After presenting a budget that cuts Medicaid, food stamps and other safety net
programs by billions of dollars, the White House went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to defend its proposal.
Not exact matches
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By the following March, they had spent more than half a
billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training
program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds
of engineers and reams
of user data as well.
Apple also boosted its capital return
program by $ 100
billion, with repurchases from the increase set to begin in the June quarter, and said it bought $ 23.5
billion of stock back in the March quarter, a sign that it is bringing back most
of its hundreds
of billions of dollars in cash to the United States.
On one hand, the streaming service has added
billions of new
dollars into the television business in recent years, building up its offerings
by licensing
programs from TV groups.
The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay
billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range
of allegations, including mis - selling
of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering
program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions
by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.
The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army
of hackers have been stealing
billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons
programs and thwarting efforts
by the rest
of the world to sanction this behavior.»
While I agree that we need separation
of church and state... It is a stretch to say that our politicians are establishing a theocracy... on the other hand, you are turning a bling eye to the
billions of dollars that have gone into hospitals, universities, feed the hunger
programs... All funded
by people
of faith.
Although
billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such
programs have been promoted
by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact
of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.
Spending on pet
programs as a new president might wish, but achieving balance
by means
of cutting spending from the pet Bush or Republican earmark
programs,
of which there is hundreds
of billions of dollars» worth.
And last week, the leader
of Ontario vowed to push a law that could restrict New York companies from bidding on
billions of dollars of government contracts in that Canadian province in retaliation for a «Buy American»
program signed two months ago
by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for major state road and bridge projects.
What was bizarre about the HCRA tax was that all this money,
billions and
billions of dollars flowing into the state and flowing back out again for more than 20 different public health
programs by the early 2000s, almost none
of it was on the books.
«Had the
billions of dollars and trillions
of naira that were stolen
by past governments been used for the people, the nation would have been able to acquire the infrastructure and implement the
programs that bring greater development and economic justice to all.
They were replaced
by a spirit
of collegiality brought forth
by the anxiety
of the Great Recession, Cuomo's willingness to provide
billions of dollars in capital and operational funding to hospitals and Helgerson's understanding
of the Medicaid
program, specifically the new opportunities the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act were offering states.
Cuomo also underscored his previous announcements that proposed
billions of dollars in construction
programs, including an overhaul
of Penn Station in Manhattan, a third rail for the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, a possible tunnel from Long Island to Westchester County, the Bronx or Connecticut, and a $ 26
billion capital
program for New York City mass transit partly paid
by the city.
The Trump plan rolled out Monday was not a surprise, following the lines laid out
by the president practically since he took office over a year ago: $ 200
billion in federal money, with about half
of it aimed at spurring state, local and private
dollars through an «Incentives
Program.»
According to a new analysis
by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1
billion -
dollar state
program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit
of those that serve more affluent populations.
Like many government AIDS
programs in Africa, Botswana's has been heavily influenced
by Western donors, who have spent
billions of dollars promoting condoms but have placed little emphasis on advising people to have fewer sexual partners.
(f) The BRAIN Initiative has the potential to be a major driver
of new industries and jobs in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and information technologies, as well as a catalyst for major breakthroughs in brain - related diseases, injuries, and illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, which is
programmed to cost California over thirty
billion dollars ($ 30,000,000,000) a year
by 2030.
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.
«Yet Republicans insist on giving tax breaks to the superwealthy while shortchanging
programs like Head Start, No Child Left Behind, student loans and grants, and other education initiatives
by billions of dollars.»
The lion's share
of these ARRA education
dollars was appropriated through the new $ 50
billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), a population - based
program created to expeditiously replenish education budgets decimated
by declining tax revenue.
A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value
of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC
programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates
of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens
of billions of dollars are being spent each year
by federal nutrition
programs aimed at boosting food consumption
by the poor.»
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.
Unfortunately, Title I grants and related
programs have been underfunded
by tens
of billions of dollars for decades.
Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated
by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher
program along with
billions of dollars in cuts to public education.
No matter how you measure it, the Renewal
Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise
of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed
by a «major investment» — almost a
billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations»
of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.
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.
To better ensure school districts spend
billions of dollars in support
of disadvantaged students - as proposed
by the governor - lawmakers should adopt compliance requirements similar to the federal Title I
program, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst recommended late last week.
It concluded: «Despite over a
billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the
programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning
of administrative or programmatic expenditures
by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»
A review
of the research on Head Start and other preschool
programs, with a rigorous consideration
of the benefits claimed
by these
programs and an informed cost - benefit analysis, must therefore be undertaken before the federal government spends
billions of dollars on a new, untested
program.
A 2016 report
by the Government Accountability Office contended that the government underestimated the expenditure
of student loan forgiveness through the Income - Driven Repayment (IDR)
Program by a whopping 70
billion taxpayer
dollars.
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.
Patrick McCully, Climate and Energy
Program Director
of Rainforest Action Network, said, «RAN is pleased to keep its money at a bank that supports sustainable businesses and non-profits and shares our values, unlike the big banks who are fueling the climate crisis
by pumping hundreds
of billions of dollars into extreme fossil fuels every year.
Countries are spending countless
billions of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or problem to manmade climate change; subsidized renewable energy
programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated
by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance
programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.
The book argues that such a
program should more than pay for itself
by saving the U.S.
billions of dollars currently spent on insuring that America's imported oil reaches its destination.
If passed into law, the Senate's 2012 Farm Bill would reduce the deficit
by approximately $ 23
billion dollars through the elimination
of some subsidies and the consolidation
of programs.
Rajasa's remark directly contradicts an earlier statement
by Agus Purnomo, head
of the secretariat
of Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, that part
of the
billion dollars pledged
by Norway would be used to compensate palm oil developers and timber companies that would lose forest concessions under the emissions mitigation
program.
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.
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 American Health Care Act (AHCA) recently passed
by the House
of Representatives proposes to radically restructure Medicaid and cut
billions of dollars from the
program.
Ryan discusses the death
of Osama Bin Laden; Ryan reviews the economic news
of the week; Ryan notices the correlation between increased home sales and interest rate drops; Louis notes we can't expect the housing market to be supported
by further decreases in rates as they are already near historic lows; Ryan explains that interest rates change once every four hours; Ryan notes the difference between getting a quote and being locked in to an interest rate; Ryan advises the importance
of keeping in touch with your mortgage lender; Louis notes that interest rates change a lot faster than home prices; Ryan notes that the consumer confidence was up, Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's decision to keep interest rates where they are and to continue the $ 600
billion QE2
program; Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's view that inflation is nascent; Louis notes that not only does the Fed not see inflation that exists but disclaims any responsibility for it; Louis asserts that there is a correlation between oil prices and Fed policy; Louis discusses Ben Bernanke's assertion that the Fed can't control oil prices but that they somehow can control the impact
of higher oil prices on the rest
of the economy; Louis also remarks on Bernanke's view
of the
dollar - the claim that a strong
dollar can be achieved through the Fed's current policy as it is their belief that they are creating a sound economy and therefore a sound
dollar; Louis notes the irony
of the Fed chastising Congress» spendthrift ways — if the Fed did not monetize the debt, Congress could» nt spend; Louis noted that as Bernanke spoke the prices
of gold and silver rose as it seemed that the Fed has no interest in cutting off the easy money; the current Fed policy will keep interest rates low; Ryan notes that the Fed knows that they can't let interest rates rise because
of the housing mess; Louis notes that the Fed has a Hobson's Choice - either keep rates low or let interest rates rise and cut off the recovery.