By making Wall Street pay its fair share, the Robin Hood Tax can help
shore up funding for goods and services that keep people and our communities healthy and whole, at home and around the world.
One of the most substantive issues of the Congressional debate this year was the need to
shore up the funding gap in the Pell Grant Program.
In particular, some French researchers are disappointed that the new Macron government offered grants to foreign researchers before answering their own recent call to
shore up funding for struggling research institutes.
Senate appropriators prioritized $ 105 million for construction of three Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRVs), continuing recent Senate efforts to
shore up funding for the RCRV project, whereas the House offered no funding for RCRVs in their own bill.
Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman on Friday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a letter to
shore up funding for homeless and runaway youth.
In addition, some states are also increasing employee contributions to
shore up these funds.
FHA has taken a number of steps to mitigate its losses and
shore up funds.
Faraday said in May that it was looking to raise $ 1 billion to
shore up its funds, but the effort was reportedly unsuccessful.
The last go - round
shored up funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Not exact matches
And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative
funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to
shore up the lies.
Three local tech companies have tapped investors to raise a combined $ 20.1 million, with the
funds to be put towards
shoring up their balance sheets and further developing their products.
Gold miner Troy Resources has launched a $ 40.7 million capital raising to
shore up its balance sheet and
fund further development of its Karouni mine in Guyana.
Trillions in taxpayer
funds were needed to
shore up the institutions and billions more in economic stimulus, leaving the Nation crippled with debt.
Recent revelations of
funding deficiencies at FHA and spiking delinquency rates for many of the marginal borrowers in the program could spell trouble for FHA borrowers as additional efforts are undertaken to
shore up FHA's finances.
The troubled Chinese insurer that owns New York City's Waldorf Hotel is receiving a $ 9.6 billion bailout from a government - run
fund to
shore up its finances.
I think we need to use the
funds to
shore up our fullbacks / wingbacks.
A separate bill, also approved today, would
shore up the legal uses for housekeeping accounts, which are used by party conference committees and can raise unlimited
funds with no contribution limits (then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2012 gave Senate Republicans $ 1 million to their housekeeping account).
A bonus for Democrats is that gubernatorial nominee J.B. Pritzker is heavily
funding his own campaign, leaving pro-Democratic outside groups able to devote their money and time to
shoring up control of the legislature.
Given the foregoing decisions already taken with respect to
shoring up the Nigerian economy via external
funding, seeking the advice of international economists to further help strengthen the weakening economy should be a next useful step.
The FSB also wants to see that the new «
funding for lending» scheme gets cash to those firms that need it with a clear reporting process so that tangible evidence is given to show the money is being passed on to small firms and not just
shoring up the banks.
To address federal SNAP cuts, Cuomo plans to use heating
funds to
shore up food assistance programs for some 300,000 families.
Mayor de Blasio announced an additional $ 125 million in school
funding Wednesday — while accusing Gov. Cuomo of failing to adequately help
shore up...
«This impact could be a long - term one but we are bracing ourselves, we are preparing ourselves, we are recognizing what
funds we need to
shore up now.»
But the Congressional Leadership
Fund saw an opportunity to
shore up a district that could be more susceptible than others to a Democratic wave.
Lawmakers say the increase in spending would come after the
funding to
shore up homeless youth programs has been «slashed bty more than half in just five years.»
The British government is offering the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) # 10 billion in loans to help
shore up struggling economies.
The last tax proposal was a payroll tax targeting suburban residents in order to
shore up transportation
funding.
With the city's budget's in limbo, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan has launched a social media campaign to
shore up a $ 12.5 million dollar deficit and find a permanent solution to end the annual
funding crisis.
Faulkner said that he agreed with several things Stringer's office did to «
shore up the existing
fund.»
Not everyone's on board with
shoring up the Central Terminal with
funding from the second round of the Buffalo Billion.
In March, the city budget director made remarks some interpreted as suggesting that if Albany received state
funding to
shore up its budget, the tax might sunset.
The significant increase in
funding in the Senate bill is expected to help
shore up emergency disaster relief programs as Hurricane Irma races through the Caribbean toward Florida.
The
fund has been used to
shore up various SUNY Poly projects that had
funding shortfalls.
«There's a growing recognition that inputs from nonsovereign actors will be valuable if the parties really want to
shore up these nationally determined contributions,» says Mariana Panuncio - Feldman, the World Wildlife
Fund's senior director of International Climate Cooperation.
Since then the
fund has been quietly accepting proposals for such work and today it rolled out its first large installment of cash, with more than half of the
funding going toward
shoring up malaria drug research.
Through awards of loan guarantees, DOE is trying to
shore up U.S. companies with today's technology at the same time that it targets R&D
funds from the stimulus program toward «game changing» technology breakthroughs for the future.
Given that money per se will not necessarily improve student outcomes (for example, using the
funds to pay for lavish faculty retreats or to
shore up employee pension
funds will likely not have a large positive effect on student outcomes), understanding how the increased
funding was spent is key to understanding why we find large spending effects where others do not.
Some localities could divert
funds from other services to
shore up school budgets, but this could impair other critical services, like police and fire protection.
Stimulus
funds could be used to
shore up schools on the brink, provide assistance to their teachers and administrators, or expand and replicate promising local strategies.
First was the Prop 30 threat to cut education budgets if it did not pass, then was the huge increase in School District payments (
up to 19.1 %) to
shore up the teacher pension
fund on the backs of our kids, now he is looking to veto AB2233!
The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to
shore up public sector pension
funds.
School boards must now look for extra money to
shore up federally mandated programs such as special education, which can not be cut despite a loss in
funding.
Together, as a direct result of our membership's support we have been able to make significant strides to increase the
funding available to charter schools and
shore up the educational environment through which charter schools operate.
Beyond that, the Board seeks $ 960,000 in new ongoing
funding to hold itself and the Utah State Office of Education more fiscally accountable and
shore up data security in the state's public school system.
Stupid idiot Danny Boy went after corporate money to
shore up school
funding.
The governor proposes using most of the anticipated revenue — which the administration estimates at $ 2.4 billion — to pay off school deferrals,
shore up the teacher retirement system and set aside a rainy day
fund.
The controversy stems from FHA's need to
shore up its reserves after a wave of mortgage foreclosures drained the agency's
fund for reimbursing lenders to well below its legally required minimum.
Some recent FHA proposals for reducing risk and
shoring up its diminishing
fund for paying mortgage insurance claims require legislative approval.
They will give you money to
shore up, even in those situations when you find it difficult to get
funding from other lenders.
Just make sure to
shore up other areas of your finances first — such as having a stable job and creating an emergency
fund — so you can be prepared for any unexpected challenges you may face in the future.