Sentences with phrase «dollar state»

That argument may sound reasonable, but it's just as plausible that teachers don't know about or fully appreciate the thousands of dollars states and districts spend on their pensions each year.

«This year they had to vote on it along with every other part of the $ 130 billion dollar state budget,» he said.

Although the preceding example uses a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, even a less generous state tax credit would create the distortion I describe.

They simply can't get wait to get their hands on the $ 800 billion dollars states spend annually on public schools.

A new $ 100 million dollar state fund will be used to help distressed and failing schools.

Today, those two areas absorb roughly two in every three tax dollars the state collects.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion dollar state bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin.

LPCiminelli, whose owners have made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Cuomo and been awarded multi-million dollar state contracts, is mentioned in the investigation into the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo's economic development plan to revitalize the city.

Defended a multi-million dollar State cost recovery claim in Alaska involving the remediation of a former cold war White Alice Communications System (WACs) facility owned by the United States Air Force;

Based on the amounts of federal dollars each state received for elementary and secondary education programs, more than $ 1 billion could leave the public education systems in states such as Florida and New York.

Michigan's economy won't be competitive until its schools improve their graduation rates and the performance of students, and get more results from the considerable education dollars the state spends.

In a gaggle with reporters at the Capitol, Astorino said he agreed with the Senate GOP's one - house budget resolution when it came to distributing billions of dollars the state gained through windfall financial settlements.

DiNapoli says he'll use his influence as trustee of New York's $ 192 billion dollar state pension fund to «seek out sustainable investments and changes in corporate behavior» to help the Paris Agreement «become a reality».

The Democrat pledges to cap himself at $ 100,000 in fundraising at a time in politics that features multimillion - dollar state legislative campaigns.

Cuomo announced a deal last August to give those plants a $ 7.6 billion dollar state aid package.

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

Percoco, a Cuomo family retainer for decades, and seven others are under indictment — including Alain Kaloyeros, the now - disgraced former head of the multimillion - dollar State University Polytechnic Institute.

Miner agrees, saying the billions of dollars the state won in financial settlements should not have gone to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs.

The Hotel Syracuse is receiving a multi-million dollar state grant through New York's competitive economic development funding program.

Last week, the governor was in Buffalo for the third time in 15 months to unveil a multimillion - dollar state investment as part of his «Buffalo Billion» pledge.

Since the 1997 enactment of the multibillion - dollar state School Tax Reduction program, New York has seen a pattern of relatively high school - budget approval rates — even in tough times.

Syracuse, N.Y. — The heads of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and an Albany construction company are facing charges that they rigged a bidding process for three multimillion - dollar state construction projects.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

Under the leadership of a strict administrator, one district is on a slow but steady pace to recovery, posting incremental gains in student achievement, repairing crumbling school campuses, and repaying a multimillion - dollar state loan.

Defended a multi-million dollar State law cost recovery action in Southern California involving solvent contamination arising from manufacturing of printed circuit boards; and

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources oversees everything from the eleven - billion - dollar state commercial fishing industry to small canoes and bass boats that families might enjoy for weekend recreation.

Any movement on modernizing local transportation is welcome, even small steps like the million dollars the state recently approved to design a Tampa Bay regional transit plan.But the region won't make any progress on transportation, its single most p...

Cuomo says he had to cope with a $ 10 billion dollar state budget deficit, and an ongoing weak economy.

«While some of his colleagues use member items to enrich themselves, and others rig hundred million dollar state contracts for favored friends, State Senator Eric Schneiderman uses the tax code to «capitalize» his public office to enrich himself and hide his income from his own tax increases,» she said in a statement.

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But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

The ten regional economic development councils were back at it this week in their efforts to bring home as big a slice of three - quarters of a billion dollar state funding pie as possible.

Senate Republicans are considering ways to strip Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's power to control hundreds of millions of dollars the state is getting from a national housing settlement with JPMorgan Chase, a source said.

Among other signs of its resurgence, Crescent City has undergone a building boom — with luxury hotels and a billion - dollar state - of - the - art health center, and more sporadic rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward.

The Biss phenomenon illustrates another way the Internet is shaking up politics and changing the way races are run this year: online fund raising is now filtering down to low - dollar state and local races, where a little bit of extra money goes further than it would in a national race.

The impact of the more than a billion dollars the state has invested for economic development in central New York should be kicking in soon, according to state officials.

Karen Scharff, with the government reform group Citizen Action, says that's not a lot of money in a $ 130 billion dollar state budget.

«It's multi billions of dollars the state is going to spend to give to one company to keep Vietnam War - era power plants open for 12 years, and then close them down,» Horner said.

He has long criticized the Cuomo administration for various aspects of the project, and recently penned an OpEd saying the billions of dollars the state has reaped from financial services settlements with BNP Paribas and others should be used to pay for the new bridge and other infrastructure projects.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have finalized the details on a $ 138 billion dollar state budget and say they are on track to meet the April 1 deadline.

«It's multi billions of dollars the state is going to spend to give to one company to keep Vietnam war era power plants open for twelve years,» Horner said.

On July 8, 2006, the $ 30 billion dollar state budget, with the sales tax agreement, passed both houses and Governor Corzine signed the budget into law ending the budget impasse.

For each dollar the state invests, at least five private dollars are typically required as a match.

The latest hearing on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 152 billion dollar state budget proposal in Albany has been postponed due to a winter storm.

Four cents of every dollar the state receives would be used to pay off debts.

Howe's admitted crimes involve pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers to rig bids on multimillion - dollar state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

«It's multi billions of dollars the state is going to spend to give to one company to keep Vietnam War - era power plants open for 12 years,» Horner said.

The federal complaint targets former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, lobbyist Todd Howe and Kaloyeros, as well as executives from Syracuse - based COR Development, Maryland - based Competitive Power Ventures and Buffalo developer LPCiminelli, who are all accused of paying bribes for official favors that included advantages in multimillion dollar state contracts.

McMahon says that while all of the closures announced so far will save around $ 90 million dollars, something he calls a «rounding error» in the $ 135 billion dollar state budget, he says it does represent a bigger portion of what is called the state operations budget.

Governor Cuomo is calling legislative leaders into his office for twice a day private meetings to hash out details of the $ 145 billion dollar state budget.