Sentences with phrase «federal programs very»

«If you don't raise taxes you'll have to get rid of a lot of federal programs very important to the middle class,» h e said.

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Reining In Rates O'Neil, one of the managers of the $ 26 billion Fidelity Total Bond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasuries.

Instead, the 74 - page lawsuit was aimed at DACA's existence from its very beginning by the Obama Administration in June 2012, arguing that the program was always illegal under federal immigration laws and always was unconstitutional.

As a share of GDP, program spending for the federal government is at a very low level compared to previous years, dating from the middle of the last century.

«That would be very harmful to those programs and to those vulnerable, marginalized workers if the federal government was to follow through.»

Those are two very small programs (combined, not even 1 % of teh federal budget) that have paid us significant benefits over the years.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

These feel - good programs cost the federal government very little; total funding for the Healthier US Schools awards, which are supposed to go to 1250 schools, is just $ 2.5 million.

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.

Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost meals.

Utah's email retention policy is very similar to the «Capstone» program the federal government plans to adopt in 2015.

Nonetheless, Mr. Cuomo said he wanted to see how Mr. Trump would handle federal programs, like housing, that he called «very important to New York.»

The federal - state program that began in the mid-1960s as health insurance for the very poor now covers the working poor and even the middle class.

De Blasio had previously stated that he would only back «right to counsel» in housing court if the federal government financed it, and called it a «very, very costly» measure that would preclude funding for other programs.

With more than a decade of experience working for regional economic development and planning groups in the Hudson Valley, Hagerty is very familiar with State and Federal grants and economic development programs.

But the fate of that NASA - funded education program and many others was very much up in the air until this week, when Congress passed a $ 1 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through 30 September 2015.

The researchers from Georgetown University and MedStar Health representing medical research, policy, and law, say their findings may provide timely and meaningful insight into what could result from the expansion of Medicaid, a state and federal program that provides health insurance for those with very low income.

But as long as states and / or the federal government increase demands on teachers while canceling some of these very programs, the problem rural and remote schools face in attracting and retaining quality teachers is just not likely to fade.

Mary Butz had already established a very good program — so good that it received a federal grant through the School Leadership Pprogram — so good that it received a federal grant through the School Leadership ProgramProgram.

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.

For one, the federal stimulus funding that came directly to the district had to be used for program enhancements, that is, the district had very limited legal ability to «bank» the funds.

In addition, almost two - thirds of the 2,000 technology specialists, teachers, administrators, and school board members surveyed said that the federal E-rate program is very or somewhat important in helping their schools meet technology goals.

The bruising seven - month legislative war that ended with the passage of a compromise federal budget changed the terms of the debate on education spending and forced the education lobby to fight for the very survival of the programs it champions.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

In contrast to the byzantine system of federal and state financial aid programs, free college is a very easy concept to understand.

The federal school lunch program does not do a very good job of verifying that students whose families sign up for the program actually meet the eligibility requirements.

«They were making a very intentional decision to use their Title I funds to operate the program,» Weixler said, referring to federal funding dedicated to low - income students.

The administration doesn't expect all states to participate in the very first year, since states would have to meet a variety of quality standards for their programs in order to tap the federal funds.

I am very concerned about the possible elimination of funding for Title IIA of ESSA, the primary federal program to support effective teachers, which is authorized under ESSA to receive approximately $ 2.3 billion in Fiscal Year 2018.

One encouraging sign in these scores was some progress in nearly two dozen of the state's very lowest performing schools that two years ago started receiving extra federal funding under the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program as long as they followed specific reforms.

In 1970, we have a federal subsidized voucher program in Alumrock, California, that becomes very limited and sort of fizzles out.

There are a few things to know about this program, and several steps you would need to take to get potential forgiveness on your federal loans, we would love to discuss with you this possibility, the process is long and it requires some paperwork and dealing with servicers who are not always very friendly, but with us, we do all the talking and dealing with them for you.

The need for student loans has also created a very lucrative market for the private lenders and banks who, until 2010, profited from guarantees through the federal student loan system and who are benefiting today from the demand for financing beyond the federal loan program.

The Perkins Loan is a program that provides federal student loans to students who meet very specific criteria.

The terms of federal loan programs are generally considered very favorable to borrowers.

If you are a federal or state employee, or you work for a corporation that provides a workplace giving program, this is a very simple and convenient way to support our life - saving work.

It's time for the federal government to make animal protection a much higher priority interest, and I think the creation of the White House liaison would be very important because there are so many different programs related to animals.

«The program has run smoothly and incurred very minimal costs to the federal government.

Here is my take on how the Trumpers might treat the emerging US Public Access Program, which will make all scientific journal articles flowing from Federal research freely available 12 months after publication: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/tracking-trump.html The future is very uncertain.

You know very little about farming in the US if you don't know about the Conservation Reserve Program which is a federal program signed into law by President Reagan almost 30 yeaProgram which is a federal program signed into law by President Reagan almost 30 yeaprogram signed into law by President Reagan almost 30 years ago.

This represents very responsible action, which we hope will serve as a model for research contributions from the corporate sector,» said David Slade, manager of the federal government's carbon dioxide research program at the Energy Department, in a May 1979 letter to Shaw.

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who has been very much in the limelight this year for chairing the Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing the TARP bailout program and for originating the idea of a federal consumer financial protection agency, has been named Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.

And what the federal government needs to do is shut down the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)-- or, at the very least, scale it back to what it was before they made the decision to expand it a decade ago.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

As the publisher of a start - up magazine (different federal program, but very similar in nature to that of the book publishing program) I was somewhat outraged to discover that the 2 largest grants given to magazines in 2009 were:

Medi - Cal is the Federal State health insurance program designed to pay for nursing home care for those in very low income brackets.

The CFRW Program is delivered entirely online, providing the writer with the hands on experience necessary to research, locate and analyze the very same technology and resources that the federal government uses in its recruitment and hiring practices.

«I'm certainly pleased with the education I've received through Broadview's Medical Assisting program, and very happy that I'll graduate with the ability to meet these new «Meaningful Use Rule» federal guidelines,» says Bambace.

And, you can work through the program on your own (your spouse can join too if they want, but they don't have to), you get 24x7 access, and it's very affordable since the program was developed with grant funding from the Federal Department of Health and Human Services.