Sentences with phrase «public get more for its money»

A better system for evaluating a project's benefit — within a broader strategy for economic development, for example — would help the public get more for its money.

Not exact matches

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

And that's not even to mention the media - saturated propaganda about how much more efficient the private sector is, how the profit motive means it gets more things done better for less money than the public sector.

«If anything, we should be fighting in the other direction — for more oversight given that these yeshivas are getting millions of dollars of public money,» Moster said.

The CFE sued in order to get more state money for the New York City public schools and to guarantee a sound education for all students.

The city's public hospitals, for instance, all got much more federal resiliency money and the only borough without one didn't benefit.

if the public schools end up being the «dumping ground» for the needier kids, then those schools should get more resources like money and special services.

Right now, local school districts get money for their traditional public schools from a variety of funding sources — many of which require the schools receiving the funds to provide certain programs (things like Head Start, More at Four, and Junior ROTC).

More money thrown at the public schools have not helped except for the union leadership to get richer and increase their control of the Democrats.

For each volunteer we provide, The Great Inflatable Race donates money to the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, so the more volunteers we get, the bigger the donation!

The effect would be to shrink the amount that districts get from the Local Control Funding Formula while sending a clear message to temper the public's and staff's expectations: There'd be more money to go around, were it not for escalating retirement expenses.

Obama said the states and districts that apply for money will be evaluated by clear criteria, with rewards going to those that adopt strong standards and common tests; that get high - quality teachers in the classroom; and that allow expansions of charter schools, which are public schools that operate with more independence.

According to the press release, the money will help bulk up the student loan company's operation in the U.S.. Additionally, the UK - based online lender will now be able to provide even more funding for student loan borrowers looking to get their postgraduate degree in fields such as business, engineering, law, and public policy.

But for now, the UBC and UVic law schools wallow in a public policy catch - 22 where they can't get more money from government, yet they're prevented from getting more from the students.

Here are some highlights on the predictions offered by the panelists: 1) class actions are not going away; 2) the continued growth of mass commerce will continue to spawn class action litigation; 3) Justice Scalia's death will have a significant impact on class action jurisprudence going forward and the judiciary is likely to get less friendly to defendants in the short - term; 4) technology will make a big difference for the better in managing class action litigation; 5) defendants will continue to come up with creative, far - reaching ways of limiting class actions; 6) plaintiffs» attorneys will continue to bring class actions when a) they think they can make money and / or b) they think they will advance the public good; 7) there will be some good class actions and some horrible ones; 8) look out for states to pass new consumer protection laws similar to the New Jersey New Jersey Truth - in - Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA); 9) the TCPA and all - natural litigation booms will continue in the near future; 10) The CFPB will broadly define consumer finance services; 11) more class actions will go to trial; 12) what happens with the enforceability of arbitration clauses will have a big impact on the viability of many categories of class actions in the future; 13) look for more class actions in the federal courts in New York state.