Sentences with phrase «dollar public subsidies»

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

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«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

Representatives of the state Public Service Commission were in court Monday defending their decision last August to award a multibillion dollar, 12 - year subsidy to a group of upstate nuclear power plants along Lake Ontario.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

We support measures to curb Independent Expenditures, but call on the governor to feel the same urgency to end the apparent pay to play and conflict of interest that has put billions of dollars in public subsidies in question.

The law calls for decreasing federal subsidies for heavily used «disproportionate share hospitals» like Woodhull and the city's other public medical facilities, leaving them in he lurch for millions of dollars.

«As if the billions of dollars of consumer money gifted in subsidies to the nuclear industry weren't enough, now we find out that another $ 700 million in public assets will be handed to Exelon in order to sweeten the deal for their purchase of FitzPatrick.»

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

Lynnea Smith and John Fogarty represented the group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energy Bill.

Let's get serious about our public schools, and stop throwing tax dollars at what doesn't work — private tuition subsidies.»

It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»

There has been much discussion of fossil fuel subsidies as both an inefficient use of public tax dollars and a barrier to the...