Sentences with phrase «federal economic programs»

An Immigration system for skilled workers to Canada under federal economic programs.

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The shift downwards could be due to a number of factors, with the most likely culprit being comments made recently by American Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, indicating an upcoming pullback in the Fed's economic stimulus program.

Originally announced in December by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the changes to Canada's Federal Skilled Worker Program aim to improve the economic suitability of new Canadians.

The French ideas about turning the euro zone into a virtual federal state, with its own finance minister, budget, and executive and legislative authorities will probably be among the key talking points in a reform program that is supposed to lead to a tightly integrated economic and political union.

While Twitter's debut likely helped send shares of Facebook Inc. down, the overall tech industry also took a hit as the markets pulled back from record levels on worries that the Federal Reserve could soon start curtailing its economic stimulus program.

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

While the federal immigration system has been criticized for putting emphasis on post-secondary education when judging candidates as economic immigrants, Manitoba has designed its nominee program to focus on skill shortages in its own labour market.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

We continue to believe that US economic growth has in effect been «primed» by the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing (QE) programs.

Or will demographic pressures exert upward pressures on federal program expenses, while at the same time exerting downward pressures on potential economic growth and tax revenues?

First, there are a number of components of federal program expenses that are sensitive to economic developments, most notably employment insurance benefits.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Federal Reserve could begin reducing the size of its bond - buying stimulus program as early as September but might wait longer if economic growth fails to pick up in the second half of the year, a top Fed official said on Tuesday.

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

While some programs require that people jump through hoops, borrowers only have to meet one of four criteria to qualify for economic hardship deferment on federal loans.

But the main ingredient in our forecast is the federal infrastructure program, which is well under way but not yet evident in the economic indicators we are tracking.

Some of the more dramatic predictions for next year have been linked to the Federal Reserve, and the fact that they are winding down their Quantitative Easing (QE) economic stimulus program.

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Gold suffered a sharp fall this week as better - than - expected U.S. economic data raised the possibility that the Federal Reserve may start scaling back its $ 85 - billion - per - month bond - buying program earlier than anticipated.

«Some» policymakers also made a case that if economic conditions deteriorate (or during the next recession), the Federal Reserve can simply restart the reinvestment program even after it has already been stopped.

With federal loans, there are income - driven repayment and loan forgiveness programs that can protect you during times of economic hardship.

The Federal Reserve uses other tools to influence U.S. economic growth, too, including Discount Rate, which is the overnight interest rate at which banks can borrow money from the Federal Reserve; and special programs such as quantitative easing.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) today sent a letter to Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) William E. Kovacic as follow - up to the Georgetown Economic Services («GES») September 22, 2008 report on advertising food and beverages to children, «Food, Beverage and Restaurant Advertising in 2007 — Children's Impressions and Expenditures on Children's Programs».

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

By eliminating the National School Lunch Program's guaranteed federal funding, states run the risk of running out of money in an economic downturn and putting hungry kids at risk.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has launched its own inquiry into Buffalo Billion contracting, hiring former federal investigator Bart Schwartz, who has the power to review contracts under the western New York economic development program before they are formally approved.

After acknowledging the economic development program is under federal investigation and possible wrongdoing revealed by the inquiry, the Cuomo administration hired a former prosecutor to review contracts related to the Buffalo Billion.

The governor's signature economic development program, the Buffalo Billion, is also under federal investigation, as is his former top aide, Joe Percoco.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to focus on positive actions in his public events in recent days as a federal investigation into his administration's economic development programs continues.

It's been over a month since Gov. Andrew Cuomo hired a special investigator in response to a federal probe of his Buffalo Billion project and other economic development programs.

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when the state's economic development czar endured over two hours of questions about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

The head of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs says he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.

The federal charges of bid - rigging and bribery center on Cuomo's key economic development programs, including the Buffalo Billion.

The head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs said he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.

The governor said he's met with federal prosecutors since former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six others were charged with bribery, bid - rigging and other corruption charges in connection with the governor's upstate economic development programs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to focus on positive actions in his public events in recent days as a federal investigation into his administration's economic development programs continues.

The governor's push for reform comes as the federal probe of his own economic development programs continues.

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when Howard Zemsky, Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar, endured over two hours of questions about Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.

Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.

In the background of all of the public events that Cuomo has been holding is the ongoing federal probe of his economic development programs by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Joseph Percoco, former executive deputy secretary, at a press conference in 2013 in Albany, N.Y. Percoco is under federal investigation for possibly receiving secret payments for contracts under the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic revitalization program.

The head of Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs say he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on some of the projects.

Cuomo announced Friday that his administration retained a former criminal prosecutor to review his upstate economic development initiatives after learning federal investigators are examining potential conflicts of interest and improper bidding related to the programs.

Two weeks ago, a lawyer for Cuomo announced that a former federal prosecutor would lead the administration's own investigation into the Buffalo Billion and other economic development programs, saying the ongoing federal probe had raised questions of «improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest.»

Mr. Johnson said he would approach land - use decisions by trying «to get to a place of yes»; that he wanted to take steps to «eradicate hunger in New York City»; and that he would deal with the prospect of tighter budgets — because of the new federal tax law or a potential economic downturn — by guarding funding for «programs and everyday things that affect the most New Yorkers and the poorest New Yorkers, to ensure that they don't get cut.»

Ethics reform is being discussed, but in a year where both former leaders of the legislature have been sentenced to prison, and there's on going state and federal investigations of the governor's economic development programs, it's unclear what will ultimately be agreed upon.

ALBANY — While a federal investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration appears to be partially focused on former aide Joe Percoco's consulting work for two companies that benefited from state economic development programs, it appears the practice of holding side jobs isn't common among members of the executive chamber.

The cases involve accusations of bid - rigging involving upstate economic development programs — including the ballyhooed Buffalo Billion — and related dealings involving ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, who previously worked for Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary.