Sentences with phrase «federal subsidies»

Companies receiving federal subsidies for connecting rural homes and businesses would now be required to offer competitive rates to schools and libraries in their service areas.

It provides a structure for states to make foster care maintenance payments and adoption assistance payments and receive federal subsidies.

But that gap is shrinking, and renewable costs can be even lower with federal subsidies.

Federal subsidies provide enormous support to entrenched energy sources.

That must be why that industry wouldn't exist without federal subsidies more than 100 times those granted oil and gas, per unit of energy produced.

Although federal subsidies do not apply, premiums are generally much lower than private plans for persons under age 65.

You also become eligible for federal subsidies as long as you meet citizenship and other general requirements.

When combined with the generous federal subsidies, there has been significant artificial incentives to build wind generation facilities.

One motivation is that solar power already enjoys a 30 percent federal subsidy.

He is also pushing for massive federal subsidies so that this industry could be large scale within the next decade.

But the administration is allowed to hold states responsible for how they spend federal subsidies.

We also help you understand and calculate your free federal subsidy that can reduce your premium.

Understanding when the property was built and whether a regulatory or federal subsidy applies is the first step.

He said he has a friend who is an organic farmer that can not obtain federal subsidies because he would need to hire three people just to handle the necessary paperwork.

So now is the time to end permanent federal subsidies for oil drilling and phase out subsidies for solar and wind technologies.

The insurer had requested the increase to account for uncertainty around federal subsidies.

This essay argues that money could be better spent putting technology in the hands of the students rather than making use of federal subsidies to increase capacities that do not aid everyday educational activities.

To take aim at veggies in the same way that federal subsidies do so incorrectly is just not where you want to be... at least, I think not.

There are plenty of reasons for that, from falling prices to generous federal subsidies to innovative leasing schemes.

«Today's report does not hold good news for the electric car market, which is suffering from over production and low demand despite thousands of dollars in federal subsidies spent on every car.

The Energy Environment and Agriculture Task Force will also hear a presentation on federal subsidies for electric vehicles, then vote on a resolution for states to adopt that would discourage subsidies: «Resolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric Vehicles.»

Maffei's announcement came on the same day the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House Republicans» campaign arm, slammed the Syracuse Democrat for not supporting a spending measure that included a provision aimed at preventing people from using fake documents to secure health insurance coverage or federal subsidies through the exchanges.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

Opponents of nuclear have won large federal subsidies for wind and solar that have been in place for a quarter - century, and state clean energy mandates that explicitly exclude nuclear.

Eliminate federal subsidies for fossil fuels and re-direct those federal funds to renewable energy development and energy efficiency programs.

There are federal subsidies available for some low - income North Carolinians to help pay for the cost of insurance premiums for plans purchased through the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace during Annual Open Enrollment, or a Special Enrollment Period.

EDF has since the 1970s sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Schools also may serve more fat - laden dairy and meat products because they can receive such commodities at low cost through federal subsidy programs, whereas there are fewer such programs for vegetables, Senauer said.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

The incoming Congress has opportunities to: cut federal subsidies for large farms by encouraging a progressive return to sustainable, integrated farming; encourage low - carbon electricity options for generating clean power; implement policies that ensure the Internet remains free and open; and ratify the World Health Organization's recommendations on how to reduce tobacco smoking.

No energy generation company in the United States has been willing to order and construct a new nuclear plant in more than thirty years, and none have taken anything more than preliminary steps towards purchasing and constructing a new nuclear plant today in the absence of a promise of huge Federal subsidies.

Increasing Federal subsidies would further burden taxpayers.

Their conglomerate, Koch Industries, has received over $ 430 million in state and federal subsidies since 1990, according to watchdog group Good Jobs First.

The SALT deduction provides an indirect federal subsidy to state and local governments by decreasing the net cost of nonfederal taxes to those who pay them.

The Bush energy plan, for example, called for more than $ 35 billion in subsidies over ten years to those industries, while calculations by some energy experts suggest that total federal subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear power amount to as much as $ 21 billion a year.

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provided the first Federal subsidies to encourage the adoption of children from the nation's foster care system.

Federal «Corporate Welfare» Database Now Online Study: Large Corporations Dominate Federal Subsidy Awards; Banks, Foreign - Owned Energy Firms and Federal Contractors Among the Biggest Recipients

This fall, the Biggert - Waters Act began the process of removing and reducing federal subsidies for flood insurance on more than a million homes nationwide.

Depending on family size and income, solo entrepreneurs and other individuals may qualify for federal subsidies if they purchase plans through their state - based marketplaces.

«Lower premiums reduce the amount of federal subsidies individuals receive, proportionate to their income — nearly a one - to - one offset of the $ 9 billion that would be spent.

On Tuesday, the US Federal Communications Commission banned US telecom carriers from using federal subsidies to buy networking gear from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security concerns.

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

Local funds can not be expected to make up for lost federal subsidies, de Blasio said.

The Biggert - Waters act, which began revoking big federal subsidies for older flood - zone homes Oct. 1, has driven premiums skyward, spooking buyers and killing deals.

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward with a new rule to block federal subsidies from telecommunications equipment suppliers that «raise national security concerns.»

Based on the way the law is worded, they argue, only states that set up and operate insurance exchanges will be eligible for federal subsidies designed to help low - income people purchase insurance.

Health insurance premiums rose, in some cases heftily, in many Obamacare markets as insurers prepared for Trump to end critical federal subsidies that help pay for consumers» out - of - pocket medical costs (a move the president eventually made) and the repeal of the individual mandate.