Sentences with phrase «federal dollars if»

When asked specifically about this in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies meeting in May, Education Secretary DeVos refused to guarantee that she would prohibit private schools from receiving federal dollars if they discriminate.35

Not exact matches

They said they were at risk of losing billions of dollars in federal funding for education if they did not comply.

Or if you're a startup watching every dollar, then tap the free services of the federal Small Business Association (SBA).

That means that if the Federal Reserve feels the need to respond to President Donald Trump's new economic policies with higher interest rates, as Chairwoman Janet Yellen again hinted yesterday, there'll be little to stop the dollar rising further against Europe's single currency.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Money to Burn suggests that federal biofuel initiatives cost $ 3.00 — 3.50 for every dollar of social and environmental benefits returned, and that's assuming there are any benefits at all — the report claims that it is hard to know if biofuels have a positive environmental impact:

Additionally, Echelon has approximately $ 255 million in federal NOLs and $ 127 million in state NOLs, worth tens of millions of dollars if it can utilize them.

Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the case in 2011.

If the FOMC had followed the median federal funds rate path from the December 2015 SEP projection, then the U.S. dollar would likely have appreciated much more significantly.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disFederal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disfederal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

If the Federal Reserve follows through with QEternity through 2013, the 6 - month growth of the monetary base will peak at nearly 25 % (note that as the size of the monetary base grows, larger and larger dollar amounts are required to have a given impact on stocks).

Federal Student Aid recommends that you choose one of the income - driven repayment plan options, because if you end up taking a job with a low salary (or just have a lower salary that typically comes early in a career), your repayments could be as low as a few dollars a month.

How much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholding.

But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.

I wonder if Detroit wouldn't mind getting several billion dollars to use however it wishes, courtesy of the Federal Reserve?

If you've borrowed thousands of dollars in federal student loans from the government, you might be stuck with a hefty student loan payment and a loan balance that just never seems to shrink!

At the same time, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates at least twice more in 2018, and if the BoC does not increase rates as well, the Canadian dollar could fall sharply against a US currency that would be more attractive to investors.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

But the order also states that faith - based organizations receiving federal dollars may use their facilities to provide government - backed social services, even if those facilities include religious art, icons, scriptures and other religious symbols.

You can add another $ 800 billion a year if you budget for future commitments, such as the future cost of pensions for our current standing military, so while the Defense appropriation is $ 640 billion, the actual cost to tax payers has been estimated at $ 1.7 trillion dollars each year — about 40 % of the annual Federal budget.

If the woman works directly for the Catholic church, then I understand, but a hospital is a place of business that gets federal dollars to provide care for All people, therefore they should provide access for all employees.

Tax me less, spend less, and if you really feel compelled to keep a bit of pork in that fat Federal Belly... at least use my tax dollar too help supplement wounded veterans and / or assist wartime veterans in some of the things they need to re-integrate back into their country after serving it.

No one with the requisite skill has done a revenue analysis of Gingrich's tax plan, but eyeballing the Tax Policy Center's analysis of the Perry Plan, I would be surprised if the Gingrich plan didn't reduce federal revenue by at least $ 3 trillion dollars over ten years.

504s are a part of U.S. civil - rights law, and if your child's school receives any federal dollars, it's obligated to provide a plan and abide by it.

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

Now, of course, the food stamp program may lose significant funding if Congress continues to look to SNAP dollars to fund the stalled child nutrition bill (the CNA), which covers school food, as well as WIC and other federal food programs.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

If needed, the Federal Reserve can issue as many new dollars as it likes, so the USA can not fail to pay its debt (unless its government chooses to default).

Westchester County stands to lose more than $ 5 million dollars in grants if it does not submit zoning documents to the federal government.

Erie County could face millions of dollars in fines if the federal government determines that the county disclosed confidential records.

«What we're saying is if it's not done, it would preclude us from doing anything in the city that would involve state or associated federal dollars,» he said.

There must be agreement on the issue in order to free up millions of dollars in federal education that is due to the state, so the governor has threatened to propose his own teacher evaluation system if the talks do not produce a settlement.

If the US government does provide the same degree of federal funding does this mean that a territory is always costing more in tax dollars then provided, and if so what is the incentive for The US to take on territorieIf the US government does provide the same degree of federal funding does this mean that a territory is always costing more in tax dollars then provided, and if so what is the incentive for The US to take on territorieif so what is the incentive for The US to take on territories?

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

For example, one trillion dollars is between 1/3 and 1/4 of US Federal Spending in 2011, so if a country has minted currency on a similar scale as 1 / 4th of the government's total spending, that's acceptable.

«Any city that chooses to violate federal law by identifying itself as a «sanctuary city» risks the consequence of losing millions of dollars in federal funding, and I do not believe the State Legislature has the duty to help those municipalities cover their losses if they do not honor the laws of our land,» Griffo said.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

If nothing changes, right now Cuomo is sitting on a scandal where top members of his administration, close to him, are accused in federal complaints of corruption involving many millions of dollars, not a small percentage of which has found its way into Cuomo's campaign war chest.

The only way to change the Medicaid reimbursement rate is through Congress, and if that does not happen, an administrative waiver that brings back federal dollars to reduce the costs of care takes on even greater importance because the island will need to find a way to stretch the dollars it does receive, and reduce the overall expense of the program.

Assemblyman Kevin Byrne added: «Last week during our transportation budget hearing, Senate Finance Chairwoman Sen. Cathy Young rightfully asked NYS DOT Commissioner Karas if our state would be facing any federal penalties for its illegal I Love NY signs, which Gov. (Andrew) Cuomo has already spent $ 8.1 million of your hard - earned tax dollars on.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

If it works, the project, run out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., could save federal and commercial satellite owners billions of dollars.

Impact of government spending The biggest unknown factor: What impact — if any — will energy markets feel from trillions of dollars being pumped into the economy by Congress and the Federal Reserve?

Citing the current budget crisis, Senator John Thune (R - SD) wanted to know if, based on Wieman's critique, «the dollars being spent by the federal government to improve STEM education are being wasted.»

Debuting a new economic model, a team of researchers from Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond have identified 22 Detroit neighborhoods that, if developed, could bring in millions of dollars in residential and business rents while attracting thousands of new residents to the city.

This would help the DA get more federal dollars for drug prosecutions as well as keep the black people in the town from voting him out of office since much of the community would be felons, even if they were innocent.

If one needs further proof, the Commander in Chief on the receiving end of that question is the third man to hold the title over the course of the plot, and the actual head of Presidential security is busy at the time, given that he's holed up in the Oval Office coordinating a group of mercenaries in the White House to find the actual President in order to hold him for ransom — namely the hundreds of millions of dollars in the Federal Reserve.