Sentences with phrase «dollar aid project»

The question that needs to be asked — and that needs to be asked every time someone writes a check to a charity or a government commits to a multimillion - dollar aid project — is, Will this actually work to alleviate poverty?

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To do so, the Federation has taken unprecedented action, helping to coordinate hundreds of donation drives in the U.S. mainland, distributing millions of pounds of food, water and essentials to those most affected by the storm, delivering emergency relief aid to the 78 hard - hit municipalities, and seeding 13 million dollars to support emergency relief and recovery projects throughout Puerto Rico.

To do so, the Hispanic Federation has taken unprecedented action, helping to coordinate hundreds of donation drives in the U.S. mainland, distributing millions of pounds of food, water and essentials to those most affected by the storm, delivering emergency relief aid to the 78 hard - hit municipalities, and seeding 15 million dollars to support emergency relief and recovery projects throughout Puerto Rico.

At the same time, Cuomo's budget office did not release the school aid runs — projected dollar amounts for districts so they can begin to budget for the next school year.

Projects range from economic development aid for troubled regions, to funding the $ 4 billion dollar new Tappan Zee Bridge on the New York State Thruway over the Hudson River.

Congressman Brian Higgins said: «This project was a collaboration of federal, state, local and private investment along with the aid of over $ 4 dollars in Federal Low - Income Housing Tax credits.

ALBANY — Lawmakers for months demanded Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo give them a bigger role in dispensing billions of dollars in economic - development aid and also insisted on more transparency in selecting projects for big tax breaks and grants.

A University of Illinois researcher examined the results of a multi-million dollar European Union aid project in West Africa and found that a country's national governance quality can affect the livelihoods of families who rely on resources from national parks and other protected areas.

(Sec. 1314) Amends MAP - 21 to require inflation adjustments to specified dollar amounts indicating the maximum federal assistance to certain federal - aid highway projects which must be categorically excluded from the requirements relating to environmental assessments or environmental impact statements.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

But as Congress considers billions of dollars in aid for projects to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from coal, and to build coal - fired plants that would capture their own carbon emissions, the study said that estimates of coal reserves were unreliable.