Sentences with phrase «federal stimulus financing»

Albany faces even larger deficits in the next two fiscal years, after the expiration of a temporary tax increase on the wealthy in the coming year and the end of federal stimulus financing in the following year.

Not exact matches

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who ran a projected $ 56 - billion federal deficit last year, recently softened his stance on stimulus along with his deadline to get back to balance, but even little trims hurt.

While this sounds like monetary madness, it should be remembered that Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve, urged such action on the Japanese government a decade ago to deal with that country's deflationary crisis, and referenced Milton Friedman's argument that a central bank financed stimulus via a «helicopter drop» of money could have saved the United States from the Great Depression.

In the wake of intense opposition from the town and Orient residents, the authority eventually dropped that project, which was to be financed largely with federal stimulus funds.

Five local projects - including a steel processing plant and a boutique hotel - have been chosen to share a $ 28 million pot of tax - free financing made available through the federal government's economic stimulus program.

Construction bonding authority — a technical, and often obscure, source of capital funding for school districts — has emerged as a hot ticket for those looking to finance school facilities work under the federal government's economic - stimulus program.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.

That plan was aided by financing from the federal stimulus program, although construction has not begun.

Despite the fact that federal stimulus money is almost spent and securing project financing continues to be difficult, most analysts predict that the number of construction starts will only continue to grow as more time elapses between now and the previous economic crisis and mortgage meltdown.

In the economic stimulus bill, Congress last spring appropriated more than $ 4 billion in new financing for child care and education efforts, including Head Start, the federal program that serves about 900,000 preschoolers.

A massive dose of fiscal stimulus measures, including both deficit - financed tax cuts and federal government spending increases, has just begun to hit the economy.»