These funds are used to develop grants that provide assistance to rural communities for supporting: low - carbon innovation and entrepreneurship,
increased affordable transportation options, encouraging telecommuting through expanded broadband access.
Not exact matches
They would
increase public investment in
affordable housing, public
transportation, and clean energy.
The $ 145.3 billion spending plan
increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of
affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.
State Senator Jim Seward joined community, labor and business leaders to announce the launch of New Yorkers for
Affordable Energy, which supports
increasing access to natural gas for manufacturing facilities, power production,
transportation, and other purposes to support New York's economy and quality of life:
It is unreasonable to believe that currently very poor countries will not be
increasing their CO2 emissions as their populations DEMAND access to electricity and
transportation at
affordable costs.
Despite the pain of their separation, and despite numerous misunderstandings and frightening arguments, they made a plan that protected the child, gave the father extensive visitation time until the mother left the U.S., protected the father's right to have more time with the child as the years passed, handled
transportation for visits realistically, provided for the child having access to health coverage in the mother's home country, arranged for visits through Skype calls for the absent parent at least once a week, planned for the mother to bring the child to the U.S. to visit the dad at least once a year if the dad could pay for the plane tickets, planned for the dad to pick the child up in Europe for a traveling visit at least once a year, if
affordable, and
increased the length of the visits with dad, as the child got older.
The partnership has some broad goals outlined in its agreement, which include: provide more
transportation choices, promote equitable and
affordable housing, support existing communities,
increase access to economic opportunities and align policies and funding among the three agencies to support the effort.