Sentences with phrase «government dollars based»

American Violet makes a compelling argument for how racism within local police and justice departments can thrive due to a system that awards government dollars based on stats that are easily juked.

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Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

Japan's government said on January 29 it would impose administrative measures on virtual currency exchange Coincheck after hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars in digital assets from the Tokyo - based firm.

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

As much as cryptocurrency aficionados have hoped for a government - backed, blockchain - based dollar, that doesn't seem to be where the money trail leads so far.

«We will only process fiat currency - based transactions,» he said, referring to currencies that are issued by governments as legal money, such as the U.S. dollar.

BarCap Aggregate Bond Index - A broad - based benchmark that measures the investment grade, U.S. dollar - donminated, fixed - rate taxable bond market, including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and CMBS.

However, with the prying eyes of uninvited government officials and activities of nefarious elements carting away millions of dollars» worth of crypto - investments, users are beginning to consider privacy - based cryptocurrencies as substitute value.

On a trade - weighted basis, the rise in the Australian dollar has also been quite substantial, since the TWI gives a high weight to a number of Asian currencies whose governments have chosen to depreciate with the US dollar.

(1) Churches on base of all religions are funded by the government... yes, your tax dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax dollars are still going to pay for me to have freedom of choosing my religion on base.

But the order also states that faith - based organizations receiving federal dollars may use their facilities to provide government - backed social services, even if those facilities include religious art, icons, scriptures and other religious symbols.

It also protects the religious integrity and character of faith - based organizations that accept government dollars.

It has some short term benefits on a population level basis — which means it makes sense for government agencies who want to save some healthcare dollars to be interested in breastfeeding levels, but is a poor explanation for lactivist zealotry.

According to the statement, which is based on the interim report on the financial and assets recoveries made by the various government agencies from 29 May 2015 to 25 May 2016, the Funds Awaiting Return From Foreign Jurisdictions total $ 321,316,726.1 (Three hundred and twenty one million, three hundred and sixteen thousand, seven hundred and twenty six Dollars, one cent); 6,900,000 Pounds (Six million, nine hundred thousand Pounds) and 11,826.11 Euros (Eleven thousand, eight hundred and twenty six Euros, 11 cents).

«Billion - dollar personnel costs in both counties should not only push officials to make some tough decisions here, but get citizens to demand action and realize this problem is one of the big reasons Long Island is so unaffordable,» said Doug Kellogg, communications director for Reclaim New York, a Manhattan - based government watchdog group chaired by Rebekah Mercer, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.

He pointed out that it made no economic sense for the Federal Government to be calculating the country's revenue on the basis of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official rate of N199 to a dollar while States and Local Councils that are sharing the revenue with the Federal Government run their businesses at the open market rate of over N400 to one dollar.

«Meanwhile, the three tiers of government pay salaries to workers on the basis of N199 per dollar while the worker's pay for goods and services which prices are determined by the open market rate of N400 to one dollar.

«In elementary economics, the implication is that when revenue is calculated based on N199 to one dollar and the federal government will be declaring say revenue of N400 billion to be shared by the three tiers of government, the value of revenue that should have been shared will be over N800 billion at the open market rate of N400 to one dollar.

Holding the $ 1 million dollar Citizen Empowerment grant as an add on, the committee has found that if the two governments were one, based on 2011 actual expenditures, taxpayers would have realized a savings of $ 1.625

The universities are stressing that the additional support should not be based on a dollar amount, rather that the government commit to funding positions for all of the students who choose to go to university.

Citing the current budget crisis, Senator John Thune (R - SD) wanted to know if, based on Wieman's critique, «the dollars being spent by the federal government to improve STEM education are being wasted.»

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

The film is based on a true story and stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller as two ambitious young men who become weapons traders for the U.S. government, landing multimillion - dollar arms contracts and living the high life before everything comes crashing down.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

Unfortunately, the Federal government came along changed the rules for receipt of Federal education dollars which was based on whatever State's definition of proficiency.

To mitigate the negative impact of concentrated poverty, the federal government allocates billions of dollars to states per year through Title I, Part A, of ESEA based on the number and concentration of students living in poverty.

«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the federal government will use to award additional education stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

After all, the federal, state, and local governments already works with faith - based operations to provide healthcare and other services — including $ 3 billion in federal dollars into Catholic Charities alone — while Centrist Democrat and progressive school reformers are more than happy to back charters, which are operated by nonprofit and even for - profit organizations, and support federal and state student aid (which flows into private and parochial universities).

Second, both the rating - based and sovereign CDS default spreads are US dollar based and netting it out against a local currency government bond rate can be viewed as inconsistent.

The federal government offers two tax credits that reduce your tax bill on a dollar - for - dollar basis for your school - related expenses.

The government of Belize and the banking community have wanted to expand the population base and bring additional tax revenue into the country for some time now because it's good for a country and local community to see tax dollars come from the tourist industry.

AAdvantage members will receive five miles for every U.S. dollar spent on the base airfare and carrier - imposed fees, excluding government - imposed taxes and fees; Gold AAdvantage members will receive seven miles per dollar spent; Platinum members will receive eight miles per dollar spent; and Executive Platinum members will receive 11 miles per dollar spent.

Award miles and Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) earned based on ticket price (includes base fare plus carrier - imposed fees; excludes government - imposed taxes and fees)

For trips beginning August 1 or later, a new earning formula kicks in, paying a base rate for non-elites of five miles per dollar spent (including base fare plus carrier fees, but not government fees or taxes).

All rates are quoted in US dollars for single or double occupancy per suite or guest bedroom on a room only basis and are subject to 12 % Government tax and 10 % service fee.

The government is on the verge of committing U.S. taxpayers to spend trillions of dollars over decades based on the mere suspicion that a future problem might occur and the unsupported belief that a possible non-issue can and should be mitigated by massive, globally coordinated efforts to control the environment of the planet.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.

Governments around the world have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions based on the panel's findings, The New York Times reports.

Suppliers of windmills and solar cells have raked off many trillions of dollars on the basis of bogus and useless GCM models with the help of mass media, governments, and academic (who have often been well rewarded for their misleading and useless models) supporters.

We have seen much pressure over the years for governments to enact tougher laws for piracy and counterfeiting — often based on statistics that lead to conclusions that billions of dollars are being lost because of it.

By reducing income assistance dollar for dollar based on child support or child maintenance, the government is profiting off of the backs of the poorest children in the province.

Richard has reviewed and negotiated multimillion dollar solicitations, proposals, equitable adjustments, terminations, and other related government acquisition and commercial - based contract matters with a number of government agencies and subcontractor / vendors.

Bitcoins are not issued by banks or governments — indeed the Bitcoin platform was designed to offer an alternative to national currencies like the dollar, and commodity - based currencies such as gold or silver coins.

Michael McKibben, founder and CEO of Ohio based Leader Technologies, filed a trillion dollar bond lien against the federal government for the alleged confiscation of their social networking...

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