Sentences with phrase «public dollars in»

Investing public dollars in quality early childhood education for disadvantaged children will provide significant social and economic outcomes in the short - and long - term.

«It would be best to invest public dollars in public schools.

The time is now for policymakers to stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, and thousands of school hours, on a useless standardized testing scheme; and to instead invest our scarce public dollars in programs that actually ensure that public schools are have the capacity to support and prepare students to have more fulfilling and successful lives.

Policymakers to invest public dollars in innovation - seeking entrepreneurs, deliberately authorizing for innovation and enabling more rapid innovation via «micro-charters.»

It will mean less accountability for public dollars in education, something the conservatives were for — except in this case when they are against it.

California charter schools and Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) are committed to being good stewards of public dollars in service to students and their families.

Require full fiscal transparency of for - profit charter school developers and managers so that districts may expeditiously recover public dollars in the case of failure

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

But he later added: «We thank the IDC for ensuring that there is some money to support critical immigration services, but the fact is that the governor has put not a single public dollar in his touted Liberty Defense Project that would support organizations across the state.

Not exact matches

The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a steep slowdown in initial public offerings, following on the news of economic weakening globally, a commodities rout, a perhaps too - strong dollar, and rising interest rates.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

Komisar: There are just too many companies carrying these [billion - dollar] valuations to be absorbed by the public markets or in private acquisitions.

It's the first measure Wynne has promised to help generate the billions of dollars needed to expand public transit in the heavily congested Toronto and Hamilton area.

TORONTO — Ontario will be the first in Canada to issue so - called green bonds next year to generate the billions of dollars that's needed to expand public transit, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday.

The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.

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.

Zendesk's public valuation came in under a billion dollars but later hit a market cap of $ 2.23 billion.

The 23 - year - old Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, won three Grammys, struck a deal with Apple Music for $ 500,000, and pledged to donate a million dollars to Chicago Public Schools — all in the last month.

I think with the last accord, with the escalator [automatic year - over-year increase in transfer dollars] built in it really sort of dampened down the usual federal - provincial tensions, and for whatever reason it also then fell off the media and public horizon.

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

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 emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

The unwanted public spotlight puts BB&T in a difficult position, despite the millions of dollars it will get from Graham's businesses.

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

These include billion - dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction.

With presentations from five private companies and five public companies in the technology sector, this event attracts Canadian and U.S. investors with the goal of raising institutional and VC investment dollars, and enhancing the capital ecosystem for technology companies in Canada.

Apple (aapl) just announced record earnings for fiscal 2015, posting nearly one - quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue, and it remains the most valuable public company by far.

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.

One case in point is a recent flap over the public diss of a million - dollar investment in NaturallyCurly.com, an online community for people with curly and kinky hair.

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.

The more - than - billion - dollar capital investment we are making in our facilities around the world this year is easier for a private company than a public one.»

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.

This wouldn't just be effective from a public health standpoint — every dollar invested in funding more depression and anxiety treatment options leads to a four dollar return in better work productivity, according to the WHO.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

Still, one drawback may be the city's endemic financial woes; the state of Illinois is now grappling with $ 15 billion in unpaid bills, and as much as a quarter - trillion dollars is owed to public employees when they retire.

Public service aside, the LinkedIn executive chairman's main focus seemed to be the size of the loss — nearly a billion dollars in a single year.

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.

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.

It costs billions of dollars to develop revolutionary treatments and cures at scale, and often the only place to get that much funding is in the public markets.

It pumped in more than $ 200 billion dollars to support stock prices, suspended all initial public offerings, and arrested more than a dozen executives in the financial industry on charges of «malicious manipulation of the market.»

«On the IPO side, favorable public market conditions and stronger valuations are contributing to better quality IPOs for venture - backed companies as evidenced by the jump in dollars raised on the public markets,» NVCA Head of Research John Taylor said in a statement.

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.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed in the Trump budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and public health fund that puts a billion dollars in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

The 200 companies thus defined as small businesses effected a collective market capitalization of $ 19.3 billion and put a solid $ 4.8 billion in public dollars into play.

In an era when there is a $ 200 billion infrastructure gap just for Canadian municipalities but political leaders at all levels are convinced the public wants balanced budgets, where will the dollars come from?

The last time the public at large heard much about digital currency was in late 2013 to early 2014, when the Bitcoin price last touched its then all - time high of $ 1242 dollars.