Sentences with phrase «federal levels where»

The same thing at the Federal level where the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority leader have super powers, never intended in the Constitution, over our elected representatives.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

In Vermont, where the minimum wage is currently $ 8.60 and has been above the federal level and indexed to inflation since 2007, small business owners don't think much about the annual wage increases anymore, says Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

In Canada, immigrants who arrived under the now - scrapped Federal IIP and the still - running Quebec IIP have paid woefully low levels of income tax, and breadwinners frequently return to greater China, from where the large majority originated.

All of this raises questions about support for a critical line in the Fed's statement where it says: «The federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run.»

The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Essentially, the memo makes it clear that while marijuana is illegal at the federal level, the U.S. government will rely on states where cannabis is legal to enact tough laws.

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

Millennials who start earning money as freelancers or independent contractors need to set aside funds for taxes on a federal and local level, depending on where they live and work.

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.

Canaccord Genuity said in a note that the move could position Namaste for a potential TMX listing, as the stock exchange has threatened companies with possible delisting over any pot - related operations in the U.S., where marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

The data comes after the Ontario government implemented rules intended to dampen Toronto's real estate market, where escalating prices have concerned policy - makers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the maximum conforming size for mortgage loans purchased by Freddie Mac and Fannie will stay at current levels — except for in 39 «high - cost» counties where they'll increase.

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency: «the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2016 will remain at existing levels, except in 39 high - cost counties where they will increase.»

Look to to the bottom of the top one percenters, where folks are easily paying 34 - 35 % marginal income taxes at the Federal level — that's with charitable deductions, mortgage deductions, long term cap investment gains, yadda yadda yadda.

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

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That's very different situation from a high school like Holy Trinity where kids have no other lunch options (besides lunch from home), keeping the level of federal reimbursement dollars higher.

That would be true down to the point where you meet the subsidy thresholds, which are between 100 and 400 percent of federal poverty levels.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 stLevel and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 stlevel (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

So is Federal Hall where George Washington was sworn into office, and his namesake city has reached unprecedented levels of dysfunction.

«We have locally elected school officials who have forever been responsible for seeing to it that the monies received into the district from the state and federal level are brought into a budget that allocates resources where they are needed most,» Kremer said.

Governor Cuomo released his 30 - day amendments to the Executive Budget where he outlined his plan for the state's tax system redesign in response to the tax changes at the federal level.

In these roles, Jenny has established relationships with key community leaders and elected officials at local, state and federal levels to bridge the communication and understanding of the needs of the community where she lives, works and volunteers.

The United States operates federal system of government where government is separated between two independent sovereignties at the federal and state level.

He then charged governments at states and federal levels to reciprocate by providing good leadership and invest consciously, transparently and heavily in the key sectors of the economy, especially education and energy where the masses can benefit.

Dangote said that the group would also continue to engage governments at the federal and state levels where there were great potential to explore investment opportunities.

Nixon will likely be the beneficiary of small - dollar donations — something that has not really been tried at a statewide level in New York, where contribution limits are far higher than the federal cap.

The senator is opposing a higher minimum wage even though he represents portions of the city of Syracuse, one of the poorest cities in America, a place where 50 percent of the children are living below the federal poverty level.

Yet in the United States, where 25 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana, there are no state - wide efforts to collect data on how patients are using cannabis or on whether they have been affected for good or ill, in part because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

In the future, Orton says, improved storm - surge models could predict where flood zones should be drawn given future sea level rise, which is now done nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency with data from past storms.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

«The U.S. market for tech tends to be handled on a school - to - school or district - to - district basis, where in other countries the purchasing decisions are made on the state or federal level.

Certainly our policymakers are not willing to concede the point, not at the federal, state, or local levels, where arguments continue to rage over assessments, charter schools, vouchers, class - size reduction, and many other strategies for school reform.

We work in 12 to 15 states plus D.C. each year, and while we are active at the federal level, most of our work is focused on the states, where the real action is.

The letter laid out a plan «to remold the entire American system» into a centralized one run by «a system of labor - market boards at the local, state and federal levels» where curriculum and «job matching» will be handled by government functionaries.

Such a system might be sufficient in countries where education policy decisions are made at the federal level and where there is greater continuity of leadership.

«Denial of the problem at the federal level — where leadership should be paramount — is a national disgrace,» charges the report, which was compiled by the committee's Democratic majority.

«Federal law is usually the one place where priority is placed on kids whose needs are overlooked at the state and local level,» Barone said.

States and districts have wide leverage in establishing and implementing school funding policies, and in cases where there are obvious disparities between the needs of districts, there is still unwillingness by some states and districts to increase the level of support through local, state and federal aid.

Both men have also advanced the field through their numerous public service activities and participation on expert panels at the local, state, and federal level, where they have advocated for controlled trials of prevention and treatment approaches.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

This movement is evident up to the federal level, where the U.S. Department of Education has emphasized empowering teachers to improve the education process through its Teaching Ambassador Fellowship Program, which counts new Tennessee STF Josalyn Tresvant McGhee as a recent selection, to the Teach to Lead program, a partnership with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

At the federal level, Congress considered allowing Title I funds targeted for low - income students to follow them to the school where they enroll, but that idea was ultimately scrapped in the final version of NCLB's successor, the Every Students Succeeds Act.

Rather than a politics that seeks to exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.

We like to believe that the federal level is where all the action is when it comes to education improvement.