Sentences with phrase «from federal government funding»

In what Opposition health spokesperson Catherine King said was an 11th hour fix, rehabilitation centre staff dealing with patients struggling with drugs such as ice have won a last - minute reprieve from federal government funding cuts after an outcry from health groups, ABC news reported.

Not exact matches

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

Conspicuously absent from Tuesday's funding announcement, which included much of the Tory government's 35 - member caucus, was any representative of the federal government.

Though the funding would not likely eliminate PBS and NPR, which get only a small percentage of their funds from the federal government, it would almost certainly affect local public radio and TV stations.

Authorized by federal law, a special needs trust is an irrevocable trust designed specifically to hold assets for a beneficiary so that the funds do not disqualify the recipient from needs - based government benefits.

The federal government, for public safety reasons, will withhold some federal highway funds from states that set their drinking age younger than 21 but Congress has never tried to pass a law setting the drinking age nationally at 21.

Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.

WASHINGTON, March 26 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday said he was proposing new rules to bar the use of funds from a government program to purchase equipment or services from companies that pose a security threat to U.S. communications networks.

They also need to show high - growth potential — evidenced by successfully raising at least $ 345,000 in funding from a qualified U.S. investor or attracting grants of at least $ 100,000 from federal, state, or local governments.

I definitely see the possibility of there being funding, whether it's coming from the Pennsylvania Victim advocate office, which is a government entity and gets a lot of federal funds for victims.

A VimpelCom subsidiary helped fund Wind Mobile's entry into Canada's wireless industry about five years ago but the federal government blocked the European telecom company from acquiring full control last year.

Report calls for $ 1.34 billion in joint funding from business, federal government to fund new positions for those exiting education system

The government has arrested thousands of immigrants in the country illegally and threatened to withhold funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which limit cooperation between local and federal immigration authorities.

But Trump's assertion that the federal government must start a bidding process for drugs in order to control prices and spending could very well invite similar criticisms from political opponents and the well - funded drug industry.

For one, federal spending cuts are also likely weighing on state and local government hiring — as about 25 % of their funding comes from Washington.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Ontario has the lowest per - capita program spending among provinces and the lowest total government revenue per person among all Canadian provinces, including funding from federal transfers.

Created in 1997 with support from the federal government and Alberta, AVAC Ltd. is a venture capital investor that provides investment funding for research and commercialization for Alberta - based companies in the areas of agriculture, renewable resources, and industrial technology.

When the federal government mandates the levy rises to $ 40 per tonne in 2021 (up from $ 30 in Alberta currently), the NDP would stuff the extra funds into general revenue.

Jeff Dion, National Compassion Fund director, said that funding would come from programs run by the federal and state governments.

In order to stimulate the creation of a series of Canadian venture investment funds, at little cost to government, CATA proposes that the federal government borrow a page from the Israeli play book, with the structure proposed by VC expert Stephen Hurwitz6.

The federal government offers a kind of insurance of its own through a fund called the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, which helps provinces and territories recover from natural disasters.

The Phase One plan would leverage funding from the federal and provincial governments while building momentum towards negotiations with senior levels of government for the critical regional projects included in Phase Two and Phase Three.

The act requires requires state and local governments that want to qualify for funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to include animals in their disaster plans.

Evan Solomon: The government of Alberta, they point to these statistics: the oil sands creates $ 307 billion in tax revenue, $ 187 billion for the federal government, 23 % of employment is from oil sands, 7 % of employment in Canada from the oil sands and in Ontario alone, 7 %, they say, of employment comes from the oil sands and they say royalties of $ 1.9 billion fund programs across the country.

The Federal Communications Commission in April proposed barring the use of funds from a government program to purchase equipment or services from companies that pose a security threat to U.S. communications networks.

The rate at which the Fed sells or purchases government bonds determines the federal funds rate, or the rate at which banks can borrow funds from one another overnight.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

Part of their earnings come from federal government grants called Aged Care Funding Instruments which help look after Australia's aging population.

«Permanent Work funding from FEMA is the main source of federal assistance to help a community repair and rebuild its public infrastructure after a natural disaster, and there should be absolutely no ambiguity that the federal government intends to provide this crucial assistance to help Puerto Rico build back after Hurricane Maria,» they wrote.

As they return to the nation's capital Tuesday from the monthlong summer recess, members of Congress have only weeks to fund the federal government, raise the debt ceiling, and reauthorize a health insurance program that benefits thousands of Maryland children.

Start - ups in Ontario can access funding and support services from the province and the federal government.

When the central bank wants to tighten monetary policy and targets a higher federal funds rate, it absorbs money from the system by selling off government bonds.

These funds would be matched by an equal annual injection from the federal government.

Planned Parenthood distributes contraceptives with the help of funding from the federal government.

The new measure overturns an Obama - era rule that said states couldn't stop funds from the federal government from going to the abortion provider.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

The federal government's excess revenues from Social Security receipts (since Social Security receipts are currently greater than expenditures) are not saved but instead are reallocated to fund other government programs.

On the Democratic side, it's the Hyde Amendment — the legislative provision that prevents the federal government from directly funding abortions.

The percentage of public television's budget that comes from the federal government fell from 26 percent in 1980 to 16 percent in 1990, while corporate funding increased from 11 percent to 17 percent.

The rule — first implemented by President Reagan at a 1984 conference in Mexico City — prohibits international family planning organizations from receiving federal funds unless they agree not to perform or counsel for abortions or lobby in order to liberalize the pro-life policies of foreign governments.

The R&D program is largely funded by producer levies, with matched funding from the Federal Government.

An earlier price cut led to an $ 11.4 million funding package from the Victorian government and the industry and a $ 555 million low - interest federal loan scheme to help farmers adjust.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Australian football's stakeholders will fund the Women's World Cup bid themselves if the money is not forthcoming from the federal government, says Football NSW chairman Anter Isaac.

(Educare families pay no tuition; an average of 16 percent of the funding comes from philanthropic support, and the rest comes from federal Head Start and Early Head Start funds and other government subsidies for low - income parents.)

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

Medicaid is about half funded by the federal government, with the rest coming from the states.

Cook County officials released a draft of a hazard mitigation plan that will give county and municipal governments access to federal funding for projects to prevent damage from natural disasters.