Sentences with phrase «increased federal funds»

The natural byproduct of this recovery is that the Federal Reserve has recently increased the federal funds (interest) rate, which is the benchmark for other interest rates across the nation, including loans of every type.

To date, the Federal Reserve has increased the Federal funds rate by 175 basis points in this tightening phase, and recent evidence from the Federal Reserve's survey of senior loan officers suggests that lenders are also becoming somewhat more cautious about extending credit to businesses.

Since its initial nudge, the Fed has increased the federal funds rate just three times — once in 2016, and twice so far in 2017.

Looking ahead: The Federal Reserve recently increased the federal funds rate by a quarter - point and the U.S. Central Bank is forecasting at least two more rate hikes this year.

Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.

The Federal Reserve has been slowly increasing the federal funds rate, and is expected to make three more hikes in 2018.

As I said throughout the campaign, I am pro-life and I am deeply committed to investing in women's health and plan to significantly increase federal funding in support of nonabortion services such as cancer screenings.

The Citizens Commission on School Nutrition recommended sweeping reforms and increased federal funding for the system that feeds 24 million children each school day.

She also served on the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) Advocacy Steering Committee to help build a strong nationwide presence for the food allergy community in the public policy arena, and to actively seek to increase federal funding for food allergy research.

NBCC's mission includes increasing awareness about breast cancer, training people to be grassroots activists and increasing federal funding for research.

If Hall increases federal funding to the village and the state Democratic Party keeps its promises, he's a good bet to get the town's support again.

Chairman Crowley has long - supported increased federal funding for community health centers that provide primary and specialty care, as well as support services, to New York families.

They were calling for increased federal funding for municipal water projects, said Alexander Marion, her spokesman.

Some Buffalo residents may have heard the word «broadband» for the first time in April of 2000, when First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, then a U.S. Senate candidate, called for increased federal funding for that high - speed internet technology during a CNN town hall at the University at Buffalo.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

Because of overwhelmingly increased federal funding for abstinence - only courses, that is often what students are taught.

Among its assorted recommendations — from supporting state syringe exchange programs to increasing federal funding for neurobiology research — the panel suggests that FDA dramatically expand the types of evidence it requires from companies to show that an opioid is safe and effective, both before and after it gets market approval.

Christopher Reeve, Kevin Kline, Michael J. Fox and Mary Tyler Moore, among others, all made their way to Capitol Hill to testify in support of increased federal funding of hESCR (during her congressional testimony on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Ms. Moore famously said human embryos have «no more resemblance to a human being than a goldfish»)...

In addition, the Foundation is committed to raising awareness, education and increased federal funding and support.

Both McCain and Obama voted in 2006 and 2007 for bills that would increase federal funding for the research, but President Bush vetoed those plans.

In addition, the Foundation is committed to raising awareness, education and increased federal funding and support for SMA research broadly.

However, the suit went to the Court of Appeals, which reversed the dismissal when it ruled that Sherley and Deisher were harmed by Obama's policy; as they only worked with adult stem cells, theoretically they would have to deal with increased federal funding competition (due to an increase in hESC research).

APS Issues Statement in Support of Senate Subcommittee Efforts to Increase Federal Funding for National Institutes of Healt

In addition, the Foundation is committed to raising awareness through education and increasing federal funding and support for the disease.

Both of the major - party presidential candidates support increasing federal funding for special education and want to see strategies put in place to help reduce the number of students referred for such services, according to their answers to a questionnaire.

First, and most important, it increases federal funding.

Major reform is dependent on increasing federal funding, hopefully to a third of the costs, to help pay for improvements.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) proficiency standards were set by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and are used to locate public schools in need of improvement measures or increased federal funding.

NSBA supports increasing federal funding for existing education programs before considering funding new programs that have not yet demonstrated positive results.

While the No Child Left Behind era saw a strengthened federal role and increased federal funding for education, 3 states and localities have always provided the vast majority of school funding and made the majority of important decisions about how schools operate.

He's called for a doubling in the number of apprenticeships over the next five years, and has made repeated attempts to increase federal funding for apprenticeship programs in his budget proposals.

Recent federal attention fueled by requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act have led to increasing federal funding for the nation's public schools.

Would expand the D.C. Scholarship Program through increased federal funding and student participation.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

Therefore, if the Fed determines that the economy is growing well and an interest rate hike will not overly curb growth, it will increase the federal funds rate to avoid prices rising out of control.

The Federal Reserve has been slowly increasing the federal funds rate, and is expected to make three more hikes in 2018.

When the Fed increases the federal funds rate, it does not directly affect the stock market itself.

The Federal Reserve announced today they are increasing the federal funds rate to a range between 0.5 % and 0.75 %.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate;

The textbook response to a Fed normalization cycle (indicated on the chart as an increasing federal funds target rate) is greater increases in short - maturity interest rates relative to long - maturity rates (a «flattening» in bond parlance).

The Fed enacts a contractionary monetary policy when the FOMC looks to increase the federal funds rate and slow the economy.

Increasing the federal funds rate is typically done when the economy overall is growing steadily, and while that's good news, a rate hike causes concern about how expensive it will become to fund some of life's major expenses.

nearly all [FOMC members] supported again indicating in the postmeeting statement that a gradual approach to increasing the federal funds rate will likely be warranted

You see, the minutes revealed that «nearly all [FOMC members] supported again indicating in the postmeeting statement that a gradual approach to increasing the federal funds rate will likely be warranted.»

1965 — The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) is passed, increasing federal funding to universities.

96 percent would approve of elected officials who act to support museums including acting to maintain or increase federal funding.

The increased federal funding will leverage private sector funds and support our domestic automakers to bring plug - in hybrids and other advanced vehicles to American consumers.

The new survey finds continuing support for a range of policies to address the nation's energy supply, including requiring improved vehicle fuel efficiency and increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.

About eight - in - ten (79 %) favor requiring better fuel efficiency for cars, trucks and SUVs, and 74 % support increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.

Similarly, 64 % of Republicans favor increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology, down 21 points from two years ago.