Sentences with phrase «with public subsidies»

But all the speakers clearly preferred it to stay empty rather than give over a public building with public subsidies to a mall developer who won't guarantee a living wage for employees of its retail tenants.

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While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

These are traditions taught and transmitted with pride and public subsidy.

«We're pleased that they continue to say that fruits and vegetables in general are important,» said Robert Guenther, vice president of public policy for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, who would like federal help with marketing produce rather than subsidies for growing it.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

A handful of family - centered proposals are part of the women's agenda, including investments in prekindergarten and after - school programs, increasing child care subsidies by $ 7 million, continuing the child care tax credit and requiring all new or renovated buildings with public bathrooms to be equipped with diaper changing stations.

Delegates buoyed by Vince Cable's colourful and blistering attack on the Tories this morning asked the deputy prime minister tricky questions regarding losing «the soul» (Clegg's words) of the Liberal Democrat Party via being associated with government measures such as the «bedroom tax» (defended and carefully referred to as the «spare bedroom subsidy» by Clegg), the notorious immigration vans and public spending cuts.

If they come up with plans with genuinely no public subsidy.

Even with Labour promising an expansion from 15 to 25 hours of free childcare for three and four - year - olds, and the free offer of 15 hours for 40 % of two - year - olds, it is unlikely that the public subsidy available per place will enable a cost - effective service, let alone a service that makes a profit.

Citi Bike has so far been backed by corporate sponsorship, not public subsidies, but the DOT will soon be talking with Motivate about ways to expand the bike sharing system, according to the agency.

Indeed, while announced plans to increase tuition and child care subsidies will compete with expected increases in Medicaid and public school aid in the operating budget, the state has more options for building projects.

Koppell did say he was going to push legislation to require a living wage across the board for developers who receive public subsidies, a move people in the meeting were please with.

«ESDC has quietly made the «affordable» housing conditioned upon public subsidies, in contradiction with [the project's] approval document,» Carponter said.

But even with generous subsidies, public acceptance foundered, says Søren Hermansen, who runs the island's affiliated energy and environment office.

People receiving public housing subsidies are often in poor health, with increased need for mental health and chronic disease care.

Yet her warnings fell on deaf ears in the scientific community — much to the public's misfortune — due mostly to the ties between the vegetable oil industry and big - money corporations with their government subsidies.

I suspect it will be public school parents who (1) were on the fence about choosing private schools and for whom the $ 5,000 subsidy will push them over the edge; or (2) have been contemplating home schooling and see the ESA as a way to supplement home education with a variety of a la carte services.

But, in 1879, the elite dominated Liberal party banned subsidies for Catholic schools and required all municipalities to establish public schools that would replace religious instruction with secular moral training.

«It marries a taxpayer - funded government subsidy for private schools and vendors to a corporate tax break with little public oversight and no accountability for results.»

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

It shows that, with each successive transaction, the financial burden has resulted in higher debt - per - student costs as UNO has nearly no other source of revenue other than public transfers via direct subsidies, publicly issued bonds and government contracts.

The Secretary shall accept, for the purpose of making a finding with regard to adequate collateral for a public entity, the net present value on a future stream of State or local subsidy income or a dedicated revenue as collateral offered to secure a loan.

They have long had private profits with many public subsidies for years.

HDF Multifamily loan products include Predevelopment Loans (Loans with terms between one to two years), Acquisition Loans (Loan with terms up to two years), Construction Loans (Loans with terms up to twenty four months), Mini-Permanent (Loans with terms up to ten years), Permanent loans (Loans with terms up to thirty years), and Bridge loans for committed project subsidy sources (Loans with terms up to two years) which bridge public subsidy sources and low income housing tax credits.

As we're seeing with corn based ethanol, the amount of subsidy is based entirely on political considerations and not on whether the fuel provides a public good.

Friends of the Earth Slovakia deals with a number of issues, including controversial subsidies, regulation of corporations, the privatisation of public services, international financial institutions, EU funds, sustainable development in the region, transport, energy, forestry, waste and biodiversity.

This brief presents that in Egypt, spending on fuel subsidies was a drain on public finances with benefits skewing toward the rich and exacerbating inequalities.

The hypocritical Obama - Purdon - FWS policy exists solely to protect, promote and advance an anti-hydrocarbon agenda that is increasingly at odds with environmental, scientific, economic, job - creation and public opinion reality — and to safeguard wind turbines that survive solely because of government mandates, taxpayer subsidies... and exemptions from laws that rule, penalize and terrorize the rest of us.

«Elected officials and public agencies must put communities and the environment first, starting with removing special exemptions and subsidies for the oil and gas industry, while ushering in clean, renewable energy.»

With this track record, it's not surprising that nuclear power has failed to attract private - sector financing — so the industry has looked to government for subsidies, including loan guarantees, tax credits, and other forms of public support.

Subsidies, along with regulations and cap - and - trade with offsets, are attractive to the public and Congress despite serious limitations on their effectiveness, because their costs are largely hidden.

And, well, how many schools could be renovated, roads repaired, policemen hired, and other public services provided with the tax subsidies that the ever - so impoverished fossil fuel industries are pocketing?

Since the 1980s they have influenced governments to spend billions in public funds and subsidies to advance its corrupt science, along with subsidizing a massive building program of solar panels and wind turbines providing so little electricity it actually has endangered lives in Europe and threatens the integrity of the U.S. electrical grid.

[30] Epstein states his main sources of revenue vary «depending on what [he's] working on,» but in the «last year it's been a combination of public - facing (e.g., getting paid to write the book [The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels]-RRB- and giving speeches, a lot of which are to industry groups,» noting that he'd be willing to «work with anyone fighting for freedom — but not for subsidies.»

Prospects began to dim quickly, however, with reduced government subsidies, increasingly strict safety standards, and growing public opposition.

• Size of the current and historical R&D budget, both public and private, is not the only criterion — huge amounts have been spent on solar panel (photovoltaic, or PV) R&D over the decades, and PVs still are not able to compete with fossil fuels or nuclear power without huge subsidies.

While the details have yet to be finalized, city council plans on replacing automobile transportation in the city centre with alternatives that include 60 kilometres of new bike lanes, a new subsidy for the purchasing of e-bikes and a significant expansion of its already - robust public transit system.

Along with a strengthened renewable energy target, energy - efficiency measures, and stopping the waste of public money on subsidies that encourage pollution, a cost - effective, market - based mechanism can deliver these targets.

Nuclear power doesn't compete with other energy sources anywhere because it receives massive public subsidies in the form of liability limits enjoyed by no other energy source — not even close.

Projects sold to the public as planet - saving turn out to be vehicles for people with government connections to get their hands on taxpayer - funded loans and subsidies.

However, nowadays investors will almost always conclude a contract with the State if it concerns public services, works, etc. furthermore, a lot of the cases that go before ISDS could also be brought under commercial arbitration because they often concern the revocation of some form of license, subsidy, etc, that formed the basis of the investment.

In reaching this decision the following were considered to be decisive factors: (i) LQHT was permeated with state control and influence with a view to meeting the government's aims for aff ordable housing; (ii) the nature and extent of the public subsidy of LQHT's activities; (iii) 10 % of LQHT's stock had been transferred to it from the public sector; (iv) that LQHT, as a registered social landlord, was obliged to cooperate with the local authority, if requested, in offering accommodation to people with priority under the authority's allocation scheme; (v) the termination of a tenancy could not be regarded as separate from housing management so as to be considered an act of a private nature.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

So much of our health policy (including massive public subsidies for the private health insurance industry) has served to reinforce rather than undermine the inverse care law (which was coined in 1971 and holds that «The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.

Municipal bonds and other forms of public subsidies help many of these projects along, with public agencies underwriting some of the risk.

Both buildings are in the Central Loop tax increment - financing district, and Mittal executives have talked with city officials about potential public subsidies, sources said.