Sentences with phrase «more federal aid»

While opponents said that vouchers had no track record of improving student performance, supporters countered that no alternative could be worse than Washington's public schools, which in any case were in line to receive more federal aid.

«Joining 18 other states as finalists for more federal aid is good news, but it won't overshadow the facts that taxes and spending will be going up even more, school property tax bills are being prepared without a state budget in place, and the budget will soon be the latest in history.»

If you accidentally received more federal aid or grants than you were supposed to get, you may become ineligible for future loans.

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Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

Bombardier is in talks with the federal government to secure even more financial aid, and the market believes the company won't be allowed to fail.

More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards» office.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Some of those recipients may be part - time help, but the fact that they need federal aid to survive suggests that they would be happy to work more.

The good news is that financial aid through federal and school grants is more widely available than ever, making it possible for many students in need of college funds to attend a postsecondary school.

You can find more information and apply for one of these plans via Federal Student Aid's website.

An initial package of $ 7.85 billion for Harvey victims was agreed upon, but with total costs expected to be as high as $ 190 billion — more than the combined costs of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — and with Hurricane Irma yet to make landfall in Florida, the federal aid amount could eventually run even higher.

If you've exhausted your federal aid options and still need more money to pay for school, private student loans are another option.

We need to reinvent federal grants - in - aid to the states, drain the federal for - profit contracting swamps, and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.

That timeline reflects how the more deliberative Senate works, the aide said, rather than any resistance to delivering federal aid: «We're all on the same page about what we need to do.»

He said the federal and provincial governments need to act to shore up companies and avoid a repeat of the early 2000s when it took more than a year for Ottawa to react with an aid package.

So when President Barack Obama pushed for a $ 60 billion package of federal aid, it sparked more than three months of partisan sparring — a delay that left Democrats and northeastern Republicans fuming while the remainder of the GOP fulminated against the threat of a growing national debt and the inclusion of spending they deemed wasteful.

Additionally, borrowers who default become ineligible to take out any more federal student aid or to apply for loan deferment or forbearance, which can help struggling debtors.

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

Remember — all your southern redneck states are net consumers of federal taxes — for every dollar they pay in taxes, they get a buttload more back in aid.

Although officials haven't revealed the exact details of how they will make up the loss in federal aid, Johnson said the district is «relatively certain» that Smart Snacks will cause it to lose more than the subsidy is worth.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.

Sprague Brook Park was acquired by using state and federal aid programs to assume title to more than 2,200 acres of parkland (including Eighteen Mile Creek, Beeman's Creek and Larkin Woods) in May 1963.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

Altogether, over $ 70 billion in federal aid flows to the state... (read more)

We do know Sen. Latimer will raise taxes / fees on Westchester residents, he'll have to do that to pay for all the spending he's got planned, Latimer's notion that Westchester can simply get more federal and state aid to fund his spending plans is also rather stupid.

The federal government was actually much more generous to New York in those drop - dead days of the 1970s, when more than 20 percent of the city budget came from federal aid.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

A married couple from Staten Island is charged with swiping more than $ 767,000 in federal aid by lying that their primary home was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, fed eral authorities said...

Schumer's office put out more press releases — some jointly with Gillibrand — touting his calls for and announcing the awarding of federal emergency aid for the state.

«It says, «If your spending per enrollee is more than 25 percent above the national average, you're going to take a little extra haircut on your federal aid,»» Hammond said.

AHCA does reduce federal aid for Medicaid, but it leaves eligibility standards alone — meaning no one covered by the program (more than 6 million, or one in three New Yorkers) would necessarily be displaced.

First, the Division of the Budget's (DOB's) authorization to craft a plan if federal Medicaid funding or all other federal aid declines by at least $ 850 million is extended for two more fiscal years.

The governor has not been to the nation's capital to lobby the federal government in more than four years, since a visit in 2012 to press for disaster aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Already cash - strapped from budget tightening, they'll have to live within a 2 percent property tax cap next year, making federal aid all the more important.

Three more counties — two of them in the downstate region — were added to the federal government's list of official disaster areas, making them eligible to receive cleanup aid, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

And he said New York was in line to receive a good chunk of federal aid, but will likely have to push for more money in order to cover public and private losses.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Friday released a report assessing the impact of federal aid on New York's local governments and schools districts, finding they rely on more than $ 11 billion combined in 2015.

De Blasio's inaction on what to do with a stash of $ 326 million in federal 9/11 funds could hurt the effort to pass a bill to give more aid to sick and dying 9/11 workers, Rep. Peter King warned.

The city's public housing authority is expected to lose at least $ 35 million in federal aid this year — and possibly even more — as a result of President Trump's...

He returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

The governor, who has feuded with de Blasio since 2015, also proposed cutting $ 11 million in state aid to the city's health department, arguing that the city is more readily able to access federal funds compared to the state's county governments.

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.

She credited CG - 3PL with securing more than $ 200 million in federal aid for Nassau projects.

More than $ 1 billion in federal aid is now available to schools across the country for physical education.

Rhodes said more must be done to provide opportunities for young people through job retraining, trade apprenticeships and increased federal aid to local universities and community colleges.

Schumer says if Congress does not renew payments through the Low - Volume Hospital and Medicare - Dependent Hospital programs, Nathan Littauer Hospital will lose more than $ 1 million in federal aid.

More than two months after Sandy damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in New York alone, the state is still waiting for federal disaster aid.