Sentences with phrase «of local dollars»

Committee member and board vice president Judy Conlin said she favors a Wisconsin Association of School Board proposal that would require property tax bills to include how much of their local dollars are going to voucher schools.

We know the amount of local dollars we can contribute and we have contributed local dollars on behalf of the people of Erie County towards the spike, but we did need additional funding from the state.»

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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

In order for a few million dollars to go «missing» here and there, and end up in the pockets of local politicians or shady middle - men, you've pretty much got to be mislabelling the money at the very least.

This Houston - based power company is giving back to its local community in the form of one million dollars to Houston organizations.

While you will want to have a local accountant to deal with, NaturaLawn of America will provide you most of what you will need for accounting saving you thousands of dollars in accounting fees from your local person.

The RBNZ's challenges became immediately apparent after the central bank decision, with investors lifting the local dollar to a one - year peak despite the easing and threatening to depress both exports and inflation in New Zealand's small open economy with a population of 4.7 million.

The Canadian Mining Association could form a similar partnership with Canadian banks, providing training on sustainable practices to Burmese natural resource firms while leveraging the trillions of dollars raised on the TSX for projects that give environmental groups and local residents a say.

Hotel managers who fail to recognize your booking, sleazy locals who will try and squeeze every single dollar out of you, the occasional loss of electricity and bacteria that put your immune system to the test — it's all real, and it will happen to you.

«Even if 1 % or 2 % of potential travelers decide not to go to Florida, whether it's for leisure or for business, there could be a multi-million dollar hit to the local economy,» he said.

Because the local utility, NV Energy, generates a good portion of its sales from casinos, the state's regulators said casinos would have to pay tens of millions of dollars to detach from the utility and generate all of their own power.

It has directed a small number of marketing dollars into a geographically targeted online banner ad campaign and some local radio spots, but the main push is through social media.

With estimates that the global market for medical marijuana could reach $ 50 billion by 2025, the Israeli government is set to allow the local industry to start exporting and projects annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

That means there are trillions of dollars floating around the local economy for them to scoop up.

A SOFTWARE solution that fully automates the design, filling and printing of forms could save local councils millions of dollars, according to Perth - based information technology company Business Management Information Systems.

There's also a lot of competition in Asia — local alcohol brands dominate certain areas, while domestic soft - drink makers vie for consumer dollars.

LOCAL industries servicing the mining sector will be big winners following recent announcements of mining projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

This production generates billions of dollars in revenue for state and local governments and the U.S. taxpayer, while supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The creator of zcash has partnered with a startup called AirTM to help Venezuelans turn their inflated local currency into U.S. dollars, undetected.

And for the Chinese private equity groups, raising funds in dollars instead of yuan enables them to target overseas investments without getting entangled in Beijing's capital controls, while international investors often wish to avoid taking local currency risk.

«One of the ongoing problems in the PC market has been the price hike in selected regions due to the weakening local currency against the U.S. dollar,» said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Before Uber lost out to chief local rival Didi Chuxing in China, the company was said to have used up billions of dollars just to maintain its hold on the country.

But she said it was frustrating to watch local governments — three of the 20 finalists for the Amazon project are in the Washington area — roll out the red carpet for a multibillion - dollar corporation.

Tyee Victoria bureau chief Andrew MacLeod broke the story of a local revolt against Tory Resource Minister Gary Lunn's million dollar «green» grant to rich homeowners in his Saanich - Gulf Islands riding.

Bank loans come in all shapes and sizes, from microloans of a few hundred dollars, typically offered by local community banks, to six - figure loans by major national banks.

In other words, nearly half of the dollars customers spend in the business down the street from your business gets re-spent in other local businesses — likely even yours.

Over the next five years, the YgreneWorks program is expected to create tens of thousands of jobs and invest billions of dollars into local economies.

It is going to be much more difficult for a competitor to enter a business which requires hundreds of millions of dollars in startup capital than it is for a retailer, which can be opened for a minuscule fraction of the cost (e.g., there are very few entities in the world that could start an airplane manufacturer to go head - to - head with Airbus or Boeing, but you and your friends could probably gather the capital necessary to lease a space at the local mall and start your own business).

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

We invest billions of dollars in the national, state, and local economies, including investments in state and municipal bonds, stocks, real estate and private equity.

iHelp partners with thousands of community banks nationwide and, when you refinance your loans with them, helps bring your dollars back to the local community.

National retailers, QSRs and service providers of all types are shifting budgets to local Internet marketing because those digital dollars can drive physical sales.

The multibillion - dollar development is expected to generate a huge number of jobs while also attracting FDI from international technology companies and local entrepreneurs, according to a Control Risks report entitled East Africa's Tech Hub.

According to Forbes, «A recent report by the Institute for Local Self - Reliance (ISLR) claims that roughly half of all U.S. households are subscribed to Amazon Prime, half of all online shopping searches start directly on Amazon, and Amazon captures nearly one in every two dollars that Americans spend online.»

Outsourcing revenues were $ 3.19 billion, an increase of 16 % in U.S. dollars and 19 % in local currency.

Bonds denominated in renminbi in the Hong Kong market, known as CNH bonds, outperformed dollar - denominated and other local currency bonds in Asia last year, with a more than 6 % total return in dollar terms, as investors sought stability in the resilience of the Chinese currency, according to a report by HSBC.

New accounting rules are likely to show that public pension plans could face hundreds of billions of dollars in additional liabilities, putting new pressure on state and local governments to act.

While these entities» total Australian dollar raisings typically represent a small share of their overall raisings — around 5 per cent in the case of supranationals — they are an important source of credit diversification (without currency risk) for local investors.

On top of new fees and taxes levied by state and local agencies on growers opting to join the regulated market, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for growers like JD to bring their land up to code.

First, it was that the company paid little to no state and local government taxes and then it was that the e-commerce company was a «scam» which costs the US Post Office and therefore the American people, billions of dollars a year.

It would jeopardize hundreds of billions of dollars each year in new debt financing, and would push more construction and labor costs onto local taxpayers.

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce a new economic stimulus package of about 2 trillion yen (about 17.8 US dollars) this year, according to local media reports in Japan.

We settle with the hotel the next business day and offer the hotel the option of depositing dollars (or one of 9 other local currencies), bitcoin, or a percentage split between the two.

But the amount going out in the past several weeks was obviously large enough to depress the value of the local currency against the US dollar to which it is pegged under the linked exchange rate system.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

«Along with putting dollars in the pockets of other Cincinnati women, we've been able to support local charities like March of Dimes, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Pink Ribbon Girls.

Any decision by Amazon about where to locate its second headquarters will have the level of incentives offered by state and local governments factored in, with that incentives package to likely rank in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The out - performance reflects the benefits flowing to the Latin American region not only from low US interest rates (these countries have large US dollar borrowings) but also its exposure to stronger growth outcomes in the US, with strong rises in the prices of key commodity exports boosting the price of local mining companies.

As an estimated $ 5 billion project employing as many as 50,000 people, the Amazon HQ2 is likely to have a broad impact on the local community in terms of what people pay for real estate, how long it takes them to get to work and what dollar figures they see on their paychecks.