Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions of dollars a year»

In the real estate industry, we spend hours upon hours evaluating properties, and consumers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on appraisals.

These efforts cost banks, healthcare companies, and government organizations hundreds of millions of dollars a year in manual labor and redundant systems.

Domestic violence and child abuse cost victims, hospitals, state and local government hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The measure proposed to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year to expand the programs, with first priority for the money going to schools serving disadvantaged pupils.

That has forced it to sell investments, worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to pay retired teachers.

«Will legislators at the same time force consumers, through a non-bypassable charge, to pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the next six years to bail out Exelon nuclear plants?»

Sixty - six percent said they would support tapping the permanent fund, which currently pays out hundreds of millions of dollars each year for New Mexico K - 12 and higher education programs.

The new report examines tax filer data and estimates governments are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue from strategies used by owners of private companies to shift income to their lower - earning spouses and adult children who live at the same address.

Councilman Steve Matteo (R - Staten Island), who voted against the bill passing through the Sanitation Committee, called the fee a «tax» that «nickels and dimes» New Yorkers — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

It never ceases to amaze me that while our schools spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on standardized tests and districts spend countless hours analyzing testing data, they do precious little to help teachers build their expertise in classroom assessment.

Malloy announced on Monday that he has reached a deal with state employee unions that will save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in state spending.

Charter schools siphon hundreds of millions of dollars a year from public schools.

Growth Of Non-Teachers Far Outpaces Student Enrollment January 20, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Similarly, the ease with which it's possible for wrongdoers to cover their tracks online enables credit - card fraud, which costs retailers and the card companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year in the US alone.

With more than a million students, New York City gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year in federal Title I aid, and here's the problem: Those troublesome little lunch forms play a big role in determining how that money is doled out.

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Security experts estimate that ransoms total hundreds of millions of dollars a year from cyber criminals, who typically target Windows users.

Our modelling shows that the TPP will bring hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the Canadian economy as our exporters take market share from the U.S. in TPP markets.

Turing's price increase could bring sales to tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year if use remains constant.

West Africa's infamous internet scammers have evolved, dropping their impersonations of online love interests, princes and U.S. soldiers in favor of hijacking corporate emails, costing businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

This single provision in effect subsidizes the media industries by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The state Lottery Division on Tuesday recommended the gaming consortium Genting New York LLC to develop a 4,525 - machine video lottery terminal facility that is expected to feed hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the state and tens of millions a year to the cash - starved New York Racing Association, which runs the state's three horse tracks.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

By FPI Executive Director Frank Mauro: how New York State's approach to «contracting out» wastes hundreds of millions of dollars a year without increasing service quality.

In response, the Bloomberg administration is planning to replace the hodgepodge of agencies dealing with competitive contracts with a centralized office, potentially saving nonprofit groups hundreds of millions of dollars a year in administrative expenses.

«We contribute hundreds of millions of dollars every year to the MTA operations.»

«The secondary effect is they became attached to the intakes at power stations throughout New York State and right now we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year just to clean up after the zebra mussel,» Ryan said Thursday.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Non-graduates earn less and require more social services, costing Oregonians hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

A lawsuit working its way through the courts is striking at the core of the California Teachers Association's power: its authority to automatically deduct hundreds of millions of dollars a year in dues from the paychecks of both members and non-members.

Even more cause for concern is that out of these 23 states, eight states «have cut general funding per student by about 10 percent or more over this period» and five of these states «enacted income tax rate cuts costing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars each year rather than restore education funding.»

This successful elimination of a feared disease, which required a worldwide immunization program, saves not only millions of lives but also hundreds of millions of dollars each year in smallpox vaccination programs and billions of dollars in health care expenditures.

(03/30/2012) At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its pension fund in dozens of companies linked to deforestation, alleges a new report from Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway.

«The people who have the biggest role in this are the servicers that get paid hundreds of millions of dollars every year,» said Hicks of Debt Free.

At Bloomberg, the Businessweek unit and the TV operation collectively lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year, all subsidized by the terminals.

Many of the hugely successful companies that make profits of hundreds of millions of dollars a year could have afforded to raise their workers salaries a mere $ 1.00 or two over the past 20 -30 years!!

Is Andrew Cuomo saying that New Yorkers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and wasting nearly two weeks of instructional time for «practice»?

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in «whole - child personalized learning.»

Building on their firsthand experiences, Hammer and Champy show how some of the world's premier corporations use the principles of reengineering to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to achieve unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, and to speed up and make more flexible all aspects of their operations.

Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Members of the New York State County Executives Association are asking New York's two U.S. Senators to oppose pending legislation they say will cost New York state and county governments hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

As 2014 neared, states were spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and on test preparation materials; the schools in some districts and states were allocating 20 percent of the school year to preparing for state tests.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in «whole - child personalized learning,» reports Benjamin Herold in Ed Week.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

If they had temples in every major city in the country and raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, then they would be considered a real religion.

This equates to hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

A City Hall spokeswoman said, «The truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.