Sentences with phrase «program by millions of dollars»

By increasing spending with no way to pay for it, Democrats have created an unbalanced budget that includes no relief for property taxpayers and continues to cut the STAR property tax relief program by millions of dollars.

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It stopped short of eliminating simsub entirely however, acknowledging that the revenue generated by the practice (pegged at around $ 250 million per year) is important to the broadcasting system — keeping ad dollars in Canada and helping create valuable programming such as news and information.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

Based on millions of dollars in research, MSA's program can accurately predict cooked beef outcomes as assessed by consumers, and manage the factors contributing to those quality standards at ranches throughout the nation.

COR's work on nanotech projects is part of a sweeping Upstate development program worth hundreds of millions of dollars launched by Cuomo to revitalize the region.

The Community Builders interviewed by the auditors lacked knowledge of HUD's grant programs, the report said, and in some cases improperly interfered with housing transactions between local officials and nonprofit groups, resulting in the loss of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Many schools plan to add new student programs and services next year, aided by millions of dollars in fresh financial assistance from Albany, as well as reductions in state pension costs.

Board Members Carl Paladino and Larry Quinn want a lawsuit against LP Ciminelli, the program provider, saying they were over charged by tens of millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

However, the program was plagued with delays, strongly criticized by struggling homeowners, it paid contractors $ 6.8 million for work later deemed «flawed or incomplete» and the city was double billed by hundreds of thousands of dollars by firms carrying out the work, according to an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

First, this bill doesn't send one nickel a religious school,» Bellafiore said «Second, New York State already sends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to religiously affiliated schools, via a very long - standing program that pays for services mandated by the state.»

As part of its ambitious expansion of the city's pre-kindergarten program, the de Blasio administration is issuing millions of dollars to community - based organizations (C.B.O.s), hundreds of which have open Department of Buildings violations, a review by Capital has found.

The Assembly meeting, led by Kenmore Democrat Robin Schimminger, heavily scrutinized the benefits of state programs compared to the millions of dollars spent.

Daniel Dromm, a Queens city councilman and the head of the council's Finance Committee, and New York City Independent Budget Office Director Ronnie Lowenstein, join «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills to dig a little deeper into Mayor Bill de Blasio's budget plan and the programs that might be impacted by the federal tax bill and the possible loss of millions of dollars in state revenue.

FLUSHING — The director of a pre-school program for children with special needs was hit with a two - year prison sentence Thursday for scamming the city and state out of millions of dollars by overcharging them, then spending the cash on a lavish lifestyle.

Yet in 2016 Fisheries and Oceans Canada wrote in a report there was an «extreme» risk of Asian carp species establishing populations in three of the five great lakes within 50 years, despite millions of dollars spent by the U.S. government to build aquatic barriers and promote harvest programs.

Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

New York's initiative is modeled on a similar program in Cincinnati, but as a 2013 analysis by the New York Times noted, «what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.»

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agprogram in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agProgram administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so - called «prison pipeline» would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner - release savings.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

Some of the supporters of allowing public dollars to pay for private education justified it by considering it a pilot program with a limited number of students and public money — $ 10 million set aside in last year's budget.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

Imagine, the reformers feel entitled to issue a press release claiming the «reform movement» deserves credit for increasing test scores by an insignificant amount, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars implementing the very program they said would «turnaround» the entire New Orleans School System.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

That same year the Task Force was named one of the top five most innovative programs in the country by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and investigated approximately 44 million dollars in fraud cases.

This kind of lifesaving program actually saves around $ 2 million in taxpayer dollars by keeping these cats out of county shelters

At the core of the protest was opposition to «NYU 2031,» a plan by the university to spend billions of dollars of 20 - year program to develop two million square - foot of real estate for use by the school.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by S&N in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

More EPA misdemeanors — EPA responds to record debt and soaring unemployment by sending hundreds of millions of dollars in «foreign handouts» to countries like China, Thailand and Indonesia to support various environmental programs over the last decade.

Investing in Energy Innovation — Since 1975, the California Energy Commission has advanced innovation through its energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programs by investing millions of dollars in technologies to improve California's energy systems and resources.

In Massachusetts and Ohio, several banks have launched programs where law firms can choose to donate to IOLTA programs some or all of the «cash back» benefits generated by millions of dollars of credit card transactions.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

They are backed by millions of dollars from investors and they put together the most current and most fresh online drivers ed program in the country and they aren't stopping.

• Briefed Cryptologist and electronic warfare training at the Pentagon twice a year • Developed first in - house training program in basic / advanced soldering techniques and strategically implemented cost effective cost containment initiatives by contacting component manufacturers IBM and Texas Instruments that shipped the U.S. Navy out of spec components for training usage, saving the manufacturers, the U.S. Navy and taxpayers millions of dollars in disposal, procurement and training costs annually.

These are programs that have been developed by a single investigator or team over a number of years and proven through careful replications, supported by millions of dollars in federal grants.

WASHINGTON — Ignoring the outsized need for family planning resources and turning a blind eye to the looming and near - immediate threat of the Zika virus, a House subcommittee passed a bill that prohibits funding for the nation's only dedicated source of federal funding for family planning services, eliminates the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and proposes wasting millions in taxpayer dollars by funding ineffective abstinence - only education.

On behalf of the nation's nearly 1400 health centers and the 27 million patients they serve, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) wants to express our sincere appreciation for the $ 7.8 billion dollars in federal grant funding for the Community Health Center program that was included in the bipartisan budget deal passed by Congress early this morning.

The goal of Dollar per Child is securing Head Start's future by ensuring that NHSA is able to be that unified voice on behalf of all Head Start children — in order to do so, we need to raise one dollar for each of the one million children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the nDollar per Child is securing Head Start's future by ensuring that NHSA is able to be that unified voice on behalf of all Head Start children — in order to do so, we need to raise one dollar for each of the one million children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the ndollar for each of the one million children enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the nation.

The lower interest rates offered by these programs can add millions of dollars to the size of the loan that the property can support — up to 5 percent more loan proceeds than a typical loan, according to Fannie Mae.

That, I believe, gets at one of the key values of «FamilyTime,» a program originated by Million Dollar Roundtable, a Park Ridge, Ill. — based insurance group, and updated with NAR's input late last year.

Realtysellers had included in its services the Flat Fee Program, which allowed home sellers to purchase only the services they wanted from the brokerage, enabling «sellers to have their homes listed on MLS for only a few hundred dollars as opposed to the thousands of dollars charged by traditional brokers,» says the $ 100 million Statement of Claim.