Sentences with phrase «which public dollars»

Charter schools, which create an alternative to the traditional school model and shift the structure of the public institutions through which public dollars flow, can also generate their own advocates in the communities they serve.

That would include vouchers, in which public dollars pay to educate children in private, sometimes religious, schools.

Not exact matches

The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.

Kodak, the once iconic camera company, is licensing its brand to Spotlite, which builds computers designed to mine bitcoin, for a new line of bitcoin - mining machines that they plan to rent to the public for thousands of dollars.

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

It creates an unfair advantage for the lumber industry, says Ali, which leads to «loss of innovation, loss of competitiveness, and... [the public] is not getting the best possible product they should be getting for their taxpayer dollars.»

He claims that options also helped him persuade three executives to leave billion - dollar - plus corporations to join Spencer Reed, which has plans to go public in the next few years.

The huge losses, which amount to billions of dollars, are also causing the normally outspoken investor to retreat from the public a bit.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

There has even been talk of the public broadcaster, (CBC) which receives over $ 1 billion in public funding annually, dropping advertising and ceasing to compete for ad dollars with its private sector rivals.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

Just before the crisis, the demand for Fed liabilities consisted mainly of the public's demand for paper dollars, about $ 800 billion of which were outstanding.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.

In this manner, bitcoins are functioning more like the limited quantity of shares made available in an initial public offering (IPO) than as a unit of currency like the US dollar, the total number of which varies constantly.

As is now painfully public knowledge, some of the clergy, met their «need for intimacy» in activity with teenage boys for which dioceses are now paying out millions of dollars in compensation.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

The church negotiated with the Port Authority, which oversees construction at the site, and in 2008 both sides tentatively agreed that the church would be rebuilt nearby using tens of millions of dollars in public money.

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«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

Institute a statewide public financing system based on the one used by NYC, which matches every dollar in small donor contributions with six dollars in public funds

Reinvent Albany today praised four laws which go into effect today making billions of dollars in City spending more transparent to the public.

The total sum, which exceeded by tens of thousands of dollars the amount of unspecified expenditures by each of the other lawmakers flagged, is broken down in depth within the documents and includes details not included in the senator's public campaign filings.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

Yet perhaps the administration will not be so contemptuous or evasive when it goes Wednesday before the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which will consider whether the Environmental Facilities Corp. should loan more than a half - billion dollars to the Thruway Authority.

Mayor Bloomberg's documented slush fund, which spread millions of public dollars to favored groups and organizations with no oversight, set the tone for the culture of corruption and payoffs that dominate Council politics.

Astorino backs an alternative method, known as the Dream Fund, which uses private funds rather than public dollars — a proposal that Hispanic lawmakers backing the Dream Act say is insufficient.

The new site is a welcome addition to the growing list of online tools which help the public understand how the government is spending tax dollars.

During the second come back of the Danquah / Busia family, Former President Kuffour also decided to use 4million dollars of state fund to renovate his private residence which generated lots of public outcry.

UnitedHealth, which is scaling back its Obamacare public exchange offerings to just three markets and has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on its exchange plans, asked for a 45.6 percent rate increase on the individual exchange.

Medenica's plan has been to start slow with Internet lottery products, offering just the big multi-state jackpot games such as Mega Millions, which would add perhaps tens of millions of dollars annually for public education.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

The decision by the board, which was created by Cuomo and the legislature, means the pro-business Committee to Save New York, which helps promote the governor's agenda through millions of dollars in TV ads, will not have to make public the names of their contributors.

One of the subordinates, according to him, is the Director of Finance of the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, which according to him «was given instruction by Badeh to convert public funds into dollars and to use same to buy all the assets referred to in the body of the charges».

The governor announced a new economic development plan that invests billions of dollars in public - private sector partnerships and rebuilding infrastructure which he -LSB-...]

He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.

Klein, a former head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the public's mood over publicly financed campaigns needes to be gauged first, noting that some voters may be uneasy with allowing taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns (the Senate GOP, which has equal governing weight in the coalition, has cited this reason for its opposition to public financing).

We stand by our original campaign — massive billion dollar public subsidies have public responsibilities and the construction workforce deserves to be able to afford to live in the city in which they work.»

«Every dollar for these projects is approved through the budget process and has to go through the Public Authorities Control Board — a member of which Kolb appoints,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

«I see the Red Cross, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars that was intended by the donating public to be used for the victims of September 11 — I see those funds being sequestered into long - term plans,» then - state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a congressional committee, according to CNN.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

«I see the Red Cross, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars that was intended by the donating public to be used for the victims of September 11 — I see those funds being sequestered into long - term plans,» then - state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a congressional committee,

Malliotakis has said she opposes public financing of elections but she will be participating in the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program, which matches small dollar contributions up to $ 175 at a 6 - to - 1 ratio with public funds.

Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.

Public authorities are not subject to the same oversight as state agencies, which allows for «backdoor spending,» or the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars without traditional checks and balances.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.