Sentences with phrase «drop in federal funding»

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

Anticipating a drop in federal funding, the city's community health centers plan cuts.

Not exact matches

They are the maximum and minimum effective federal funds rates in any given month spanning from 6 months before the recession began to 6 months after the recession ended, with only one exception: the end period extends to only the official end of the 1980 recession in July of 1980, and not 6 months afterwards, because rates began rising afterwards and including those months would have made the drop appear larger than it actually was.

Despite a previous increase for the federal funds rate, and additional hikes looming on the horizon, home mortgage rates have actually dropped in recent weeks.

He represented Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who was convicted on federal corruption charges; Jerome Valcke, the former FIFA secretary general who was fired over allegations of misconduct; and Michael Steinberg, a Wall Street hedge fund manager who appealed his 2013 conviction for insider trading and was vindicated when the charges were dropped in October 2015.

In the wake of intense opposition from the town and Orient residents, the authority eventually dropped that project, which was to be financed largely with federal stimulus funds.

Adding back temporary federal stimulus funds used to supplement state funds in each of the last three years, state operating spending under the new budget is up a whopping 8.4 percent over 2007 - 08, although both personal income and private - sector economic activity in New York has dropped sharply during the Great Recession.

Congress has dropped plans to slash mass transit funding for «high density» states such as New York, meaning the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will not be losing $ 3.6 million annually in federal aid after all.

A source close to the negotiations said that all three sides were close to agreement on a mechanism that would allow the state to respond to a drop in federal Medicaid funding by initially trying to find a legislative solution or, if one could not be reached, empowering the executive branch to make an across - the - board cut to service providers to make up the shortfall.

In recent years, furthermore, dropping state and federal support have put universities dependent on government funding under increasing financial stress.

As a result of Brazil's mounting economic woes, federal funding for science and technology is now at its lowest level in modern history, dropping by more than half over the past 5 years.

The study analyzes the impact of government funding decisions on community health center capacity in the coming years and finds that without federal funding and expanded Medicaid, the number of patients served by community health centers will drop from 25.6 million in 2014 to18.8 million by 2020.

But with the budget boosts for federal science agencies provided by 2009's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act drying up in 2011, science advocates are concerned that Obama's funding freeze may spell the steep budgetary drop - off in the next fiscal year that many dread.Image: US Senate»

For Philadelphia, the end of the stimulus and the state's decision to offset only a small share of the federal cuts meant a 14 percent drop in state and federal education funding between 2011 and 2012.

Because funds are often fungible, a $ 14.5 billion federal block grant would just be another drop in a $ 3 trillion state and local total revenue bucket.

The nation's per - pupil spending on K - 12 public schools dropped in 2013 for the third year in a row, reversing more than a decade of funding increases, according to federal data released Wednesday.

Federal funds are paying for an expansion of pre-school programs in Springfield, Massachusetts, where children from poor families have historically struggled academically and dropped out before graduating from high school.

This influx of ARRA funds for education expanded the federal share of funding and largely made up for the drop in state education funds to maintain a relatively stable total funding level through the recession (Figure 5).

The Federal Reserve is simply using its power in the financial marketplace to release more money into the system and influence banks to drop the interest rate they charge to lend each other funds overnight.

In fact many times when the Federal Funds Rate is dropped long term interest rates rise.

It is funny that when the media reports on the Federal Funds Rate dropping they do not also inform the public that this most likely will not result in a drop in fixed rates.

In a letter sent to the park service Monday, lawyers for New York - based Fund for Animals argued that the plan to drop poison pellets from helicopters over Anacapa, an island off the Ventura County coast, would unintentionally kill migratory birds, a violation of federal law.

In 1975, with New York City on the verge of fiscal collapse, the New York Daily Post famously riffed on the president's decision to not lend federal funds: «FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.»

Enrollees whose income drops to the Medicaid eligibility level will be able to contact the exchange and switch to Medicaid at that point (assuming they're in a state that has accepted federal funding to expand Medicaid under the ACA).

Because under Federal Election Commission regulations, PACs can contribute no more than $ 5,000 per candidate per election, «the amount of money we give to members of Congress is a drop in the bucket in terms of their overall fund - raising efforts,» he says.

Despite a previous increase for the federal funds rate, and additional hikes looming on the horizon, home mortgage rates have actually dropped in recent weeks.