Sentences with phrase «federal support as»

For all the successful magnet schools in LA Unified and elsewhere, they are not attracting as much federal support as charter schools.

Learning mindsets and skills have enjoyed some federal support as well.

«It is our shared commitment to the people of our states to work in partnership so that our needs are met and we receive as much federal support as possible.»

Not exact matches

Several years ago Liberal MP John Mckay introduced a private member's bill known as C - 300, which would have compelled the federal government to determine whether Canadian companies were upholding certain environmental and human rights standards when operating abroad — and withdraw federal support from offenders.

He noted that other central banks such as the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are doing the same to support their economies.

«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

So, despite raising some revenue from mandate penalties, the federal government ends up paying more as premium support.

If your down - on - her - luck pal has been sleeping on your sofa for the past year and earned less than $ 4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $ 4,050 on your federal return, even though the two of you are not related at all.

Billionaire hedge fund managers Paul Singer and Ken Griffin gave $ 2.5 million each to the Conservative Solutions PAC, an outside organization that supports Rubio, as 2015 drew to a close, according to Federal Election Commission data released this week.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

Yet that stop back home may have represented the most concrete outcome as Trudeau announced plans to draft legislation affirming federal jurisdiction over the pipeline and negotiations with Kinder Morgan for financial support for the project.

It probably comes as no surprise that Sherman threw his support behind the Liberals during the recent federal election campaign.

As expected, the U.S. Senate's Banking Committee supported Janet Yellen to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, opening up the nomination for a vote in the full senate.

May 31, 2013: B.C. government lawyers tell the federal review panel that the province does not support the pipeline project as proposed.

Civil - service jobs providing front - line service to the public and support to government bodies such as municipal departments, or provincial or federal ministries.

Both the private sector as well as federal, state and local governments have an important role to play in supporting high growth businesses and job creation.

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

As for the federal Conservatives, the last time Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the issue of natural resource exports, he was lobbying for American support of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.

A lack of overarching federal policy support is another barrier: Until recently, pipelines trumped power lines as a national priority.

A number of operational features were required to implement such an overnight reverse repo, or ON RRP, facility: It would need same - day settlement; 16 the operation would need to be run predictably, every day, and as late in the day as possible, to give lenders time to bargain with other counterparties using the outside option of investing with the Federal Reserve; 17 an appropriate spread below IOR would be required to ensure that the facility neither induced large changes in the structure of money markets nor lost the ability to support interest rate control; 18 and the operations would need enough unused capacity that lenders could credibly propose to leave borrowers that did not offer an adequate interest rate.19

In April of this year, CanWest News reported: «When asked whether he still supports his firewall plan Monday, Harper dodged the question saying it is not his responsibility, as leader of the federal Conservatives, to tell a province like Alberta how to run its affairs.

In a statement on October 20, 1987, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said, «The Federal Reserve, consistent with its responsibilities as the Nation's central bank, affirmed today its readiness to serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system» (Carlson 2006, 10).

The Jenkins report proposes creating an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC) as an «' arms length» agency... [to] become the common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs», reporting to Parliament through the proposed Minister for Innovation.

These efficiency gains in the SR&ED Program could be tied into a common service platform for federal business innovation support programs such as the IRIC proposed by the Jenkins report and redirected to other support programs for innovation.

The banks have been acting almost as a financial gang in pressing not only to support the Federal Reserve chairman who is a deregulator (and the Federal Reserve is supposed to essentially represent the interests of the commercial banking system), but the banks also now have supplied the Treasury Secretary and the Treasury Secretary is not supposed to represent the banks.

This includes the ability to combine federal and private loans, access to wealth advisors via SoFi, and career support, as well as unemployment protection that allows clients to pause payments, and provide them with career coaches to find a job.

Government Works supports large federal departments such as homeland security, department of defense, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and others, in custom applications building and hosting.

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

WASHINGTON - Janet Yellen said she was disappointed that President Donald Trump didn't offer her a second term as Federal Reserve chair, but supports her central bank successor, Jerome Powell, who takes over today.

In addition to federal tax, your state will make additional withholdings for taxes, and most states will deduct other money that you may owe to the state, such as back taxes, child support, loan payments, etc..

As Canada strives to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement, the 2017 federal budget outlined plans to double investments in clean energy innovation by 2020, with $ 2.2 billion earmarked to support cleantech R&D, commercialization and adoption.

Do we simply accept a smaller government and ever shrinking support for veterans and other groups or do we as act to halt and reverse the direction that the federal government is heading?

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

«The Canadian Cancer Society supports federal action to implement tobacco plain packaging, as proposed today by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.»

And just yesterday, Mester supported her colleagues» notion to announce a plan for balance sheet reduction, which will take «several years,» as well as a return to using the federal funds rate as the «main tool» for monetary policy.

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

An army of Wildrose twitterati launched online attacks yesterday against Calgary - North West PC MLA Sandra Jansen for her support of former television news anchor Nirmala Naidoo, who is running as the federal Liberal candidate in Calgary - Rocky Ridge, which overlaps with the Calgary - Foothills constituency.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Submitted by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and co-sponsored by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and others, the resolution recommended the federal government support the continuous flow of commerce to and from foreign markets and ensure the sustainability of marine transportation resources, such as the Lower Fraser River.

As negotiators stumbled toward an end - of - the - week deadline to fund the government or face a federal shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan dashed to the White House amid concerns Trump's support was wavering.

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

Even Dr. Sherman was a member of the federal Liberals before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008 (he supported Gerard Kennedy in the 2006 federal Liberal leadership contest).

Despite strong support for sending federal Conservatives to Ottawa, Alberta is now a much more progressive and moderate province than it was 20 years ago, when a young Mr. Kenney was roaming the halls of the Legislature as the spokesperson for the taxpayers federation.

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How else could she argue, as she did in 2016, that Alberta would not support the federal government's pan-Canadian carbon price of $ 50 per tonne (in the year 2022) unless the federal government first approved an oil sands pipeline to tidewater, while also arguing that British Columbia's proposed oil spill safety measures contravene the federal government's clear jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines?

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

And therefore, those are the sorts of concerns, clearly as bond investors we have to have in the back of our mind because while we're still very much supported by central banks continuing to buy government bonds, the Fed [US Federal Reserve] has announced that it is beginning now to not only end the taper, that ended some time ago, they are potentially selling bonds back into the market.

So it should come as no surprise that business leaders overwhelmingly support the federal government's attempts to police corporate wrongdoing, and to ensure that Ottawa only does business with ethical suppliers.

The strong connections between the federal Conservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wildrose Party).