Sentences with phrase «from federal stimulus»

That plan was aided by financing from the federal stimulus program, although construction has not begun.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted that he pushed for the grant approval - money that originally came from the federal stimulus package.

One big reason for his hesitation was the giant influx of money from the federal stimulus package that had to be disbursed.

Millions of dollars from the federal stimulus budget were allocated in 2009 to improve the elevators in the city's public housing developments.

«Without the funding that our region is receiving from the federal stimulus package, along with the funding Gov. Paterson and the Legislature approved for our youth, these young people would be left behind.

Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said: «This is a terrific way for Long Islanders to benefit from federal stimulus funds.

As training money from the federal stimulus package opens new possibilities for Mohawk Valley workers looking for the skills that will be in demand when the economy recovers, Mohawk Valley Community College is offering area residents an opportunity to learn about exciting programs that can be the first step in a new career.

Surprise guest Sen. Charles Schumer introduced Carrion and crowed about the money New York will get from the federal stimulus bill and the advantage of having Carrion in the White House — an appointment he took some credit for.

He said schools have an billion and a half dollars in reserve funds and leftover monies from the federal stimulus program, which ended last year, enough to cover the reductions.

Not exact matches

While Twitter's debut likely helped send shares of Facebook Inc. down, the overall tech industry also took a hit as the markets pulled back from record levels on worries that the Federal Reserve could soon start curtailing its economic stimulus program.

A rift has emerged in the Canadian economic community, with Bay Street economists calling for fiscal stimulus from the federal government while academic economists are openly hostile to the idea.

The Federal Reserve laid the groundwork Wednesday to begin winding down shortly the massive stimulus program it embarked on to rescue the economy from the financial crisis.

Given that the Federal Reserve was tapering from its bond - purchasing stimulus program (otherwise known as quantitative easing), Doll said, you had to be crazy bearish to not believe interest rates would fail to reach 3.5 % in 2014.

While no major advanced economy currently employing these measures is expected to begin withdrawing monetary stimulus in the near future, mildly encouraging data from the United States, coupled with recent statements from various Federal Reserve officials, have definitely caught the market's attention.

While some have expressed concerns about the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will start to ease away from its stimulus program, Price's Puglia said he does not think that necessarily will hurt stock performance.

TORONTO, September 14, 2016 - Canadian economic growth will snap back after a second - quarter contraction and will get further lift in 2017 from rising energy prices, low interest rates, and federal stimulus, according to the latest RBC Economics Outlook report.

However, by September 2013, the IMF had done a 360 - degree turn and had the U.S leading a global recovery (albeit not very strongly) and the emerging market economies struggling with rising interest rates, capital flight and falling exchange rates, resulting from the possibility of a tapering of Federal Reserve Board monetary stimulus.

Canadian economic growth will snap back after a second - quarter contraction and will get further lift in 2017 from rising energy prices, low interest rates, and federal stimulus...

While this sounds like monetary madness, it should be remembered that Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve, urged such action on the Japanese government a decade ago to deal with that country's deflationary crisis, and referenced Milton Friedman's argument that a central bank financed stimulus via a «helicopter drop» of money could have saved the United States from the Great Depression.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised a total of $ 2.6 billion in investment banking fees in the US last year, when it benefited from a boom in junk bond underwriting as corporate issuers rushed to take advantage of low rates ahead of the Federal Reserve's plans to withdraw stimulus measures.

The Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) October decision to end quantitative easing, withdrawing stimulus from the economy, marks the start of monetary tightening, or the second stage of recovery.

They also interpreted statements from the US Federal Reserve around that time as indicating that the Fed was increasingly concerned about the possibility of deflation in the US economy and that it might buy long - term bonds to add to monetary stimulus.

For instance, during the recent stimulus bill, Billions of dollars in federal tax dollars were diverted to states to cover budget shortfalls, which had the indirect effect of preventing municipalities from declaring bankruptcy.

In 2009, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal turned down stimulus money from the federal government.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

By the late 2000s — after the recession but before an influx of federal stimulus cash — New York City was getting just 9 percent of its funding from the federal government.

In the wake of intense opposition from the town and Orient residents, the authority eventually dropped that project, which was to be financed largely with federal stimulus funds.

Speaking on «The Capitol Pressroom» recently, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said government jobs are suffering now because they were shielded from the recession in the beginning with federal stimulus money.

Tax revenues from Wall Street, meanwhile, are shrinking, and the state's federal stimulus money, which has added up to about $ 6 billion annually since 2008, will be cut off in another year, two at most.

Minnesota reports 2,130 transportation jobs created from road stimulus so far St. Paul, MN (AP)-- Eager to show the federal stimulus package is working, Minnesota transportation leaders said Wednesday the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has supported 2,130 direct...

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today voiced strong support for a proposal by Senator Charles Schumer to have county governments in New York State receive direct funding from the federal government as part of additional Medicaid funding for New York that will be included in the upcoming federal stimulus package.

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

State Budget Director Robert Megna added that the state has gotten less funding from the federal government during the past year and a half, especially with the end of the stimulus package instituted after the 2008 financial crash.

The money will come from $ 108 million in federal stimulus funds, $ 210 million from bond sales, $ 42 million from the state, and an annual $ 65 to $ 75 million from a federal subsidy program.

Utility executives and smart grid advocates agree that apart from the smart grid projects funded by $ 4 billion in federal stimulus grants, most current smart grid investment is going into improving the efficiency, reliability and profitability of power supply, rather than reaching consumers directly.

How has the $ 4.8 million in federal stimulus funding from the National Cancer Institute impacted your research in the past year?

The total 2010 budget for the department as a whole would grow to $ 26.3 billion from $ 24 billion in 2008; the projection for 2009 is $ 33.9 billion, plus a whopping $ 39 billion for energy programs under the stimulus package recently passed and $ 1.6 billion for the Office of Science, which federal bureaucrats plan to spend primarily on building scientific facilities.

The $ 10 - billion price tag to get these projects on track is equally ambitious — California is looking for $ 4.7 billion of this to come from the $ 8 billion in stimulus money the federal government is making available for high - speed rail projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic - stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high - quality digital content for school laptops.

Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.

The fallout from the 2009 legislative session continues in state court, as Gov. Sanford and lawmakers battle over whether South Carolina will accept $ 700 million in federal stimulus money that would help pay teachers» salaries and fund public safety.

Funding to the district from state - generated revenues was essentially flat, but federal funding increased by 13.3 percent, largely due to the stimulus package.

It's time for states to apply for a part of the federal stimulus plan's $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top innovation grants, and direction from individual schools can make a difference.

In other locations, TAP may get a financial boost from money in the federal stimulus package that's designated for performance pay.

The association has a point: Within the past decade, more than $ 200 million in federal stimulus funds, plus millions more from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have been spent in New Mexico alone on efforts to extend high - speed broadband networks to rural areas.

Even stretched across the entire period from birth to age five, it would work out to about $ 8,000 per child per year, without touching the separate federal child - care dollars, leveraging the Head Start appropriation, or tapping into other current public - sector spending on needy children (including the additional «stimulus» dollars that may or may not prove permanent).

Key state economists gathered at CEA today — along with reporters — to discuss a variety of topics from the depth of the state recession to the wisdom of how federal stimulus funds were applied by state policymakers.

The school benefits from the assistance of community partners and a grant funded with federal stimulus money.

The funding is from two federal sources, including $ 1.75 million under the No Child Left Behind act and the remaining $ 3.45 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as stimulus money.

The California Department of Education announced Thursday preliminary calculations for the amount of money each local educational agency will receive from the latest federal school stimulus appropriation approved by Congress last month.