Sentences with phrase «spending by corporations»

After all, economic growth spurs more spending by both corporations and individuals.

The U.S. Supreme Court in late January swept away a long - standing prohibition on direct political spending by corporations, but it will take time before the full force of the ruling is clear, say NAR attorneys.

Back in January, the United States Supreme Court released its judgment in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 50 (2010)[PDF], a challenge by a «non-profit corporation» to § 441b of the U.S. Code limiting election spending by corporations.

Legal spending by corporations has still not recovered from the Great Recession, yet firms continue to increase their hourly rates.

Concern about corporate political donations has grown since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case that lifted restrictions on independent spending by corporations, said David Yermack, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

In Citizens United, the Supreme Court found that the government can not ban political spending by corporations in elections.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Four years ago her scholarship was cited in Justice John Paul Stevens's dissent from the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which found that limits on independent political spending by corporations and groups were unconstitutional.

They discuss firearm investments in the state pension fund, political spending by corporations, and the Tappan Zee project.

Although it is seeing choppiness in the enterprise spending by corporations and the federal government, the roll out of LTE should make things better.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

We could also pass the Disclose Act, which would help end secret spending by dark money groups (which can end up being conduits to foreign spending) and ban spending by corporations that are foreign - owned or - controlled.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

That growth has fueled an already heated debate about political spending by corporations.

A 2014 study by the Sunlight Foundation showed that $ 5.8 billion spent by corporations in lobbying and campaign contributions reaped some $ 4.4 trillion in federal business and subsidies for those corporations.

And the above figures don't take into account the billions of dollars spent by corporations on health coaching.

The result: Over $ 14 million spent by corporations, universities, and other outside interests, sending representatives around the world, for sometimes questionable reasons.»

Not exact matches

He shares the consensus view that the 30 - year bull market in bonds is now spent and recommends buying floating - rate notes issued by corporations that reset their coupon according to market rates every three or six months.

There's growing pressure for the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to enact rules requiring disclosure of political spending by publicly - traded corporations, although it has yet to move on the issue.

Apple's Washington spending was $ 720,000, a pittance by major corporations» standards, but a noticeable bump up from $ 500,000 last year.

That money was generated by a number of sources, including the stronger economy, revenues from tax changes for private corporations, lower - than - expected departmental spending and re-profiled infrastructure commitments.

A 2016 Rand Corporation study commissioned by the Pentagon found that allowing transgender people to serve would increase health care costs by $ 2.4 million a year, or a 0.04 to 0.13 percent increase in Defense Department spending.

In a discussion paper published today, the Shareholder Association for Research & Education looked at the question of political spending by Canadian corporations, from an investor perspective.

For example, taxes are collected on the incomes and spending of Ontarians and on the profits generated by Ontario corporations.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

As someone who's spent many years trying to drive innovation within a large corporation I'm very familiar with the issues discussed by Bob in your post.

The government, it said, remained on course for a # 10 billion surplus in 2019 - 20, but only by delaying capital investment, promising further cuts in spending on public services, and bringing forward a one - off boost to corporation tax receipts into 2019 - 20.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

In a world in which mass media is sponsored by multi-billion dollar corporations millions of those dollars are spent on creating commercials which portray lives in which everyone is able to afford to buy their products.

The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this year that enabled corporations and labor unions to spend much more freely to influence elections.

Taxpayers will receive the same net benefit, but SOF spending growth appears lower.3 Other substantial changes include shifts in workers from payrolls in the general fund to those paid by capital funds, reclassifying the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation (STARC) funds from a miscellaneous receipt to an offset against spending, and shifting expenses off - budget as shown in Table 3.

The party says its manifesto is fully costed for day - to - day revenue spending, with money raised by adding a penny to all rates of income tax and dividends tax, reversing planned cuts to corporation tax and cuts to capital gains tax, and legalising and taxing cannabis.

And Democrats failed to use the bill to reverse a ban engineered last year by McConnell on proposals to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to require publicly - traded corporations to disclose political spending permitted under the Supreme Court's 2010 decision allowing unlimited political spending by businesses.

Labour's infrastructure spending would, if well targeted, deliver a productivity boost, but the IFS warned that this was cancelled out by the negative impact of more workers» rights, a higher minimum wage, more bank holidays and higher corporation tax.

New York's extensive system of Industrial Development Agencies and Local Development Corporations is rife with overlapping boundaries and a lack of transparency that is crying for an overhaul, according to a study to be released today by the Citizens Budget Commission spending watchdog group.

Cuts in corporation tax, higher infrastructure spending and delay to fuel duty rise among measures announced by chancellor

Going by the figures provided by the firm recently as under - recovery, it therefore implies that between September 2017 and April 2018, the corporation should have spent about N190bn subsidising petrol.

For instance, Senator Dino Melayo had on several occasions in the floor of the national Assembly exposed explosive financial infractions committed by officials of the current presidency including the huge bills that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations spends illegally as subsidy for importation of fuel and the illegal employment of children of favoured politically connected persons into plumb jobs in the central bank of Nigeria.

Susan Lerner, director of Common Cause, attributed REBNY's increased spending to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, which lifted restrictions on political expenditures by corporations, associations and unions.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

A report on financial industry compensation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that large financial corporations — including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Citigroup — spend between 25 % to 50 % of total revenue on paying out executive compensation.

Because of that choice, he has spent the last decade not only pursuing research in amphibian development but also defending his work and his reputation against attacks orchestrated by a large corporation.

The film, written by first - time screenwriter Pat Rushin, centers on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a nervous, very bald man who lives in a church, has spent his life waiting for a mysterious phone call, and works as an «esoteric data» cruncher for the Mancorp corporation.

The top five student - loan corporations devoted a combined total of $ 60 million to political spending over the past three election cycles, including $ 49 million on lobbying, according to a recent report by a watchdog organization.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

CTA also spends more on lobbying and politics (again, with forced dues) by far than any other corporation in the state.

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools — even those with religious orientations — and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations.

While some charter schools are founded by for - profit corporations, theirs was an independent, personal effort, undertaken after two years spent «visiting different school models and building out the blueprint for the design of the school.»