Sentences with phrase «in federal relief»

Almost two years after Superstorm Sandy struck, Mayor de Blasio announced Friday that a storm - damaged Brooklyn housing project will get $ 108 million in federal relief, and said he expects Sandy...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer suggested Thursday using money in a federal relief fund to bolster transit in the New York City area.

Not exact matches

The Federal Open Market Committee's unanimous decision to keep its lending rate in a target range of between 1.50 percent and 1.75 percent offered fleeting relief to investors.

Some banks weren't able to lend for a while because of TARP,» Geshwiler says, referring to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the federal government's program for bailing out banks hit hard in the financial crisis.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

Fink said a corporate rate as high as 27 percent could satisfy U.S. businesses» need for tax relief, while avoiding an increase in the federal deficit.

From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.

11 Congress granted this authority to the Federal Reserve in the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006, with an October 2011 effective date, but accelerated its implementation to October 2008 as part of the legislative response to the financial crisis.

Sysco Corp. shares rose the most in nine months after its planned $ 3.5 billion takeover of US Foods Inc. was blocked by a federal judge, bringing relief to investors concerned about the company undertaking an ambitious merger.

The fundamental problem now in Puerto Rico is the current sterile debate between those who believe that salvation lies in more debt relief and more federal support and those who believe in more belt - tightening by Puerto Rico and market - oriented structural reforms.

The Federal Reserve provided some relief Tuesday when it reported U.S. industrial output expanded in June driven by a rebound in manufacturing.

Needless to say, another catastrophic storm in a two - week period would add salt to a wound and further strain the disaster relief resources of the federal government and groups like the Red Cross already stretched thin with the response to Harvey.

Congressional Republicans — including nearly all of the Texas delegation — spent the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy insisting that any new funding for hurricane relief had to be offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.

But then, Larson said, there's the third and longest stage of disaster relief — the one in which federal and local government rebuild the infrastructure crippled by the hurricane, and try to get life as close to normal as possible.

Bossert and Capitol Hill aides declined to estimate the level of federal aid Congress might ultimately have to provide for Harvey relief, but they did not discount the possibility that it would outstrip the $ 120 billion that was appropriated to help rebuild after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

In Windsor the applicant for declaratory relief from the Federal Court was a federally incorporated company responsible for an international bridge.

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Wells Fargo and other banks that benefited from the federal $ 245 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program are required to participate in HAMP.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness provides tax - free student loan relief for graduates in public service careers after they have made 120 payments on qualified federal student loans.

Expert U.S. - based counsel is especially critical now that the Supreme Court has precluded foreign securities purchasers from monetary relief under the U.S. federal securities laws in Morrison v. Nat» l Australia Bank, 130 S. Ct. 2869 (2010).

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau noted in a January 2015 letter that federal regulators have repeatedly offered guidance encouraging private lenders to pursue workout arrangements and other relief for borrowers.

On October 4, two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump finally sent Congress a request for $ 29 billion more for disaster victims in the mainland US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; $ 13 billion is set aside to replenish the shrinking FEMA disaster relief fund, and the rest will go to pay federal flood insurance claims.

In the meantime, there are still other avenues regarding federal student loans to find repayment relief to manage a student loan burden.

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

There may be additional relief available for borrowers in default on their federal student loans, including a temporary suspension of collections activities and additional flexibility for borrowers making voluntary payments.

The miracle of relief is not that federal aid rushes in (because it doesn't) or national news highlights a feel - good story of survival to round out the broadcast (because the cameras leave soon after).

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SHADOW Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon wants the banks and federal Coalition government to intervene on the «extraordinary» dairy crisis in southern Australia to provide debt - relief assistance to help farmers sleep at night.

When federal officials unveiled the new food pyramid in April, Dr. Donald Hensrud and his colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., breathed a sigh of relief.

The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

By eliminating the single largest expense in county budgets, federal legislation mandating a state takeover of local Medicaid costs promises relief for property taxpayers across New York.

Concerns about the nation's collective $ 1.3 trillion in student loan debt — more than either credit card or auto loan debt — have prompted the federal government, states and some schools to offer debt forgiveness or relief programs.

Sen. Ted Cruz said he won't engage in «political sniping» with Long Island Rep. Pete King as the Texas Republican defended his opposition to a post-Sandy federal relief bill, while seeking federal aid for Harvey recovery.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

The governor's office says these and other instances of LED upgrades and architectural embellishments in the MTA's two tunnels are post-Hurricane Sandy repair projects that have nothing to do with the New York Crossings project, and federal emergency relief funds and the MTA's prior capital plan are paying for them.

Republican / mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis today expressed frustration with the pace of federal storm relief in Puerto Rico and urged the federal government to treat Puerto Rico equally with other areas of the United States in providing storm relief and to accelerate its current emergency aid and response.

While President Obama cancelled his Ohio campaign stops to stay in Washington, DC to co-ordinate Federal disaster relief efforts for...

Governor of Abia Okezie Ikpeazu got a relief today as the Court of Appeal in Abuja ruled in his favour setting aside an earlier decision of a Federal High Court which found him guilty of filing false tax returns.

As Commander - in - Chief of our nation, a vast amount of power resides with you to address the relief and rebuilding of these regions which will need years of diligent federal assistance and oversight.»

Also, the Federal Government should provide relief materials for the affected communities in the Southern Kaduna area and other places to cushion the effect of the crisis.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - As plans progress for a buried seawall to protect the East Shore from storm surges, $ 2 million in federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief will kickstart the design phase of the project.

On Tuesday, it was announced that $ 2 million in federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief would kick off the design phase of the project.

On Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, a «silent procession» in New York City is planned in honor of Puerto Rico, to call on the federal government to provide more relief and restoration to the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

The incumbent Republican's numbers plummeted a month ago when he was implicated in the Foley scandal, and they shot up when the White House tapped him as point man on millions of dollars in federal blizzard relief.

The governor also plans to preview legislation that would provide tax relief to property owners, a key issue in light of the federal move to reduce state and local property tax deductions.

The homeowner relief from Bank of America will target low - income communities where many residents have mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, and includes plans to turn over vacant foreclosed properties to land banks and municipalities, and to chip in toward their repair or demolition.

Under the terms of the settlement between Bank of America and a federal task force Mr. Schneiderman co-chairs, the lender will dole out $ 300 million in cash and $ 500 million in assorted relief efforts to New York State alone, with the rest getting spread across the country in the form of both hard currency and assistance to renters and homeowners.

Reynolds's relief was all part of Karl Rove's plan to keep control of Congress, or at least abate a Democratic tidal wave, according to a story in Sunday's Los Angeles Times that described Rove's plan to politicize federal spending.

That means New Yorkers, who already pay some of the highest property taxes in the country, wouldn't be able to get that relief when they pay the federal tax.

«Our top priority is to deliver relief to those in pain and we are doing so as expeditiously as possible under current federal guidelines and within the confines of the Compassionate Care Act, which Assemblyman Gottfried sponsored, supported and passed through his own house.