Sentences with phrase «governments dole»

Either we support public schools governed by our elected neighbors or we let state governments dole out tax dollars to parents to shop for schools.»

I began on the path to making a real difference in my professional life only after I decided I would not take the crumbs the government doles out through unemployment benefits and would get a job no matter what I had to do.

Yet while the U.S. government doles out funds to connected entrepreneurs, it lacks an integrated strategy to deal with the lack of public market financing for critical growth industries.

Fewer unwanted children means less people on the government dole, and as a nice byproduct, it also means fewer abortions.

Economic - development agencies run by local governments doled out $ 1.5 billion in tax breaks to 4,486 projects in 2011, an increase of 16 percent in net exemptions since 2010, according to the state comptroller's office.

Second, the welfare state: Under three successive Labour governments, we watched as the Government doled out handouts left, right and centre and bred state - dependency.

Those of you who complain about Paladino do so out of jealousy or greed as you are probably a county or state employee and are on the government dole.

The federal government doles out massive sums to private landlords each month to maintain Congressman Gregory Meeks's and Congresswoman Grace Meng's formal offices in their Queens districts — while the two Democrats simultaneously rent campaign headquarters in the exact same buildings at far, far lower rates.

WGU pushes that framework in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that credit hours are the basis on which the federal government doles out student aid, not attainment of competencies.

Tax - assisted investment: these are investments that either Ottawa or the provinces want to encourage, so government doles out tax breaks to people who put money into them.

Egypt is now the world's leading wheat importer, and subsidized bread — for which the government doles out approximately $ 2 billion per year — is seen as an entitlement by the 60 percent or so of Egyptian families who depend on it.

If you're a regular Treehugger reader, you're probably aware that the federal government doles out hefty sums to the oil industry, and that it also lends a hand to

Not exact matches

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

The U.S. government is the largest supplier to small businesses in the U.S., doling out hundreds of billions of dollars worth of contracts each year.

Trudeau, like his predecessors, says the higher prices that result from supply management save the federal government from having to match the farm subsidies doled out by most other countries.

The power doled out by Mr. Kowalski, and the rewards he lavished on his constituency, led some Opposition politicians to claim that he was actually running the government, with the Premier only as a figurehead.

Financial aid doesn't just appear out of thin air, it's carefully crafted by supportive organizations, including the federal government, and doled out through appropriate channels.

Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students (NUS), said: «We need to make sure government is working with college providers to ensure quality isn't compromised and people aren't left languishing on the dole.»

He lamented that the Ghc450million each that the UMB and the ADB have doled out to the government is the minimum capital requirement that a bank needs in order to set up.

The government's key witness in multiple corruption probes — Jona Rechnitz — was a part - time «loan shark» who made money doling out predatory loans, court documents alleged.

Of the 475 mayor's office employees scrutinized by the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based government watchdog, de Blasio doled out pay hikes to 447 in the 2016 fiscal year, which ended June 30.

«The penny may well have dropped with Nick Clegg that the government of which he is a senior member was wrong to attack spending, but his words offer nothing to the 20,000 people thrown onto the dole queue in the past three weeks alone, they won't revive our pock - marked high streets and they offer nothing for the millions more for whom life under this shambles of a government is bleak.

The government needs to look after the small businesses, they can't pay back the deficit from the dole queue.

According to him, Troops of 151 and 202 Battalions of 21 Brigade Nigerian Army, under Operation LAFIYA DOLE in furtherance of clearance and blockade Operation DEEP PUNCH II in separate but well - coordinated attacks, simultaneously on Wednesday, 4th October, 2017 at about 10:00 am laid ambush on unsuspecting Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) along Firgi - Pulka road in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

In a letter to the state's political leaders, the groups urged that steps be taken to reduce the risk of corruption in how the state doles out government contracts.

You can't payback any deficit from the dole queue and the government's economic strategy is doing nothing to get people back to work.

How does a government open the door to foreign - grown food which might be cheaper, without importing lower health standards or putting Welsh hill farmers on the dole?

He further explained that monies given to entertainers by government is not a dole - out but rather to motivate and assist them to work harder for higher profits which will in effect benefit the entire Nation.

More than 200 such posts have been advertised on the Government's Universal Jobmatch, which aims to help those on the dole queue find suitable employment this year.

By deliberately inflating the «welfare» bill, the government is playing into the false public perception that huge sections of the public are currently languishing on the dole.

So Ian Duncan Smith, the new welfare system czar, is going to solve the problem of the dole queues and the # 100b - plus social welfare budget which has defeated successive governments?

Singh agreed to cooperate with the government and secretly pleaded guilty in October 2016 to doling out «bribes and kickbacks» to Mangano and Venditto «in exchange for them taking official action in my favor on an as - needed basis.»

You've been in government way too long and have no understanding how business works nor do you really care so long as NY continue to dole out the freebies.

The government need to recognise that putting hard working civil and public servants on the dole at a time of economic uncertainty will only prolong the recession in the communities affected.»

Troops of 103 Battalion, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, on Saturday night neutralized 3 female suicide bombers trying to infiltrate their location at Kawuri in Konduga Local Government...

«I can tell you without any fear of contradiction that in the last six years, none of security chiefs whether past or present theatre commanders of operation lafiya dole, past or present Brigade Commanders, Air Force Commanders, Garrison Commanders, Commissioners of Police both past and present, Directors of SSS has ever spent up to five minutes in the Government House before having access to the Governor and most of the times they come without appointment.

The Statement reads, «Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed around Gamboru Ngala have successfully averted what would have been a major devastating suicide attack carried out by three female Boko Haram terrorists against innocent citizens in Gamboru town in Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State in the early hours of Tuesday.

Troops of 121 Battalion, 26 Task Force Brigade of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in furtherance of the on going clearance operations have dislodged Boko Haram terrorists who were taking refuge in the surroundings of Dure, Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno State.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

Troops of 152 Battalion, 21 Brigade Nigerian Army, on Operation LAFIYA DOLE, in furtherance of blockade and clearance operations DEEP PUNCH 2 and their resolve to eliminate the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hibernating in some areas, ambushed a group of unsuspecting Boko Haram terrorists on Friday, along Banki - Bula Yobe road in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

Chukwu added that troops of operation LAFIYA DOLE also arrested one Umar Ali, 59, a suspected Boko Haram insurgent at Galdimare ward in Biu Local Government Area of Borno.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

In a speech at Toynbee Hall two years later Mr Blair complained that «previous governments were satisfied simply to dole out money.»

ALBANY, N.Y. — As the Paterson administration starts to dole out $ 24.6 billion in federal economic stimulus money, good - government groups and some legislators warn projects are being chosen in secret...

BEIJING — The Chinese government is readying a major shake - up of how it doles out science funding.

The bottom line is that government should not be in charge of doling out nutrition advice.

Mireles and Foley have reason to conclude that they live in lawless territories, where the police and the government are either ineffectual or hopelessly corrupt — and as men of action, they take it upon themselves to gather other intrepid citizens and dole out justice.

But given the ever - increasing power of the federal government over education — from just doling out money in the mid 1960s to coercing specific standards, tests, and teacher - evaluation rules — ESSA is a significant success.

Before the George W. Bush administration, billions of dollars in education spending were doled out by the federal government with no accountability.

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»