Sentences with phrase «federal investment into»

More than a dozen federal departments and agencies support microbiome research today, and the magnitude of investment has recently grown: A 2015 report released by the National Science and Technology Council noted that annual federal investment into microbiome research tripled over fiscal years 2012 — 2014, with more than $ 922 million invested during this three - year period.

Thanks to the recent Solyndra bankruptcy, some people are casting federal investments into renewable energy as wasteful.

Not exact matches

What will come of Trump's promise to turn a $ 200 billion federal government investment into $ 1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, with the rest coming from the private sector?

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.

Still, Paul Boothe, director of Western's Lawrence Centre, points to some intriguing ongoing research he's overseeing into Ontario's manufacturing sector, which strongly suggests Canada could be making it far easier for foreign companies to sort out the wide range of federal and provincial programs and policies that might lure their investments.

Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.

Mr. Kushner has consulted with at least one lawyer and believes that by forgoing a salary and putting his investment fund, his real estate holdings and The New York Observer into a blind trust, he would not be bound by federal nepotism rules, according to one of the people briefed.

If Cali pays out tons into federal coffers and Alabama receives that, then Cali loses real earnings regardless of what investment levels are unless it's infrastructure spending, in which case it's not a zero - sum game where everyone can benefit.

Morneau has yet to launch his much - discussed Canada Infrastructure Bank, designed to use $ 15 billion in federal money to lure much more in private investment into profit - making projects like toll roads and power grids.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

The federal government should step up its loans and guarantees to help them attract the private sector investment they need to break out of technology development and into a high - growth stage.

«An individual should sit down with a financial professional to look at their whole picture if the windfall is of any size,» said Alexis Hongamen, a money manager at Federal Retirement Investment Advisers in Orlando, Fla. «For small windfalls, it may be best just to pay off credit card debt and promise themselves never to fall into that trap again.»

Investment to consider: The interest from municipal bonds is generally free from federal taxes and often state taxes as well, depending on your state or where you file — savings that may potentially translate into higher returns.

Google's venture investment arm, GV, is among those pumping cash into Intangible's coffers, alongside some other big venture capital players, hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller, and former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh.

Meanwhile, the US has seen all its investment banks go bust, sold off or hastily turned into traditional holding banks so they can be bailed out by Federal Reserve, while ginormous players in the mortgage space like Washington Mutual, Wachovia, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have effectively bitten the dust as independent companies.

After dominating investment news headlines on a regular basis over the past 15 years, the Federal Reserve has found its way into the middle of the presidential election.

Hassad's former chief executive, Tom McKeon, gave evidence to a federal senate inquiry into foreign investment in agriculture and defended its investment.

«This federal investment will allow Syracuse to use their expertise to help underrepresented communities break into the science and engineering world,» said Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y. in a press release.

«Our investment of federal funds in the amount of $ 1.2 million into the Mass Ave Community Homes Project continues the great momentum on the West Side of Buffalo and throughout our city.»

A former top NYPD cop, Phillip Banks III, received up to $ 500,000 in investment income from a real estate firm run by one of two Borough Park businessman at the center of a federal probe into possible police corruption, city records show.

Asked about a New York Post report citing an unnamed source that federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into the Buffalo Billion project, Cuomo said the city's economic comeback has included more than 14,000 jobs and $ 8 billion in private sector investment.

The witness, Mr. Baleh Ndam who testified before trial Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja said that it was the erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, rtd, that authorized the transfer of the fund into the bank account of Destra Investment Limited, a firm owned by Metuh.

Some believe that if the U.S. put a licensing system into place for federal waters out to the 200 - mile boundary, it would bring investment in fish farms and generate revenue.

Utility executives and smart grid advocates agree that apart from the smart grid projects funded by $ 4 billion in federal stimulus grants, most current smart grid investment is going into improving the efficiency, reliability and profitability of power supply, rather than reaching consumers directly.

Another tab puts those science investments into context for the same time period, showing R&D spending as a percentage of the overall federal budget as well as the nation's economy.

Gary Geernaert, director of DOE's Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, states that «it is critical that federal investments to advance climate science for use by both public and private stakeholders must place significant priority on incorporating uncertainty quantification methodologies into modeling frameworks.

But without the initial investment of federal dollars many of these sites may never have been able to garner additional funding to bring them back into productive re-use,» Miller - Travis said.

By one estimate, the federal government's $ 3.8 billion investment into the Human Genome Project has netted $ 796 billion in economic benefits, including 310,000 jobs and $ 244 billion in personal income.

«We need a real budget, one that allows responsible investments in critical federal programs — including our national defense — without breaking the bank and pushing our country further into deficits and debt,» said Hal Rogers (Republican, Kentucky), chairman of the House of Representatives appropriations committee, in a written statement.

In his place is Bretton James (Josh Brolin), CEO of some sort of investment firm who gossips another trading company into bankruptcy, bets on its failure, and scavenges the remnants on the cheap from the Federal Reserve.

In the ensuing years, districts, states, and the federal government have made significant investments to streamline entry into the profession.

The Obama administration invested much effort into attempts to improve the return both students and the federal government were receiving on their investments in higher education.

Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report's release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4 billion.

The report shows how to turn the great majority of federal funding distributed to states and districts — Title I and Title II grants — into investments likely to pay off in educational and economic benefits, by reinventing such formula grants as targeted tools that extend excellent teachers» reach in financially sustainable ways, and more effectively direct funds to the students who need them most.

That's why I've introduced comprehensive legislation, the Trauma - Informed Care for Children and Families Act, to bring federal resources to help equip our teachers to recognize the signs of trauma, build this knowledge into their classroom and make the workforce investments to support our children.»

The Fellowship program is a key way federal officials are working to get the principal perspective into policymaking and to encourage better and greater investment in school leadership at the local, state, and federal levels.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

If transferring an existing retirement plan into an IRA, you should be aware that (i) Those assets will no longer be subject to the protections of ERISA (if applicable)(ii) depending on the investments and services selected for the IRA, you may pay more or less in transaction costs than when the assets are in the Plan, (iii) if you are between the age of 55 and 59 1/2, you would lose the ability to potentially take penalty - free withdrawals from the plan, (iv) if you continue working past age 70 1/2 and transferred your plan assets to a new employer's plan, you would not be subject to required minimum distribution and (v) withdrawing assets directly would be subject to federal and applicable state and local taxes and possibly be subject to the IRS penalty of 10 % if under age 59 1/2.

Federal employees and retirees may discover that shifting some or all of their THRIFT savings or traditional IRAs into a ROTH will save them taxes on investment earnings and growth long term.

Most privatization plans, like the one just described, involve four basic elements: a promise to retirees and older workers to pay all or most of the Social Security benefits they have earned; a cut in benefits to younger workers; a diversion of Social Security payroll taxes for younger workers into private investment accounts; and increased federal borrowing to offset the diversion of taxes into private accounts.

The conclusions challenge a cornerstone of Labor's climate change policy as the federal government pours taxpayer funds into wind projects using direct subsidies, a planned $ 10 billion investment fund and renewable energy targets.

Incorporating the federal investment tax credit (ITC) could drop those prices down into the 3 - 4 cents per kilowatt hour range ($ 30 - $ 40 / MWh).

These state measures — along with federal government subsidies such as the production tax credit for wind, the investment tax credit for solar and the tax credit for purchasing electric vehicles — provide lasting incentives that are pushing green technologies into the U.S. marketplace.

The transformation of Silicon Valley from a sleepy collection of apple orchards and small towns to the information technology powerhouse that it is today was the result of massive investments by the federal government into a set of interlinked military, industrial, and academic institutions in the region — a fact that is largely ignored by many high - tech executives, who prefer to imagine that it all started in Bill Hewlett's garage.

Despite Oregon having less than average solar irradiation and also having relatively cheap power (only around 11.5 cents / kWh on average) the combination of the generous state tax credit, utility based incentives and the 30 % federal tax credit gets Oregon into the top ten states in America in terms of investment return available from installing solar panels on your home.

And slipped somewhere into that section is a proposal to provide federal investment tax credits that would go some way toward offsetting the cost of small wind projects.

Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders: Obama will establish a federal investment program to help manufacturing centers modernize and Americans learn the new skills they need to produce green products.

The federal government's proposals attack three tax - saving strategies through private corporations: 1) income sprinkling; 2) passive investment income; and 3) converting income into capital gains.

Federal and state criminal prosecutors have roped our corporate clients into a myriad of white collar criminal allegations from running illegal operations involving counterfeiting and gambling, to market manipulation, bid rigging, trafficking in counterfeit goods and creating fraudulent investment vehicles as facades for Ponzi schemes.