Sentences with phrase «governments dole out»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.»

While the special Midnight Edition Z71s seem a bit plush for heavy special - ops use on the inside, the mechanical upgrades the Z71 package offers make all the sense in the world for government and military use, especially in areas where the roads and other harsh environments can dole out significant punishment.

But while the P7 will beeline for any prey, the agile handling is the real story, first doled out in suspenseful chapters at the Circuito de Navarra, a fast yet controversial government - funded road course amid Spain's financial crisiss.

We all know the government doesn't dole out 4 - star safety ratings all the time, so it's incredibly exciting to see a great crossover SUV like the Jeep Patriot win such a great safety rating.

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.

The underlying view among these people is that they get their money from the Government, so there is a big bag of never - ending money which the Government can dole out.

It's all about doling out lucrative gifts (emissions credits, grants and subsides) to politically - favored companies who try to sell us unwanted electric cars or biofuels while the government punishes taxpayers and companies that produce vehicles American consumers really want» — Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute senior fellow.

But Manzi makes a good point that government investments to make clean energy cheap shouldn't be doled out like so much pork to every congressional district in America.

And compare the size of the investment gap with the $ 500 billion or more being doled out every year in the form of government subsidies that help support fossil fuel operations.

However the amounts of funding involved ($ 75,000 and $ 50,000, respectively) were miniscule compared to the hundreds of millions doled out by Government agencies to support the alarmist agenda.

And Mr. Ahearn is right: while the Chinese government has begun doling out generous government support in recent months, much of it has been intended for domestic businesses.

What made these smears especially unfair, Mr. Taubes writes, is that the money from food companies was trivial compared with the money being doled out by government agencies.

The government of Iran spent the most on promoting fossil fuel consumption in 2010, doling out $ 81 billion in subsidies.

Here in the U.S., meanwhile, the Energy Department's support for next - generation photovoltaic research amounted to $ 21.7 million in grants that were doled out in 2007 to two dozen colleges and universities, a figure that pales by comparison with the billions of dollars in grants and loan guarantees the government is handing out for new industrial - scale projects.

«At a time when state and local governments are cutting services to the bone, it makes no sense to force them to use tax - payer dollars to dole out unearned profits to Wall Street,» said AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee.

Specifically, the government charged that Prospect, in marketing agreements, kept track of referrals brokers made and then doled out payments to them based on those referrals, instead of marketing services.