Sentences with phrase «on federal subsidies»

Mr. Gramlich was also surprisingly forthright about wind power's continued dependence on federal subsidies, a point to which I'll return in future posts.

Schumer, speaking Wednesday on a conference call with reporters, said the Republican plan, which rolls back Medicaid expansion and relies on federal subsidies that are based on age instead of income, would devastate New York, particularly rural hospitals upstate that rely on Medicaid.

@Philipp Even though infrastructure is mostly a state responsibility, they generally depend heavily on federal subsidies.

Many co-ops rely on federal subsidies to ensure that members pay no more than 30 per cent of their income towards housing costs.

What is the city of Houston doing to support school meals, other than relying on the federal subsidy?

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward with a new rule to block federal subsidies from telecommunications equipment suppliers that «raise national security concerns.Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward with a new rule to block federal subsidies from telecommunications equipment suppliers that «raise national security concerns.federal subsidies from telecommunications equipment suppliers that «raise national security concerns.»

Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

Based on the way the law is worded, they argue, only states that set up and operate insurance exchanges will be eligible for federal subsidies designed to help low - income people purchase insurance.

Small businesses would get a subsidy from the federal government — the more low - wage workers on the payroll, the bigger the subsidy.

Roberta Casper Watson, who recently joined The Wagner Law Group as head of its welfare benefits department, noted that employers with 50 or more FTEs can be fined $ 2,000 per full - time employee, minus the first 30 workers, if the business doesn't offer coverage to most of its full - timers and even one worker receives a federal subsidy to buy coverage on an exchange.

Last year, over 5 million people bought insurance on federal exchanges and about 87 % of them qualified for subsidies.

On Tuesday, the US Federal Communications Commission banned US telecom carriers from using federal subsidies to buy networking gear from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security coFederal Communications Commission banned US telecom carriers from using federal subsidies to buy networking gear from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security cofederal subsidies to buy networking gear from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security concerns.

In a major decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6 - 3 that the federal subsidies that help nearly 6.4 million people pay for their Affordable Care Act health plans are legal under the Affordable Care Act.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

At least this is the argument of the lobbyists who are drafting and censoring laws and signing off on just who is acceptable to run the Federal Reserve, Treasury and other public - subsidy agencies.

For borrowers on an ICR plan, your loans are not eligible for the federal interest subsidy.

The Republican bill added a new $ 10,000 maximum for all state and local tax deductions, effectively raising taxes on wealthy people in those states and reducing a key federal subsidy that makes it easier for states to charge high taxes on rich residents.

In 2040, federal spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the subsidies provided in the Affordable Care Act will be 3.9 percentage points of GDP higher than it was in 2017.

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Assuming that it is correct to predict a benign attitude on the part of the federal justices, educational subsidies to parents will have a better chance of survival in state courts today than they had ten years ago.

They are the ones who use racist, nasty comments about the poor on welfare and call them «takers» when in fact the Federal government spends 10 times more on corporate tax loopholes and «corporate welfare» in subsidies to oil companies, the sugar and corn industries and many others.

Few students on the team, from what I could tell, faced quite the daunting array of disadvantages and obstacles that the average student at Fenger High School in Roseland did, but with 87 percent of IS 318's students eligible for federal lunch subsidies, the school had come by its Title I designation honestly.

They do it because it's really, really hard to put lunch on the table for kids on the miserly outlay they get from the federal government; and proceeds from the machines act as a subsidy to the lunch budget.

But I am also linking to a piece I posted this morning on our sister blog — Better D.C. School Food — where it was explained that food service directors do not see a historical basis for parsing out federal subsidies as belonging to one income group of children as opposed to any other groups.

The historic rise in childhood obesity has absolutely nothing to do with: federal corn subsidies which unnaturally render junk food and fast food the cheaper option for many consumers; the food industry's intense focus on making junk food hyper - palatable; the almost $ 2 billion spent each year to aggressively market junk food to kids: the growing ubiquity of junk food in outlets which formerly never sold food (Michael's craft stores, fabric stores, car washes, etc.); or a host of other factors.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product.

While there have been some federal initiatives to discourage some subsidies, and some attempts at regional truces to reduce interstate arms races, there has been no comprehensive federal restriction on such incentives.

Korodo urged the Federal Government to ensure that subsidy claims were paid on time to avoid recurrent scarcity of petrol in the country.

But federal funding for the Essential Plan is based on the amount of subsidies enrollees would have received if they had signed up for the second - lowest cost silver - level commercial plan available in their region.

Though shrinking federal subsidies have severely curtailed the city's ability to offer affordable housing in the past, city officials spoke hopefully about favorable leadership on federal and state levels that might help to restore some of that long - lost funding.

Justice Agbim noted that «the fuel subsidy fraud involved corruption and fraud on a very massive scale»; that it involved many oil companies and officials of government's regulatory agencies «looting and stealing of trillions of naira from the Federal Government of Nigeria and threatening the security and economy of Nigeria.»

A former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad - hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, on Tuesday appeared before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Lugbe, as the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission reopened its case of alleged bribery.

The Federal Government had on May 11, 2016 announced a new petrol price band of N135 to N145 per litre, a move that signalled the end of fuel subsidy.

«In the meantime, my office will continue to defend the vital ACA subsidies in federal court for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and millions of Americans who rely on the quality, affordable health care they provide.»

A Bronx landlord who owns 60 buildings with more than 4,000 serious violations has cashed in on millions in federal subsidies and state tax breaks, records show.

The Federal Government has officially announced the removal of subsidy on Household Kerosene (HHK) thereby hiking the price to N83 per litre from its former price of N50 per litre.

Between them, they poured about $ 20 million of subsidies into the remaking of the former Dulski federal office building on Delaware Avenue into offices, condos and an Embassy Suites Hotel.

One of the charges read, «That you, Adegbite Adetoye and Ponnle Abiodun whilst being directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited on or about the 8th day of October 2010 to December, 2011 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain the sum of N735, 132, 076.18 From the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.»

The Federal Government has made known its intention to cut subsidies on petroleum products by half next year after sharp falls in global crude prices led...

The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, has called on the federal government to pay the fuel subsidy claims owed to its members.

Connecticut joined Massachusetts, California and Kentucky in filing a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration's move to stop $ 7 billion in federal subsidy payments to health insurers under the Affordable Care Act.

It will also enter 1,400 units in a development in Far Rockaway, Queens into HUD's controversial Rental Assistance Demonstration plan, which will remove the apartments from the usual federal subsidy streams and instead place them on Section 8 contracts — allowing NYCHA to mortgage the properties with private lenders and receive an array of tax breaks.

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.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday said the Federal Government had fully paid the N48.2 billion outstanding subsidy arrears owed oil marketers in 2015.

Layered on top of that are factors tied directly to the ACA: The law's training wheels are coming off, with certain federal subsidies for insurers expiring on Dec. 31.

«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.

The military practically abolished Nigeria's federal system in favour of a unitary, distributive economy in which we all shared proceeds of oil; they created more and more states eroding sub-national economic viability; they nationalized and indigenized banks and declared that government would hold the «commanding heights» of our economy, marginalizing investment and the private sector brought in «big government»; they implemented «Udoji awards» and other elements of oil and FX subsidies that Nigeria battles to overcome today; and the about - to - depart government of Murtala / Obasanjo took the first $ 1billion jumbo loan that set Nigeria on the path to debt peonage!

The incoming Congress has opportunities to: cut federal subsidies for large farms by encouraging a progressive return to sustainable, integrated farming; encourage low - carbon electricity options for generating clean power; implement policies that ensure the Internet remains free and open; and ratify the World Health Organization's recommendations on how to reduce tobacco smoking.

«In states like North Carolina that didn't expand Medicaid, there is a large group of people who can get insurance on the federal exchange but can not get subsidies because the law assumed they would be covered by Medicaid,» said Dusetzina, who is also a member of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.