Sentences with phrase «public dollars going»

«I really firmly believe and our case is such that the constitution itself speaks to the actual use of the public dollars going to public schools,» Ritz says.

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.

Such forms are required before a state contract can be awarded so public dollars go to honest companies.

Efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of public dollars go back decades, as Kaiser Health News» Julie Rovner wrote recently.

Not exact matches

Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.

The company went public last month, Wall Street loved the stock, and now GoPro is a multibillion - dollar company.

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.

Although many of the companies going public lack profits — Twitter and Box, as just two recent examples, reported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of losses in their Securities and Exchange Commission filings — they are a far cry from many of the hollow IPOs of the 1990s, experts say.

The Wall Street Journal covers the individuals emerging from a spate of public offerings and mergers with millions, if not billions, of dollars like Joseph Chen, the founder of the China social network site Renren that went public this week.

Organovo, a startup in San Diego, has already gone public with a market capitalization of half a billion dollars on the strength of its method for printing living cells.

He claims that options also helped him persuade three executives to leave billion - dollar - plus corporations to join Spencer Reed, which has plans to go public in the next few years.

As an example, Adamson tells of a Toronto high - net - worth investor who was considering investing about half a million dollars in an information technology company about to go public in June 2014.

VMWare was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2004, but in 2007, EMC spun out 10 percent of VMware in a billion - dollar IPO — the biggest since Google had gone public in 2004.

Consider Dollar General, whichoperates 8,700 stores in the United States and announced its third - quarter results on the same day last month that Dollarama made its first quarterly report since going public.

Andreessen Horowitz is looking for entrepreneurs building startups that can «hopefully go public and be a billion plus dollars in market cap,» Kupor says.

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.

However, only a few of the companies went public at a price greater than $ 1 billion dollars.

Several social media start - ups, valued in the multibillion - dollar range, are preparing to go public.

A fast - growing internet startup with a «visionary» founder goes public and offers negligible rights to the shareholders buying billions of dollars worth of stock.

Contrast that to just Northern California alone, where there's a new multi-billion dollar company going public every year, and we can see why there is a rising amount of income inequality and dissatisfaction in America.

Historically, the number of IPOs, M&A deals and investor dollars typically saw an uptick two years after major tech companies, such as Yahoo, Google and Facebook, went public.

If Spotify's stock rises in the weeks ahead, its direct listing could become a road map for the array of multibillion - dollar tech companies that investors are hoping will go public soon, including Airbnb, Lyft and Uber.

That could be a bad sign for other unicorn startups looking to one day go public — billion dollar startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Snapchat and Uber.

After raising dozens of millions of dollars in venture capital from the likes of Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pinnacle Ventures, the company went public in April 2011 and was valued at over $ 1 billion at its debut.

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).

Tuesday is when a multi-billion dollar «tender offer» from Japanese investment giant SoftBank is expected to begin, according to sources tracking the process, giving Uber shareholders the chance to sell some of their stock or hold fast until the company goes public.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

Dragoncoin has already completed its presale raising over a million dollars and is going through its public token sale in month of October 2017.

«I think this is good and healthy for the tech space going forward,» he said, with 150 other multibillion dollar «unicorns» considering going public.

Another early Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel sold his shares valued at more than a billion dollars when the company went public and after the mandatory lock - up after the IPO in May 2012.

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.

Also, since there is more uncertainty coming from the ECB, public opinion is going to buoy the dollar until more information emerges.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.

By the time Facebook went public in May 2012, many retail investors had already shelled out several hundred thousand dollars for its privately held shares.

The general public is seldom supportive of their tax dollars going to military expansion to the tune of $ 15 — 20 billion annually (their stated target of 4 % of the GDP).

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?

Billions upon billions of public dollars have gone into the production of nuclear weapons.

Church bells ringing to remind the flock it's time to pay homage and tithe, christian rules on public buildings, fundamentalist curriculum in schools (or home schooling on the public dollar), you're all going to fry in hell, etc..

So the fans went after the politicians who agreed about spending public tax dollars for stadium, and BOOM results.

According to one estimate, only 6 percent of public early - childhood education and child - care dollars in the United States go to programs for children who have not yet reached their third birthday.

And as a parent whose children attend public school, I'm also angered that McDonald's is trying to go through schools to access children, providing much - needed fundraising dollars by pushing its unhealthy food on school families.

«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.»

Reinvent Albany today praised four laws which go into effect today making billions of dollars in City spending more transparent to the public.

Yet perhaps the administration will not be so contemptuous or evasive when it goes Wednesday before the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which will consider whether the Environmental Facilities Corp. should loan more than a half - billion dollars to the Thruway Authority.

«Yes this is an investment of public dollars but that investment is going to be met with a huge influx of private sector development and overall economic activity in Staten Island.»

The bottom line is no public dollars are going into the legal work on my behalf.»

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

«After we spend billions of public dollars bailing them out and allowing them to go back to business as usual with exorbitant bonuses, we now begin to turn the public employees into public enemies,» DiGerolamo said.

«Every dollar for these projects is approved through the budget process and has to go through the Public Authorities Control Board — a member of which Kolb appoints,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

Emails show Robert Nichols, Republican - turned - Democrat Assemblyman John Ceretto's top political aide, wanted none of the $ 1.6 million in tax dollars Ceretto was allocated last year by legislative leaders went to the town of Wheatfield, all of whose elected members are Republicans, because Town Supervisor Robert Cliffe allegedly gave Nichols and Ceretto the cold shoulder at a public picnic.