Sentences with phrase «federal stimulus plan»

Couple that with the fact that the Obama administration's ambitious and very aggressive federal stimulus plan will add more money into the economy, mostly through tax rebates that will go directly to consumers, and we should soon see growing consumer confidence.

It's time for states to apply for a part of the federal stimulus plan's $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top innovation grants, and direction from individual schools can make a difference.

In some instances, the federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources of revenues to support.

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Central banks are eyeing the stimulus exit door, with the Federal Reserve planning to begin unwinding its $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet as early as next month.

Over the period 2008 - 09 to 2014 - 15, the federal debt increased by $ 155 billion, attributable to impact of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and the stimulus measures implemented by the government under its Economic Action Plans.

In this scenario Canada would be required to contribute $ 41 billion of stimulus, which is only slightly less than what the federal government did under its Economic Action Plan.

MILESTONES By Gordon Platt The emerging - markets currency crisis, spurred by the Federal Reserve's plan to begin winding down its economic stimulus, is prompting the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — to move forward with the creation of...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised a total of $ 2.6 billion in investment banking fees in the US last year, when it benefited from a boom in junk bond underwriting as corporate issuers rushed to take advantage of low rates ahead of the Federal Reserve's plans to withdraw stimulus measures.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

In addition to cutting the Department of Education's budget by $ 350 million, the plan replaces $ 853 million of expiring Federal stimulus funding with city money.

Advocates for the plan have hoped to get federal stimulus money to help fund the project and are looking to elected officials, like the Borough President, for support.

The company plans to invest nearly $ 900 million to deploy the smart - meter infrastructure in Ohio and Indiana and apply for federal stimulus funding to cover part of the project cost, said Todd Arnold, Duke's senior vice president for smart grid and customer systems.

The total 2010 budget for the department as a whole would grow to $ 26.3 billion from $ 24 billion in 2008; the projection for 2009 is $ 33.9 billion, plus a whopping $ 39 billion for energy programs under the stimulus package recently passed and $ 1.6 billion for the Office of Science, which federal bureaucrats plan to spend primarily on building scientific facilities.

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Some people blame managers for failing to look ahead and budget carefully, in particular, for failing to plan for the predictable end of federal stimulus funds.

The school district could not know exactly what Corbett planned to do with the education budget, but it recognized that a big increase in state funding to offset the elimination of federal stimulus funding was unlikely.

To many education reformers, the passage of the federal government's massive stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), appeared to be a final bright star falling into alignment.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

Twice during the presidential - campaign debates, Barack Obama termed early - childhood education one of his highest priorities, and even before serious planning got under way for an antirecession «stimulus» package, he had pledged to this priority an additional $ 10 billion in annual federal funding.

The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation's banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap - and - trade legislation.

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

It boggles my mind to see the (US) media babble excitedly about the European debt crisis, while doing their level best to ignore the current or looming fiscal / debt disaster at the US federal & state level, another looming trillion dollar student debt problem (sure to be a key plank of Obama's new election... sorry, stimulus plan!)

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

A growing number of European and Asian solar companies are opening factories in the U.S. to take advantage of a growing market and the economic stimulus plan by the federal government to give billion of dollars in grants and loan guarantees to renewable energy equipment manufacturers and power plant developers.

With the President's Stimulus Plan, more federal positions are opening every day to manage the grants and contracts associated with these projects.

The federal government came through with real incentives for home buyers when it passed the $ 790 billion economic stimulus package in mid-February, followed a day later with more positive action when the Obama administration released a $ 275 billion plan for helping home owners facing foreclosure (for more on these plans, read «A Stimulus for Home Sales&stimulus package in mid-February, followed a day later with more positive action when the Obama administration released a $ 275 billion plan for helping home owners facing foreclosure (for more on these plans, read «A Stimulus for Home Sales&Stimulus for Home Sales»).