Sentences with phrase «with billions of federal dollars»

Education was a rich, untapped market with billions of federal dollars there for the taking.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

In the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firms.

Western Australian business has not warmed to the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, with warnings that the policy could drive billions of dollars of investment offshore.

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

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.

Insurance behemoth, Anthem lost their appeal of the February decision of a Federal Judge to block their 54 billion - dollar merger with Cigna.

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the destruction wrought by Harvey underscores «the need for good government,» and shows «the president is just wrong with his budget,» in which Trump proposed slashing billions of dollars from federal agencies.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

2001 FRAC helps lead anti-poverty and anti-hunger groups in obtaining tens of billions of dollars in refundable tax credits for low - income working families with children in federal tax legislation.

After returning to Washington, Clinton worked with other lawmakers to secure billions of dollars in federal aid for New York to assist in the city's recovery.

The Trump plan rolled out Monday was not a surprise, following the lines laid out by the president practically since he took office over a year ago: $ 200 billion in federal money, with about half of it aimed at spurring state, local and private dollars through an «Incentives Program.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo is focusing on his New York Works program, with more than a billion federal and state dollars, with $ 121 million of that going into 48 projects across Western New York, all to start this year.

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

The advisory group is modeled on the National Reading Panel, a collection of experts whose recommendations have shaped K - 12 reading efforts supported with billions of dollars in federal funds.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

A new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst - performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

The law still funnels billions of federal dollars to schools with high concentrations of poor children.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

A review of the research on Head Start and other preschool programs, with a rigorous consideration of the benefits claimed by these programs and an informed cost - benefit analysis, must therefore be undertaken before the federal government spends billions of dollars on a new, untested program.

Before the George W. Bush administration, billions of dollars in education spending were doled out by the federal government with no accountability.

Eventually Brown would win the game of chicken with Duncan, whose department caved, promising not to pull federal money, which would have meant cutting off over a billion dollars, largely to districts serving poor students, and from a state that carried huge weight in the Democratic party.

Outside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington D.C.Navient, the nation's largest servicer of federal and private student loans, was charged by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.According to CFPB, Navient, the former -LSB-...]

Navient, the nation's largest servicer of federal and private student loans, was charged by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.

Tapped with safeguarding the $ 700 billion in TARP funds, Barofsky's chief concern is that federal officials are discounting his suggestions regarding the prevention of the tax dollars being wasted and / or fraudulently appropriated.

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.Great Lakes aims to assist borrowers in repaying their student loans successfully.

The reason why students are often confused with whether or not a Sallie Mae student loan is private or federal is because in 2008 our congress approved the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act where the government took over 112 - billion dollars worth of private student loan debts (commercially originated debt).

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

FDIC - insured and established in 2006, Darien Rowayton Bank has helped thousands of professionals with graduate and undergraduate degrees across the country to refinance and consolidate over $ 3 billion in federal and private school loans, saving these borrowers thousands of dollars each.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm... Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $ 1.7 billion today.

According to government data, «The total annual cost to comply with federal regulations was $ 1.82 trillion in 2011,» while the number of new rules that impose billion - dollar compliance costs has been increasing.

The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.

Meanwhile, Judge Koh has handed down an appealable final judgment in that first California Apple v. Samsung case, the parties appealed, and Samsung has already filed its opening brief with the Federal Circuit (the part concerning design patent damages — the bulk of the billion - dollar verdict, or «$ 929 million verdict» after a limited damages retrial, to be precise — has significant support in the U.S. legal community).

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

Hopping on a motorcycle with a helmet saves lives and billions of dollars in costs related to brain injuries, according to a study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

SSA is one of the largest federal government programs in existence with an annual IT budget in excess of 1 billion dollars, over 1,300 field offices, and over 103,000 workstations.

The federal government funds early childhood education programs such as Head Start (8.6 billion dollars in 2014), and parents of young children are constantly bombarded with information about attachment parenting, brain - healthy activities, and brain - sensitive discipline strategies.

FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.2 Their role has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.