Sentences with phrase «by federal dollars»

The evidence based component of the chosen interventions to be funded by federal dollars leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

The evidence based component of the chosen interventions to be funded by federal dollars leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

Because features of an RTI model need to be responsive to each school community, there is no hard and fast way to indicate which parts of RTI can be funded by federal dollars.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

The public needs to understand that during the Patterson years the GEA was almost fully offset by Federal dollars.

The process is also coming under scrutiny from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the revolving fund is funded in part by federal dollars.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

Since 2015, infrastructure projects paid for by federal dollars have had to plan ahead for floods and water damage.

Not exact matches

The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

But, as well as Spain, the euro - dollar currency cross was also impacted by rumours of a potential hawkish name as next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The euro - dollar currency cross was also impacted by rumours of a potential hawkish name as next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve

In currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.

Incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, chosen by U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the recovery humming, appears set to let an expected trillion - dollar tax cut run its course through the economy as weak wage growth and inflation buttress his view that the economy remains underpowered.

The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

By the Federal Bureau of Investigation's estimate, scammers have turned this reliable racket into a multimillion - dollar business with thousands of compromises in the United States.

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index, told BI: «The key for the moment seems to be more about gold's role as a counterweight to the dollar and, more precisely, as the inverse of the Federal Reserve's willingness to create more ideal dollar conditions by tightening policy.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

His Buffalo Billion (as in dollars invested) project — although the subject of federal and state bid - rigging probes — is highlighted by a 1.2 - million - square - foot «gigafactory» that will be run by Elon Musk's SolarCity and fabricate up to 10,000 solar panels per day.

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

The opinion, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, strikes down a legislative provision, first enacted in 1986 and renewed numerous times since, which sets a goal that 5 percent of federal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged comFederal Circuit, strikes down a legislative provision, first enacted in 1986 and renewed numerous times since, which sets a goal that 5 percent of federal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged comfederal defense contracting dollars each fiscal year must be awarded to certain entities, including small disadvantaged companies.

Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the case in 2011.

Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.

In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange value declined 5.8 percent, as measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.

Under the Senate's «budget reconciliation» rules, the tax legislation can increase the federal deficit by $ 1.5 trillion over the next 10 years — and not a dollar more.

Such a move by the Trudeau government to draw more revenue into federal coffers would take Canada in the opposite direction as the United States, Mr. Rosenberg said, noting that «the implications for the Canadian dollar is decisively negative, not to mention the deflating effect on asset values.»

Finally, a team of six central banks, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve, took action, reducing the cost for banks — especially cash - strapped European ones — to borrow U.S. dollars.

In April however the single currency has fallen rapidly to a four - month low against the dollar, with the greenback buoyed by the U.S. Treasury yields topping three percent and expectations the Federal Reserve will further raise interest rates.

In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange value rose by 2.9 percent, as measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on November 3rd, 2010 under SmallerWorldTags: Federal Reserve Board, quantitative easing, US dollar • 20 Comments

The Federal Reserve's announcement on Thursday said that the central bank has launched a third round of quantitative easing, pledging to expand its balance sheet by nearly a half a trillion dollars a year beyond existing commitments.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

The federal government pays ALL its bills by creating new dollars, ad hoc.

In the Hertz deal, the Federal Trade Commission has played a major role in preserving competition in airport car rental markets by requiring Hertz to sell its Advantage Rent a Car business and the rights to operate about 30 Dollar Thrifty locations in airports throughout the United States.

For example, the dollar as measured by the Federal Reserve's broad trade - weighted index fell in the second half of the 1980s and soared in the 1990s, but both decades saw robust growth.

In response, the Fed reduced the federal funds rate to essentially zero by mid-December, instituted swap lines to provide dollar liquidity to foreign central banks, added new liquidity facilities to target specific sectors of the shadow banking system and began to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases.

Receiving wages from an employer in a virtual currency is like being paid in dollars: It is taxable to the employee, must be reported by the employer on a Form W - 2 and is subject to federal income tax withholding, according to Wolters Kluwer.

The U.S. dollar nosedived after a recent speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave no indication about the direction of monetary policy.

A South Florida congresswoman is continuing her push to provide federal dollars to businesses adversely affected by President Donald Trump's travels to Mar - a-Lago.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity widollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity wiDollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disFederal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disfederal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

The impact of a stronger dollar is likely to remain a hurdle for earnings, but U.S. equities are also contending with high relative valuations and a likely increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in the second half of this year.

This kind of money has been made by speculating on Brazilian, Indian and Chinese securities and those of other countries whose exchange rates have been forced up by credit - flight out of the dollar, which has fallen by 7 % against a basket of currencies since early September when the Federal Reserve floated the prospect of quantitative easing.

The decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to move away from its quantitative easing policy — in which the central bank creates billions of dollars to buy financial assets each month — comes amid signs the American economy is beginning to heat up, which would boost demand for Canadian imports.

In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange value appreciated 1.8 percent as measured by the Federal Reserve Board's major currencies index.

As recently as six months ago, many investors expected the dollar to continue its rally of the past few years based on stronger economic growth, via Trump's agenda items, and tighter monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.

In 2014 dollars, real per capita federal cash transfers rise from 21 dollars in 1870 to 138 dollars by 1945 and then reach 263 dollars by 1960.

The WTI contract is back at the crucial $ 50 level, with the help of the strong decline in the Dollar, the prospects of slower tightening by the Federal Reserve, the positive news regarding the OPEC production cut deal, and the slower growth of the US output.

In fact, by 2028 — just 10 years from now — the federal budget will spend more on interest payments (about one trillion dollars per year) than on defense (currently about $ 800 billion total).