Sentences with phrase «dollars of federal money»

The waiver allows the state to have flexibility with millions of dollars of federal money.

Not exact matches

Raising rates while the Federal Reserve in the U.S. keeps printing money will send the Canadian dollar higher, increasing the price of exports and hurting the profitability of manufacturers.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will reach small firms, either directly in federal contracts or indirectly as this money makes its way through the economy.

The billionaire entrepreneur also questioned whether it was advisable for federal officials to deprive the bank of billions of dollars in a proposed settlement, which would effectively siphon money away from shareholders.

Money to Burn suggests that federal biofuel initiatives cost $ 3.00 — 3.50 for every dollar of social and environmental benefits returned, and that's assuming there are any benefits at all — the report claims that it is hard to know if biofuels have a positive environmental impact:

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.

Any way you cut it, the dollar — and the Federal Reserve's unique powers of «money creation» — will surely be in play to wallpaper this mess.

It authorized the creation of fiat money to the tune of nearly five million dollars a month, and it passed a 50 % increase in tax rates in the principal form of federal taxation, the tariff.

To refer specifically to the dollars that the Fed itself creates, including both bank reserves and Federal Reserve notes circulating outside of the banking system, they use the terms «high - powered money,» or «base money,» or «the monetary base.»

Federal Employees and Retirees — Don't Let Bad Information Cause you to Throw Away Thousands of Dollars of Thrift Savings Plan Money per Year!

HOW do people think the POOR got help BEFORE the government took over the job of redistribution??? NOW we PAY federal workers to redistribute money to the poor with a LOT of wasted dollars in between because of layers and layers of federal mess in between

«It is also the same stupid thinking that Planned Parenthood gets hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money, but claim that none of it is used to fund abortions.

Unfortunately, it's no longer open to the public, but there is still another great option to teach kids all about the power of a dollar — the Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Diana Reyna got her start as the protégé of former Kings County Dem chair Assemblyman Vito Lopez, whose Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Citizens Council is a legendary engine of political power and the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of local and federal money.

As New York sorts out how to spend millions of federal dollars for railroad upgrades, officials in Albany and Rensselaer are hoping some of that money can help restore a pedestrian and bike pathway over the Hudson River to reconnect the two cities.

Stringer said his office has identified $ 165 million worth of sanctuary city money alone that's in jeopardy, and up to $ 7 billion worth of federal dollars — all told — many of which go to supporting the safety net.

Cuomo seemed to be of two minds about Alain Kaloyeros, who is facing both state and federal charges alleging that he engaged in bid rigging on contracts worth millions of dollars of taxpayer money and has been suspended without pay from his post as president of SUNY Poly.

The idea is that Disproportionate Share Hospital dollars, a pool of federal money, would flow toward hospitals that treat more uninsured and Medicaid patients.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

He told YNN's Casey Bortnick he was surprised to hear the governor call for $ 25 billion worth of new spending, even though that's intended to be a mix of state, federal and private dollars, saying he's unsure New York is in a position to spend that kind of money.

Last year, when McCain's campaign was starved for cash, he applied to join the financing system to gain access to millions of dollars in federal matching money.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

The Trump plan rolled out Monday was not a surprise, following the lines laid out by the president practically since he took office over a year ago: $ 200 billion in federal money, with about half of it aimed at spurring state, local and private dollars through an «Incentives Program.»

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, May 3, 2016, arraigned one Ighofose Oyoma before Justice E. A. Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State on a 7 count charge bordering on Conspiracy, Forgery and Obtaining Money by False Pretence to the tune of Nine Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($ 9,200).

When asked about this use of funds from a state campaign committee, the FEC directed Crain's to its 1996 determination that candidates may not allocate nonfederal campaign dollars toward a federal campaign unless the money comes from their personal funds.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

Since Sandy, millions of dollars in federal money have flowed to Long Island and other storm - affected areas of the Northeast for debris removal.

«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.

Insurance and federal funds should help cover the hundreds of millions of dollars» worth of damage, but some researchers suffered losses that money alone can not repair.

The real action likely will be with countries such as China that are pumping money into projects with federal dollars, said Joe Ralko of IPAC - C02, a Canadian - based research organization.

How the NSF money was actually spent arguably belies Flake's suggestion of wasted federal dollars.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

It would remove one of the main barriers (the non-portability of federal dollars) that discourages states and districts from moving toward «weighted student funding» with their own money.

The Department of Education has released an audit of the Education Leaders Council that concludes the nonprofit group misused nearly a half - million dollars in federal grant money.

In the midst of statewide protests over low teacher pay and school spending, new federal data show that nine in 10 teachers spend their own money — often hundreds of dollars a year — on classroom supplies.

In the midst of statewide protests over low teacher pay and school spending, new federal data show that nine in 10 teachers spend their own money — often hundreds of dollars — on classroom supplies.

While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.

These schools are sharing $ 5 billion in federal tax dollars in a massive, three - year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.

Financially strapped school districts in New York state now have another major worry on the horizon: They may be forced to repay millions of dollars in Medicaid money to the federal government.

Instead of sending federal taxpayer money to private schools, Congress should invest these dollars in the public schools that serve all students regardless of gender, disability, economic status, or educational achievement.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

«We hear lots from teachers, parents, and kids about the burdensome testing regimen, and a lot of it is a result of [federal] Race to the Top money,» said Horn, who noted that those federal dollars are coming to an end soon.

All of the monies coming from corporations also come with red tape just like Title I and other federal funded dollars received.

With a relatively small price tag — less than 1 percent of all local, state, and federal education funding — RTT helped spur states to make most of these policy changes before one dollar of the federal program's money was spent.

Public schools are funded with state and local dollars, with a bit of federal money mixed in.

A federal study found that school teachers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money on school supplies — a fact Anne Arundel County hopes to mitigate with $ 500 gift cards to new teachers.

In the midst of statewide protests over low teacher pay and school spending, new federal data show that nine out of 10 teachers spend their own money — often hundreds of dollars — on classroom supplies.

Depersonalized might be a better word — or perhaps personalised, for Pearsons, the multibillion - dollar transnational corporation that's siphoned off untold billions of federal money.