Sentences with phrase «when federal dollars»

Kline's original goal was to move away from an omnibus approach to federal education policy as represented by No Child and offer up five bills that would essentially revert back to the days before the passage of No Child, when federal dollars were handed out to states without showing any results.

Do you anticipate a smooth transition when federal dollars expire?

Not exact matches

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

That can be tough to do when federal and state taxes are taking roughly 45 percent of every dollar.

This kind of money has been made by speculating on Brazilian, Indian and Chinese securities and those of other countries whose exchange rates have been forced up by credit - flight out of the dollar, which has fallen by 7 % against a basket of currencies since early September when the Federal Reserve floated the prospect of quantitative easing.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

When the fiat Federal Reserve «dollar» finally loses its status as the world's reserve currency, gold and silver will have then begun to make an upward price adjustment or will begin to make the upward adjustment, and all who paid much higher prices for gold and silver will stop whining about price.

With banks holding fractional reserves of Federal Reserve dollars (notes and deposit claims on the books of the Fed, whose sum is called «the monetary base»), when the Fed increases the quantity of Federal Reserve dollars by $ 1 billion, the banking system ordinarily creates a multiple amount of deposit dollars.

How are we to think about the message of bond prices when the U.S. Federal Reserve, and other central banks, have literally bought trillions and trillions of dollars of them?

As the table below shows federal corporate tax revenues rose to $ 35 billion in 2013/14, but this was still 17 percent below the $ 42.2 billion they were in 2007/8 when our economy and corporate profits were respectively 17 and 15 percent lower (in current dollars).

Regardless of the approach taken, I agree with Blackman and Stark in that the ability of a state to capture federal tax dollars via creative state tax credit initiatives is almost certainly bad tax policy when viewed from the national perspective.

So when that happened, suddenly the US Federal Reserve and the United States would be paying any and all debt using U.S. dollars.

«I never thought I would see the day when the dollar would be thrown under the bus, as happened [November 3] at the conclusion of the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee] meeting,» says David Gilmore, partner and economist at Essex, Connecticut — based Foreign Exchange Analytics.

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke became Wall Street's sugar daddy when he initiated a trillion - dollar bond - buying scheme in an effort to kickstart the flagging U.S. economy.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

Romney needed federal help when he was governor, he needed federal dollars to fund the Olympics, he took federal guarantees for some of his Bain deals, but he talks about government dependency?

However, Prop 42 will go into effect at a time when federal financial aid for education is drying up; there will be fewer dollars for deserving, underprivileged youngsters who have excelled in the classroom, much less for academically marginal athletes.

But when you're serving 250,000 meals a day in Houston (or 700,000 in L.A.) on limited federal reimbursement dollars from a central kitchen, I can tell you with some confidence the food is going to look a lot more like the pictures I showed you above than it's going to look like the West Adams culinary students» brightly - hued, scratch - prepared wraps and salads.

... BerkShares are placed in circulation when citizens exchange federal dollars for...

The president said the federal funding should be leveraged to secure state and local dollars, and, when appropriate, private sector investment.

When the plan is complete, it will give Buffalo Niagara priority status for Federal dollars related to transportation infrastructure, housing and community development, cleaning our environment and promoting economic development.

He first served in office from 1991 until 2003, when he was convicted of 16 federal charges stemming from a scheme to steer city contracts in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expensive wine, custom clothes, cash and home improvements.

The City of Buffalo pays for shelters when temperatures are below 15 degrees using federal dollars, and Erie County pays shelters between 32 - 15 degrees.

The incumbent Republican's numbers plummeted a month ago when he was implicated in the Foley scandal, and they shot up when the White House tapped him as point man on millions of dollars in federal blizzard relief.

ALBANY — The state attorney general's office and a federal prosecutor are both looking into the payouts of thousands of dollars in questionable stipends to state senators who were identified in pay records as committee chairs when they weren't, the Daily News has learned.

When compared to 2000 levels of spending, is this an increase / decrease in federal government spending (in real dollars) per citizen?

Last year, when McCain's campaign was starved for cash, he applied to join the financing system to gain access to millions of dollars in federal matching money.

«In elementary economics, the implication is that when revenue is calculated based on N199 to one dollar and the federal government will be declaring say revenue of N400 billion to be shared by the three tiers of government, the value of revenue that should have been shared will be over N800 billion at the open market rate of N400 to one dollar.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal could give New York a leg up when competing for federal infrastructure dollars, thanks to a proposal to streamline...

When asked about this use of funds from a state campaign committee, the FEC directed Crain's to its 1996 determination that candidates may not allocate nonfederal campaign dollars toward a federal campaign unless the money comes from their personal funds.

«I do know we are resettling refugees with federal dollars when we can't afford to do it.

The FBI said Harris swindled local and federal agencies out of «thousands of dollars... (and) at a time when many residents in her district were dealing with the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Harris was busy brewing a storm of her own, one that resulted in her receiving significant payouts by the very federal agency charged with helping those truly in need.»

When politics was about trying to get federal and state dollars, these guys fought as hard as anybody.

When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»

The reef effort is the kind of science - based project many Gulf stakeholders had in mind when they pushed for a federal act, called RESTORE, that allocated to Gulf restoration much of the potentially billions of dollars in fines and penalties that will be paid by those responsible for the oil spill.

«Wait until you see how angry the American people get when they discover... NIH [has] been using federal tax dollars to study «lot lizards,»» coalition director Andrea Lafferty declared in an open letter.

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

So when the Empire State cut support to districts by $ 1.2 billion simultaneously as federal stimulus dollars were running out, it hurt.

But we found out, by like 90/10, that if there were a federal contest, with seven hundred million dollars at stake, at a time when we're talking about laying off teachers in districts all over the place, New York State should be doing everything they can to win it.

When federal Race to the Top dollars became available, Pawlenty launched a statewide charter school initiative and moved to hone math and science instruction in schools.

District superintendents predict worse to come in 2011, when federal stimulus dollars for education run out.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

In other budget areas, including K - 12, Medicaid, transportation, and a host of other social service programs, states lose out on matching federal dollars when they cut funding.

A decade later, when the state sought to tighten fiscal oversight over the district, the OPSB balked, despite having lost track of millions of federal dollars and facing bankruptcy.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

When federal stimulus dollars were added, overall real spending per pupil still declined in 23 states.

Under NCLB, federal Title I dollars can legally flow to private, even faith - based education providers when selected by parents.

Todd Ziebarth, vice president for policy for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, said he thinks states such as Washington are «in for a rude awakening,» when the federal education dollars don't flow into state coffers.

Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!

When asked specifically about this in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies meeting in May, Education Secretary DeVos refused to guarantee that she would prohibit private schools from receiving federal dollars if they discriminate.35