Sentences with phrase «receive public subsidies»

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

Koppell did say he was going to push legislation to require a living wage across the board for developers who receive public subsidies, a move people in the meeting were please with.

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.

A report by the Commons» energy and climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».

In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $ 10 an hour, nearly $ 3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receiving public subsidies.

Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new national planning statement) and provided also that they receive no public subsidy.

It states clearly that the Tories are «committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations... provided they receive no public subsidy».

Now a bill at the council, introduced by council members Annabel Palma and Oliver Koppell at the request of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., would require any developer that receives public subsidies to pay a living wage to every employee on the premises.

In 1981, 15 percent of the nearly 2.9 million Chilean K — 12 students had been attending private schools that received some public subsidy, and another 7 percent attended elite, unsubsidized private schools.

Not exact matches

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

Has received $ 169,204 in supplemental funding from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to continue the operation of its highly successful Wage Subsidy Program aimed at helping public assistance recipients in the tri-county... Read more

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

Despite this and the clear sense that the Armory would be a mall pure and simple, the community's only firm request in the end was that people had to be paid a living wage, particularly when the developer was going to receive over $ 70 million in taxpayer subsidies to remake a public landmark.

City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma may cause an uproar in City Hall, when they propose a bill that guarantees a wage of at least $ 10 for workers of development projects that have received more than $ 100,000 in public subsidies.

By way of example, Mr. Stringer said that Chicago's public housing system receives $ 3,500 in federal energy subsidies per unit, whereas New York's obtains just $ 101.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

People receiving public housing subsidies are often in poor health, with increased need for mental health and chronic disease care.

(The remaining 5 percent were private schools that received a 100 percent state subsidy for teachers» salaries, making them public schools in all but name.)

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

However, virtually every one of Connecticut's major charter schools, all of whom receive major state subsidies, are not only failing to reduce racial isolation but are, in fact, significantly less racially diverse than the public schools in the same communities.

The sector's contribution to national and regional economies and society in general far outweighs the small amount of public subsidy it receives.

To prevent coal subsidies causing chaos in other EU countries, the European Commission proposed a CO2 threshold of 550 grams per KWh of electricity to be eligible for receiving capacity payments (public money to remain online).

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Nuclear power doesn't compete with other energy sources anywhere because it receives massive public subsidies in the form of liability limits enjoyed by no other energy source — not even close.

Who: Civil society will be staging a photo stunt to highlight the massive amounts of public money going to fossil fuel subsidies while climate finance receives tiny amounts by comparison.