Sentences with phrase «largest federal expenditure»

Today, the MID represents the single largest federal expenditure on housing assistance.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»

The largest federal expenditures on children and families, ignoring Medicaid, CHIP and the education system, are through provisions of the tax code that are tied to a taxpayer's income, number of dependents, and the amount parents spent on the care of their children.

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However, the first level of that wall — Old Age Security — already represents the federal government's largest single expenditure.

Such a large expenditure by Cohen would have been far more than what he is able to donate to a candidate under federal rules.

At the same time, the SALT deduction is one of the largest federal tax expenditures.

In 1893, for example, the $ 165 million spent on military pensions was the largest single expenditure ever made by the federal government.

The teachers» union, with a membership of 1.2 million, surveyed teacher salaries, district expenditures, and federal revenue in large school districts between the 1990 - 91 and 2000 - 01 school years.

A large new public expenditure on childcare would have significant negative effects on the federal budget in the near term.

Under the administration's budget, two of the department's largest expenditures in K - 12 education, special education and Title I funds to help poor children, would remain unchanged compared to federal funding levels in the first half of fiscal 2017.

In particular, Cameron uses quasi-experimental methods of analysis to examine how American governments at the local, state, and federal levels invest in inputs to K - 12 public education, the largest public expenditure at the state and local levels.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

The legislature in Washington directed the state to raise eligibility under the program from 200 % to 250 % of the federal poverty level, reversing an earlier attempt by the state agency, as part of a larger effort to cut state expenditures, to discontinue its existing Medicaid family planning expansion.