Sentences with phrase «public dollars do»

In many states with vouchers, public dollars do not freely follow students who are exercising their educational choice.

The best available evidence suggests that funding political campaigns with public dollars does little to reduce special interest influence, encourage competitive races or boost political participation.

We wouldn't demean any other profession this way, and just because these employees get paid with public dollars doesn't mean the public is interested in (or should have the right to see) an individual's private compensation.

Not exact matches

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reflected on the way he and his wife became viral sensations after recently posing with photos of new dollar bills, acknowledging that he did not know the photographs would go public.

The hospitals are funded by tax dollars, and clearly they don't want to be seen spending those dollars on things the public is likely to find dubious.

The world's squillion dollar public relations juggernaut is resting easier this week after squashing the ill - placed notion: «We don't need public relations when we've got marketing».

But if Jet does what its investors think it will, either going public or getting acquired for billions of dollars, Martin's three - week referral sprint could have generated life - changing, generational wealth for him and his family.

State and local governments aren't the only ones that spend public dollars to build private sports stadiums — the federal government does, too.

A direct listing does not dilute ownership, as would happen with a conventional initial public offering, and saves hundreds of millions of dollars in underwriting fees.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

Harvard Business School did a study: If you invested a dollar 20 years ago in a select portfolio of public companies focused just on growing their businesses, that dollar would've grown to $ 14.46.

Cruz's public defenders said he should continue to be represented at taxpayer expense because he likely does not have the assets to pay a private lawyer for what will rapidly balloon into a multi-million dollar case.

Let's see, hmmm, even if I didn't have to pay for it or the cleaning of it with my tax dollars, I would object to any monument to any religion being placed in a public space that I pay to keep clear for my and others use.

Don, for principled (or egotistical) reasons, has occasionally done mischief to everyone's finances — above all, as Bert notes, when his fit of pique at a Jaguar exec blew up the agency's public offering, «cost [ing Joan] a million dollars» in Season Six.

The fear of litigation (the Church has to date put out close to seven hundred million dollars in settlements) and of public scandal led some bishops to minimize the fact that what some priests were doing was, as the NRB says, «simply immoral.»

If Beck is truly concerned about the public and hard times that people face, why doesn't he make his GBTV free for awhile instead of raking in millions of dollars?

JK If you're talking about public schools, schools supported by everyone's tax dollars, please explain to me why my tax dollar would go to promote the belief in a god that I don't believe is real?

Directors of state lotteries now see themselves not as public servants, but as corporate managers of a billion - dollar industry who should do everything possible to maximize lottery revenue.

Its either that or he pulls the old «its just a marketing thing where Im endangering children and setting public neuroscience awareness back decades in order to make a couple million extra dollars out of the pockets of suckers» defense, and I just do nt see how a humble classy guy like Wilson would ever cheapen his name by lending it to a bottle of snake oil that could wind up giving its purchasers real - world neurological damage if they were to use it in a manner consistent with what Wilson tells them.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

I do not expect large campaign dollars to end up there, but for precisely targeted public affairs geofencing campaigns, it works.

«The public money that was expended was public money that was going to go somewhere and I'm proud that I was able to influence and balance where it went... I would do those things again in terms of the dollars that we all gave all over the place.»

Republican Bob Antonacci, the Onondaga County comptroller, did seek public matching dollars, only to not raise enough money to qualify for the program.

Fox will be genuinely missed among those of us who know all the good he has done for Westchester County and the many hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) in dollars he has saved the taxpayers by working his ass off keeping a close eye on public works projects.

He said he doesn't support public campaign financing because the public's dollars should not be used to support candidates whose positions they don't necessarily support.

«The public doesn't want to see these guys scraping over every dollar.»

The SolarCity project in Buffalo has received nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in public monies, and the company, owned by Elon Musk, did not have to make any investment.

A political action committee associated with Jonathan Soros is prepared to spend millions of dollars against Republican state senators on Long Island if state lawmakers don't approve a system of public campaign finance.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the union claims charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says NYSUT is claiming charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

«Anyone who wouldn't close some tax loophole in exchange for removing trillions of dollars of debt from the backs of our children doesn't belong in public office.

«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts without the very transparency and accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

The state DOT has billions of dollars at its disposal to spend on capital projects but doesn't tell the public what it plans to do with the money.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

«The only thing a public finance system will do is give politicians access to hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, and pay for negative TV commercials, mailers and the robocalls people hate,» he said.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is demanding that the Department of Education withdraw a potential billion - dollar contract with a computer firm that was implicated in a kickback scandal doing similar work for the city.

Ryan says the city has to do whatever it can to stop a junkyard from going up in the middle of an area undergoing a renaissance fueled by millions of public and private dollars.

«Ask an ordinary person living in the city of Buffalo what nine hundred thousand dollars of public investment could do for their neighborhood,» he said.

We have spent billions of dollars in the effort to eliminate smoking, and it goes against all the wisdom of public health to turn our backs on all that we have done is this area.

He previously announced $ 10 million dollars in funding for municipalities to do public infrastructure work.

As measured by public dollars at risk, the SUNY Poly / Cuomo administration scandal is hundreds of times larger than anything CUNY was doing.

Do you agree that all schools receiving public dollars must be held to the same accountability and transparency standards?

There have been many cases reported from Missouri in which people have not made any donation to Obama and were charged fraudelently, one person being charged 176,000.00 The others were charged around 2300.00 Pretty sad, and with reports of as mucha s 63 million dollars coming from foreign sources of the 150 million dollars they just took in September, can anyone say «bogus fund raising» and this is the exact reason why Obama did nt take public financing, he knew he was going to get outside help and just goes to show how shady he is and has been his whole political career!

Why, I asked, did he need to spend thousands of dollars to reach the public when he could simply pick up the phone and get instant and near total media coverage for free?

The private sector has already moved to these plans as a response to financial realities, and we expect the public retirement system — which we support with our tax dollars — to do the same.

«All they've done is spend taxpayers dollars in an effort to subvert us from getting things that are clearly within the public's right to know.»

«We will do everything possible to ensure any taxpayer dollars that were fraudulently distributed are recouped and that those who were complicit in attempting to scam the public face the full force of the law,» he said.