Sentences with phrase «risk of losing billions»

They said they were at risk of losing billions of dollars in federal funding for education if they did not comply.

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The Justice Department argued that it violated the Civil Rights Act, putting the state at risk of losing more than $ 1 billion in federal funding.

I want to turn to DACA and its impact on the economy because this week, some 400 business leaders sent the president a letter saying if the 780,000 DREAMers who now work are put at risk of deportation, the economy will lose $ 460 billion plus $ 24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes.

«We risk losing the hard - won progress against poverty, wasting billions of dollars and decades of efforts,» he said.

However, BP is the frontrunner in that auction, leaving Caltex at risk of losing both the auction and its 3.5 billion litres a year supply contract to Woolworths.

Graham - Cassidy will put 2.7 million New Yorkers at risk of losing health coverage and cost New York $ 18.9 billion annually by 2026 according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

I'm conjuring up this image of George Soros agonising: «do I make a billion pounds and take the risk that the Tories might lose office».

The city is also at risk of losing some of the roughly $ 7 billion in direct federal aid it may receive — the Trump administration and Republican Congress» priorities mostly do not match de Blasio's, and there have already been both threats to withhold funding and proposed cuts to the city.

New York now proposes spending most of the $ 10 billion over five years on more primary care and alternative care, like home visits by nurses to women with high - risk pregnancies, along with transitional subsidies for hospitals that will lose patients.

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned that those states risk losing their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top money offered as an incentive to improve schools.

The recent spike in real yields has punished these managers: Bridgewater's $ 70 billion All Weather risk parity fund lost 6 % in the month of June alone.

(As Andrew Yager of another United Nations division told me in a chat on a bus later in the night, the billion or so deeply impoverished people who have to walk each day into a forest to cut and tote firewood lose productivity and risk their lives and health for the sake of fuel.)

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

If a city that is the economic engine of a state can not find support for its chosen path to clearing its streets of traffic estimated to cause billions of dollars in lost productivity, that doesn't bode well for a world with astonishingly variegated nations trying to find a common path to limit climate risks without harming economies.

The news agency Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 25) that risk assessor Kinetic Analysis Corp. had estimated that Irene may cause $ 13.9 billion in insured losses and $ 20 billion in total economic losses when factors such as lost work hours and disruption of shipping are factored in.

«We call on PJM and FERC to put into place rules supporting competitive electricity markets, protecting ratepayers who risk losing billions of annual savings driven by competition.»

Utilities in the south that miss out on 2016 — The Year of the Wind aren't just missing out on a great opportunity for their ratepayers, they risk losing billions of dollars in wind energy savings as the tax benefits begin to phase out in 2017.

He told us all a startling fact: «Two and a half billion people — that's a third of our global population — are at risk of losing their land to more powerful interests.»

This isn't a big risk, though; you'll only lose your money if the mistyped address is valid, and there's a very small chance (approximately a 1 in 4 billion) of that happening.