Sentences with phrase «of subsidy deals»

Officials have ignored pleas from state comptroller and reformers for improved transparency and tracking of subsidy deals.

We need an online database of subsidy deals, grants and MOU funds which makes it clear who sponsored the funds and where those funds are going.»

There are reports that Apple may be trying to cut some sort of subsidy deal with TV providers, similar to how cellphones and their service are sold.

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The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

A Low - Cost iPhone Could Mean A Deal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the groDeal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the grodeal never got off the ground.

However, given the six - figure price tag — compared with $ 70,000 in the United States — the lack of subsidies is not a deal breaker for Chinese Tesla owners.

Sure they do get punished, but tell me how the monetary punishment and reduced CL squad stopped PSG from spending 400 million euros last year, or why the # 400 million Etihad sponsorship deal with Man City was not flagged as a state subsidy or maybe how RM and Barca getting subsidised by their regional banks is not an abuse of the rules if not breaking them.

Jonathan Isaby added: «You can't blame the club for taking advantage of the ludicrously - generous taxpayer subsidy they've been handed on a plate; instead, we should be directing our anger and awkward questions at those responsible for offering a deal for which most clubs would have sold their star striker.»

«The Presidency has also failed to offer explanations on the alleged involvement of its officials in various sneaky oil subsidy deals as well as reported diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude last year to service APC interests.

A long - term energy plan by the Cuomo administration that includes a nearly $ 8 billion subsidy to two upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

COR requested the tax breaks — which were valued at nearly $ 45 million — in October, but their approval touched off a war of words between Mahoney and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who said the city's IDA should have negotiated a subsidy deal.

Creation of «Database of Deals» which clearly reports and provides data for all state subsidies and contracts to a given business;

And they say New York should create a «database of deals» that allows the public to see the total value of all forms of subsidies awarded to a particular business.

Proposed reforms would have restored the Comptroller's independent oversight powers to review contracts before they are finalized, corralled unaccountable, state controlled not - for - profits, and created a «Database of Deals» for billions in state subsidies to businesses.

Creating a «Database of Deals» that allows the public to see the total value of all forms of subsidies awarded to a business — as six states have done.

Those changes include empowering Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office to review all SUNY and Office of General Services contracts of more than $ 250,000, block state - affilaited entities from doing business with their boards of directors and creation of a database of deals to show the total value of subsidies and other inducements awarded to businesses as well as provisions for clawing the money back.

Using records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law, state agency reports and the state's open data portal, they built a database that tracked some 16,000 subsidy deals involving 12 of the state's largest economic development programs and locally controlled industrial development agencies.

That compares with around $ 39,000 per job for a GEICO call center in Amherst that was the recipient of about $ 110 million in subsidies nearly a decade ago, which was considered a generous deal at the time.

Susan Arbetter of Capitol Pressroom interviewed Jim Heaney on Thursday about the recent deal in which New York State agreed to increase its already generous subsidy package to Alcoa's plant in Massena.

«Anytime we see subsidies in excess of $ 100,000 per job, much less $ 2 million, it's fair to say that taxpayers will never break even on those deals,» said Greg LeRoy, a national subsidy expert and executive director of Good Jobs First.

In an example of strange bedfellows, the coalition fighting the deal includes oil and gas producers who, like anti-nuclear activists, oppose the subsidies.

Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, wrote to Clark, his former cabinet office colleague, warning that a series of deals for different industry sectors could cost the taxpayer «colossal amounts of money» in subsidies.

She told the committee she supports different contracting reforms, including the creation of a «Database of Deals» that would allow the public to see the total value of all subsidies awarded to different businesses.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

In the US, we spend a great deal of money on agricultural subsidies for the purposes of maintaining steady agricultural markets for farmers and food prices for the poor and middle class.

Half of the units were slated to be affordable under the deal struck between with developers that included city subsidies, according to Politco New York.

ALBANY — Despite a flurry of last - minute negotiations on Friday night, state lawmakers missed their midnight deadline to enact a new state budget after they were unable to reach final deals on raising the age of criminal responsibility and renewing the 421 - a housing subsidy program.

There were other tweaks from the Tuesday deal involving language to raise the age of criminal responsibility and the 421 - a housing subsidy program.

A long term energy plan by the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that includes a nearly $ 8 billion dollar subsidy to two upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

Create a «Database of Deals» that allows the public to see the total value of all forms of subsidies awarded to a business — as six states have done.

The following year, the government announced the provisional agreement of deal with EDF over subsidies for the project, the cost of which was revealed to have reached # 16 billion.

I am also optimistic that the deal brokered with the Welsh Government by Danny Alexander to come out of the housing revenue subsidy system, and which will make # 33 million available to those eleven councils that still hold council housing stock, will see more homes built.

A long - term energy plan by the Cuomo administration that includes a nearly $ 8 billion subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants is being challenged from both ends of the political spectrum, and a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop the deal.

They built a database that tracked nearly 16,000 subsidy deals involving 12 of the state's largest economic development programs and and locally controlled industrial development agencies.

Recalling that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had, in December, informed Nigerians that the NNPC has been paying subsidy on fuel, Ologbondiyan said the Federal Government has refused to tell Nigerians who the beneficiaries are, the amount involved and who authorised the payment, because of the inherent corruption in the deal.

«Building on the innovative legacy of the New Deal, this report describes a far - reaching, two-fold agenda to tame the growth of wealth among the top one percent and establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class,» reads the document, which calls for the federal government to adopt several recommendations, including childcare subsidies and universal pre-K.

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.

CITY HALL — After months of heated debate and demonstrations, City Council Speaker Christine announced a deal Friday afternoon on controversial legislation that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than the minimum wage but would exempt their tenants from doing the same.

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.

In the waning days of 2013, with Bloomberg on his way out of City Hall, a deal was cut: Empire Outlets would receive $ 50 million, mostly in city subsidies, and the powerful Building Trades Council would support the mayor's (ultimately unsuccessful) plans to re-zone areas of east midtown, in Manhattan.

«As if the billions of dollars of consumer money gifted in subsidies to the nuclear industry weren't enough, now we find out that another $ 700 million in public assets will be handed to Exelon in order to sweeten the deal for their purchase of FitzPatrick.»

The Department of Homeless Services» Advantage program has given rent subsidies to thousands of homeless breadwinners who found jobs and left shelters, but a report by Comptroller John Liu found that poor management put families in dangerous buildings with faulty wiring and rodent problems, and landlords pressured some tenants into illegal side deals, forcing them to pay as much as $ 400 extra a month, the Times reported.

Little has been revealed about what tax breaks, subsidies, free land and other financial incentives or promises Republican Gov. Scott Walker and state economic development officials may be extending to seal the deal with Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other devices for Apple and other brands.

March 31, 2016 • The vote, however, was delayed for several hours as regulators negotiated a budget deal on another issue: the expansion of a phone subsidy to begin covering Internet access.

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Learn the smart way to self - publish a book without dealing with a subsidy press, or ending up with thousands of dollars caught up in inventory and a garage full of dusty books.

Friends of the Earth Slovakia deals with a number of issues, including controversial subsidies, regulation of corporations, the privatisation of public services, international financial institutions, EU funds, sustainable development in the region, transport, energy, forestry, waste and biodiversity.

Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and global warming.

It's likely the first of many such deals by Claudia Cattaneo You know Canadian competitiveness is in big trouble when even investors in renewable energy — favoured by Canadian governments through subsidies, plus carbon taxes and regulatory overload on competing fossil - fuel energy — are leaving because they like lower U.S. taxes even more.

I was very across the literature at one time, and dealt with a lot of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists et al, and did not find much to justify subsidies.