Sentences with phrase «dollars spent on infrastructure»

Whether you are for or against the Keystone XL pipeline, The Sun's recent article revealed what $ 1 dollar spent on infrastructure can return to the economy («Nebraska Court OKs route for Keystone pipeline,» Jan. 10).

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

A great deal of spending on infrastructure, the One Belt One Road for example, which is a massive infrastructure project — trillions of dollars a year for the next ten years, and they are building roads, essentially think of Marco Polo on a bullet train, and that's what we're seeing.

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

For years, the Republican majority in Congress blocked President Barack Obama from spending billions of dollars on infrastructure.

Despite the expectation from many that the dollar would plummet, Mr Trump's win saw a significant increase in foreign exchange traders buying dollars — possibly on the back of the likelihood inflation will rise as and when the President - elect starts to spend money on America's infrastructure.

OTTAWA — A five - year $ 50 - billion public infrastructure spending initiative would generate a return on investment to Canadians over the long term as high as $ 3.83 per dollar spent, trigger significant private sector investment and stimulate wage increases, according to a new study by an independent economic modelling firm.

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.

Where campaign dollars used to be spent on direct mail and television ad buys, their thinking goes, modern political infrastructures should be spending money on YouTube pre-roll video ads, search engine optimization, promoted Tweets and Facebook posts.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

Jain says the commission thinks that perhaps the awards, which after this year will approach a total of nearly $ 5 billion dollars, could be better spent on much needed infrastructure repairs, with more tangible results.

New York State lawmakers say they want to act quickly to spend the state's $ 5 billion dollar and growing surplus on an infrastructure fund to fix up roads and bridges, among other things.

Stolen monies are being recovered in billions of naira and dollars, and being appropriated and spent on infrastructure.

State lawmakers say they want to act quickly to spend the state's $ 5 billion dollar and growing surplus on an infrastructure fund to fix up roads and bridges, among other things.

The New York Works Task Force is touring the state explaining how it's trying to better spend taxpayer dollars on infrastructure programs, and looking for suggestions on how to do it.

«How about spending those infrastructure dollars on safeguarding our drinking water, fixing our crumbling bridges, and filling our potholes?

Others, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, suggest spending more surplus dollars on economic development, so extra tax dollars would allow local governments to better fund infrastructure projects on their own.

Nixon added that «it was good that jobs were created» in the broader Buffalo Billion program, but she questioned the way in which economic development dollars are dedicated by the Cuomo administration and said more state money needs to be spent on crumbling infrastructure needs.

Every year, countries spend about a trillion dollars on energy infrastructure, and right now coal is still the fuel of choice.

In North Carolina, Filardo suggested a policy wherein state officials step in to offer capital assistance if a district spends more than a certain percentage of its infrastructure dollars on short - term maintenance, rather than speeding long - term, fiscally responsible investments.

Parents, teachers and students object to spending millions of dollars on testing and computer infrastructure for online testing while schools suffer increased class size and cuts to arts, sports, and other engaging activities.»

These companies all rely on their major publishing partners for the actual textbook content while they spend millions of dollars on infrastructure and custom programming to sway students tot their platform.

He commented on the significant infrastructure spending needs around the world and that «while there is no guarantee of investment success, the multi-trillion dollar need creates a strong tail wind.»

Regulated utilities essentially spend X dollars to build and maintain their facilities and infrastructure then seek approval to earn Y % per year on their investment.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

What's missing from this logic is, we will be spending trillions of dollars on new infrastructure throughout the world in coming decades — the question to ask is whether that spending locks us into current patterns of fossil fuel dependance, inevitable shortages, pollution, war and climate catastrophe.

I think if we are going to spend tax monies to build infrastructure, let's skip the recalcitrant middleman, and use tax dollars directly on infrastructure projects.

In the US, where a trillion dollars may be spent on infrastructure, perhaps it is time to stop pouring concrete for highways and start investing more in bike infrastructure.

Most traditional outplacement firms spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on infrastructure costs such as office space, computers, and phone lines and pass those costs on to you.