Sentences with phrase «federal spending programs»

The option would increase the financial burden on families with postsecondary students — particularly middle - income families who do not qualify for current federal spending programs.

Congress is on track to increase federal spending for research and development programs by at least $ 3.1 billion in fiscal 2017 over the previous year, a noteworthy boost at a time when overall federal discretionary spending is slated to remain flat, according to AAAS» latest analysis of federal spending programs.

This week the United States Treasury began selling $ 100 billion in new bonds to begin financing of what is the biggest federal spending program since World War II.

Would the Race to the Top money end up getting doled out like any other federal spending program, and thus end up subsidizing the status quo?

She openly supports Pell Grants; in fact, she wants to make them «a mandatory federal spending program similar to Social Security.»

Not exact matches

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

The budget proposal also included plans to eliminate duplicative energy programs and wasteful spending to help get «federal government out of the way and allow the private sector to do its job and flourish.»

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

«Eliminating these Obama - era pet programs will help us reduce federal spending in the energy sector and promote private - sector energy production and innovation,» the House budget document reads.

Under a continuing resolution passed last week in place of actual federal spending bills, Pentagon budgets are capped at 2015 levels, severely limiting the service branches» ability to start new programs or even shutdown programs they don't need anymore.

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.

Statistics Canada reports that spending on home repairs and maintenance increased 22 % in 2009 over the previous year, «likely due to the federal government home renovation tax credit program.»

The projected elimination of the federal government deficit — currently exceeding $ 30 billion — relies on the assumption of annual GDP growth of 5.6 % while program spending is held to an average annual growth rate of 2 %.

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

It's back to the drawing board for the eight - year - old effort to create an SBA women's procurement program, as the most recent federal spending bill scraps controversial, restrictive Bush - era regulations.

Boeing opened a new factory in Charleston, South Carolina, while decades of federal spending on space and defense programs created a pool of engineers in Alabama.

Independent researchers across the U.S. have spent millions of federal dollars developing dozens of evidence - based programs shown to teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs.

Direct federal program spending is smaller, as a portion of the economy, every year.

This procedural tool would allow the chamber to pass certain kinds of legislation which affects the federal budget — including spending on programs like Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and Social Security — with a simple majority.

Ontario has the lowest per - capita program spending among provinces and the lowest total government revenue per person among all Canadian provinces, including funding from federal transfers.

The commission recommended several reforms including reforming civilian and military retirement programs, reducing agricultural program spending, eliminating in - school subsidies in federal student loan programs, and giving the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation the authority to increase premiums.

Medicaid is an entitlement program, and therefore there is no fixed amount of federal Medicaid spending to be reallocated from state to state.

What is interesting is that the total annual lapse in federal direct program spending has been declining for some time.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

Don't give money to corporate welfare programs, no to negative income tax, just make new jobs with Federal spending instead.

In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada and our guest panelists, Clare Demerse, Federal Policy Advisor with Clean Energy Canada, Tyler Hamilton, award winning journalist and Canadian author, and Ben Thibault, director of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, will discuss new research on Canadian clean energy spending and deployment, and discuss what these findings mean for...

According to an August report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), debt will likely continue to grow as spending for large federal benefit programs — Social Security, Medicare and the like — outpaces revenue.

A comprehensive spending review of «at least three federal departments,» to be named later, to eliminate waste and inefficiencies, as well as a three - year review of federal assets and an audit of existing innovation and clean - tech programs.

In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada and our guest panelists, Clare Demerse, Federal Policy Advisor with Clean Energy Canada, Tyler Hamilton, award winning journalist and Canadian author, and Ben Thibault, director of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, will discuss new research on Canadian clean energy spending and deployment, and discuss what these findings mean for renewable energy developers, clean tech innovators and policy makers across the country.

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.

For four decades it has been much debated, since the aid program — currently capped at around $ 4 billion — accounts for a significant amount of the federal government's discretionary spending.

The cost of the 2011 cutbacks in federal spending will fall most directly on consumers and retirees by scaling back Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and social spending programs.

NO: Federal spending at these levels is unsustainable and must be cut sharply now by empowering state and local governments, consolidating duplicative programs and privatizing government programs.

Off - budget: Federal government expenditures on certain programs, agencies, and government sponsored enterprises that are accounted for separately in the budget to prevent spending changes or avoid a conflict of interest.

The federal government, of course, also continues twentieth - century transfer payment programs for provincial spending that live on in our century.

The federal government spends about $ 5 - billion a year on R&D, spread over 60 programs across 17 different government departments.

Other direct program spending, consisting of operating expenses for Crown corporation, defence and all other departments and agencies, increased $ 2.3 billion (4.2 %), primarily reflecting increases in federal government employee pension and other future benefit liabilities, reflecting the impact of lower interest rates.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

The status quo fiscal projection, which assumes no new spending programs and no new tax cuts, is now for the federal books to move into a small surplus in 2019 - 20, and for the federal debt to GDP ratio in 2019 - 20 to be 27 %.

With the tax reform debate now fully underway, Apartment List examined the popular mortgage interest deduction (MID) and compared federal expenditure on the MID to spending on Section 8 rental assistance programs.

[1] Federal spending for health programs is projected to total nearly $ 1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2015.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

By law all children have the right to benefit from certain federal programs, but the voucher system — through which funds can be spent to benefit the school, not just the student — is both unconstitutional and poor public policy.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

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.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

The federal government spends more money on dairy products than any other food item in the school lunch program.

By placing some parameters on school food budgets as part of reauthorization legislation, Congress could generate funds for the meals programs and ensure that federal funds are spent on the purposes that it intends.