Sentences with phrase «higher than the federal government»

That's higher than the federal government's March budget projections of $ 29.4 billion this year and $ 29 billion next year — predictions that each included $ 6 - billion cushions for risk.

Not exact matches

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

This federal tax expenditure encourages state and local governments to levy higher taxes (and, presumably, provide more services) than they otherwise would.

Huge federal, state and local government unionization — much higher unionization rates than in the private sector, including manufacturing — makes it very hard to trim fat from the government.

The yields and risks are generally higher than those offered by government and most municipal bonds, and the income is subject to state and federal taxes.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

Namely, private loans tend to have much higher interest rates than loans that are offered through the federal government.

If I live in a high tax state and you live in a low tax state, you actually pay more towards the federal government than I do.

So he's saying that a high - tax state benefits more from this provision than a low - tax state, and in effect gets more back from the federal government than low - tax states.

Inflation - protected securities would likely outperform nominal government bonds amid higher - than - expected U.S. inflation, but stocks might not easily stomach a sharp upturn in interest rates or Federal Reserve (Fed) hawkishness.

And how could the federal government possibly know how many kids would drop out of the lunch line rather than pay the higher tab?

Second, look for a seal from the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA), a trade organization whose safety standards are much higher than those issued by the federal government.

According to the NYTIMES, «GFI, which says on its Web site that it originates more than $ 1 billion a year in mortgages, admitted that an analysis by the federal government showed that it charged higher rates and fees to black and Hispanic borrowers than to white borrowers.»

A report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, an Albany think tank, said New York sends $ 48 billion more to the federal government than it gets back — the highest disparity in tGovernment, an Albany think tank, said New York sends $ 48 billion more to the federal government than it gets back — the highest disparity in tgovernment than it gets back — the highest disparity in the nation.

This is a normal New York State versus City story, but in a moment where the stakes of politics are high because the federal government's threats are real, this battle between city and state feels more offensive and disheartening than

We reported Monday that the risk to public health from air pollution released from chemical and industrial plants, most of them in or around Niagara Falls, is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where emissions are reported to the federal government.

Antonacci also says Mahoney has overestimated the amount of money the state and federal government will reimburse the county for housing services - a figure that is higher than the amount paid now to private landlords.

The risk — determined by the volume and toxicity of pollutants and how many people are exposed to them — is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where plant emissions are reported to the federal government, Investigative Post determined.

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have rates higher than that mandated by the federal government, and a number of states have indexed future increases to the cost of living.

At the same time, achievement at Department of Defense schools, which, like BIA schools, are financed and operated almost entirely by the federal government, is higher than that of public schools, the report says.

Although the federal government's main accountability lever — eligibility for federal grants and loans — is only implemented at the institution level for most of higher education, the GE data show the value of targeting individual programs, rather than entire institutions.

In a landmark report to the Australian Federal Government (2000), based on data from interviews with over 500 parents, the authors reported that «Parents place a higher priority on receiving information about their children's progress than any other type of information they receive from schools.»

School systems should know that if they are treating students fairly, the federal government will have their backs — even if some groups of students are suspended at higher rates than others.

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

There has also been criticism that the state revealed more to a high - profile philanthropy in a grant proposal than it did to the federal government.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

It's that kind of fact — knowing that most of the things we're trying probably are not working — that gives you a sense of urgency around increasing the number of trials, rather than what the federal government strategy has been: to fund a few very expensive, very high - quality studies of a smaller number of interventions.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

Namely, private loans tend to have much higher interest rates than loans that are offered through the federal government.

Inflation - protected securities would likely outperform nominal government bonds amid higher - than - expected U.S. inflation, but stocks might not easily stomach a sharp upturn in interest rates or Federal Reserve (Fed) hawkishness.

This meant that municipal bonds, which typically yield less than Treasuries before tax, began to offer yields higher or comparable to federal government debt on a pre-tax basis.

Speaking in a television interview with BNN, Mr. Carney issued his third stern warning on the issue in less than a week, underscoring how concerned the central bank and the federal government have become about the fact that Canadians» debt - to - income ratio is now higher than Americans» for the first time in a dozen years.

In addition, agency bonds issued by Federal Government agencies are less liquid than Treasury bonds and therefore this type of agency bond may provide a slightly higher rate of interest than Treasury bonds.

Private loans often have higher interest rates attached to them than federal student loans or other government - subsidized loans.

Awhile back, Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the federal government of making «obscene» profits on student loans because the interest rates were higher than the government's cost of borrowing money.

For most private loans, it is a given that the interest rates will be higher than federal student loans, and you will not get the perks of being subsidized by the government and having your interest paid for while you are in school.

In a report earlier this year, the think tank estimated the cost of federal employee pension plans is more than $ 100 billion higher than the government says it is because Ottawa is underestimating the future costs.

Vanguard's VSG has a similar duration, but higher credit quality and exposure to federal government issued debt than to its two closest rivals, First Asset's FGB and iShares» CLF, Kletz says.

The federal government has more than enough money to raise personal taxes, especially from high income individuals, by reducing some of the following: the small business tax deduction ($ 3.2 billion), lifetime capital gains exemption ($ 600 million), donation credit related to gifted securities ($ 52 million), flow - through shares ($ 125 million) and bringing capital gains tax rates in line with the top tax rate on dividends ($ 1.25 billion).

Higher even than sales taxes and both the federal government and state governments take their share.

In its recent submission to the federal government, RAC says long refuelling processes and higher - than - expected maintenance costs, as well as a drop in diesel fuel prices, «have stalled the mainstream application of this technology in the railway sector.»

In this installment, we describe a particularly egregious fault that exists in at least one of the prominent models used by the federal government to determine the SCC: The projections of future sea - level rise (a leading driver of future climate change - related damages) from the model are much higher than even the worst - case mainstream scientific thinking on the matter.

New Federal Fuel Efficiency Standards While the EPA was directed to allow states to set high emissions and efficiency standards than the nation, the federal government will also increase fuel efficiency staFederal Fuel Efficiency Standards While the EPA was directed to allow states to set high emissions and efficiency standards than the nation, the federal government will also increase fuel efficiency stafederal government will also increase fuel efficiency standards:

The U.S. federal government didn't begin to approach its modern scale of activity until the New Deal following the Great Depression in the 1930s, which was financed with very high income taxes and estate taxes, high customs duties such as the Smooth - Hawley tariffs imposed not long after the crash of 1929 (which were so high that they reduced customs revenue rather than increasing it), and newly imposed payroll taxes.

The federal government introduced a new high - risk category for individuals who, while NCR, still posed a danger to society and might be eligible for a release hearing every three years (rather than every year under the existing scheme).

Those employed by the government also earn higher - than - average salaries with state workers earning $ 36,790 a year and federal government workers earning $ 38,180 per year.

Decisions were made to turn down dollars for both high speed rail — defined by the federal government as trains that move at 110 miles per hour or far slower than the California project and European trains — as well as money for higher speed rail, where trains move slower, but are still quicker than cars.

Some high level positions in our society can tend to have a very common thread and there is no better example of this than at our Federal level of Government.

Premiums are higher than rates for healthy individuals, but lower than the actual cost of most participants» health care — State general fund appropriations, grants from the federal government, and / or surtaxes on insurance premiums finance the pools» operating losses.

The federal government recently announced a significant change concerning guidelines for borrowers of high - ratio mortgages — a borrower who has a deposit of less than 20 per cent of the purchase price of a home.