billions of dollars.

When the 2014 Farm Bill cut SNAP benefits by billions of dollars, 53,000 New York residents could have lost their food - stamp benefits.

«Their own internal polls got them nervous,» said Weinstein, whose «Yes» campaign's message refers to «greedy drug companies» that are «overcharging California's taxpayers and consumers by billions of dollars each year for life - saving medicines, putting profits over people.»

But six years into the current expansion, a growing chorus of critics argues that the ability of HP and companies like it to respond to those shifts is being hindered by billions of dollars in buybacks.

In recent years, highly regulated institutions such as Bank of America — burned by billions of dollars in fines — have shied away from the mortgage business.

Lower dairy prices represented a mixed blessing, reducing ingredient costs for consumer products but also weighing heavily on the company's farmer - shareholders whose collective incomes have been slashed by billions of dollars in the last two years.

Like humans, pets have medical needs, a fact easily demonstrated by the billions of dollars that Americans spend on veterinary care each year.

According to a report from The New York Times, the companies may have exaggerated patient diagnoses to inflate Medicare payments by billions of dollars.

Of Republican Gov. George Pataki, Levy said in debate: «The governor is raising taxes by billions of dollars, taxing everything that moves, taxing everything and everyone — except those who can most afford to pay.»

Sources told the Daily News that the hardest - hit items will be education and health care, which will be reduced by billions of dollars.

After presenting a budget that cuts Medicaid, food stamps and other safety net programs by billions of dollars, the White House went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to defend its proposal.

Pataki says the President has deeply divided the county and driven up the national debt by billions of dollars.

Congressman Ryan brags about «cutting entitlements by billions of dollars.»

The formula was set up to address a decade - old court order known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that said the state was underfunding schools by billions of dollars.

Anyone who is even thinking about supporting the New York City Democrats would be well served to remember what they did the last time time they controlled our entire state government ---- enacting 124 different tax and fee increases totaling $ 14 billion, overshooting the budget by billions of dollars and pitting one region of the state against another.

Quite the opposite actually...... «If indeed it is better to give than receive, New York City and its suburbs can count their blessings by the billions of dollars.

Says Chris Christie «has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars,» and got legislative approval to begin «properly funding pensions» in 2018.

Climate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of Michigan researcher.

Most people have been deceived and mislead by billions of dollars of advertising that soy protein, soy milk, soybean oil, and processed soy foods are «healthy»... when the truth is that soy has many anti-nutrients and negative factors on the body that we should be concerned about.

«Yet Republicans insist on giving tax breaks to the superwealthy while shortchanging programs like Head Start, No Child Left Behind, student loans and grants, and other education initiatives by billions of dollars.»

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

Weaknesses in this approach may cause costs to be over - or understated by billions of dollars.

A long - term study of corn production in the Midwest has found that the widespread use of varieties engineered with a bacterial gene that kills insect pests has had big benefits in adjacent fields of conventional corn — cutting infestations there and boosting farmers» income by billions of dollars.

After all, even a small RES would send a signal to clean energy investors that the market will remain hospitable — statements from investment firms indicate that they'd up their funding of renewable projects by billions of dollars a year.

So far, though, most objections to the giant solar projects planned for the Southwest have been washed away by a tsunami of money from Wall Street, lured to invest by billions of dollars in federal grants, tax credits and loan guarantees and a fast - track regulatory approval process.

[17] Judge Leon held the Federal Reserve Board «clearly disregarded Congress» statutory intent by inappropriately inflating all debit - card transaction fees by billions of dollars.»

«Any way you cut it» he told TechNewsWorld, «the costs associated with this case will be dwarfed by the billions of dollars Facebook has already invested in Rift and will pour into the system over the next five years to make it conform to Facebook's vision.»

For our purposes in seniors housing, I think we'll be able to differentiate ourselves pretty substantially from the competition because we'll have not only the national platform, accompanied by billions of dollars of sales behind us, but we'll also have a better - focused level of specialization at the regional and local level.

These measures will also cut consumers» annual electricity bills by billions of dollars.

The state promised the Supreme Court that they would implement ESHB 2261's reforms «over a ten - year period, beginning in 2009 and concluding in 2018,» which would «increase state funding of basic education by billions of dollars.»

Letting great educators open up schools is much more cost effective than increasing spending by billions of dollars, which will yield very modest results.

Plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, competition from cheap renewables, and a stagnant demand for electricity, South Carolina's utilities halted the project after relentless pressure from Friends of the Earth.

Then you argue that MS now has a a «3 - Year warranty» backed by billions of dollars, and that its defective issues don't matter.

But now, teacher pension plans are underfunded by billions of dollars, and states have been forced to cut benefits for future retirees.

«Communities across the state will see their electric bills go up by billions of dollars to keep a dying, and unsafe, industry operating.