Sentences with phrase «federal subsidies for»

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.

«The long, steady decline in federal subsidies for social housing has left... municipalities struggling against market forces that are making it... difficult for low - and modest - income renters.

More kids of meth users raised by grandparents Tucson Citizen - Tucson, Arizona, USA... The report calls for federal subsidies for grandparents raising grandchildren.

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

And here's Grist's Chris Mims: «And unlike federal subsidies for renewables, which are constantly haggled over in spending bills, a lot of these are sneaky.

From 2007 to 2010, federal subsidies for electricity production increased from $ 6,582 million to $ 10,902 million, an increase of 66 percent.

As of November 2011, a large majority of Americans (70 %) also opposed federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry (coal, oil, and natural gas), including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents:

The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are not a part of the true costs.

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.

State and federal subsidies for solar and wind together can equal the market price for wholesale power in Illinois.

By contrast, New York and federal subsidies for rooftop solar are more than 10 times higher: $ 190 per MWh.

To improve the public's access to information about the various federal energy programs that exist, IER compiled a comprehensive database that contains the most significant forms of federal subsidies for energy producers and energy products: grants, loans and loan guarantees, and tax subsidies.

Taking the CA Central Valley as an example, the single largest use of irrigation water is cotton, the production of which would scale back greatly if the federal subsidies for growing cotton were eliminated.

The most recent estimates of these amounts by CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) were included in the September 2017 report Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2017 to 2027.

In 2010 the $ 5 Billion in federal subsidies for wind - generated electricity was more than TRIPLE the amount that went to natural gas - generated electricity and coal - generated electricity COMBINED.

At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona in December 2015, the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force heard a presentation on «State and Federal Subsidies for Electric Vehicles,» then voted on a resolution to discourage states from providing subsidies, the «Resolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric Vehicles.»

The Congressional Budget Office says that federal subsidies for manufacturing and purchasing EVs will cost taxpayers around $ 7.5 billion through 2019.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.

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.

Washington — Derailed by competing interest groups and pre-election political maneuvering, legislation granting federal subsidies for child care and mandating unpaid leave for parents to care for children died this month in the 100th Congress.

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.

Layered on top of that are factors tied directly to the ACA: The law's training wheels are coming off, with certain federal subsidies for insurers expiring on Dec. 31.

The law calls for decreasing federal subsidies for heavily used «disproportionate share hospitals» like Woodhull and the city's other public medical facilities, leaving them in he lurch for millions of dollars.

Also at 10 a.m., Sen. Adriano Espaillat will address the damaging consequences that federal subsidies for big box stores like Target have caused for small business owners in East Harlem, and other neighborhoods in Upper Manhattan, East River Plaza at 520 E 117th St., Manhattan.

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.

If that tax rate is reduced to 33 percent, the after - tax of the donation would increase to $ 67 because the federal subsidy for giving falls from $ 39.60 to $ 33.

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

If that tax rate is reduced to 33 percent, the after - tax of the donation would increase to $ 67 because the federal subsidy for giving falls from $ 39.60 to $ 33.

Marketplace plans are available with or without a federal subsidy for individuals, families and small businesses.

Not exact matches

Last year, Congress in a show of bipartisan support agreed to extend the federal subsidies responsible for the renewable energy boom through the end of the decade.

Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

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.

As people sign up for insurance, the federal government provides income - linked subsidies to defray premium costs.

That's likely part of the reason that enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizFederal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizfederal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.

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.

The challenge is to a key part of the Obamacare health law that, if successful, would limit the availability of federal health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans.

Last year, over 5 million people bought insurance on federal exchanges and about 87 % of them qualified for subsidies.

The ACA bill states the subsidies apply to «an Exchange established by the State,» and therefore the challengers allege that anyone who purchased coverage through a federal exchange is not eligible for a subsidy.

Even if you believe the federal government will keep its promises and won't further shift costs to states (and they recently cut our match rate to its lowest point in 25 years), even advocates for Obamacare admit the federal subsidies are front - loaded and that expansion will eventually cost the states.

Under current law, the individual mandate and its associated penalties increase federal deficits by encouraging people to obtain subsidized coverage — through Medicaid, the health insurance marketplaces established under the ACA, or employment - based plans (which receive indirect subsidies to the extent that premiums for that coverage are excluded from taxable compensation).

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

In a major decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6 - 3 that the federal subsidies that help nearly 6.4 million people pay for their Affordable Care Act health plans are legal under the Affordable Care Act.

It's conceivable that by sending the Obamacare markets into a quasi-death spiral, the policy will significantly drive up the costs to the federal government through bigger subsidies — which is, funnily enough, a good thing for conservatives as far as the Byrd Rule is concerned.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities, for instance, is floating ideas such as a federal interest - rate subsidy for builders of moderately priced rental housing, and tax credits for energy - efficiency renovations to rental properties.

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George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

Omitted from the plan were federal subsidies that President Donald Trump ended for insurers who lower deductibles and co-payments for lower - earning consumers, as required by the Affordable Care Act.

The Republican bill added a new $ 10,000 maximum for all state and local tax deductions, effectively raising taxes on wealthy people in those states and reducing a key federal subsidy that makes it easier for states to charge high taxes on rich residents.