Sentences with phrase «funded with taxpayer money»

These cases are often taken by lawyers working for free, and by legal aid attorneys in agencies partially funded with taxpayer money.

Since they are neither privately or publicly held and funded with taxpayer money they have been the slowest to react to the need for more stringent mortgage underwriting guidelines to lessen the chance of future defaults on each mortgage they issue.

Lawmakers yesterday introduced a proposal to make scientific papers funded with taxpayer money available for free on the Internet.

And then on Friday, Uber announced it would partner with 43North, a startup competition Cuomo has funded with taxpayer money out of the Buffalo Billion program.

A much better way to go about all of this is to be up front and honest about what the United States will and will not fund with taxpayer money.

Not exact matches

Under this hypothetical policy, governments transfer money directly to taxpayers to encourage spending, a handout funded by issuing bonds with a coupon of zero and no maturity date, which central banks buy.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

With accessibility to taxpayer - presented funds, banks had little need to have to tap up money from men and women.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

We have committed nearly # 1.5 bn of taxpayers» money to go to Arts Council England (ACE) over the next four years, with the budget for funding arts organisations, ACE's core business, reduced by less than 15 per cent.

End Taxpayer - funded Vanity — Prohibit any building, facility or capital project that was paid for with taxpayer money to be named for any current elected official.

Despite the group taking taxpayer money, the ERG has long refused to list its members — with Fernandes repeatedly declining to do so in what many described as a «car crash» Channel 4 News interview, hours after openDemocracy revealed that her organisation was funded by taxpayer cash.

We must send people with fresh ideas and fresh perspectives to state government to objectively address the rampant corruption, stop wasting taxpayer money, and prioritize the programs that our citizens desperately need, like prevention, treatment and recovery funding to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic.»

«I had a decision to make, whether to use per diems, taxpayer money, to use like every elected official with the exception of the governor, uses in Albany or use funds, my private campaign funds before making a more permanent decision down the road,» Duffy said.

Construction is expected to take two years and is being paid for with a combination of taxpayer money, donations and asset - forfeiture funds.

That ban on contractors» money was approved by the legislature along with a public financing system under which taxpayers pay for grants to fund state candidates» campaigns.

De Blasio initially said he'd raise the money in a legal defense fund — then changed his mind and said he'd stick taxpayers with the bill.

Since 1996, the Darwin Martin House has received a total of nearly $ 50 million in funding for renovation and preservation, with $ 30 million of that is taxpayer money from Erie County and New York State.

Now it plans to ask the city Comptroller's Office to retroactively approve contracts with the vendors so taxpayer money can repay the Fund for the City of New York for its bridge loans.

It has become a way of glossing over irresolvable conflict between groups with some interests in common, such as taxpayers (who want to save money), scientists (who want to spend it on exciting projects) and people with disabilities (who hope public funds will improve the quality of their life).

The President now wants more money to fund more pet projects, when it is clear that his administration has not been responsible with the taxpayer dollars that have already been spent.»

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Shifting to a model of education funding that allows taxpayers to choose what forms of education they will financially support with their own money would likely reduce social conflict over these programs.

In addition to increasing per - pupil funding, Huberty's bill provides schools with weighted funding for students with dyslexia, and reduces the amount of money that local taxpayers in wealthier areas would pay in Recapture by $ 163 million in 2018 and $ 192 million in 2019.

It is the only check that the education inspectorate makes on free schools before they open and is particularly important as free schools are not monitored by local authorities, but are funded with taxpayers» money.

Our state is a leader in funding private school vouchers and charter schools with taxpayer money to the detriment of the more than 90 percent of Hoosier kids attending public schools.»

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

She funded efforts in Michigan to siphon funds from students in public schools, allowing for - profit companies to operate schools with taxpayer money and no accountability.

It has existed during the past two presidencies with the privatization of public education through the taxpayer funding of charter schools, the dominance of the standardized testing industry, and education standards determined by the man with the most money, but that oligarchy was hidden under the misnomer of «education reform.»

Assembly Republicans are considering a program that would allow Wisconsin parents to pay for K - 12 school expenses — including private school tuition, textbooks and tutoring — with a taxpayer - funded stream of money known in other states as Education Savings Accounts.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

Today, Connecticut is dumping $ 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into charter schools every year with little to no oversight and the governor's proposed budget contains funding for an additional four.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.

The big lie is to pretend every natural change is «unnatural» and due to humanity, the use this lie to waste taxpayers money on ego - massaging BBC and Guardian journalists with green eco-fanatics pension funds.

The final agreement reached means the continued bankrolling of polluters, with billions of euros of taxpayers» money set to fund the building of new fossil fuel plants, and extended life support for existing ones.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

As with American nonprofits, taxpayer money given to foreign nonprofits does not directly fund abortions, but — as with American nonprofits — people don't want their money being used in any way to support these groups.