Sentences with phrase «way federal money»

We really need to reform the way federal money is distributed and try to find more efficient mechanisms that are less bureaucratic.

Not exact matches

One way to avoid a huge tax bill is to have federal taxes withheld from your unemployment checks (however, you may still owe state income tax) or set aside the money yourself so you'll have the money to pay taxes.

With a Dec. 8 deadline rapidly approaching for either extending federal funding in some way or triggering a partial government shutdown, the House next week will advance a temporary patch, according to a senior aide, and try to provide money through Dec. 22.

If the 8,000 Canadians who received stock options as part of incomes over $ 250,000 paid taxes on this money at the same rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down year for options.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will reach small firms, either directly in federal contracts or indirectly as this money makes its way through the economy.

The federal government's going to spend a lot of money that supports the overall economy in a way that we haven't seen for a number of years,» Warne told Yahoo Finance.

As I also warned in 2007, investors relying on a «put option» from the Federal Reserve are likely to discover that the strike price is way out of the money.

While money market funds are considered safer and more conservative, however, they are not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) the way many CDs are.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Any way you cut it, the dollar — and the Federal Reserve's unique powers of «money creation» — will surely be in play to wallpaper this mess.

The self - reversing nature of the Fed's repos and reverse repos, many of which are «overnight» rather than «term» agreements (that is, ones providing for repurchase a day after the original purchase) has caused the Fed to prefer them as a means for achieving temporary adjustments to the money stock, while treating outright security purchases as a way of providing for permanent monetary expansion, and especially for secular growth in the demand for Federal Reserve notes.

The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.).

The federal government is taking money from the state and then forcing the state to use its own money in ways the feds see fit.

There are also a lot more ways to increase ones wealth in congress than just the salary as well, congress members have the ability to spend federal money on what they see fit so they can help their friends out and get kickbacks, though they have to be careful and do this indirectly because it is technically illegal.

Menendez told reporters on his way into the meeting that he would press for more federal money under existing railroad and clean - air programs.

Liu introduced a better way to track public money, as federal officials continue their probe of how he raised campaign cash.

No county officials were charged with wrongdoing, but federal prosecutors allege that Dean and Adam Skelos improperly influenced the awarding of the contract to an environmental company as a way to get Adam Skelos more money from the company — which had hired him as a consultant.

We want to keep the money in the states, reduce the federal taxes, eliminate that need to send that money to the federal government only to have it sent back to the states, and we will have more money and a more efficient way of using our money within the states.»

Malloy says the tax might cost the state federal reimbursement money because of the way it's written.

The waiver money, a matching grant program from the federal government that allows providers across the state to invest in new ways to provide and deliver care to their communities, is divided into several different pots of money.

Allowing open - road tolling on Wisconsin's interstates is the only plausible way to raise state money to match whatever federal funding could be coming for transportation, Republican state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told county officials on Wednesday.

And the only way the trust fund can get some cash to pay Social Security benefits is if the federal government draws it from general revenues or borrows the money — which, of course, it can't do because of the debt ceiling.

Donors can give as much money as they want to a group supporting Republican NYC mayoral nominee Joe Lhota, following a ruling by a federal appeals court that could pave the way for increased outside spending in New York elections.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Allowing open - road tolling on Wisconsin's interstates is the only plausible way to raise state money to match whatever federal funding could be coming for transportation, Republican state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told county officials on Wednesday.

Nevertheless, there are ways that citizens can fight back against the avalanche of big money in politics, ranging from federal legislation to a constitutional amendment, all outlined in the article.

They took to the Senate floor on Monday to push a proposal that would have prohibited the Port Authority «from supporting the federal effort in any way,» including the use of staff, money and facilities — even the use of electricity and air - conditioning in areas where detainees are held.

Except for postdocs receiving federal fellowships that explicitly bar them from being considered employees (and who, by the way, are ineligible to join the postdoc union at UCHC), postdocs paid out of grants to principal investigators receive their money through university payroll systems, which generally deduct payroll taxes.

The goal of the new rule is to help local governments identify vulnerable areas affected by climate change that they can show to federal and state officials as a way to obtain money for things like road rebuilding.

«Most NSF money [awarded by MPS on research awards] goes to fund graduate students, so this is a natural way for us to contribute to the federal mission of providing support for veterans.»

Maine laboratories are finding unconventional ways to fund science and technology, touted by politicians and economists alike as a key economic and educational driver in the state, as the federal government again threatens to cut money for their work.

Following Hurricane Irma, a Coconut Grove homeowner started looking for a way to protect her home from future storms and flooding and found inspiration in affordable houses built on stilts in Louisiana, but many counties in Florida — with the possible exception of Monroe — don't plan to use post-hurricane Federal Emergency Management Agency money on single - family home elevations.

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Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana's superintendent of education, says the way the state hammers out rules for its new «career diploma» will help determine whether it lands up to $ 200 million in the national competition for federal Race to the Top money.

State officials successfully lobbied for federal money to help launch the effort, which they hope will get under way in the fall.

Race to the Top money gets to schools in two ways: Half goes out based on the percentage of federal funding that schools get for low - income students (Title I), and the other half is discretionary.

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

But will pulling way back on federal efforts to reform education — most likely by putting the money on a stump and letting states do whatever they like with it — benefit the other 49?

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

Because there is no set federal mandate prescribing the distribution of special education funds to charter schools — aside from the requirement that federal funds be distributed equitably — an appreciation of federal, state, and local sources of funding is necessary to understand the particular way charter schools receive money earmarked for special education services.

CPS will use the money from the federal jobs bill only in ways that are consistent with the Department of Education guidance, including compensation and benefits and other expenses necessary to retain existing employees, to recall or rehire former employees, and to hire new employees, in order to provide early childhood, elementary, or secondary educational and related services.

«The money should follow the child,» said Sen. Chad Barefoot, talking about one provision of a House bill he presented to Senate Finance members on Monday afternoon that previously dealt with school playgrounds — but was gutted and jammed with language that would change the way charter schools receive money by allowing them to receive millions more in sales taxes, property taxes, grant funds and federal appropriations, and more.

Federal law says that school districts must spend the money in a way that provides extra help to poor children — that it not be used to provide basic educational services — and requires that Title I schools have comparable services to those in wealthier schools in the same district.

Over the past 12 months, Bennett said he's met with interested parties «across the state» and explored ways his office might use federal grants to offer some of the start - up money any charter school developer will need.

The competition departs from the way the federal government distributes most of its education aid: complicated formulas tied to student enrollment that send money to every state.

Previously, the way the DOT evaluated transit projects made it hard to get federal money to do those kinds of projects.

Each community supports their libraries in different ways: with federal money, state money and local money usually via a tax levy.

In the United States, there are predominantly two ways students can borrow money to fund their higher education: federal student loans and private stud ent loan s. Those two categories make up most students» options, although some people are fortunate enough to get a low - interest or no - interest loan from and family members.

One way student loan borrowers can save some money during repayment is by deducting interest payments on their federal income tax returns.