Sentences with phrase «significant public investment»

States can support working families by providing a significant public investment that guarantees child care assistance to low - and middle - income families and ensures no family pays more than 7 percent of their income on child care.

A significant public investment is needed to support a comprehensive early childhood education system that meets the needs of children and their families, early childhood education providers, and early educators.

Given the high costs and dubious benefits to be expected from continuing on the lock»em - up path, and given the encouraging results of many youth oriented prevention and intervention strategies, a significant public investment is surely warranted both to strengthen and expand a youth oriented prevention agenda and to step up the effort to refine and improve on prevention's promise.

However, it's very clear that the region as a whole must work together to build and improve its energy and carbon capturing infrastructure, an undertaking that will take significant public investment.

Societies and economies today are built on advances in technologies and practices in fields like agriculture and energy that were spurred by significant public investment a few decades ago.

This effort will require state - level planning and significant public investments.

Not exact matches

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

... Several of the public companies in which we have major investments experienced significant operating shortfalls.

The principal recommendation of this report was that Canadian governments must step up and collect the necessary data regarding foreign investment in order for policy - makers and the public to understand if foreign investment is playing a significant part in shaping urban real estate pricing and availability.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

In both cases, Conservative parties were defeated by parties promising moderate progressive platforms that included tax increases and significant increases to public infrastructure investment and explicit commitments to run deficit budgets, for at least the short - term period in the case of the NDP.

OTTAWA — A five - year $ 50 - billion public infrastructure spending initiative would generate a return on investment to Canadians over the long term as high as $ 3.83 per dollar spent, trigger significant private sector investment and stimulate wage increases, according to a new study by an independent economic modelling firm.

The approach will allow the company to raise a significant amount of capital via private placements of existing shares, without the need to go public or rely on underwriters or investments banks to guide them through the increasingly expensive process.

HFI is supported by Horizon Holdings, LLC, a San Francisco - based private investment firm with a significant track record in successfully building private and public companies.

The winery also plans to make significant capital investment in the facility, grounds, and public tasting room.

«Each of those public investments to redo roads, to create public space has resulted in very significant private sector investment and that's not coincidental.»

We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.

«significant investment in transit before and during the implementation of congestion pricing; reinvestment of revenues generated directly into public transit; dynamic tolling that changes commuter behavior; and information campaigns that generate broad public support for congestion pricing.»

«Deputy Leader and cabinet member for resources Julian German outlined the revised four - year Budget proposals to deliver a balanced budget that will see vulnerable adults and children receive more support, significant investment in a capital programme to generate future growth and jobs, building more homes to meet local demand and continued maintenance of roads and public transport services.

However, the VDC plan also has several significant advantages: members vest in a year, compared to 10 years years for any current DB pension plan; they can control their own investment profile with the advice of experts; and the DC plan is portable, meaning it follows employees when they change jobs in the public or private sectors, in or out of New York.

Any local scheme will include a package of measures, including significant investment in public transport.

While this investment in public health will have a significant impact on countywide lead exposure, we will also work with partners at all levels of government and in the private and not - for - profit sectors to eliminate lead in Erie County.»

As Western New Yorkers continue to face a jobs crisis, unemployment, and poverty, it is critical that our main local tools for job creation — IDAs — make wise investments in companies that will provide a significant return on the public's investment.

«By maintaining a significant amount of cash in a checking account, not only did the SCA fail to comply with the investment requirements of the Public Authorities Law, but also lost the opportunity to generate additional investment income on these funds,» said a report by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Do these Ph.D. s hold jobs that call on their training and make it a worthwhile investment — both for the individual graduate and for the larger research enterprise, which uses public funding and invests significant effort in training them?

«The NCI's investment in SWOG and our network has resulted in a significant benefit to the American public,» Unger said.

«The key here will be to combine limited public funds with smart policies and instruments to leverage significant private - sector investment in clean energy and infrastructure in developing countries,» Stern said.

Gary Geernaert, director of DOE's Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, states that «it is critical that federal investments to advance climate science for use by both public and private stakeholders must place significant priority on incorporating uncertainty quantification methodologies into modeling frameworks.

Representing a significant investment in federal tobacco regulatory science, the new centers will be comprised of scientists with expertise in fields including epidemiology, behavior, biology, medicine, economics, chemistry, toxicology, addictions, public health, communications and marketing.

The past five years has seen significant investment in public parks and play areas and a substantial amount of this impetus was generated by the national play strategy launched by the government in 2008.

«Boston has made a significant investment in early childhood education as a key strategy for closing the achievement gap,» said Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.

Although the absolute amount of philanthropic investment in education ($ 1.8 billion in 2012) is significant, this funding represents less than 1 % of total public K - 12 funding, raising questions about the level of impact philanthropy can have at a systemic level.

In less prosperous schools and colleges, religion may, at day» s end, be the only real difference between public and private — and the return on that investment, while perhaps significant, can not be easily measured.

In total, the de Blasio administration has made a significant investment in supporting public schools that have fallen behind for many years.

This proposal would require a significant increased investment in public education in many districts.

In his budget proposal for 2017 — 19 biennium, Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal underscored the importance of investing in teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.»

Public schools are among the most significant investments that any community makes collectively.

Washington, DC — Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser marked the start of the District's «Education Week» by announcing significant investments in public charter school facilities.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement from DFER - DC on Mayor's «Education Week» Announcements of Investments in Public Charter School Facilities Washington, DC - Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser marked the start of the District's «Education Week» by announcing significant invInvestments in Public Charter School Facilities Washington, DC - Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser marked the start of the District's «Education Week» by announcing significant investmentsinvestments...

It is in these communities where both private and public investments can make a significant impact on educational inequities, and in the lives of children who otherwise wouldn't have access to critical summer and after school resources.

Candidates needing additional support should complete remediation prior to program entry, avoiding the possibility of an unsuccessful investment of significant public tax dollars, as well as the candidate's own investment.

Candidates in need of additional support should complete remediation before entering the program to avoid the possibility of an unsuccessful investment of significant public tax dollars.

This significant progress was the result of both public and private investment in arts instruction, including the work of arts partners to provide arts education experiences during the school day.

The Broad plan points to three of LA Unified's largest charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.»

Perhaps as a result, it has been recognized as one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world, with significant investment in public transit.

Richard Caldicott's work has been acquired in several significant public and private collections, including the Peter C. Ruppert Collection; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Germany; Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX; Goldman Sachs International, London; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Sir Elton John Collection, Los Angeles / London; Gert Elfering Collection, Miami; Karl Blossfeldt / Albert Renger - Patzch Collection / Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Köln; and Fidelity Worldwide Investment, London, among others.

We note the significant progress made by the multilateral development banks on the Clean Energy Investment Framework (CEIF) agreed at Gleneagles and welcome their joint level of ambition to mobilize public and private investments of over US$ 100 billion up to 2010 from within existing resources.

It's true that some of these policies require significant up - front investments, but they pay off in the long run by lowering energy costs, improving public health and making a city more attractive to people — who, in turn, help attract investment.

Among the most significant sources of public support for fossil fuel investments, ECAs provide government - backed guarantees, insurance, credits, and loans to support the export of goods and services abroad.

The upcoming revision of the EU's multi-annual budget is «a significant opportunity» to increase investments in clean technologies and «explicitly exclude fossil fuels and other unsustainable projects» from public funding, the group wrote in its report.