Sentences with phrase «of dollars the state»

He has long criticized the Cuomo administration for various aspects of the project, and recently penned an OpEd saying the billions of dollars the state has reaped from financial services settlements with BNP Paribas and others should be used to pay for the new bridge and other infrastructure projects.

In a gaggle with reporters at the Capitol, Astorino said he agreed with the Senate GOP's one - house budget resolution when it came to distributing billions of dollars the state gained through windfall financial settlements.

«It's multi billions of dollars the state is going to spend to give to one company to keep Vietnam war era power plants open for twelve years,» Horner said.

Miner agrees, saying the billions of dollars the state won in financial settlements should not have gone to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs.

Senate Republicans are considering ways to strip Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's power to control hundreds of millions of dollars the state is getting from a national housing settlement with JPMorgan Chase, a source said.

That argument may sound reasonable, but it's just as plausible that teachers don't know about or fully appreciate the thousands of dollars states and districts spend on their pensions each year.

Not exact matches

Billions of dollars in unclaimed property is being held by states until owners claim it.

The United States could lose up to 700,000 jobs and suffer billions of dollars in lost economic output if President Donald Trump ends a program granting work permits to the children of undocumented immigrants, a new report finds.

The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

«Since my election, Ford, Fiat - Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others, have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs,» Trump said during his first address to a joint session of Congress in February.

Manafort «borrowed millions of dollars in loans using these properties as collateral, thereby obtaining cash in the United States without reporting and paying taxes on that income,» the indictment says.

His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax load.

Republican and Democratic governors of Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware and Florida all opposed the proposal, the Washington Post reported, with many citing billion - dollar tourism industries dependent on their states» coastal beaches.

We estimate that low natural gas prices and state policies that move utilities away from coal are savings tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars each year.

Many of my certifications led to being able to bid on and win state and federal projects that bring in millions of dollars for my business.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

It has already secured up to several billion dollars of financing from Chinese state - controlled banks, including the China Development Bank, for the project, which Mexico estimates will cost $ 10 billion over 10 years, one of the people said.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

The measure keeps domestic spending largely flat, while providing billions of dollars in additional funds to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

«Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?»

The recall, which could cost the two firms hundreds of millions of dollar each, revives quality concerns at a time when Hyundai (hymtf) and Kia (kimtf) face a sharp drop in China sales and sluggish demand in the United States and South Korea.

Take a closer look at the FDI stats, and you'll see the depreciation of the dollar against the Euro and the pound boosted Canada's outward FDI, and the country had a $ 50.5 - billion investment deficit with the United States.

«In addition to ending a key front in the racist war on drugs, regulating and taxing marijuana would generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for our people and create important agricultural opportunities for our state,» Nixon said in the Twitter video.

McCabe's wife, a Democrat, had received several hundred thousand dollars in donations from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Clinton for her unsuccessful Virginia state Senate bid in 2015.

For example, content requirements could be tailored to capture billions of dollars in research and development investments primarily made in the United States, protecting high - paying engineering jobs from moving offshore, he said.

The fires have put property worth billions of dollars at risk in California, where wildfires in the northern part of the state in October resulted in insured losses of more than $ 9 billion.

Other conspiracies say the eye on the seal of the United States and the dollar bill means the government is always watching us.

Marijuana interdictions at the Mexican border are down substantially, youth use has not increased in states with legal access to cannabis, and responsible cannabis businesses are contributing tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact to their communities.»

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

That can be tough to do when federal and state taxes are taking roughly 45 percent of every dollar.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

Abbott said that as a border state Texas has sustained millions of dollars in costs related to illegal immigration.

These types of operations, though, aren't just reserved for nation states or multibillion - dollar global enterprises

«In a market the size of the United States the idea of buying a spot for $ 4 million dollars and spending another million to produce it might somehow be justifiable when you divide it into the number of people who are going to see it.

Arne Sorenson, Marriott CEO, talks about the impact of Trump's policies on his business, how a strong dollar will impact travelers, and the state of the U.S. economy.

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf called the committee a «waste of time and taxpayer dollars» on Monday, but said the department would cooperate.

Trade is a big part of many states» economies, and billions of dollars of exports could be at stake in the ongoing NAFTA talks.

Since five years ago when it started, the Great Recession has hit the United States like a hurricane, erasing trillions of dollars of wealth, destroying more than 8 million jobs and eroding value from tens of thousands of homes.

The extent of the impact shows the power the United States exerts over the global financial system through the dollar clearing process.

The United States and China have threatened each other with tens of billions of dollars in tariffs in recent weeks, fanning worries of a full - blown trade war that could hurt global supply chains as well as business investment plans.

«Manafort used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the United States, without paying taxes on that income,» the indictment says, adding, «Manafort then borrowed millions of dollars in loans using these properties as collateral, thereby obtaining cash in the United States without reporting and paying taxes on that income.»

In the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firms.

Robotics labs today are filled with million - dollar, state - of - the - art robots that struggle with mundane chores, such as gripping a cup of coffee or opening a door, even after months of programming.

Mr. Stippick, CEO, states «We are a digital media company and with this studio agreement, our company will save months of valuable time and millions of dollars in equipment.

The state's infrastructure still leaves something to be desired, too, despite billions of dollars in state investment in recent years.

The dearth of mineral exploration in Western Australia is costing the state millions of dollars in rapidly escalating world copper earnings.

Who could have foreseen that OPEC would decide to sacrifice billions of dollars by refusing to curb production, just so it could hurt shale - oil producers in the United States?