Sentences with phrase «supports federal programs»

Bill Clinton was an early champion, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama spoke favorably about charters and supported the federal program that provides funds to start new charter schools.

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That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

Edith Cowan University's Vario Health Institute is seeking federal funding to support its preventative health research programs.

But sometimes this support hasn't turned out so well, making these federal loan programs quite controversial.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Several existing federal programs like the Community Reinvestment Act and the Small Business Investment Companies program are supporting the growth of impact investing funds.

The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $ 43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the program because Ottawa already spends about $ 32.9 billion a year on support to low - income Canadians.

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

James Richardson, alumni professor of economics at Louisiana State University, in May noted that the state had an obligation to fund care for uninsured patients whether or not it expanded Medicaid, and estimated that Louisiana stood to gain between $ 810 million to $ 864 million in federal support by expanding the program.

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed secuFederal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed secufederal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

The Jenkins report proposes creating an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC) as an «' arms length» agency... [to] become the common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs», reporting to Parliament through the proposed Minister for Innovation.

These efficiency gains in the SR&ED Program could be tied into a common service platform for federal business innovation support programs such as the IRIC proposed by the Jenkins report and redirected to other support programs for innovation.

2 Innovation Canada: A Call to Action, Review of Federal Support to Research and Development — Expert Panel, section 6, «Overview of the SR&ED Program», October 17, 2011.

Regardless of whether the proposed council is created, CATA strongly recommends that the Government move to a common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs, including the SR&ED Program, to rationalize services and thereby reducing government and private sector costs.

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

The SBIR program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy... one business at a time.

«To have the federal government commit to research and development, to programs that are currently in place, is important and sends a strong signal to Bombardier and to the other players in the aerospace industry that the federal government is there to support this industry,» Bellemare said.

B.C. New Democrats support the call for a federal review of the TFW program and a new provincial registry to track numbers and sectors of temporary workers in B.C.

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

Meanwhile, recent federal programs developed to support Canadian business have been deemed too complex to be of meaningful value to SMEs.

Government programs: Take advantage of the abundance of local, state and federal programs designed to support small businesses.

«The Export Assistance Navigator lets you search all Canadian federal and provincial export support and promotion programs that match your company's needs,» says Turi.

One form of federal support for child care is maternity and parental benefits offered through the federal Employment Insurance Program (EI).

The provincial and federal governments provide more than $ 3 billion in funding and support to Canada's agriculture and agri - food sector through a variety of grant and loan programs offered through Growing Forward 2 (GF2).

Despite having healthy supports in place at both the Federal and Provincial programming levels, in the form of R&D tax credits, grants, loans and collaborative agreements, it's our ability to grow Canada's R&D - intensive sectors that proves weak.

The platform states they would pay for this program by consolidating fragmented support for childcare and by «using a combination of existing federal and provincial program funding, plus new funding.»

Overseen by the Division of Family and Children of the state's Family and Social Services Administration, FaithWorks provides assistance to faith - based organizations in applying for state and federal grant dollars to support new or existing programs geared to helping people attain self - sufficiency.

When the Community Mental Health Centers Act was adopted in 1963, it provided Federal support for the development of a national program of comprehensive mental health services based in local communities.

Federal funds are also granted to state public health programs ($ 66,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969) Community mental health receives a minimum of 15 percent of each state's allotment, and 70 percent of the grant is available to support services in communities for which both public and private nonprofit groups may apply.

Three - quarters of African - Americans said that religious groups should receive state and federal financial support to extend existing social welfare programs or to start new ones.

«This federal grant builds upon the support received from CDFA and the American Farmland Trust, and will help continue the momentum of the program to increase participation and show constant improvement.

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

There is nothing wrong with supporting a coach whose program has been implicated in a freaking federal investigation, his house was raided by the FBI and his long time top assistant has been arrested and charged with major crimes.

Fighting child hunger requires a holistic approach, from support programs like BIC and sharing resources that increase knowledge about this issue, to protecting federal food assistance services like the School Breakfast Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The federal Head Start program has provides low - income 3 - and 4 - old children and their families with comprehensive early education and support services.

Hats off to them for doing that, but the cost of building a central kitchen is not something which every community can bear, and it should be counted as part of the «outside money» used to support the meal program because it is outside of the money the federal government provides for running meal programs.

If you believe that your case should be eligible for the Federal Tax Refund Offset Program, or you suspect that the other parent has received his or her tax refund in error, contact your local Office of Child Support Enforcement.

Rebecca works as an early education consultant at ICF International, where she supports federal and state programs that strive to ensure that our youngest children have access to quality early care and education.

Nearly all of the state's 54 school districts have signed up for the program, and the schools are buying Alaska food they couldn't afford when they received only federal support amounting to less than $ 2 a meal.

MDHS sent a letter, signed by more than 100 nonprofit, faith - based, and community - based organizations across the state, to the Maryland Congressional Delegation urging support of the vital federal nutrition programs in the upcoming Farm Bill.

The federal Early Head Start program was created to help minimize the disparities caused by poverty by supporting the healthy development of expectant mothers and low - income infants and toddlers in the context of their families and communities.

Some of the recently developed home visiting programs have proliferated, encouraged by federal, state / provincial, local, and private support.

Support Federal and State Funding for Programs that Support Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies, including:

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program provides federal funds for states and Tribal entities to support voluntary, evidence - based home visiting services during pregnancy and to parents with young children up to 5 years old.

An Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / Federal grantees, states, and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

The National School Lunch Program served 31.6 million children in fiscal year 2012, in part through $ 11.6 billion in federal supports.

MIECHV is the federal program that supports states in implementing evidence - based home visiting programs for at - risk families.

The program supports Federal Home Visiting Program grantees in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovations to strengthen and improve delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high - quality voluntary services to eligible faprogram supports Federal Home Visiting Program grantees in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovations to strengthen and improve delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high - quality voluntary services to eligible faProgram grantees in the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovations to strengthen and improve delivery of coordinated and comprehensive high - quality voluntary services to eligible families.