Low - end outfits like mine, trying to snag an SBIR (
federal small money grants) have to submit to both a fiscal, personal and technical strip - search, where hand - waving arguments simply don't cut it, and each stage of (still small) money requires verifiable performance.
Not exact matches
The
Federal Reserve Board voted Wednesday to raise interest rates, ending close to a decade of virtually free
money — and that could mean financing challenges for startups and
small businesses.
And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time,
money, and effort — given the
small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983
federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.
In a
federal government survey in 2010, four out of five
small businesses said they had no need to raise
money.
«Improving
small - business opportunities through
federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer
money because
small businesses bring competition, innovation and lower prices.»
Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will reach
small firms, either directly in
federal contracts or indirectly as this
money makes its way through the economy.
The
Federal Reserve could push banks to lend more by paying Wall Street
smaller returns on
money stashed at the U.S. central bank when inflation is low, according to an academic paper presented on Saturday.
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Earlier this summer the
Federal Government announced a series of proposed changes that stand to impact how
small businesses operate; specifically, how
small businesses pay tax, how they manage
money / capital, and how family members can engage in the business and / or plan for retirement.
«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.»
To date, New York has received only a
small fraction of
federal money for high speed rail, but we want to make it a success now, and my Administration will aggressively pursue all funding opportunities to make high speed rail a reality.
We understand how it works — and
small owners have no power but it is not going to stop with
small property owners — they just needed to effectively neutralize us through impoverishment and unpopularity first — but the retailers are going to catch it and frankly, having these
small business service things just waste
money — it's not going to be a proper defense if there is a lawsuit and there will never be a
federal prosecution of what this city does.
Nicholas A. Langworthy, the Republican Party chairman in Erie County, N.Y., said he's taken aback by Clinton's repeated references to what he described as «
small bore» efforts, such as securing
federal money for a Buffalo project called Artspace that created residential living space for artists.
Gillibrand's bill would allow the
Federal Small Business Administration to loan funds directly to venture capitalists who would in turn invest the
money in companies.
In addition to riders and the
federal government, Centro gets its
money from three main places: New York state, the counties it serves, and a
small portion of mortgage taxes paid in those counties.
The event took place in a
small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for
federal housing
money and on behalf of
small businesses.
Because the balloons are less than 12 pounds, they save
money and hassle by sidestepping a requirement for licensing by the
Federal Aviation Administration, which waives the rule for
small balloons that gather weather data.
If a state will do the right thing and trust parents to decide what school should receive its
money, the
federal government should do the same with its (relatively
small) part of the
money.
With a relatively
small (by
federal standards) amount of
money, he has catalyzed a large amount of worthwhile education - reform activity in a great many places.
The death of a
small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public
money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.
Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four
small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in
federal grant
money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.
Schools that do not get
federal poverty
money and have decent grades will have to make
smaller changes that can be monitored by district administrators.
Through the Race to the Top initiative, for example, the Obama administration succeeded in incentivizing states: Even with relatively
small pots of
money — just $ 4 billion, or less than 2 percent of
federal education spending — the administration encouraged states to prioritize innovative teacher and principal reforms and develop rigorous academic standards.22 Thirty - four states modified their policies in response to the
federal initiative, even though only 19 states received
federal funding to do so.23
With a relatively
small price tag — less than 1 percent of all local, state, and
federal education funding — RTT helped spur states to make most of these policy changes before one dollar of the
federal program's
money was spent.
no, it's
small towns like this that pay taxes to support the bloated
federal government who takes our
money then makes us violate our religious beliefs to get it back for local government projects.
Given the relatively
small increase in return, wouldn't you be better off keeping that risk diversified in the
money market account which likely holds primarily
federal government bonds and AAA rated corporate bonds?
And my fee is pretty
small in comparison to how much
money they save on their student loan debt once we get them into a loan program for
federal student loans or a debt settlement for private student loans.
The limits on how much
money can be borrowed are
smaller on subsidized
federal loans than on unsubsidized
federal loans.
The
federal government has more than enough
money to raise personal taxes, especially from high income individuals, by reducing some of the following: the
small business tax deduction ($ 3.2 billion), lifetime capital gains exemption ($ 600 million), donation credit related to gifted securities ($ 52 million), flow - through shares ($ 125 million) and bringing capital gains tax rates in line with the top tax rate on dividends ($ 1.25 billion).
Canadians like the idea: Alberta's carbon tax includes a
small rebate, and the
federal plan will send some
money back to individuals.
Tax specialists will privately say there are a lot of things the
federal government could be doing to raise more
money without unfairly targeting the
small - business sector, including enforcing existing income - splitting rules so that split income that is not actually paid to trust beneficiaries is fully taxed.
In the Oakes case itself, the Supreme Court found that the
federal government failed to rationally connect Oakes» possession of a
small amount of illegal drugs and
money to the presumption that he was engaged in the crime of drug trafficking.
The amount of
money saved in this process of de-funding civil society is so
small compared to the overall
federal budget that the argument for cutting funds can not rest on the idea of fiscal prudence.
A
small crowd joined Hibshman and other Stoneman Douglas as they made their way down
Federal Highway, waving signs that said #MSDStrong» and «Why is NRA
money more important than our lives?»
Since 2005, this
money —
federal dollars passed back through the state to fund services — has paid for health care for an average of 244,000 needy women a year; with the
small pot that remains, just $ 19 million this year, the Department of State Health Services estimates that just 60,000 low - income women will be able to access basic health services in 2012.
Buying properties from the
Federal Housing Administration (FHA), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA),
Small Business Administration (SBA), Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), or others can save you
money.