Sentences with phrase «public subsidies»

What you are saying is the public library will give up it's mission of public subsidy for providing information to people who couldn't afford it on their own.

The most common form of public subsidy for «school choice» has been the rapid rise of the charter school industry.

A French - owned electricity giant is to receive millions of pounds in public subsidy, in a controversial nuclear power station deal which will guarantee it doubles the current wholesale price for electricity.

Private groups, for instance, are not held to the same standard as public institutions that receive public subsidies.

There's less money to spend on regional news - but don't worry, we'll provide public subsidy to keep things as they are.

At every stage from extraction / production to transportation to consumption, all forms of energy are heavily regulated and dependent on public subsidies and public infrastructure.

What, and the supposed green alternative to nuclear — wind power — doesn't require massive public subsidy on an even greater scale?

And all the potentially messy fights about public subsidies for the requisite infrastructure have already been resolved in a way that proved satisfactory to some of the city's toughest critics.

The Conservatives have pledged to end public subsidies of political parties if they win this election.

Many economists and other analysts are critical of large public subsidies to attract companies, saying they create self - defeating competitions among jurisdictions and reward the politically connected.

If signed into law, it would require employers who get substantial public subsidies to pay a minimum of $ 10 an hour.

Yet this growing market for clean tech is almost entirely dependent upon public subsidy and policy support.

Including public subsidies, French companies invest 1.5 per cent of GDP in research.

Along the same lines, the governments of emerging economies won't also be able to sustain high public subsidies for clean technologies, as some Western European nations have.

They have long had private profits with many public subsidies for years.

That way the inevitable public subsidy wouldn't come at the expense of park projects in the neighborhoods.

Last year, however, solar ran up against political scrutiny of lavish public subsidies.

Finally, it delivers public subsidies in an arbitrary and potentially unfair manner and would encourage employers to do the same.

Increasing postsecondary attainment rates is an important economic priority, yet little is known about whether public subsidies can increase college attendance and completion.

With the help of public subsidies, that future is coming fast.

21) New York: Community activists force Niagara Bottling to abandon its plans to draw off water from the City of Kingston's public reservoir and get public subsidies while doing it.

Turn around and sell fictive name plate energy credits to real energy producers, before they are allowed to market their actual electricity, and make huge amounts of money from installations that were paid for by public subsidies in the first place.

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

«Reducing such public subsidies to trade unions is a practical way that councils can save money, to keep council tax down and protect frontline services for local residents - including union members themselves.

But it could appeal to large numbers of students and be offered at such a low cost that it could be affordable even to low - income families without needing public subsidy or adoption by the public school system.

The cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion could balloon to C$ 9 billion — far above its original $ 5.4 - billion price tag, or its current $ 7.4 - billion estimate — and the project has only managed to survive this long with big public subsidies and the willing support of Canadian banks, independent economist Robyn Allan charges in an op ed in the Vancouver Sun.

on More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

Citi Bike has so far been backed by corporate sponsorship, not public subsidies, but the DOT will soon be talking with Motivate about ways to expand the bike sharing system, according to the agency.

«This bill will ensure that building owners benefiting from public subsidies do not undercut private enterprise by paying wages below the predominant private - sector rate.

It was a gigantic and permanent public subsidy for commercial broadcasters, since the frequencies were (and according to the Supreme Court, still are) acknowledged to be common public property.

The entire CTA system could be shut down and the $ 3,500 annual public subsidy per commuter could be better spent by giving it directly to low - and moderate - income residents to help them pay for their own automobiles or taxi fares.

Depending on the location and emissions profile, a company may be subject to participation in an emissions trading system (ETS) or a carbon tax, but may also benefit from public subsidies for emissions reduction measures.

The result has been tax deals, overrides of local laws, massive public subsidies direct and indirect, and eminent domain.

Since 2000 Germany's solar industry has enjoyed generous public subsidies that have transformed it into the world's largest solar market.

In an age of dwindling public subsidies for affordable housing, NOAH is gaining currency as affordability pressures escalate across the United States and commuting times and costs rise for a growing percentage of Americans who can not afford to live near where they work.

But Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, insisted the expansion of nuclear power could not go ahead without some form of public subsidy because of the massive costs of construction.

But all the speakers clearly preferred it to stay empty rather than give over a public building with public subsidies to a mall developer who won't guarantee a living wage for employees of its retail tenants.

Reached by phone, Parkash insisted his buildings are in good shape and that he has never gotten public subsidies or tax benefits.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Build business, employ workers, improve skillsets so that people can become self - sufficient and more productive, grow the business, hire more people, teach them to save (not impulse buy $ 1000 rims or whatever the Jones» have)... not only will they actually be able to afford healthcare w / o public subsidy, but they will also be able to save money in order to send their kids to college to become doctors.

A system that no one really wants to use requires an astounding public subsidy, according to Tribune columnist Jon Hilkevitch («CTA: Rides cost $ 7 - $ 9.90,» News, Nov. 16).

«At a time when public subsidy of the railways is falling and efficiency savings in the industry are already reducing costs, there is simply no need to make passengers pay over the odds.»

While the Kingsbridge Armory battle centered on wages at one project, the wage bill seeks to expand the debate to developments across the city that receive public subsidies worth more than $ 100,000, whether in discounted land sales, tax credits or other incentives.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development recently added requirements for developers receiving certain public subsidies.

The Senate bill acknowledges that wage standards must be part of any long - term solution on 421 - a, and has identified a pathway for negotiations — all parties should consider a six month extender to fix a broken public subsidy program.