Revenue linked to programs can make sense, though funding programs this way may not.
Klinenberg offers many proposals for dealing with such eventualities, some reasonable (he suggests better funding programs to provide the elderly with caretakers), a few quixotic (he has real hopes for social robots).
After Spain suspended all funding programs for renewables in the final days of January, Italy has signaled that they will restructure their own systems this summer, all but erasing financial support as both countries try to reel in spending in accordance with deficit goals and under pressure from stronger EU member states.
Also on the agenda was a discussion on how counties will be impacted by the sequester from reduced federal funding for job training programs, cuts in funding for programs that provide meals for seniors, and fewer vaccines for children.
WHITEHOUSE: White House engages NACo��s Large Urban County Caucus (LUCC) | The White House
Okay, government programs -- funding to government programs will be cut after this process.
Aside from doing the morally right thing, Jane Searing said, funding more programs for adults with autism makes economic sense.
It adds funding to programs that provide transportation help, adult day care, and in-home services including aides to help bathe and cook.
Consequently, funding for programs will actually fall between 11.3 and 13.3 percent.
FORBES: Budget Cuts Could Have Dire Consequences For Business Aviation
His speech meandered through a checklist of old-school Democratic mantras (funding social programs, ending discrimination) before it arrived on Gore's doorstep with a deafening thump.
First and most critical, the federal government should decisively expand and accelerate its efforts to drive federal funding toward programs that represent the best-known solutions to priority problems, even at the expense of entrenched grantees that enjoy strong political support.
In fact, in funding certain pilot programs the bill explicitly blocked malpractice reforms such as capping non-economic damages.
FORBES: SOTU Analysis: The President's Endorsement Of Malpractice Reform Warrants Skepticism
Nursing school applicants receive competitive scores on their applications, which determine the schools that will receive funding through these programs.
WHITEHOUSE: Helping Veterans Transition to Careers in Nursing
And a spokeswoman for the SBA, Christine Mangi, says that the FY2008 budget request actually increases funding for the programs the administration supports.
Instead, the fund is designed to develop a generation of Brazilian technocrats by funding schools and programs that emphasize education in science and technology.
"I don't know much about Denmark, but I think we need to look at systems like theirs, " he said, advocating more funding of training programs.
With such a long way to go in its diversity efforts, one must ask why NASCAR does not significantly increase the funding of such programs?
FORBES: Even If Danica Patrick Wins Daytona, Diversity Still Loses
This Administration is also working to reduce teen pregnancy, improve medical care for women veterans, and end violence against women though increased funding and innovative programs.
During the Bush administration, annual funding for these programs exceeded the total amount spent on such programs in the entire decade to 2001, according to the 2009 budget report from the Project on Middle East Democracy.
We don't know what will happen to funding for the programs designed to tackle this war's ugly twins, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, not to mention the rising suicide epidemic among veterans and military family members.
That is how an ostensible battle over a relatively small amount of short-term spending has morphed into a battle around using appropriations riders to change policy by denying additional funding or repealing existing funding for targeted programs and agency activities.
One of the strengths of federalism, long since weakened by the rise of federal funding for state programs, was that voters of each state could see the link between state government expenditures and the cost of those expenditures as taxes paid by state residents.
FORBES: Medicaid benefits politicians more than it benefits citizens
Big weapons programs eventually do that by providing thousands of production jobs scattered across the nation, but if they fail to make the transition from research to production soon enough, they risk losing funding to other programs that are more firmly rooted in the political culture.
As both Republicans and Democrats in Congress appear willing to cut funding for key energy innovation programs, a bipartisan group of Senators have spoken out in support of maintaining funding for an innovative energy technology agency that invests in game-changing research.
FORBES: Key Energy Innovation Agency Draws Bipartisan Praise
This mammoth piece of legislation, re-drafted every five years, provides funding for many USDA programs.
We all agree that basing funding decisions for Federal programs on performance makes sense.
The law gives companies points for doing things like funding job-training programs and hiring black workers at lower levels.
But the NRA has been the prime opponent of many other new gun laws and stalled funding for many existing programs in Congress.
This lobby also proposed constructive policies to mitigate real public concerns, such as funding awareness-raising programs and plans aimed at tackling alcoholism-related healthcare issues.
FORBES: Is the Much Celebrated Arab Spring Coming To An End?
Much of it would go to paying off lawsuits against the tobacco companies, for anti-smoking programs and funding research to cure the diseases it causes.
应用推荐