Sentences with phrase «federal infrastructure boost»
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The new federal government pledges to boost infrastructure investments, but will it be enough to offset continued weakness in private capital spending?
In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kids.
Dr. Lacy Hunt: Here's my attitude: the new federal initiatives, whether tax cuts or infrastructure or otherwise will not provide a boost to the economy if they are funded with increases in debt — that's where we're at.
Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.
Needed: a strategy to promote resilience Compiling a list of suggestions, they push federal agencies to «make resilience a core aspect of all federal infrastructure and disaster - recovery funding» to strengthen affordable housing; ask for federal leaders to expand funding for programs, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, so at - risk municipalities can develop disaster plans and assess their vulnerabilities; and boost economic stability by opposing cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, so families can afford to eat after a disaster.
He also spoke as the federal government appears poised to run budgetary deficits in order to invest billions of dollars in areas such as infrastructure as a way to boost Canada's weak growth.
It also expects the federal government's new Canada child benefit and a boost to infrastructure spending to lend a hand to the economy.