Sentences with phrase «of public money in»

He retired from politics and «vanished» for the term of an incoming conservative government but now with the return of the ALP has re-emerged to actually head Melbourne Water — the man responsible for the most outrageous continuing waste of public money in the state's history.

These includes a proposal for legislation preventing the use of public money in settling sexual harassment claims, removal of forced arbitration provisions from employee contracts and a requirement that companies doing business with the state disclose the number of sexual harassment adjudications and nondisclosure agreements they've carried out.

The New York State Legislature has passed Industrial Development Agency (IDA) reforms that will increase transparency and accountability for use of public money in private economic development projects.

That's why the New York media doesn't cover the Moreland Act commission scandal, Preet Bharara's criminal investigation of Cuomo, or Cuomo's extensive list of one - percent, billionaire donors, all of whom expect a cut of public money in return for their $ 35 million in contributions to Cuomo.

They are all part of the Investment community that in 2008 created the biggest robbery of public money in world history.

The organization does have a clear policy on divestiture: «The NEA encourages its affiliates to lobby their state legislatures for divestment of public monies in the Republic of South Africa.

Advocated aggressive investment of public monies in lower - income communities and New Urbanist projects after taking office in 1999; spearheaded initiatives by the California State Teachers» Retirement System to channel $ 400 million into retail infill programs.

Not exact matches

In the world of Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music, artists who can actually convince the public to pay money for music are few and far between.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

Since then, Google has been shoveling increasing amounts of money into government lobbying, but has been notably quieter in the public domain on such issues.

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

Investors would get a (then) 35 % tax credit on money invested in a portfolio of startups managed by his firm, GrowthWorks Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including venture capital and mutual funds).

Under European rules, a public recapitalization entails that equity holders and subordinated creditors (owners of high - ranking debt) will have to share the burden and enter a «bail - in» of 8 percent (minimum) before public money is used.

When you trade something of value with the public you will get money in return.

«Money is not the problem,» says Zoltan Acs, a professor of public policy at George Mason University in Virginia.

In August, authorities arrested the deputy tourism minister for pocketing public money, and President Rousseff was forced to remove her transportation minister over claims of wrongdoing.

These employees and investors have stock in a company that they can tell is doing well, and they want to sell it to the public and make a lot of money.

But one significant impact, which can cost a company considerable time and money to repair, is in the area of public relations.

Some of that money has gone into coaching salaries — indeed, a few college football coaches are now the highest - paid public employees in their respective states.Yet none of those top earners are women.

Public sector banks are likely to be more hesitant to lend money to these borrowers because chances of a turnaround for companies with high levels of debt seem unlikely, at least in the near term, according to Awtani.

Facebook announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday that encouraged users to adopt the new feature in order to raise money through the social network for anything from medical procedures to relief in the wake of a public crisis or natural disaster.

Furse noted that money raised from initial public offerings on the LSE and its secondary market AIM, totaling 29 billion pounds ($ 57.4 billion), was the highest in the world and more than that of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq combined.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

He made most of his money from phone company Excel Communications, which he founded in 1988 and took public in 1996.

It should start with transparency of partner - level track records and performance metrics applied to money managers in the public markets.

Missouri passed a law earlier this year that reduces residents» participation in SNAP from four to five years, and in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage has threatened to overhaul or completely cease administering the food - stamp program because he believes it is a waste of public money.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

«It's just a fact of life that people in the public eye attract money for all sorts of reasons.

«It's just a fact of life that people in the public eye attract money for all sorts of reasons,» Lenkowsky said.

MS: Part of my job is looking at how we get to the next level, and you're always looking at options, whether it's raising money or going public — both of which are not exactly easy things in the current market.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

In January 2017 the EPA published a midterm evaluation of the standards, concluding that they were readily achievable for automakers, would achieve huge benefits for the public and save consumers money at the pump and should not be rolled back.

In the first half of 2006, 23 SPACs raised money in public markets, compared with 27 in all of 2005 and none in 2002, according to The Reverse Merger ReporIn the first half of 2006, 23 SPACs raised money in public markets, compared with 27 in all of 2005 and none in 2002, according to The Reverse Merger Reporin public markets, compared with 27 in all of 2005 and none in 2002, according to The Reverse Merger Reporin all of 2005 and none in 2002, according to The Reverse Merger Reporin 2002, according to The Reverse Merger Report.

Here's another good story: When Facebook (fb) went public, it was already gushing money, posting a net profit of $ 1 billion on sales of $ 3.7 billion in 2011, the year before its IPO.

For instance, the government says it will invest $ 950 million over five years to support «superclusters,» but the vast bulk of that money is repurposed from last year's budget, with the remainder scraped from «public transit and green infrastructure» funding allocated in the 2016 fall economic statement.

While Facebook went public with the intention of connecting the world to better connect consumers, its goal now is to make money, which has caused Facebook to not be as stringent in its policies as to how other companies advertise on the platform, Greenfield said.

But when a major contraction occurs in any capital arena — be it private equity, public equity, or banking — it inevitably has a spillover effect in the other financing markets, damaging the money - raising prospects of almost everyone.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

Living further from public transportation hubs, in outlying neighborhoods or with roommates are all trade - offs that can save a lot of money.

Trotsky said the pension has about 10 percent of its money in PE — around the national average for large public retirement funds — and has no plans to change that.

More than half (57 percent) of Girl Scout alumnae in business fields credit the Girl Scout Cookie Program ® with developing skills they use today, including money management, goal setting, and public speaking.

News organizations once had a more central role in setting the terms of public debate, balancing money - making aspects of publishing with more civically minded accountability journalism.

The result: If I continue contributing steadily, I believe I will have enough money to pay for each of them to attend community college or an in - state public school.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

«Filling the place of smart money venture capitalists are investors with less experience in the market, such as mutual funds better known for public - market investing,» states The Information.

«In these cases, you have a burden of proof to show the IRS that [the money] was not a gift,» says Tom Ochsenschlager, vice president of taxation for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

It is of great importance that the public is confident that the federal funds rate will be, on average over time, within the target range set forth by the FOMC, and that other money market rates will continue to move closely with changes in the federal funds rate.

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.