Sentences with phrase «federal backing for»

Montgomery County Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said federal backing for innovation is «a smart move» because some of the best school reform strategies percolate from the ground up.

DeVos's remarks began the event on a hopeful note, and those gathered seemed excited about the possibility of federal backing for new, pro — education freedom policies.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

The same can not be said for Ottawa, which provides federal backing for the dominant insurers.

Not exact matches

Omada Health has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded world of digital health hopefuls: it's backed up lofty claims with actual results, helping the company score federal government reimbursements for its high - tech diabetes prevention program.

Two giant waste - to - energy projects planned for Kwinana and Rockingham could gain extra financial backing after the federal government unveiled a raft of policy initiatives to address problems flowing from China's new restrictions on accepting foreign waste.

Between 2008 and 2012, the federal government implemented a handful of ad - hoc policies meant to deter poorer households from taking on excessive debt, including the reduction of the maximum amortization period for government - backed home loans to 25 years from 40 years.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

Restructuring state tax systems in a way that takes back some of these high - end federal tax cuts should be a no - brainer for cash - strapped states.

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Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

The stakes are high for this assessment, not only because it will be a primary determinant of the timing of Federal Reserve policy tightening; the more one believes that current high long - term unemployment is cyclically (demand) driven rather than structurally (mismatch and demographic) driven, the more one believes workers can be brought back into employment through monetary (or other) stimulus.»

As universally expected, the Federal Reserve left things as they were after yesterday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting: the target for the Fed funds rate stays between 0 and 0.25 per cent and the bank will continue to buy $ 40 billion - worth of mortgage - backed securities, plus $ 45 billion of longer - term treasuries per month.

Unlike modern fiat money, Bitcoin, which has often been called «cash for the Internet,» is not controlled or backed by any bank or central government authority, like the Federal Reserve, for example.

Graduates who borrowed money to pay for college will have to evaluate how best to pay back their federal and / or private loans.

Riverwalk is an easy target because it is highly visible, has a large price tag, and is financed with a federal loan backed by a local motor fuel tax that, some argue, could be better used for purposes such as municipal schools.

But I'd hate to see us go back down to April's near 50 % optimism level, and I think one way to keep it higher is for the federal government to take action and create certainty.

To be fair, many of Avon's problems can be traced back to Jung's mistakes: there was a federal bribery probe that cost Avon $ 500 million and distracted management for years, stemming from overseas expansion efforts and deprived Avon of any viable China business.

Back in 1986, the federal government introduced the Immigrant Investor Program, which offered permanent residency in exchange for a three - year investment of $ 150,000.

The dollar hit a 14 - year high overnight and, after a brief pause for breath, is heading back to that high again Friday as financial markets absorb the consequences of what the Federal Reserve did Wednesday, and what that means for next year.

It's back to the drawing board for the eight - year - old effort to create an SBA women's procurement program, as the most recent federal spending bill scraps controversial, restrictive Bush - era regulations.

Yet that stop back home may have represented the most concrete outcome as Trudeau announced plans to draft legislation affirming federal jurisdiction over the pipeline and negotiations with Kinder Morgan for financial support for the project.

It's not easy for a president to simply roll back a regulation once it's made its way through a public «notice and comment» period and onto the Federal Register.

President Donald Trump made a splash on Monday with an executive order requiring that for every new regulation in the Federal Register, two get rolled back.

The latest federal forecast, released last October, projected a $ 14.3 - billion deficit for 2019 - 20 and doubts persist that Tuesday's budget will show a revised timeline for getting back to black.

Part of the 10 cents per litre federal gas tax is funnelled back to municipalities for infrastructure projects.

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai — a former Verizon lawyer appointed by Trump as the nation's top telecommunications regulator in January — is expected to unveil his approach for rolling back the 2015 net neutrality rules during a speech on Wednesday.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

A new scheme backed by the Federal and State governments provides a potentially large incentive for projects to maximise local content.

And that is good news for nearly 18,000 businesses that until now have been unable to take a government - backed loan or to get assistance winning federal contracts.

But Trump and his pro-business GOP allies on Capitol Hill have made rolling back Obama - era regulations a priority, which makes any new federal rules for protecting data and privacy unlikely in the immediate future.

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California wants to ban assault weapons, instate a federal gun buy - back program for those who own them and criminally prosecute those who refuse to hand them over.

The Fed statement said: «The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen some further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

Rather than scaling back the U.S. economy's over-indebtedness, for instance, the Treasury and Federal Reserve have bailed out the banks to save them from taking a loss on debt write - downs.

For the government sector, large federal budget deficits are a constraint and fiscal policy is slowly shifting from an expansive policy back toward restraint.

The British Columbia government is considering adopting a «nuanced position,» B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen told Maclean's — a stance that would continue to back the federal government's aim of creating the regulator, but oppose its constitutional arguments for doing so.

It's still likely to result in a bill that scales back federal support for insurance coverage and overhauls Medicaid while cutting taxes for the health care industry — but if any plan can pass the Senate, it's likely to look something like that.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group LLC managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

The scaling back of the Federal Reserve's asset purchase program — both the prospect and the actuality — has created significant challenges for many emerging market economies.

The Affordable Retirement Advice for Savers Act rolls back the Obama administration's fiduciary rule and amends federal law to require financial advisors to act in the best interests of their clients.

Back in those dark days, Carney took the unprecedented step of guaranteeing low interest rates for 15 months, a market - calming innovation copied this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

In addition to federal tax, your state will make additional withholdings for taxes, and most states will deduct other money that you may owe to the state, such as back taxes, child support, loan payments, etc..

Cruz proposed allowing plans that did not comply with Obamacare's rules back on the market, allowing healthier people to buy those lower - cost plans, and the federal government could pick up the tab for people with higher costs as premiums for Obamacare plans rose:

U.S. equity futures advanced while stocks in Europe followed Asian peers lower as investors began to switch their attention away from the Federal Reserve and back to earnings and the outlook for global trade.

Given that the federal monies are not mined from a magical fountain but come from taxes collected in the various provinces, most of the transfer, especially for Tier I provinces, is merely taxes collected in your own juridiction and given back with strings attached.

Option 4 is to see if you qualify for a loan backed by the Federal Housing Administration.

You will also restore your eligibility for federal student aid, if you choose to go back to school.

In spite of this long record of federal support for profit sharing and employee stock ownership, the Federal Government has backed off its support for broad - based employee stock ownership and profit sharing during virtually every recent Presidential administration for almost four decades, a trend that has lasted to the pfederal support for profit sharing and employee stock ownership, the Federal Government has backed off its support for broad - based employee stock ownership and profit sharing during virtually every recent Presidential administration for almost four decades, a trend that has lasted to the pFederal Government has backed off its support for broad - based employee stock ownership and profit sharing during virtually every recent Presidential administration for almost four decades, a trend that has lasted to the present.

Many investors are looking for that magic bottom and are wondering if it's time to step back in, while others are wondering if we'll see further declines due to commodity weakness and eventual Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening.

But states such as North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana get more than two dollars back in federal spending for every dollar in taxes.