Sentences with phrase «with federal incentive»

Combined with the federal incentive, that cuts the price of a Honda Civic Hybrid from $ 26,250 to $ 21,250 — which means the hybrid actually costs a P.E.I. resident a couple of thousand less than the nonhybrid Civic EX-L model.

Blending this with federal incentive programs, greater access to information and services and more choices has challenged health systems and clinicians to adopt, use, and interoperate with new information technologies.

Moreover, with an estimated 1 million student names on charter waiting lists (Kern & Gebru, 2014) combined with federal incentives and evolving state policies aimed at raising or removing caps on charter schools, the sector seems poised for rapid growth in the near future.

But with federal incentives and a powerful «Buy American» mentality — as well as a growing national desire for energy efficiency, or so we like to think — to motivate renewable energy companies, at few of them have headed for Detroit and the Northeastern industrial states to set up shop.

Not exact matches

But he also revealed plans to promote consumption by converting federal fleets to natural gas, offering tax incentives to transport companies for converting their vehicles, and creating five highway corridors, each with a string of natural gas fuel stations.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

This creates a potential incentive problem, since the federal government creates the regulatory environment that provides CMHC with a near - captive market.

A new incentive policy backed by Federal and State governments, combined with tangible initiatives such as the Jervoise Bay industrial complex, holds out the promise of more progress in future.

After completing this review, the Company provided information about, and discussed the Company's incentive plans with the Federal Reserve.

Going green is typically associated with elevated costs, but federal tax incentives can actually make going green financially appealing for real estate developers and owners of private buildings.

She is also experienced with U.S. federal and state renewable energy tax incentive programs (including the investment tax credit, production tax credit, and 1603 cash grant), post-TEFRA partnership audit rules, and compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

The 401 (k) plan on balance weakened Federal incentives for profit sharing and encouraged employees to buy stock in their companies with their wages, which gave them greater individual risk exposure than when they received grants of stock.17

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

The automaker is bringing back the 60 kWh Model S with a base price of $ 66,000 before federal and state tax incentives.

School districts that comply with the new standards will receive an additional federal payment of 6 cents for each lunch served, a pretty big incentive to get with the program.

[31] It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect to, any child or youth over whom the state agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision who the state has reasonable cause to believe is, or is at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking or a severe form of trafficking in persons.

Heastie said earlier this week in Albany that it would be crazy to go forward with the millionaires tax because that would add an incentive for the wealthy to flee the state since the the new tax bill would slam the rich by limiting the federal deduction for state and local income taxes.

«It's completely dismaying — it's a huge incentive to play fast and loose with state law as a way of engaging potentially in bribery and quid pro quo under federal law, but as a private citizen.»

The total $ 41.1 billion cost would include an $ 8.2 billion city investment in the form of funding, tax incentives, and other investments, with the rest paid for with state, federal and private funding.

Mr. Giardina supports seeking a state and federal loan to obtain money to replace failing septics versus a current incentive program through which property owners who update their septics are provided with rebates paid for from the town's preservation fund.

The proposed federal tax overhaul will reduce tax incentives for homeownership, potentially depressing the prices of Long Island homes with high property taxes and spurring demand for already - scarce lower - cost homes and rentals.

His legacy will be inexorably linked to the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, an $ 8 billion Medicaid waiver from the federal government that seeks to both reduce avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent and provide health systems across the state with the resources they need to transition to value - based care.

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.»

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

This week, the Massachusetts project cleared a major hurdle with approval of a power purchasing agreement, but it still must find $ 2 billion worth of financing through a mix of investors and federal incentives to become the nation's first offshore wind farm (ClimateWire, Nov. 23).

With targeted innovation incentives, the federal government has been able to create jobs and growth.»

But these programs often work at cross-purposes with federal price - support incentives to produce corn and other commodities.

They have taken over record keeping in most clinics, hospitals and private practices, with encouragement from federal incentives.

Loftness argues that the government must respond with incentives, such as funding relevant Ph.D. programs; Amin hopes to see more federal and private investment in R&D for high - voltage transmission and energy technology.

In each plan, the centerpiece was a «targeted deployment» approach: Rather than offer the same incentives nationwide, the government would award federal funds to the regions that come up with the best blueprints for rolling out tens of thousands of plug - in cars.

If you need more motivation, the federal government is offering a 30 percent rebate on the purchase of geothermal heat pumps through 2016, with additional incentives available from states and utilities.

Yet, as with welfare reform, our federal system offers invaluable opportunities to explore different approaches to incentives, monitoring, and delivery.

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.

The incentives - with - caveats formula allowed the federal government to work around the 10th Amendment and have a greater hand in enforcing the 14th.

At last count, of the 34 states with 529 deductions or credits, eighteen automatically conformed or have passed legislation to conform to the federal 529 change, while sixteen have either argued that their state 529 incentives can not be used for K - 12 expenses, despite the federal change, or have yet to determine their course.

The state collaborated with the district to apply for a federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant to improve educator effectiveness.

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.

Similarly, anyone in a state with a state - level scholarship tax credit would need to back out any benefit they receive from their state tax code to make sure that the combination of federal and state tax incentives does not exceed the value of the donation.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the...

Considering these differing perspectives on the purpose of education provides insight into why opposition to Common Core has been strongest among parents and why national organizations and governors — responding to federal incentives to stick with the national standards and tests — have been slower to reverse course or even reconsider.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.

They combine new federal dictates over the timing of improvement with continued state control over the standards for improvement, perhaps providing perverse incentives for states to lower the academic standards they recently adopted.

PICCS was originally launched in 2007 with a grant from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) to bring together 10 New York City - based public charter schools to create a performance - based compensation system.

Page Tompkins, Ed.D. is the founding Executive Director of the Reach Institute for School Leadership in Oakland, California, where he works with novice teachers and emerging school leaders, and is the Project Director for a federal Teacher Incentive Fund project.

The federal Race to the Top initiative in 2009 provided states with incentives to put tracking systems into place.

Supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, New York City piloted and scaled new formal roles, with corresponding pay increases, in the 2014 UFT - DOE contract.31 There are now three New York City teacher leadership roles: Model Teacher, Master Teacher, and Peer Collaborative Teacher.

Duncan encourages these models with financial incentives such as School Improvement grants and Race to the Top, a federal competition encouraging education reform that Colorado lost.

The problem with this view is that while the federal government does not foot a lot of education money, it can unleash a hell of a lot of chaos with the money it does spend via incentives and regulation.

While the Common Core State Standards might survive in some form without annual standardized testing, the testing consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC), began their work with the support of federal grants almost as soon as the standards were being adopted thanks to financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and federal incentives from the Race to the Top grant program.

By contrast, recent research about federal Teacher Incentive Fund merit pay found far smaller learning effects and lower pay supplements, with fewer than half of districts indicating an ability to continue the program, much less scale it up.