There is a fine of up to five thousand dollars for not returning a census form, but the fine is rarely enforced.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

It was not a dream. He really was on his way to New York City with five thousand dollars in his pocket.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

By some estimates, banks have at least one trillion dollars in losses that they have not yet reported.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

But two areas where the bureau will not have power is over auto lenders or banks with assets of less than ten billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

The punishment will not change: violators cannot be jailed or fined more than one hundred dollars.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

If not,they could face a fine of two thousand dollars a year for every worker.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

And he will not marry me unless I give him the two thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

" He estimates the cost of the plan at around nine hundred billion dollars over ten years, but says it would not add to the federal deficit.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

"The amount," said the Justice, "is not unreasonable.Ransie Bilbro, you are ordered by the Court to pay the amount of five dollars before the decree of divorce is issued."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But it was not enough. By November, the government had extended a total of about 150 billion dollars in aid to A.I.G - the most to any single company during the crisis.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

He acknowledged $100 million may not seem like much, given the trillions of dollars the federal government spends annually.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

But the millions of dollars they demand in ransom payments are not used to help pastoral communities and in-land towns.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Outside the courthouse, victim Richard Friedman, who lost millions of dollars from his retirement savings, said Madoff's guilty plea is not enough.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"It focuses on helping small businesses create jobs, not spending more taxpayer dollars to expand government."

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"The costs of doing nothing are trillions of dollars in costs over the next couple of decades, not billions, but trillions in costs without anybody getting better care,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists is our tax dollars, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them and not lawyers to defend them."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Data gathered from census surveys mailed to American households and reported by Census workers sent out to find those who do not respond also helps decide where billions of federal dollars get spent on new schools, highways and health care.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

"If you've ever worked on these cartel cases as I have as a prosecutor, you know a wall is not the best way to spend our dollars to prevent these drugs from coming into the United States and being able to apprehend and prosecute the smugglers themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24