Sentences with phrase «in public subsidy»

Four leading good government groups joined the City of New York and numerous environmental and consumer watchdog groups in asking the Public Service Commission to extend the public comment period before voting on awarding up to $ 7B in public subsidies to keep four Upstate nuclear plants operating.

We support measures to curb Independent Expenditures, but call on the governor to feel the same urgency to end the apparent pay to play and conflict of interest that has put billions of dollars in public subsidies in question.

City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma may cause an uproar in City Hall, when they propose a bill that guarantees a wage of at least $ 10 for workers of development projects that have received more than $ 100,000 in public subsidies.

New Yorkers get very little in return for the $ 7 billion in public subsidies given out to corporations by our state's economic development programs in exchange for job creation projects every year.

It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»

Taxpayers are going to be shocked once they find out what it would cost in public subsidies to build hundreds of new nuclear stations.

Not exact matches

«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

And the more they seek to gain private benefits in the form of subsidies, the greater their obligations to the public become.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Amazon has already sopped up various public subsidies around the country, totaling $ 613 million for 40 of the 77 warehouses, like the one on Broening Highway in Baltimore, it built between 2005 - 2014.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

According to Progress Alberta's research, of the five Canadian provinces that subsidize private schools — the others are B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec — Alberta's subsidy of 70 per cent of the amount paid per public and Catholic school student is the highest in the country.

I think increasing private school's subsidy back to 70 % from the reduced 50 % I suggest would fit in the same category, especially if it happens on the same budget that public school funding is increased — the optics are terrible.

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

In public, Rubio argued for welfare reforms like wage subsidies to «pursue reforms that encourage and reward work.»

Build business, employ workers, improve skillsets so that people can become self - sufficient and more productive, grow the business, hire more people, teach them to save (not impulse buy $ 1000 rims or whatever the Jones» have)... not only will they actually be able to afford healthcare w / o public subsidy, but they will also be able to save money in order to send their kids to college to become doctors.

There is little evidence of organized interest in the issues of land use and food production, and the voting public seems content to let farm subsidies artificially support the corn industry and postpone transformation.

Many of these people are on the public payroll, employed in all the bureaucracies of the modern welfare, redistributive and regulatory state; many others, while working in private - sector institutions, are heavily dependent on state subsidies.

The sports authority issued the tax - backed bonds that paid for the $ 432 million public share of the stadium's revamp and provides $ 5.1 million a year in subsidies to the Park District for Soldier Field operations and ongoing facilities upgrades.

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«We're pleased that they continue to say that fruits and vegetables in general are important,» said Robert Guenther, vice president of public policy for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, who would like federal help with marketing produce rather than subsidies for growing it.

Who exactly is getting the $ 7 billion in public tax breaks and subsidies handed out by various state programs and hundreds of local Industrial Development Authorities?

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gaIn 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gain the competition against natural gas.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.&raquIn states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.&raquin tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.&raquin infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

He points to a letter that Cuomo to former chair Audrey Zibelman, in her capacity as CEO of the Department of Public Service, directing her to open a proceeding on getting the state to 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and providing the nuclear subsidies.

It's not as if the public employee unions in the tri-state area don't already speak loudly enough without compulsory subsidies.

Has received $ 169,204 in supplemental funding from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to continue the operation of its highly successful Wage Subsidy Program aimed at helping public assistance recipients in the tri-county... Read more

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

At 11 a.m., the Senate Labor and Social Services committees hold a joint public hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

And George Osborne expects me to deliver our agreement on nuclear power, which is that there is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

While the Kingsbridge Armory battle centered on wages at one project, the wage bill seeks to expand the debate to developments across the city that receive public subsidies worth more than $ 100,000, whether in discounted land sales, tax credits or other incentives.

Representatives of the state Public Service Commission were in court Monday defending their decision last August to award a multibillion dollar, 12 - year subsidy to a group of upstate nuclear power plants along Lake Ontario.

Heaney said taxpayers are not getting a good return for their considerable investment in major Buffalo Billion projects and that IBM has effectively said it's none of the public's business how it is using $ 55 million in subsidies.

In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $ 10 an hour, nearly $ 3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receiving public subsidies.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

He turned left after a 2014 Democratic primary against Zephyr Teachout, a law professor, and in his second term has raised the minimum wage, expanded tuition subsidies at public colleges, enacted a system of paid family leave and raised the age of criminal responsibility.

Reached by phone, Parkash insisted his buildings are in good shape and that he has never gotten public subsidies or tax benefits.

«If the project is funded by skimming property tax revenue that would have been collected anyway, that's a plain old subsidy that comes at the cost of other public priorities in the city budget.»

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

Despite this and the clear sense that the Armory would be a mall pure and simple, the community's only firm request in the end was that people had to be paid a living wage, particularly when the developer was going to receive over $ 70 million in taxpayer subsidies to remake a public landmark.

It is this market in art which produced our rich cultural heritage, and just as we produced great art without state subsidy so we produced great architecture and beautiful public places before town planning.

Denying public subsidies to the nuclear industry could leave the Liberal Democrats in a «win - win situation» on nuclear power, the party's former environment spokesman has suggested.

«If you look at the economics of nuclear power and the commitment the coalition has made not to subsidise it, and then you reflect on the fact not a single nuclear power station has been built anywhere in the world without public subsidy, maybe, just maybe the issue won't arise,» he said.