Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding»

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.»

Not exact matches

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

The pace has continued this year, with several firms announcing new funding rounds in the tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.

New NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is calling for an end to what he describes as a tax loophole that allows New York City private equity firms, hedge funds and venture capital firms to keep several hundred million dollars a year in their coffers instead of giving it to the tax man.

However, while blanket sweeps have raided hundreds of millions of dollars statewide from dedicated funds in recent years, according to a report from the state comptroller [PDF], only a small fraction of the sweeps have affected transit funding.

«We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» the spokesperson said.

The Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit financial watchdog group, in a report last week, predicted that even with the planned fare increases, the MTA stands to post budget deficits in the hundreds of millions of dollars in the next several years without a new revenue stream to fund the subway plan.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» she wrote in an email.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYHCA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» mayoral spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie wrote in an email.

In a statement, a spokeperson for the mayor says, «We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

More than $ 1.5 million in county funds plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants have been spent trying to tackle the drug crisis since early last year, in addition to related Medicaid spending and other criminal justice programs.

State Defunds Program to Fix «Slum» Schools Eight years after California settled a landmark lawsuit promising hundreds of millions of dollars to repair shoddy school facilities, more than 700 schools still are waiting for their share of funds as students take classes on dilapidated campuses with health and safety hazards.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

This was in a district where parents were among those who first brought the Abbott v. Burke school - equity case 30 years ago — a landmark case that brought hundreds of millions of dollars more in funding to the district as a whole but has had a less - visible impact in individual classrooms.

Amisha Patel, the Executive Director of the Grassroots Collaborative said that the budget «leaves hundreds of millions of dollars on the table and continues to underresource Chicago neighborhood schools at the expense (sic) of charter and magnet schools» and alleged that «Every year CPS continues to allow tax increment financing funds to divert critical resources away from schools.»

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one - year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds of millions of additional dollars on English learners and low - income children to comply with the state's new school funding law.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

Leading mutual fund provider Vanguard Group has recommended the technique for years and has processed hundreds of millions of dollars in backdoor Roth contributions.

TOTAL ASSETS PLUS INVESTOR FUND OPERATING AGE: Regarding the total invested assets of these lowest cost investment funds and the length of time that they have existed, they hold several hundred million dollars of total investment portfolio assets or much more and have been operating a minimum of three years.

TOTAL ASSET VALUE AND INVESTMENT FUND AGE: Regarding the total assets of these lowest cost investment funds and time that they have been in existance, most hold a minimum of a hundred million dollars of total invested assets and have been operating a minimum of three years.

(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.