Sentences with phrase «economic stimulus package»

Several business brokers praised other new government policies, such as provisions tucked into the recent economic stimulus package.

While the federal and most provincial governments have been slow to implement economic stimulus packages, they enjoy broad public support in principle.

In thinking about climate - friendly subsidies, we should first keep in mind that the Obama economic stimulus package enacted by the Congress includes significant subsidies (and tax credits) for renewables and efficiency upgrades — to the tune of about $ 80 billion.

Meanwhile, a $ 3 trillion dollar federal budget was approved and a $ 152 billion dollar economic stimulus package (much of which is likely to be spent on products made in China) whisked through Congress along with 12,000 earmarks that found their way into the Appropriations Act.

In 2010, Tennessee and Delaware became the first two states to win a portion of the grant, which itself was a small part of the massive economic stimulus package designed to right a flailing economy.

In its 2008 Annual Report, Foundation Coal's President and COO, Kurt D. Kost, stated that «Elements of the U.S. economic stimulus package could affect coal production and pricing.

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce a new economic stimulus package of about 2 trillion yen (about 17.8 US dollars) this year, according to local media reports in Japan.

The Nigerian economy, since the aggressive incursion of SAP in the mid 1980s — a wholly neoliberal economic stimulus package — has practiced a mixed economy that tilts more to capitalism.

Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga), whose district includes the hamlet, says the grant — part of a $ 7.5 million countywide economic stimulus package proposed by County Executive Steve Bellone and approved by the county legislature — is a waste of money at a time when the county has precious little to spend.

The new center has a golden opportunity to make a mark: Last week, the Chinese government announced a 4 trillion yuan ($ 586 billion) economic stimulus package largely targeted at infrastructure projects that, IUE and Aberdeen researchers hope, will incorporate environmental technologies from the get - go.

The Obama economic stimulus package contains a huge windfall for education, approximately $ 115 billion — more than double the department's annual budget, a requested $ 46.7 billion for the coming fiscal year.

For many directors, the initial exclusion of museums from the government's economic stimulus package underscored the perception that their field is isolated and elitist, existing for and catering to a small segment of society.

We're seeing the candidates talk about short - term economic stimulus packages, but what about the fundamentals of our economic engine: our investment in research, and in science and math education?

Lately China has slashed some of its funding for green projects under its own economic stimulus package.

He was the first of three of Burright's clients to use the credit at her recommendation — and that was before the federal government improved the program in February as part of its sweeping economic stimulus package.

To fight the negative economic spiral, President Bush signed into law a $ 168 billion dollar economic stimulus packages, paid out in the form of tax rebates.

Oddly, at roughly the same time Paul was making his announcement, US President - elect, Barack Obama was outlining his forthcoming economic stimulus package, which will include massive expenditure on, of all things, roads.

Jim Gillespie By Kathy Bevan While the U.S. economic stimulus packages are a step in the right direction, what's really needed is a fixed interest rate for the next year and a tax credit for all homebuyers, according to one of that country's largest real estate franchisors.

The Australian bourse has clocked up its best two - day gain in over 33 years after the market closed four per cent higher, following the biggest point gain ever on Wall Street and news of the federal government's $ 10.4 billion economic stimulus package.

Yesterday John McCain, harvesting votes in South Carolina, offered his vision of an economic stimulus package: a tax cut triple play.

Transcript Both the House and Senate are set to vote today on the $ 789 billion economic stimulus package.

From Reuters: In Germany... one of the few countries where prostitution is legal, and unusually transparent, the industry has responded with an economic stimulus package of its own: modern marketing tools, rebates...

But the improving data from the United States and the economic stimulus package introduced in China lifted the share price of the SEA.

His economic stimulus package also includes $ 100 million for upgrading school cafeteria equipment, which may help to support healthy school luch choices.

It came after he and his political advisers concluded over the weekend that he could not win a Republican primary against a conservative challenger, particularly in light of his vote for the president's economic stimulus package.

(CNN)- President Barack Obama marked another 100 - day anniversary Wednesday - this time the anniversary of the enactment of his $ 787 billion economic stimulus package.

Kelly ran ads that labeled Giffords as part of the Washington crowd — linking her stances on immigration and the economic stimulus package with similar positions held by President Obama and then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.).

Liberals have criticized Obama and his staff for moving to the middle and bargaining on healthcare reform, as well as the financial regulatory overhaul and even the $ 787 billion economic stimulus package, which some liberals said should have been larger.

Last week, New York state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R) launched a commercial seeking to tie businessman Scott Murphy's (D) support for the economic stimulus package to the AIG bonuses.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A new national poll suggests that most Americans favor an economic stimulus package even if it comes with an $ 800 billion price tag, but that support doesn't indicate that the public wants to see a new era of big government.

CATO Institute Associate Director with the Center for Education Freedom Neal McClusky says in order to understand the push for Common Core, you have to go back to 2009, when the federal government created the Economic Stimulus package.

«Any serious study would disprove that this proposal is simply an economic stimulus package and highlight that mandating a 67 % increase in labor costs on Main Street will, in fact, have serious consequences,» Durant added.

Stateside, funds were secured from settlements that followed the economic collapse of the past decade; on a federal level, moneys were found as part of the economic stimulus package of 2009.

When Rep. Scott Murphy (D - N.Y.) won his special election in March 2009, he was in favor of the big Democratic legislative accomplishment at that time - the economic stimulus package.

But there were also plaudits at the way he and his Chancellor Alistair Darling handled the crisis, recapitalising the banks, agreeing an economic stimulus package that was copied worldwide.

Venture capitalist Scott Murphy (D) holds a 65 - vote lead over state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R) in a special election in Upstate New York, a race cast as an early referendum on President Obama's economic stimulus package.

The former Republican presidential nominee tapped into his campaign lists Tuesday, asking supporters to sign a petition in protest of the economic stimulus package.

It remains to be seen how much of a role President Obama will allow Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican Leader John Boehner to play in the economic stimulus package, CNN's Ed Henry reports.

Mr. Crist has come under fire from conservatives for, among other things, supporting Mr. Obama on his economic stimulus package.

The president urged congressional members to quickly pass an $ 825 billion economic stimulus package, which he hopes will create up to 4 million jobs over the next two years.

* «Baron Hill's Failed Policies»: The National Republican Congressional Committee attacked a number of Democratic candidates on the economic stimulus package and the money that went to job creation in China.

... Basic and applied research funding would receive its largest year - over-year increase since» the 2009 economic stimulus package.

The economic stimulus package of 2009 contained more than $ 1 billion in funding over two years for comparative effectiveness studies, and health care reform legislation signed by President Obama in March establishes the nonprofit Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute to set priorities and distribute the funds.

The economic stimulus package is expected to include billions for research and development of carbon capture and storage

Even President Barack Obama has labeled the technology as important for «energy independence» and included $ 3.4 billion in the economic stimulus package for «clean coal» power plants.

In the economic stimulus package, the biggest winner among U.S. science agencies is probably the National Institutes of Health, which will receive $ 8.2 billion for research.

The overall cost of ADM's project is $ 207.5 million, with most of that — $ 141 million — supplied by the Department of Energy as part of President Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package.