Sentences with phrase «government subsidy programs»

The subject matters involved in these trials included many complex «white collar» matters, including criminal violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, environmental fraud, health care fraud, obstruction of justice, computer - related crimes, fraud in government subsidy programs, and public corruption.

Reductions in PV module and system prices have confirmed the elasticity of PV demand though well designed and implemented government subsidy programs remain crucial for rapid PV deployment and market growth.

With this system in place, local volunteers built their own databases, including ones for local market prices for grain, details of government subsidy programs, and pest management information.

Overlooked is another government subsidy program that could be called the Lockport Half - Billion.

On Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed new rules that would bar broadband companies from using a government subsidy program to buy telecom equipment from companies that pose a national security threat.

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However, the bigger concern is that this is one more threat to your retirement nest egg, on top of low interest rates, a low - growth economic outlook, uncertain stock markets and potential government cuts to other programs, such as health care and nursing - home subsidies.

Morneau said nine out of 10 recipients of child benefits would do better under the new program than they were previously; a family of two children earning $ 90,000 per year will get a tax - free bonus of $ 5,650 per year from the federal government, an increase of $ 2,500 per year compared with Harper's child - subsidy regime.

«These investigations have already established beyond question that Bombardier has taken billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies to prop up its C Series program.

One of the federal government's low income phone subsidy programs is bedeviled by fraud, a watchdog agency investigation concluded.

According to FamiliesUSA, government programs cover just a third of the subsidy; the insured foot the rest through inflated premiums.

In a plan unveiled in mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidies.

Lusk is right to be skeptical of large government food programs — whether that means fat taxes or subsidies for corn.

In 2014, the government set up a subsidy program called China's National Integrated Circuits Industry Investment Fund which is aiming to raise at least RMB 150 billion for its second fund vehicle, according to Bloomberg.

The story does not end with EV subsidies either as Tesla has provided very generous residual buyback programs in key global markets like Hong Kong, which has very generous government incentives at the front end (fully detailed in the legacy post below) putting a Tesla Model S pricing nearly on top of a gas powered Honda Civic and well below a Mercedes entry model.

The fees are low and on a sliding scale: government subsidies and food programs enable the centers to survive.

Furthermore, under the general welfare provision of the Constitution, the Federal Government offers financial assistance to states and local communities for a variety of educational purposes, ranging from subsidies for school lunch programs to salaries for teachers of agriculture and loans for school building construction.

The history of government grants of a continuing cash subsidy indicates that such programs have almost always been accompanied by varying measures of control and surveillance.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

(Nevermind that New Zealand dairy exports to the U.S. will be assisted by government policies in New Zealand such as a state - mandated monopoly on exporting — just as U.S. exports to Mexico were assisted by U.S. government subsidies such as the Dairy Export Incentive Program.)

And if every mother, like mothers in other advanced democracies, could have the security — emotional and financial — that her child could attend a program like my son's with government subsidies, I think there would be huge societal as well as personal benefits for women and women's lives.

But I do think there's a role for government at the macro level (where it already has great influence over our food) such as corn and soy subsidies, the National School Lunch Program (and the related use of surplus farm commodities), etc..

Despite the current fiscal crisis, Governor Cuomo's Executive Budget continues prior year funding levels for the core transportation capital programs supported by the Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund, providing $ 501 million for highway and bridge construction, $ 363.1 million for the Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) and $ 39.7 million for the Marchiselli program for local governments, and $ 16.9 million for Amtrak service subsidies and additional rail capital invesProgram (CHIPS) and $ 39.7 million for the Marchiselli program for local governments, and $ 16.9 million for Amtrak service subsidies and additional rail capital invesprogram for local governments, and $ 16.9 million for Amtrak service subsidies and additional rail capital investments.

But the program has been criticized by fiscally conservative groups, including the Empire Center, the government watchdog who has shrugged the awards off as government subsidies.

«During Cuomo's first four years, he has been starving local schools, state workers, teachers, local government, and essential programs of needed funding in order to support lower taxes, handouts and subsidies for his wealthiest campaign contributors.

Marrying bike - sharing with carbon trading Like most Chinese cities, Shanghai mainly runs its bike - sharing program with government subsidies.

The federal government will account for more than 63 percent of this total, or about $ 1.5 trillion, reflecting expanded Medicaid eligibility, premium and cost - sharing subsidies through the Health Insurance Marketplaces (exchanges), and growth in Medicare enrollment as baby boomers continue to enter the program.

They need to tackle difficult policy issues, such as development of water markets and pricing, expansion of water efficiency and productivity programs, elimination of government subsidies that encourage inefficient or unproductive water use by cities and farms, and agricultural reform.

To supplement Leonhardt's COER salary, photonics expert Sailing He and colleagues at COER helped him apply to two government programs for attracting foreign talent: the Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5Program of Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5 years.

First are governments, which through subsidies and other programs promote a burger, fries and soda to be much cheaper than a healthy salad with salmon.

After all, the special - interest wording says something about vouchers that is quite true: a voucher program would indeed provide government subsidies to parents who go private.

The important role that the District government plays in directly or indirectly funding many OST programs raises the policy question of what to subsidize, by how much, and how to distribute these subsidies.

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

The TIFIA Program is governed by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, which requires the DOT to establish a capital reserve, or «subsidy amount,» sufficient to cover the estimated long - term cost to the Federal Government of a Federal credit instrument, including any expected credit losses, before the DOT can provide TIFIA credit assistance.

Authorizes DOT, upon request, to allow a state to use its apportionment of national highway performance program funds to pay subsidy and administrative costs of Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program secured loans, loan guarantees, or credit for surface transportation projects for a state, local government, public authority, public - private partnership, or any other legal entity.

Nissan says that its EV program is going to be profitable thanks to all the government subsidies it's getting.

The Japanese government introduced the subsidy program for eco-cars in June last year, in which up to 250,000 yen will be provided for the purchase of a vehicle with a minimum required gas mileage.

The reverse mortgage loan program was never intended to be a government grant program or a subsidy of any kind.

The government's Home Affordable Modification Program, part of the government's Making Home Affordable Program, which encourages lenders to offer more loan modifications by giving them grants, subsidies, and other financial incentives.

She couldn't afford to buy the test strips and insulin because she didn't make enough, but she wasn't poor enough to qualify for subsidies or government programs.

The new Build America Bond Program allows state and local governments to issue taxable bonds in 2009 and 2010 for government capital projects and receive a direct federal subsidy payment from the US Treasury for a portion of their borrowing costs.

The business is not heavily regulated or heavily supported by government funding / subsidies / programs;

Maddie's Fund is piloting the subsidy program to give local shelters and rescues the means to find more homes for vulnerable shelter pets, strengthen the relationship between animal control shelters and adoption guarantee groups, and shift some of the burden of responsibility for these pets away from cash - strapped government agencies.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

Josefina Braña - Varela, Policy Director of WWF's Forest & Climate Initiative, said she supports the Chiapas government's decision to shut down the subsidy program and to focus its efforts on capacity - building for jurisdictional REDD, but she also wishes the message from the Chiapas government had been clearer.

The government has been clear about its intention to invest 60 percent of the $ 18 billion that it will reap annually from fossil - fuel subsidy reform into much - needed infrastructure programs.

EPI can be assumed to be an extension of what is known as the Checks & Balances Project (CB&P)-- which was founded to investigate organizations and policymakers that do not support government programs and subsidies for renewable energy.

The World Bank's infrastructure program in Indonesia stipulates policies and government subsidies that promote the accelerated development of over 16 GW of coal power projects in the country ahead of developing feasible renewable alternatives.

Their plan for job growth, apparently, is to create a vast array of government programs and subsidies that help one sector of the state's economy and hope they offset job losses everywhere else.

And yes, government can cancel subsidy programs.

Can a new government cancel the subsidy programs?