Sentences with phrase «getting federal money»

The only thing this has been about is getting federal money to jump start this project.»

The loss of federal funds has stung city school officials, who started the program with the idea that they would get federal money to help pay for the free meals, which are being served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various elementary schools during the strike.

If Fisher house had given me the money with a contract saying I'd pay them the money back once I get the federal money, that would be different... but that doesn't seem to be what's happening.

Having Cuomo use the order, Republicans have their out in never having to vote on it and the governor can say he was able to get the federal money needed to put the plan in place.

So step one is try to get the federal money So I've been pushing very hard, I've pushed our federal officials to push very hard.

«Well, let's go back to the fact that we are paying high federal taxes and trying to get federal money back in to the states.

It says that to get federal money, districts have to prove a few things — among them, that they're using state and local dollars to provide roughly the same services to kids in poor and non-poor schools alike.

If anyone wonders how a nonprofit group in Philadelphia got federal money to hire a theater troupe to teach «anger management» and «empathy training» to middle schoolers, the answer is church burnings.

Here in Rhode Island, each district is doing its own thing trying to get federal monies.

Democrats immediately criticized DeVos's philosophy, saying the nation's top education official must be willing to defend children against discrimination by institutions that get federal money.

«If I was sitting in a commissioner's position,» he says, «I wouldn't have done anything to get federal money if it wasn't the right thing for my state.»

Ducey went into full «kill the bill» mode and began spreading the myth that he could «tweak» the Common Core learning standards to suit Arizona, no matter that the standards are fully copyrighted and had to be adopted in full with no changes in order to get federal monies in 2010.

Previously, the way the DOT evaluated transit projects made it hard to get federal money to do those kinds of projects.

Fortunately, there are a number of ways to get federal money for college and let Uncle Sam pay the bill or some of it.

Not exact matches

If you want to really get into the nitty - gritty of it, there are certain instances in which you can claim a Child and Dependent Care Credit on your federal tax return — but those instances come with a host of restrictions, and the amount of money you can claim is capped.

If you get an official - looking document demanding money, call the state or federal agency referenced in the document to verify the demand is valid.

A growing trend in some areas is for federal or local government - financed programs to provide whatever capital gets layered in with bank money.

As the Federal Reserve Board gets ready for yet another round of quantitative easing (i.e. printing more money), one may well ask: why?

Federal investigators are reportedly looking at whether Cohen lied to banks in order to get the money.

Billy Packer, a former CBS college basketball announcer who lives in Charlotte, is among the Siskey investors trying to get money back in a federal bankruptcy court case.

But the county never got the money and hasn't asked for a federal buyout since.

To get the refund money, taxpayers must file a 2014 federal income tax return by this year's tax deadline, April 17.

This does not remove the Federal tax lien, but it does allow the other creditors to get their money first.

With all due respect to Dimon, some might point out that «inventing a currency out of thin air» is how we got Federal Reserve Notes and other forms of paper money in the first place.

HOW do people think the POOR got help BEFORE the government took over the job of redistribution??? NOW we PAY federal workers to redistribute money to the poor with a LOT of wasted dollars in between because of layers and layers of federal mess in between

«It is also the same stupid thinking that Planned Parenthood gets hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money, but claim that none of it is used to fund abortions.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

OMG, this nitwit takes money from the billionaire Koch Brothers, who want to take over the federal government, so they can get more rich, and more powerful, while running around using Christianity as their sounding board.

His grandfather, Collis Sr., received federal money to get his master's degree at Michigan State after LSU, which wouldn't integrate for decades, turned him away.

Also, the group hoped to get more federal money for organic foods in schools and one day replicate the program nationally.

Schools that adopt the changes get more money back from the federal government, in part to offset the higher prices of healthier foods.

That's a very tall order, especially when resources are scarce (most schools get, in the end, about $ 1 from the federal government to spend on school food) and there is no money in the budget for food / nutrition education.

If this district is very affluent, then the Food Service department is not getting very much money in federal reimbursement.

«Our original budget assumed we would get this money,» said Megna, who said the state actually budgeted for about $ 1.6 billion to $ 1.8 billion in federal Medicaid and education funding in early January.

There are also a lot more ways to increase ones wealth in congress than just the salary as well, congress members have the ability to spend federal money on what they see fit so they can help their friends out and get kickbacks, though they have to be careful and do this indirectly because it is technically illegal.

«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is donating the money he got to charity, and Cuomo has announces his funds will be held in case the federal government seeks to seize them.

Diana Reyna got her start as the protégé of former Kings County Dem chair Assemblyman Vito Lopez, whose Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Citizens Council is a legendary engine of political power and the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of local and federal money.

Accordind to APC youthsIn his craftinness, Fayose also failed to tell the labour leaders and indeed Ekitis that the only reason the bond money would not be liquidated in 2018 as structured was that he had, upon assuming office in October 2014, gotten the nod of the then PDP - led federal government to suspend repayment for a certain period of time.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

Duncan told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the Kanawha County school system was already handing out pink slips in anticipation of the automatic cuts that, among other things, will impact the amount of federal money states get through September.

«I applaud our federal delegation for working hard to get Westchester County this much needed money to replace our aging bus fleet.

«We're doing everything we can to get the federal government... to deliver that Medicaid money,» Schumer said.

The gap in money New York sends to the federal government versus what it gets back has widen in the last three years, a report released Tuesday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found.

Today, the ethics panel charged her with breaking House rules by using her position to get federal bailout money for a bank with ties to her husband.

«We get more bang for our buck there, with all the strings attached to federal money» that is often used in larger projects, Palmesano said.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, whose committee shapes the city's annual budget, estimated that the Trump administration could endanger more than 10 percent of the funding the city receives directly from Washington — plus additional federal monies that get channeled through the state.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

No county officials were charged with wrongdoing, but federal prosecutors allege that Dean and Adam Skelos improperly influenced the awarding of the contract to an environmental company as a way to get Adam Skelos more money from the company — which had hired him as a consultant.

The Federal Election Commission's new chair, Ann Ravel, wants to take a fresh look at whether the agency should get involved in requiring disclosure of campaign activity and money in politics online, and as Dan Morain writes in the Sacramento Bee, the mere suggestion has already got some right - wingers in a lather.