Sentences with phrase «more subsidy funding»

Indeed, lawmakers signed off on more subsidy funding in the budget without any additional oversight.

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That effort largely focuses on reducing Energy Department spending energy subsidies and stopping the agency from issuing any more loan guarantees — the same program that funded Solyndra.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

Puppet Showplace Theater will run gift wrapping stations at local stores in exchange for donations - a long - running tradition which generates funds for field trip subsidies, new works and more.

Has received $ 169,204 in supplemental funding from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to continue the operation of its highly successful Wage Subsidy Program aimed at helping public assistance recipients in the tri-county... Read more

That might not come naturally to some transportation planners more accustomed to relying on government subsidies to fund projects, Wylde said.

Supporters of organic farming acknowledge that production methods are currently more expensive, but point to the subsidies paid to conventional agriculture and funding provided for research in contrast to organic farming as making the comparison unfair.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

The Council has repeatedly called for more agency efficiencies and savings but has largely capitulated as they also advocate for funding their own priorities worth hundreds of millions, which is happening again this year, highlighted by Johnson's push for both Metrocard subsidies for low - income New Yorkers and property tax rebates for middle - class homeowners (while de Blasio has been resistant to both).

He supports more state funding for public housing, rent subsidies and affordable housing.

Mulgrew urged state lawmakers to reject Gov. Cuomo's proposals to increase charter funding, permit more charters to open in New York City and increase rent subsidies for charters.

Then, too, the speaker aims to fund his subsidy (and other initiatives beyond what Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed for the nearly $ 90 billion city budget) from some iffy sources: ordering city agencies to find new savings and getting $ 1.25 billion in higher tax revenues — including $ 50 million more in administrative fines.

Osborne is expected to use his summer Budget to clampdown on taxpayer - funded subsidies for social housing tenants who earn more than # 30,000 per household, or # 40,000 in London, meaning they will have to pay a market or near market rent in future.

Low - income, working parents and the family child care providers who take care of their kids were dealt a heavy blow when Mayor Michael Bloomberg cut child care subsidies for more than 16,500 New York City children, the single largest cut to city funding for child care since the 1970s.

The deal also includes $ 86 million in restored funding for higher education, including for SUNY and CUNY community colleges, as well as $ 15 million more for homeless programs — which a spokesman for the mayor said would likely not be enough to fund the Advantage program, which provides subsidies to help the homeless move out of shelters and into homes.

Although improvements in wind and other renewables have required significant subsidies, the investments pale in comparison to the funds spent on more traditional energy sources.

Other member states are demanding more spending on agriculture subsidies and the cohesion funds that benefit Europe's poorer regions.

Those who want more money spent on child care now say their best hopes lie with a bipartisan proposal in the Senate to target funds from a tobacco settlement toward child - care subsidies and other early - childhood programs.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

Nor can they rely on subsidies available for school sixth forms, which can be supported from the school's «more generous» 11 - 16 funding.

Apparently Governor Malloy's new plan not only over looks these existing taxpayer - funded subsidies but he is calling for significantly more money to be given to Achievement First and other charter schools.

Maddie's Fund is piloting the subsidy program to give local shelters and rescues the means to find more homes for vulnerable shelter pets, strengthen the relationship between animal control shelters and adoption guarantee groups, and shift some of the burden of responsibility for these pets away from cash - strapped government agencies.

WindWaste was established on the premise that more funding for education was critical, and the industry that has profited most in recent years from Oklahoma subsidies should contribute.

This support can take the form of more reliable and localised weather forecasts, subsidies for inputs, well - trained extension workers, better facilities for livestock health, well - funded agricultural research, and improved rural infrastructure such as road networks.

A Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure would use fiscal policy (through carbon pricing and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies) to fund ocordinated infrastructure investment (through multilateral cooperation) resulting in more open markets (through increased cross-border energy trade) resulting in lower prices (through heightened competition).

Nor does the misnamed renewable energy produce more than a couple of tens of percent of what its promoters claim it will and after 30 years of massive publicly funded subsidies still claims it can not stand on its own feet commercially without further massive publicly funded subsidies.

... Redirecting more $ 250 billion in subsidies in industrial countries away from coal and oil and putting them behind carbon - free technologies; Creating a large fund, which has been estimated at about $ 300 billion a year for a decade, to transfer clean energy to poor countries.

But if Obama and others focus first on consumption subsidies the motives look less like fiscal responsibility and a stable climate, and more like a finger pointing exercise or negotiating tactic designed to show that the developing world has plenty of funds available to adapt to climate change and invest in clean energy, if only they would stop making energy affordable for their populations.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

As more and more companies, organizations and governments align themselves behind a clean energy transition, the political forces that have maintained the status quo through supporting fossil fuel subsidies and funding climate denial become increasingly marginalized.

In today's financing climate, where pre-sales are more difficult than ever to attract and GAP financing requires two or three times coverage, the holy grail of many independent producers has become «soft money» - funds which are generated by means other than sales of a product, such as tax credits, government subsidies and equity investments.

During this time, as a result of declining federal funds, Planned Parenthood reorganized to become more self - supporting and less dependent on government subsidy.