Sentences with phrase «including federal help»

A nationwide coalition of organizations, Transportation for America is also calling for a a revamped system of transportation in America, including federal help in retrofitting unsafe urban roads, complete streets for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, more local and democratic decision - making and using transport to create affordable housing and jobs (they are talking about over 20 million new jobs in building new infrastructure and repairing the old).

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Entrepreneurial veterans get a boost from a new federal initiative that includes a focus on helping veterans seeking to start or grow a business.

The latest batch of recommendations also includes a fund of about $ 100 million to help promising smaller companies expand, and a suggestion that the federal government use its $ 18 - billion procurement budget to favour young companies that need an anchor client.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

The budget proposal also included plans to eliminate duplicative energy programs and wasteful spending to help get «federal government out of the way and allow the private sector to do its job and flourish.»

Cohen and Belt have received financial help from the city, state and federal government, along with a bevy of corporate sponsors, including design software maker Autodesk and 3D - printer makers EOS and Ultimaker.

And he built on that concept on Thursday, announcing that his firm will bolster its patient assistance programs for more than 40 drugs, including by helping people who make up to four times the federal poverty level buy their treatments for free.

There are a total of eight federal student loan repayment programs, including income - driven repayment plans, made available to borrowers that can help with the management of paying back loan balances over time.

Bank of America has discussed paying about $ 12 billion, including more than $ 5 billion to help struggling homeowners, to resolve a range of federal and state probes, primarily into whether the company and its units defrauded mortgage bond investors in the run - up to the financial crisis, people familiar with the matter said.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

In December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was hopeful a deal with Bombardier could be reached before the spring federal budget, adding that all countries, including Brazil, help their aerospace sectors.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

The federal government is testing the public's appetite for a variety of potential policies, including a tax on digital content providers like Netflix to help fund Canadian cultural industries.

Private student loans make up a small percentage of the total student loan market, but many more borrowers have moved toward private lenders to help fund their education in the past several years.Private student loans offer some benefits over federal student loans, including the potential for a lower interest rate and extended repayment terms.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Pence said President Donald Trump had ordered federal agencies to provide extensive help to the investigation, including 100 on - site FBI agents.

The website is undergoing a major technological update that will include information to help farmers conform with the requirements of recently implemented regulations under the federal Food Safety Modernization Act.

Federal assistance is designed to help poor families with nearly every essential need from housing to health care, but diapers — a product fundamental to child health that no baby can do without — aren't included.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

The budget includes his proposal to help those negatively impacted by the new federal tax code, which caps a deduction for state and federal taxes that is especially popular in high - tax states such as New York.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Bellone repeatedly cited Sini's work, telling Catsimatidis that his hand - picked top cop helped reestablish partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies, included the FBI and U.S. attorney's office, that went mostly neglected under the troubled tenure of former Chief of Police James Burke.

He went on to found Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, which helps low - income families in Upper Manhattan gain access to financial services including more than $ 15 million in microloans.

Federal budget proposals in the House and Senate threaten water and sewer infrastructure projects that would help clean up polluted waterways, including the planned restoration of Scajaquada Creek, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

The $ 168.3 billion budget passed by state lawmakers at the end of March includes changes to the tax codes issued «to help ease the pain of the new federal tax code for homeowners expecting to see their taxes go up,» according to CBS New York.

NEW YORK (AP)-- In newly released documents, federal prosecutors say former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver abused his power to help two women, including a lobbyist, with whom he had extramarital affairs.

Cuomo's budget also includes provisions to pass the Child Victims Act, and at least $ 1 billion in new fees and taxes — including on opioids, vaping products, and insurance companies that benefit from the federal tax law — to help close a $ 4.4 billion deficit.

The fixes include new language to help ensure that Connecticut would be able to receive as much as $ 1 billion in federal revenue that's tied to a hospital tax in the budget.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

Westchester County donated the land, and the development is helping to meet its federal court settlement regarding the need for affordable housing in many of the County's communities, including the City of Rye.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

Also in the budget: $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

«The report also rightly identifies the significant risk to federal revenues, which is why the budget includes prudent language — long supported by rating agencies and good governance groups — to help the State manage mid-year deficits.»

An increase in federal funding for certain school districts will help several districts in New York, including one in Orange County near West Point.

This FHA money will help to restore traffic services and make emergency roadway repairs including removal of debris, repairing sign and signal damages and road washouts on federal - aid highways.»

Duffus said there is about $ 5.5 million in federal funding available to help support the effort, which likely will help the state acquire «interests» in the properties, which could include either conservation easements or direct ownership.

With local businesses, including the Rochester Red Wings, ESL Federal Credit Union, and many others, REF helped coordinate a quality summer internship program for city students until the school support component was eliminated by the city school district.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

The Division of Veterans Affairs was established to advocate for veterans and their families to ensure they get all authorized benefits, including help filing applications for federal, state, local and private benefits, obtaining documents and following up with correspondence and appeals.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

ALBANY - The Cuomo administration's proposed state budget would earmark $ 65 million over several years for three projects to expand research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, including one to help it land a lucrative federal nuclear physics facility.

Also included: new money for public schools and water quality and several tax changes intended to help New Yorkers negatively impacted by the new federal tax law.

TAX CHANGES: Cuomo pushed to include some tax measures to help ease the pain of the new federal tax code for homeowners expecting to see their taxes go up.

State and federal officials have offered a flurry of solutions to stave off the bleeding, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has introduced legislation that would create a new «price floor» for milk that would help the state's dairy farmers continue operating while milk prices are historically low.

Members of Congress are asking the president to include a federal program to help low - income families insulate their homes in next year's budget.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher says cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid, and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

They came in droves, supported by infrastructure the federal government built — including the Hoover Dam — and the water those facilities helped supply.

Although committee members did not say there are plans to include evaluations as supportive documentation in federal fellowship grant submissions, the committee did suggest postdocs sit «virtual exit interviews» to help determine «the quality of a postdoc experience and to identify problems.»

Yoon said some of the funding made possible by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which includes $ 460 million for community mental health services for states to use, may help other states to create similar programs.

Three federal entities, including NASA, are reaffirming their commitment to search for Antarctic meteorites, to help learn more about the primitive building blocks of the solar system.