Sentences with phrase «federal programs because»

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That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

Some banks weren't able to lend for a while because of TARP,» Geshwiler says, referring to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the federal government's program for bailing out banks hit hard in the financial Program, the federal government's program for bailing out banks hit hard in the financial program for bailing out banks hit hard in the financial crisis.

The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $ 43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the program because Ottawa already spends about $ 32.9 billion a year on support to low - income Canadians.

But just because the new drone program debuted, doesn't mean that local authorities, the federal government, and corporate interests won't butt heads.

For example, federal loans can often be a better option for borrowing — even if you could get a lower interest rate on a private student loan — because federal loans have advantages private loans don't have, such as the opportunity to choose income - driven repayment plans or qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

But the program continues because three other federal judges — in California, Washington, D.C., and New York — have temporarily kept it in existence.

This time around, the dynamics of the market are even more complicated because bond prices have recently been driven by bets on whether the Federal Reserve will ease off the bond - buying programs it has used to stimulate the economy.

However, you are covered under the Medicare program because you pay Medicare taxes on your Federal earnings.

Smith said federal officials told him the centralized IT program could crumble if Statistics Canada left because it would embolden other frustrated departments to demand independence, too.

That's bad, because since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced on June 18 a potential 2014 sunset to the central bank's quantitative easing program, 10 - year treasuries have jumped from 2.2 percent to 2.57 percent.

Ramirez filed a challenge to his detention in Seattle federal court on Monday, arguing that the government violated his constitutional rights because he had work authorization under the DACA program, his lawsuit said.

That's because refinancing federal loans means forfeiting government protections such as income - driven repayment plans, deferment / forbearance, and some debt forgiveness programs.

But with interest rates low because of the Federal Reserve's sustained stimulus program, Verizon was finally compelled to act before rates began creeping up.

As I understand it, because the Trump proposal is only looking (right now) at discretionary spending, it has no effect on the mandatory funding of federal school meal programs, including the lunch and breakfast program.

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

Lunch programs at Hedges School, 5107 S. Hermitage Ave., and the Haines branch at 1915 S. Federal St. will close Friday because of low attendance.

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

Hats off to them for doing that, but the cost of building a central kitchen is not something which every community can bear, and it should be counted as part of the «outside money» used to support the meal program because it is outside of the money the federal government provides for running meal programs.

Then, they were told they couldn't do that because the food had been purchased with federal money specifically for the lunch program....

The bill has met with opposition in Congress in part because it presents the terrible choice of increasing school food spending at the expense of SNAP, i.e., the federal food stamps program.

What a difference from just a year ago, when the USDA was withholding all federal money from that same program because of violations found during a routine inspection.

«While participation in other federal nutrition programs grew rapidly because of the recession, participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs continued tprograms grew rapidly because of the recession, participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs continued tPrograms continued to slide.

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.

The report makes some controversial proposals to a system known as the «Cadillac» of Medicaid programs (because it covers so much), including changing the way reimbursement rates are set, a complete state takeover of the responsibilities now borne by the counties, reform of the medical malpractice system and a push for a higher federal contribution.

Syracuse's 20 - year - old lead program will close by the end of the year because federal officials rejected the city's latest application for funding.

Roughly 180,000 students attending SUNY colleges or universities currently pay no tuition, because it's fully covered by the state's Tuition Assistance Program and federal PELL grants, according to Robert F. Mujica Jr., the state's budget director.

Because of lower - than - expected federal assistance for Medicaid, Albany instituted an across - the - board budget sweep of 1.1 percent, cutting state spending and also siphoning off theoretically separate revenue streams dedicated to specific programs and agencies, like the MTA.

It gets more complicated because the terms morphed around the WWII era when the leftists started to support more «entitlement» programs like social security, which would mean bigger government and higher taxes, not necessarily tariffs on imports, or support for a monarchy but still more federal spending.

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.»

«They tend to be relatively cost - effective for sponsoring governments because each of the programs use a «last - dollar» model whereby the state subsidizes tuition costs after the student has exhausted all other available state and federal financial aid.»

According to Schumer's office, last year, Jamestown was short of the minimum threshold to qualify for federal funding through the EAS program by a Mere 38 passengers, but only because of errantly - cancelled flights — Jamestown averaged 9.96 passengers per day, but the threshold is ten.

Two programs that support first responders who became sick because of 9/11 are going to be included in the latest federal spending bill.

Deputy County Executive Bill Fisher says this is a good year to start the program, because of the implications of the new federal tax bill, which doesn't allow taxpayers to deduct as much state and local taxes on their federal income taxes.

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.

David stressed the need for a narrowly tailored program because the use of marijuana for any purpose violates federal law.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The 20 - year - old lead abatement program run by the city of Syracuse will shut down and its four employees will be laid off because federal officials, who had criticized the city's handling of grants, rejected Syracuse's application for continued funding.

Most states violate federal Medicaid law because they deny coverage for sofosbuvir, a new and highly effective treatment to cure hepatitis C, according to Lynn E. Taylor, M.D., director of The Miriam Hospital's HIV / Viral Hepatitis Coinfection Program.

This is happening despite, or in some cases because of, belt - tightening in Washington; federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP is at its lowest levels in several decades, according to the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program.

Nationwide, if only 15 percent of residential property owners took advantage of such programs, the emissions reductions would contribute 4 percent of the savings needed for the U.S. to reach 1990 emissions levels by 2020 — all at no net cost to local, state or federal governments because owners pay back the loans.

Federal and state governments could either support city programs or directly finance the upgrades; their bonds would be more efficient because they would cover larger populations.

In response, Holdren said, scientists are already an interest group, one that happens to be devoted to its interest in scientific inquiry; science is already politicized because federal funding decisions governing research programs take place in a political arena in which Congress, the executive branch and stakeholders from all sides play leading roles; and, finally, scientists are most worried about the results of their work being lost, not their jobs.

Because of this lack of data, FEMA can not analyze the likely impact of federal assistance programs that consider such factors.

But Democratic leaders said Republican supporters were guilty of hypocrisy because they typically insist that any new program not add to federal spending deficits.

That's because federal environmental programs have long been based on EPA setting standards and the states implementing them — «cooperative federalism,» as EPA's supporters call it.

According to the key developers of the MyPlate dietary guidelines, changes were made in the federal nutrition program because more than two - thirds of American adults and more than one - third of America's children are determined overweight or obese.

On average, participating low - income students are performing better in reading because the federal government decided to launch an experimental school choice program in our nation's capital.

The resolution, one in a series approved by the Urbana, Ill. - based professional organization at its conference, opposes the legislation because «it stands to impose restrictions on the types of reading instruction, professional - development programs, and research that could be supported with federal funds.»

However, such adjustments are particularly challenging in the case of virtual schools, because their students may be less likely to participate in some of the programs that are used to measure student backgrounds, such as the federal lunch program.

The online program needed the waiver, the first of its kind, so its students would be eligible to apply for federal Pell Grants: that's because CFA doesn't use credit hours, or even traditional college «courses.»

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.