Sentences with phrase «feds push»
Financial Post, Dec 11, 2017 Canadian financial companies funding overseas coal plants as feds push phase - out
https://coalexit.org/ Not exact matches
In one of its final acts, the Bloomberg administration pushed through a costly contract to modernize the city's 311 call system — hiring the same company fired by the feds for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website.
Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie shot down a push by state Senate Republicans to make it illegal for localities like New York City to protect undocumented immigrants from the feds by cutting virtually all state aid from communities that don't cooperate with immigration officials.
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., pushing for affordable health care for all Americans, calls the measure «a step in the right direction,» but notes that ultimately the feds need «to extend public programs or provide subsidies, such as refundable tax credits or some other means» to have truly universal health coverage.
With a small tweak (for example, an increase or decrease in funding of 10 percent), the feds would give states a $ 3 billion push in the right direction.
If Republicans are worried about the feds having too heavy of a hand, they could push a lot of this money down to states (while keeping evidence requirements in place).
«We tried to push that, and it never really got done because I don't think anyone understood how the federal government could create carrots,» says Kress, pointing out that the feds contribute a small portion, about 12 percent, of the public school budget.
It could also push the feds over the edge, too.
At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.