Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollar collected»

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Healy, the former Republican chairman, blamed the glut of candidates on the state's public campaign financing system, where candidates collect $ 250,000 in small - dollar donations to receive millions in taxpayer - funded election grants.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

Five members collect almost a half - million dollars from Hempstead taxpayers; they are town board member Anthony D'Esposito, his mother and father, and his brother and sister - in - law.

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

On top of that, the county collects a management fee — 6.5 percent of the taxpayer dollars that flow to K12.

Other education - related items include: giving school administrators flexibility in teacher hiring and retention; restrictions on school bathroom use for transgender students; and prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to collect union dues, which would impact teachers.

That hasn't prevented the college from collecting more than $ 850,000 in taxpayer dollars.

Not only does Jumoke Academy collect millions of taxpayer dollars as a result of their Hartford - based charter school, but they are now collecting a state - funded management fee of $ 345,000 a year to run «The Jumoke Academy at Milner,» the former Hartford elementary school that was given to Jumoke as part of the Commissioner's Network.

In fact, a series of academic studies have revealed that despite collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money, most virtual schools are utterly failing when it comes to actually educating children.

Unchecked charter - school operators are exploiting South Florida's public school system, collecting taxpayer dollars for schools that quickly shut down.

According to a recent Bloomberg analysis, the Department pays its debt collectors nearly $ 40 for every $ 1 dollar they collect: meaning that for the collection agencies to collect $ 5 million, taxpayers would likely shell out almost $ 200 million in commissions.

Millions of individual and business taxpayers owe billions of dollars in unpaid federal tax debts, and the IRS expends substantial resources trying to collect these debts.

Today, in the U.S. a shocking two billion taxpayer dollars are spent each year to collect, house and then either adopt out, or euthanize and cremate, dogs and cats.