Sentences with phrase «dollars of federal subsidies»

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It also is a totem of crony capitalism, benefiting from billions of dollars in federal and provincial subsidies over the years.

There is strong resistance in the government to subsidy increases, which is understandable to an extent — no member of Congress wishes to advocate an increase of billions of dollars in federal spending.

Especially in districts with large numbers of needy students, federal subsidy dollars can more than pay for breakfast, meaning extra cash to help support the entire meal program.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

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.

The system has struggled with financial difficulties due to declining federal dollars and the cost of caring of the uninsured, who are often undocumented immigrants ineligible for government subsidies.

A first - term senator who in 2006 had defeated incumbent Republican Jim Talent — now a top Romney adviser — McCaskill was attacked as a creature of Washington whose husband had reportedly received million of dollars in federal housing subsidies.

From, 2010 to 2020 roughly, the federal government would have to supply about 420 billion dollars in subsidies to get these massive scale [s] of production for, you know, all the mix of photovoltaic systems, solar power systems, the compressed air systems, the direct current system.

So do the business practices of telecoms: AT&T and Verizon have been accused in lawsuits and other legal actions of bilking the system of millions of dollars, while many smaller companies have taken advantage of local monopolies and generous federal subsidies.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

Earning too much in dividends may cost you $ 0.15 per dollar of extra un-budgeted dividend dollar above the first two federal brackets, but as you rightly point out, making $ 1 too much income could wipe out your ACA subsidy, worth thousands of dollars.

According to the article, about 70 percent of all federal energy subsidies goes toward oil, natural gas and coal (billions of tax dollars every year!)

Such a dilemma brings to question the debate over government subsidies, as well as the billions of dollars in federal spending that gets dumped into the research well.

«Today's report does not hold good news for the electric car market, which is suffering from over production and low demand despite thousands of dollars in federal subsidies spent on every car.