Not exact matches
The president's $ 4.4 trillion budget, unveiled Monday, includes federal spending of $ 200 billion for
infrastructure upgrades; $ 18 billion for Trump's border wall; and $ 716 billion for
national defense.
Although the
National School Lunch Program received $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and $ 25 million from fiscal 2010 appropriations, this funding, which is allocated through a competitive grants program, represents a fraction of what school districts need to
upgrade their kitchen equipment and
infrastructure and to adequately train staff.
The budget also calls for expanding NOAA's existing efforts to study ocean acidification and for
upgrading the
National Weather Service's
infrastructure.
The West Coast ShakeAlert ™ system is being developed by expanding and
upgrading the
infrastructure of regional seismic networks that are part of the Advanced
National Seismic System (ANSS); the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) is made up of the Southern California Seismic Network, SCSN) and the Northern California Seismic System, NCSS and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN).
More than 135 Million Euros have already been committed for the construction,
upgrading and operation of the
national facilities contributing to the pan-European Infrafrontier Research
Infrastructure in Germany, France, Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Austria, Spain and Italy.
Haiti has designed its own $ 25 million strategic plan for climate resilience under the PPCR to mainstream climate change into
national development planning and to support measures to climate proof
infrastructure, agriculture, and coastal cities in vulnerable target areas, as well as
upgrade hydro - meteorological and climate services.
An increase in
national infrastructure spending could end up being a benefit for laborers in the skilled trades needed to complete
upgrades.
Population and business growth will determine the amount of new construction over the coming decade as well as the need to improve
national infrastructure such as the
upgrade or replacement of roads, bridges, and sewer pipe systems.
That this audit form the basis of a
national, funded plan to
upgrade or build quality preschool, primary and secondary school
infrastructure where populations warrant them.