Sentences with phrase «taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year»

Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

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«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

Forget that as a result of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, Connecticut taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in public schools.

Having spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers» money to recuperate the species, politicians are now allowing its habitat to be invaded by hundreds of wind turbines, of the kind that are killing 2,000 vultures a year in Spain (1).