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A 14 percent chronic absence rate means the district lost out on about $ 630 million in state funding last year.

CANTON North Country Public Radio was awarded $ 70,100 in state funds last month to expand their «North Country at Work» digital archive series.

The Orange County Register newspaper adds that the state provided another $ 26.7 million in state funds last year for high - speed internet access at schools with the highest needs and, «The governor's latest budget proposal for next year adds $ 100 million for internet needs.»

Not exact matches

And the amount of money these mutual funds are pouring in is worth noting: «Last year alone, global mutual fund investors poured $ 23.7 billion into 192 VC transactions — the highest amount of capital invested ever and a 66 % increase from the year prior,» states the release.

The $ 21 million in participating security funds invested in Virginia businesses constitutes nearly 6 percent of all seed and early - stage funding in the state last year.

A co-funding program with angel investors and a commercialisation fund for Western Australia's universities are the «big ticket» items in the state government's $ 20 million innovation strategy, released last night.

Apple told CNBC's «Mad Money» last year that it would invest $ 1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the United States.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percFund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percfund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percent.

Late last year, the California State Compensation Insurance Fund, which provides workers» compensation coverage in the state, ordered Palmdale newspaper publisher Antelope Valley Press to buy insurance for its newspaper carrState Compensation Insurance Fund, which provides workers» compensation coverage in the state, ordered Palmdale newspaper publisher Antelope Valley Press to buy insurance for its newspaper carrstate, ordered Palmdale newspaper publisher Antelope Valley Press to buy insurance for its newspaper carriers.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

This kind of uncertainty led to concerns last month from Nevada State Treasurer Dan Schwartz about whether Faraday backer Jia Yueting, a Chinese billionaire, would be able to fund the company's proposed $ 1 billion car plant in Southern Nevada.

For starters, it's based in Provo, Utah, a state that has attracted more than $ 1 billion in venture funding over the last 18 months yet remains far from Silicon Valley's bustling tech scene.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund projects moderate economic growth for Canada this year and next, albeit at a rate lower than last year's and significantly slower than in the United States.

Quanergy, a company that works on the light - detecting sensors used in driverless cars, raised financing last summer that included funds from the partly state - backed Chinese venture fund GP Capital.

Business owners, workers, and politicians rallied to hear from researcher and writer Vivian Krause, who outlined her work over the last eight years tracking funding for environmental activism in Canada back to the United States.

The United States Natural Gas (UNG) fund, an ETF designed to track in percentage terms the movements of natural gas prices, has struggled in July over the last four years.

The Trade Leadership Coalition, a separate industry - funded group headed by a former Caterpillar lobbyist, last week began airing pro-NAFTA advertisements in nine states that Trump won in 2016.

Looking at the actuarial funded ratio for state and local pension plans, the aggregate funded status of these plans has significantly declined over the last 15 years despite equities attaining all - time highs in recent periods.

Last week, Kong Hee and five other leaders of his 17,000 - member City Harvest Church (CHC) were found guilty by Singapore's charity commissioner of siphoning $ 35.9 million in church funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States and Asia.

«Our staff in the India field offices have stretched every last penny beyond what we thought possible to extend the programs for our children, while we in parallel explored alternative delivery methods to provide funds, yet a solution has not been discovered within the needed timeframe,» stated Compassion's email to donors.

One might also expect that the last thing such places would require is state - funded taxing of the poor in the form of gambling and lotteries to subsidize the state budget.

All funds pertaining to the redemption of any outstanding certificates were processed and escheated to the respective states of the last known address of the shareholder as abandoned property in 1996.

In a blog post for the think - tank's website, McMahon takes issue with AFL / CIO President Denis Hughes» statement that with the high rate of return on the state employee pension fund during the last fiscal year, the need for an overhaul of the system (i.e. less generous benefits, is unnecessary).

New York state accounted for most of the increase in state funding for preschool nationwide last year, according to a new report by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.

In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.

Republican Harry Wilson, who, as a largely self - funding political newcomer, came within just under 4 percentage points of ousting Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli last fall, has not said anything publicly in response to a NY Post report that he's being talked up as a potential 2012 challenger to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, but he already has at least one GOP county chairman in his corner.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

Case in point: New York state, where Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced last week that the $ 178 billion state and local pension fund ended its fiscal year March 31 with a minuscule return on assets of 0.19 percent, well short of its 7 percent long - term target.

The latest version of the fiscal 2018 Capital Projects bill (A. 3004D) would further fatten the State and Municipal Facilities Program (SMFP), bringing its total available funding to $ 1.64 billion, based on $ 1.925 billion in total appropriations over the last five fiscal years.

Last year, state lawmakers voted to fund every district more equally, whether it's in an affluent suburb or a high - poverty community.

Last December, Albany swiped $ 143 million in MTA funding — most of which came from dedicated transit taxes — to cover the state's budget gap.

Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.

He pointed out that just in the last couple of days, there was another example of failure in the current system of oversight when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged a former portfolio manager in the state's pension fund, which is overseen by the state comptroller, with running a bribery scheme.

He has visited New York City public housing repeatedly over the last month, and even declared a state of emergency last week, promising $ 250 million in additional funding in the state budget ($ 550 million has been allocated to the New York City Housing Authority since 2015).

Tax - funded public - pension costs for every level of state government rose from absolutely minimal levels in 2000 to a grand total of more than $ 16 billion last year, half of it in New York City alone.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office noted in its enacted budget report last year that it is «unclear» how funds will be allocated under the State and Municipal Facilities Program.

The state should work to release $ 200 million in funding that was allocated to NYCHA in last year's budget, but which it has not yet received, Dean Fuleihan, the city's first deputy mayor, said at a City Hall news conference.

Because of the collapse of the financial markets in the Great Recession, cities and counties have been billed increasing amounts in the last few years to keep the New York State Pension Fund healthy.

By most ways of measuring, New York City developers are the largest source of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10 percent of total contributions in the last election cycle.

A spokesman for Gov. Cuomo declined to comment, but his office noted that, in fact, the state has increased education funding over the last two years, with an $ 805 million increase in 2013 - 2013 and a $ 1 billion increase in 2013 - 2014.

The funding is in addition to over $ 104 million in capital funding for tourism infrastructure provided last year for local tourism projects as well as investments in state parks, like Jones Beach and Niagara Falls and facilities of the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

Last June, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA and allocated an additional $ 1 billion in funding to the agency's current capital plan.

As I noted, this is actually the second such e-mail the comptroller has sent supporter since announcing late last month that he had hired a firm to represent the state pension fund in the suit.

Using a combination of county, state and federal funds, Nassau last year provided $ 755,000 for four adult day care programs in Herricks, Glen Cove, East Hills and Hewlett that serve some 416 adults, Murphy said.

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And yet, our Governor, and the members of his cabinet, have spent most of the last month flying around in state funded planes and helicopters giving the same speech, over and over.

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(June 22, 2017, Albany) A coalition of prominent government watchdog groups say Governor Cuomo, Senate Leader Flanagan and Speaker Heastie have completely failed to address the huge problems revealed by last year's alleged rigging of $ 800m in state economic development contracts and that billions of state funds remain at risk for bid rigging and pay to play.

In this column last month I noted the formation of the Erie County Medicaid Anti-Fraud Task Force, funded entirely by New York State with no cost to local taxpayers and charged with rooting out the waste, fraud, and abuse that exist within Medicaid.

DiNapoli complains that the latest state budget allows for $ 475 million in new SAM spending and a $ 385 million boost in borrowing authority — with no explanation of the need, since much of last year's $ 1.5 billion in SAM funds is still unspent.