Sentences with phrase «include more funds»

Defense stocks have climbed as Congress inched closer to a spending agreement, with President Donald Trump insistent that any bill includes more funding for the armed forces.

A group of mainline conference Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate signed on to an effort led by Sen. Brad Hoylman to include more funding in the state budget for homeless runaway youth shelters.

Nolan said she was «very concerned» by the idea of a moratorium, and noted that she was open — and has previously supported — other items that have been directed to yeshivas in the past, including more funds for student busing.

Other topics Epstein wants to tackle in Albany include more funding for public schools, strengthening gun control laws and establishing a single - payer healthcare system.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, who testified in the afternoon, praised the mayor's budget proposal for including more funding for the expansion of 3 - K for All, capital funds to repair and replace NYCHA heating systems, and for closing the first jail on Rikers Island.

A reinvented «New Labour» had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education, but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to the nationalisation of leading industries.

«They've been predominantly large projects,» said Colleen DiPirro, the president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, who hopes the second phase will include more funding aimed at helping small businesses expand and take advantage of opportunities created by the first wave of Buffalo Billion projects.

Julia Gonzalez, a second grade teacher and member of E4E - NY, explains the group's priorities that include more funding for implementing the Common Core Standards and maintaining tenure and due process for teachers.

The aspects of the bill that are highly supported include more funding to make schools secure and more funding for mental health programs.

Not exact matches

Emerging alternative lenders, including online lenders, may make funding more accessible to certain types of new businesses.

There are any number of reasons why you need to create a business plan, including starting a business, seeking funding and more.

Many great companies sat out the IPO market last year for a myriad of reasons, including the abundance of private capital, funds flow out of conventional funds ($ 224 billion in outflows, to be exact), and more «blackout» windows than normal — post-Brexit and post-Trump in particular — where companies were afraid of political uncertainty.

Slacker Radio raised more than $ 70 million in venture funding from investors including Centennial Ventures, Rho Capital Partners, Austin Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds.

His funders include the Chinese government, General Motors (gm) and spandex company Yantai, which are all investing in how to build smaller and more flexible power that you can sew, wear, and stretch.

RedOwl had raised more than $ 21 million in venture funding from investors including In - Q - Tel, Blackstone, Conversion Capital, Allegis Capital, and TCP Venture Capital.

Unomy had raised more than $ 2 million in venture funding from investors including AltalR Capital, Janvest Capital Partners, LETA Capital, and ValueShine Ventures.

SAFE contracts include some common protections for investors, such as pro rata rights (the ability to participate in future funding rounds), but leave out some more controversial terms, like provisions related to board - seat privileges and veto rights.

UNB Fredericton remains popular forsome of its more specialized programs, including an MBA in sport and recreationmanagement, and the student investmentfund — a year - long course for second - yearstudents in which they manage a portionof the province's pension fund.

Real enough, in fact, that it not only convinced high - profile funds including Formation 8 and Founders Fund to invest more than $ 90 million, it also just unveiled its first product: a spider silk tie made from genetically modified yeast fermented in tanks.

Veracode raised more than $ 110 million in VC funding from investors including Wellington Management, Founders Circle Capital, and Starvest Partners.

In a 2015 survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, two out of five adults with deductibles representing 5 percent or more of their incomes reported that they avoided getting care, including preventative tests, because of their deductibles.

In the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchat.

Oil dropped sharply in March, bringing down Hall along with others including Andurand Commodities Fund, which through the end of July had lost more than 15 %, according to a source close to the firm.

However, there are other, less - popular options for funding including self - funding, sweat equity, government grants, and more that do work best for certain situations.

Since its 2012 launch, the Toronto - based «virtual garage sale» site had raised more than US$ 34 million, including from heavyweight American funds such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

For example, a pledge made at CGI America last year by Detroit business incubator TechTown to help second - stage companies successfully transition from startups to sustainable businesses has raised $ 278,750 in funds, pulled in five new partners (including Kiva Detroit), and served more than 40 local entrepreneurs since June 2012.

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

BRVM aims to attract more institutional investors including pension funds to increase investment in its bond market and lessen its dependence on bank liquidity.

SecondMarket's online auction platform has more than 10,000 participants, including global financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, corporations, and other institutional and accredited investors that collectively manage more than $ 1 trillion in assets available for investment.

More than 4.5 million people have signed up for Coursera's 400 - plus MOOCs, and the company has raised $ 43 million this year — bringing its funding to $ 65 million from backers including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the World Bank.

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

This worrying trend in the valley has been bordering on anti-margin, as described at length by Y Combinator head Sam Altman, for many reasons including the rush to gain more and more venture funding and sky - rocketing valuations.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

One example could be more active involvement in funding research and awareness about the disease; another might include offering paid leave or compensation for employees who participate in Alzheimer's clinical trials.

But there was widespread agreement among the working group's on - the - ground experts — including Panjabi; Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who now chairs Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Helle Thorning - Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International; and Andrew Youn of the One Acre Fund — that only a more comprehensive health strategy would make any real dent in childhood mortality.

That hurt technology - focused hedge fund Coatue Management, which lost about $ 58 million during the day, including more than $ 10 million apiece on Netflix stock and Activision Blizzard (atvi), as well as American Tower Corp. (amt), which sank 6 %.

Other notable Thiel investments, either individually or through Founders Fund, have included LinkedIn; Spotify; a $ 120 million stake in Musk's rocket - ship company, SpaceX; and more recently Airbnb.

Funding for cybersecurity companies that included corporate participation is already 29 percent higher than in all of 2013 and 129 percent more than in 2012, according to CB Insights.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

Other funds pulling in money lately include the Vanguard Intermediate - Term Corporate Bond and SPDR Barclays Short Term Corporate Bond, both of which took in more than $ 300 million over the past week.

The funds include the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, which invests in companies that have two or more women on their boards.

Last spring, Andrew Eckford, an engineering professor at York University, expressed frustration at being included in Ontario's list of employees of publicly funded institutions who earned more than $ 100,000.

The Los Angeles - based company will use the funds for international expansion, product development, increasing distribution capabilities and work on making the brand more accessible, which could include increasing partnerships with retailers.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

But that total is dwarfed by the more than $ 1.5 trillion invested in intermediate - term portfolios (3.5 - to six - year average duration), which include core bond funds hewing to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate index.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

BigBasket raised more than $ 290 million in venture funding from investors including Trifecta Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Helion Venture Partners, and Abraaj Group.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

In June, Porch raised $ 6.25 million in seed funding from more than 20 investors including eBay founder Jeff Skoll, SV Angel (co-founded by Ron Conway), Tesla backer Bill Lee, Foundation Capital partner Charles Moldow, and Facebook executive Javier Olivan.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)