Under the matching funds program, which is intended to magnify the importance of smaller contributions, if a city resident donates $10 to a campaign that qualifies for matching funds, the candidate gets $70.
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The other candidates reported a combination of donations and matching funds.
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For 2017, Kansas again struggled to reach the matching funds requirement.
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The federal government has long provided open-ended matching funds to states.
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The money for the matching-funds program comes from the city budget.
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Big Pine also struggles to raise matching funds for federal development grants.
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Higher limits would apply to candidates who do not accept matching funds.
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If you take matching funds, your spending limit is capped at $364,000.
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And the program generates hundreds of millions of private-sector matching funds.
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Check to see if your employer offers a flat contribution or matching funds.
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She also appears to have raised enough money to begin receiving matching funds.
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We provided matching funds for equipment that the firefighters said they desperately needed.
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He received more than $900,000 in matching funds this month and repaid the loan.
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In addition, an assortment of local government matching funds will also be made available.
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Cárdenas says the group has been successful in attracting matching funds for independent expenditures.
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In total, Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Malliotakis received $5.9 million in matching funds.
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Maine will get an estimated $525 million in matching funds from the federal government.
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Mr. Murphy, who has opted out of the matching funds program, agreed to participate.
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Small contributions would receive public matching funds, at a ratio of 6-to-3813.
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This means that a $20 donation to a campaign becomes $85033 with the matching funds.
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It would also shift more costs to states and cities by reducing federal matching funds.
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He has $208,898 in the bank and is not participating in the matching funds program.
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Without enhanced federal matching funds, the state's costs would balloon to $465 million by fiscal 2019.
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The only way to make limiting matching funds work would be to set reasonable qualifying criteria.
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And he stands to receive another sizable injection of matching funds ahead of the general election.
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Because bundled funds can qualify for the matching-funds program, the process greatly magnifies bundlers' influence.
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The federal government once offered matching funds and grants for presidential campaigns, but public support withered.
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In addition to that, Columbus has secured $90 million more in promised matching funds from local groups.
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However, city officials knew that they could receive federal matching funds for many local civil defense projects.
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Some employers offer matching funds or other contributions to employees participating in dependent care FSAs, McCready said.
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These matching funds would appropriately incent states to prioritize investments in higher education, especially for underserved populations.
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The new matching-funds system would be financed through fines levied on companies caught violating federal law.
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Congress could provide matching funds to Good Samaritans, in recognition that their work reduces federal cleanup liability.
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Our experience leads us to strongly support the contribution limits and matching funds for district attorney campaigns.
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The plan calls for matching funds from state and local governments as well as the private sector.
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Cities who approach Washington with their own local matching funds for projects should be first in line.
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Currently, art handlers are only provided access to a 401k plan with the company providing no matching funds.
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By contrast, the 212 states do not have a cap, and matching funds range from 22014% to 22015%.
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The Daily News added Weiner's team must repay $195,377.79 in taxpayer-matching funds that it did not use.
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In 2628, he became the first major party candidate to refuse public matching funds for the general election.
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Both the AHCA and BCRA would eliminate federal Medicaid matching funds and replace them with per-capita caps.
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In other words, if someone gives $250, the candidate would receive an additional $2,000 in public matching funds.
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And Mr. Monserrate recently received $87,000 in public matching funds to fuel the final days of his campaign.
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Matching funds would increase under the proposal, to an 8-1 match from a 6-1 match now.
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The public campaign financing program offers participating candidates matching funds on all donations they receive up to $250.
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Provide federal matching funds to offer down-payment assistance to residents of the country's 100 most disadvantaged communities.
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Mr. LaRouche was pulling in enough money nationally to qualify for federal matching funds for his presidential campaigns.
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New York City, meanwhile, has had a public matching funds model for small-dollar contributions since the late 1980s.
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States that expand their Medicaid programs to cover nearly all low-income Americans are given extra federal matching funds.
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CrowdRise, a fundraising flatform co-founded by Edward Norton, will help the CNN Heroes reach matching funds on CrowdRise.
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Other work perks on offer might include scholarships, matching funds for 529 contributions and loan assistance after you graduate.
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The bill would also multiply the power of small donors in our political system with matching funds for candidates.
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In order to qualify for matching funds, candidates must raise a minimum of $62,500 in contributions from city residents.
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The amount of public matching funds varies from election to election, largely depending on the number of candidates running.
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Fallin said in a statement last month that the ruling meant Oklahoma would also miss out on federal matching funds.
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In April, the FEC determined that Johnson owed the Treasury Department $332,191 for 2012 matching funds that were considered nonqualified.
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Pattison said governors wanted a "toolbox" of financing options, including municipal bonds, cash, public-private partnerships and federal matching funds.
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The previous governor, a Democrat, had greatly expanded the Medicaid program with the help of very generous federal matching funds.
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Money experts estimate that U.S. workers miss out on anywhere from $750 to $1,336 per year in employer matching funds.
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In places like New York City, public matching funds have helped elect Carlos Menchaca, the city's first Mexican American councilmember.
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The two-year Texas budget adopted this year cut Medicaid by $1.9 billion, a huge federal savings in matching funds.
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In 2013, for example, 61 percent of City Council candidates' campaign funding came from small-dollar donations or matching funds.
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These were all big victories for commuters and should encourage Congress to appropriate more federal matching funds to infrastructure projects.
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The N.E.A. leverages its tiny budget by giving out grants that require recipients to raise matching funds from other donors.
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Leading candidates have qualified for matching funds and could have money for get-out-the-vote efforts across the city.
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The island was unable to spend the money because the local government could not provide its share of matching funds.
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Half of that amount would go toward matching funds that states and cities commit to financing their own infrastructure projects.
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And with federal matching funds on the table, several solidly blue ones would likely try to take advantage of Sanders's offer.
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In New York, for example, a major-party candidate gets matching funds in both the primary round and the general election.
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She said she expects to have raised close to $22021,226 once matching funds are calculated, placing her third in fund-raising.
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Mr. Espinal, a city councilman who represents Brooklyn, was the only other candidate to meet the matching funds threshold so far.
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But a recent estimate suggests otherwise, saying expansion of Medicaid could save the state close to $1 billion through federal matching funds.
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Prop 20123, extending a fee on hospitals that makes the state eligible for federal matching funds, has no such two-thirds requirement.
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States that already expanded Medicaid would still be able to enroll new people through 2019 and get the extra federal matching funds.
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In an ideal world, the federal government would be doing more to support these local initiatives by, for example, providing matching funds.
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Before this change, matching funds were available to help pay for attorneys representing child welfare agencies, but not children's or parents' attorneys.
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This system would: The Supreme Court in Buckley v Valeo made clear that a small donor, public matching funds system is constitutional.
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Ms. Malliotakis has not yet reached the fund-raising threshold to receive matching funds; Mr. Dietl is not participating in the program.
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New Jersey offers a matching funds program for candidates who initially raise more than $450,000 and commit to spending at least $53,000.
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These people-powered matching funds could supercharge the democratizing influence on politics that small online donations have already demonstrated in limited doses.
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Some communities have approved local ballot measures to improve public transportation with the expectation that the federal government would provide matching funds.
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In fact, huge cuts would occur by replacing matching funds with "caps" based on the number of Medicaid beneficiaries in each state.
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The lower costs associated with an MEP may also free up employers to offer some sort of matching funds on employee contributions.
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The expense includes the cost of staging runoffs, but also the millions of dollars that the Campaign Finance Board provides in matching funds.
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Medicaid, the federal health care program for low-income individuals, is capped for the territories, and federal matching funds are set at 2000%.
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In other forays, lobbyists and others in the influence business were able to get $1.2 million in city matching funds by bundling contributions.
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"That 25% is the combination of 401(k) withholdings, matching funds from your employer and any cash savings that you have," she notes.
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State Comptroller Susana Mendoza said her office would prioritize the payment of bills eligible for federal matching funds in order to maximize revenue.
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If the proposal passes, the charter revision commission estimated that the cost of the matching funds program would increase by about 47 percent.
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They contend that the current system of unlimited federal matching funds has encouraged states to milk as much as they can, sometimes wastefully.
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The extension includes a gradual reduction in enhanced federal matching funds that were first included in the Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2020.
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Mr. Sanders has proposed a plan to provide matching funds to states that eliminate tuition and meet other requirements such as quality benchmarks.
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This program offers matching funds and Emission Rate Credits (ERCs) to states that convert sooner than required to zero-emission power-generation methods.
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But remember, states would have to pay money to get access to that money, by putting up a small amount of matching funds.
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Check to see if your employer offers any matching funds or seed money for using an HSA or FSA, said Frost of Alight Solutions.
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In New York, which has a similar system, the 2013 mayoral race tilted with a controversial decision to deny a leading candidate matching funds.
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With federal matching funds, he said, the state would have $32 billion to spend on road and transit projects over the next eight years.
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That means that if someone gives $250, the candidate would receive an additional $19703,000 in public matching funds — increasing the importance of small donations.
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The current $175 threshold for matching funds would continue to apply to donations to City Council and borough president candidates, under the commission's proposals.
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"It's harder than it looks," Jessica Proud, a Republican consultant unaffiliated with either campaign, said of Ms. Malliotakis's plan to qualify for matching funds.
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That legislation includes a proposal to keep contributions bundled by lobbyists and others doing business with the city out of the matching-funds system.
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He remains far from his goal of qualifying for the city's matching program; a candidate for mayor must raise $250,000 to receive matching funds.
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If one had put in $5 billion but said Puerto Rico had to come up with matching funds, the commonwealth can't do that now.
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Ten months later they applied to Breakout Labs for $350,000 of seed financing, which gave them matching funds to help secure the CARB-X grant.
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Alabama offers the absolute minimum in Medicaid services necessary to qualify for federal matching funds—coverage for children, people with disabilities, and low-income elderly.
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Any venture fund around the world is eligible to request matching funds for a single investment as long as the startup is located in Portugal.
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So a voter who makes a $175 contribution to a candidate makes it possible for the candidate to receive an additional $1,050 in matching funds.
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The city's campaign finance law provides matching funds for the first $175 in contributions from individual city residents, at a rate of six to one.
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In addition to the state's 20203 percent increase, the bill also carves out a 25 percent increase in Medicaid federal matching funds as well. Sen.
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In addition to the state's 3 percent increase, the bill also carves out a 25 percent increase in Medicaid federal matching funds as well. Sen.
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It would also increase the amount of matching funds the city would give to candidates, to an 8-to-1 ratio, from 6-to-1.
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Last year, Crow's Shadow received its first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, providing $35,000 in matching funds for three residencies in 2019.
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Of that, $41,000 qualify for public matching funds; at the six-to-one match, that means she would be eligible to receive an additional $393,000.
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He has reported receiving nearly $5 million in campaign contributions, and an additional $2.6 million in public matching funds through the city's campaign finance program.
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To qualify for a debate run through the board, mayoral candidates must raise and spend $175,000 in campaign contributions that would qualify for matching funds.
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Ahead, we've rounded four brands that are collecting and matching funds for these charities that are actively fighting to contain and extinguish these massive blazes.
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So far, the campaign has raised $24 million and expects to receive more than $2950 million in matching funds, according to the Campaign Finance Board.
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Under the city's matching funds system, candidate spending is normally capped at a combined total of about $14 million for the primary and general elections.
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But if a candidate who refuses matching funds exceeds certain spending levels, the cap for those receiving the funds can be raised or lifted completely.
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The state received matching funds from the endowment for 2017 of $637,000, but Kansas artists remain ineligible for grants from the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
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The board, which oversees the city's strict campaign finance system and the payment of public matching funds, conducts routine audits of all candidates after elections.
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Under the governor's proposal, each candidate running for State Assembly could receive up to $350,000 total in matching funds for the primary and general elections.
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Mr. O'Malley took out a $500,000 line of credit ahead of public matching funds that he had applied for, but couldn't receive them until this year.
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What to watch: Mississippi has submitted a waiver request asking for federal Medicaid matching funds for the employment and training component of its Medicaid work requirement.
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NFL owners voted during league meetings in Florida in March to implement a local matching funds component to the social justice initiative with the Players Coalition.
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Together, they pledged to contribute up to $1 million to Facebook fundraisers — $500,53 from the foundation in matching funds and $500,000 in waived fees from Facebook.
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Again, this includes any retirement account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings, or money you have invested elsewhere, in index funds or robo-advisers.
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In Colorado, federal matching funds derived from provider tax revenues have been used as "quality payments" to encourage hospitals to enforce dangerously low Cesarean section rates.
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The federal government helped blunt the impact on state finances in the 2009 stimulus package, which included a temporary boost in federal matching funds for Medicaid.
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A new report revealed that 73 percent of donors to last year's mayoral race gave $175 or less to candidates in the city's matching-funds program.
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The matching-funds program has worked well for nearly 20 years and has won high marks for helping to avoid the problem Mr. Vance is encountering.
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The report from the Campaign Finance Board, which is required to produce an analysis every four years, calls for similar changes to the matching funds program.
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That amount includes any retirement account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings or money you have invested elsewhere, in index funds or robo-advisors.
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City commissioners approved a measure that would provide candidates with matching funds on private donations, but only if they agree to cap their overall campaign spending.
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For instance, waivers would allow states to opt out of the Medicaid rebate provisions while maintaining a drug benefit that is eligible for federal matching funds.
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Perot's electoral performance made the 2000 nominee of the Reform Party eligible for $12.5 million in federal matching funds, prompting Buchanan and Trump to seek the nomination.
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The plan eventually morphed into the Family Support Act, which provided additional matching funds in exchange for sending a certain fraction of the recipients to work programs.
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Cities also worked to recruit private sector partners and enlist matching funds from local organizations, so that $40 million will be doubled or tripled in some places.
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The package will spend $200 billion in federal dollars, with the hope of spurring $800 billion more in matching funds from states, cities and the private sector.
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A part of the work on our end is also locating matching funds for the donors, so they don't have to do all of the heavy lifting.
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Supporters say that getting the federal matching funds is essential to pay for the program for the poor, which has expanded rapidly under the Affordable Care Act.
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Ms. Malliotakis qualified for the debate with a fund-raising surge in mid-September that also put her over the threshold qualifying her to receive matching funds.
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This includes any retirement account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings, or money you have invested elsewhere, such as in index funds or robo-advisers.
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In the end, Mr. de Blasio raised a total of $394,000, although that number will eventually be boosted by matching funds through the city's public financing system.
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Together, they pledged to contribute up to $1 million to Facebook Fund-raisers — $500,000 from the foundation in matching funds and $500,13 in waived fees from Facebook.
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This is similar to the Affordable Care Act's requirement for matching funds in order to participate in Medicaid expansion, which has turned off some states from signing up.
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Both the traditional and the Roth give you the opportunity to save painlessly through automatic payroll deductions, and both give you matching funds (assuming your employer offers them).
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BlackRock is far ahead of the average, with index and other market-matching funds accounting for 66 percent of its funds under management at the end of 2018.
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With a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, local matching funds and a $15 million investment from Ohio, the NW 33 Innovation Corridor was born.
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A candidate must raise at least $212,24 in qualifying contributions from city residents to start getting matching funds, and Ms. Malliotakis reported that she now has received $2525,000.
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The program pays $6 for every $1 in such contributions, and her campaign said that it expected to get about $1.6 million in matching funds later this month.
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Proposal No. 22021 This proposal would sharply reduce the maximum contribution that donors could make to many political campaigns, and increase the city's matching-funds program for candidates.
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Then you had an offsetting factor of the stimulus bill and the federal government kicking in matching funds to help states deal with the influx of Medicaid enrollees.
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She also raised more than the mayor in contributions that qualify for public financing under the board's matching funds program — although she still has significantly less money overall.
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Mr. Albanese has raised $207,000 but is not close to qualifying for matching funds because he has not received enough in qualifying contributions from New York City residents.
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That amount includes any retirement account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings or money you have invested elsewhere, in index funds or with a robo-advisor.
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Again, this includes any retirement-account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings or money you have invested elsewhere, like in index funds or with robo-advisers.
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One reason is that Israel distributes an increasing amount of its education funding through matching funds, which are only available if a municipality puts up its own share.
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Candidates qualifying for the state's matching funds program, which is available to any campaign that has raised at least $430,000, are required to take part in the debate.
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The mayor is also participating in the city's generous matching funds program and already has contributions that will qualify him for more than $2000 million in public financing.
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Compared to that, the $7 million Facebook is offering in matching funds, or even the $250 million donated overall last year, is just a drop in the bucket.
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Without state support, Mr. Rothman said, the project will not be able to collect the full $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which requires matching funds.
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The university opened a co-working start-up space, the Florida Innovation Hub, in 2012 to provide matching funds and mentoring to help students' companies get off the ground.
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Matching starts at 8am ET, so if you're planning on donating to a your favorite charity make sure you do it early in case the matching funds run out.
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A year later, however, small donors for the state legislative elections—New York State has no such matching funds program—came from just 30 percent of city census blocks.
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The Mexican government is not blind to these concerns, and the secretary of the Treasury has tried, with little success, to incentivize the states' tax collection through matching funds.
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In one new provision particularly beneficial to Alaska, the state would receive a 25% boost in federal matching funds for Medicaid due to its defined high-level of poverty.
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He said a stronger matching-funds program would create an electoral system in which candidates could focus instead on small donors, rather than courting the wealthy and special interests.
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More specific free-college proposals from members of Congress and think tanks are usually built around a state-federal partnership that provides matching funds if states meet certain requirements.
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Only commission candidates who raise at least $22019,500 from 250 individuals, and mayoral candidates who receive a total of $5,000 from 50 individuals, would qualify for the matching funds.
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The numbers can be shifted, or the program can be combined with one of the other small-donor tools, such as matching funds for the first few thousand dollars.
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Their nominees would run up the middle — if not to the White House, then certainly to official minor party status and the possibility of federal matching funds for future candidates.
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Any money a campaign has remaining after paying expenses from the last election will be donated to charity, the presidential matching funds program, or to the government for deficit reduction.
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Warren and Sanders would likely use the lure of federal matching funds to encourage states to boost their direct funding of colleges, and hence make them tuition- and fee-free.
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Clinton proposes to update the public financing system for presidential, Senate and congressional campaigns along the lines of the New York City model, which supplies matching funds to qualified candidates.
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About $250 million would be generated through an auction of tax credits to New Jersey corporations and the other half would come from matching funds from private venture capital firms.
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His campaign would have automatically received a quarter of the total matching funds he was eligible for, based on the amount of matchable funds his campaign has raised so far.
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He called for the federal and local governments to free up spectrum for the effort, invest matching funds in private sector projects and provide updated data on rural broadband coverage.
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Mr. Levitan pointed to the push to bring in thousands of donors giving $21 or less, the threshold to initiate city-financed matching funds from the city's campaign finance rules.
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While this would be a government-backed initiative, it could be managed according to best practices from Venture Capital industry and it could draw matching funds from the private sector.
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Some 91,000 people would gain coverage and the state would receive $400 million in federal matching funds under the ballot measure, which passed with 61% of the vote in November.
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The group of Houston-area youths raise money through a Mother's Day brunch and other activities and receive matching funds from an organization called Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.
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Even if they are not moved by humanitarian concerns to improve health care for their poorest citizens, recalcitrant legislators should at least see the folly of rejecting extremely generous matching funds.
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The House GOP proposal allows states to continue claiming matching funds for the expansion population, but phases the 28500:6900 subsidy ratio down to the normal rate for newly-eligible beneficiaries.
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The last times that occurred was when Ross Perot obtained 18.9 percent in 1992 and 85003 percent in 1996, which gave the Reform Party matching funds in the subsequent presidential elections.
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That has not stopped some people from signing on to her campaign, which hopes to spend $7 million, the maximum allowed under the city's matching funds program, for the 2021 primary.
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But he was determined to do it, in part because he knew this was a way to help others without having to ask taxpayers for additional matching funds or pension contributions.
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The small donor, matching funds provision of the For the People Act will empower more diverse dedicated and passionate citizens to run for office and work on behalf of all Americans.
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H.R. 220006 addresses the essential need for an alternative financing system by creating a small donor, public matching funds system for presidential and congressional candidates to use on a voluntary basis.
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Ms. Malliotakis just received a payment of $1.5 million in public matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board, giving her campaign a needed boost and making a large advertising purchase possible.
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Jim Johnson, a Democrat who surprised some by becoming the first candidate to qualify for matching funds, raised $2300 million in the first period, bringing his campaign's total to $24 million.
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But as it works now, someone who files paperwork for the matching-funds program but fails to raise enough money is not invited, which essentially silences anyone who is inadequately networked.
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The White House proposal will offer $100 billion in incentives to state and local governments, but will propose a smaller percentage of matching funds than the federal government has typically offered.
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Mr. Johnson's law, which amended Franklin D. Roosevelt's Social Security Act, also authorized the federal government to provide states with matching funds for low-income Americans under a plan called Medicaid.
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If the proposal comes to fruition, many Americans could face higher local taxes, fees and tolls imposed by states to pay for new repairs in order to get federal matching funds.
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Just know matching funds to a Roth 401(k) go to a traditional 401(k) account since those employer matching dollars and the earnings on them are taxable when they are distributed.
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In Gallup, New Mexico, the local arts nonprofit gallupARTS received $30,4003 (a mix of outright and matching funds) to develop a virtual exhibition showcasing its collection of more than 90 WPA artworks.
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Hospitals currently use a variety of financial arrangements to pump up their Medicaid revenue, such as supporting state taxes that allow them to draw down even more money in federal matching funds.
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Under its proposals, donors to mayoral candidates taking part in the matching funds program could give no more than $2,000 to a candidate; in the last election, the maximum donation was $3.23,950.
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As a result, some say California's pursuit of more transportation projects with the state gas taxes could give it an edge when asking for federal matching funds under the Trump infrastructure plan.
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In 2220.6, George W. Bush declined to take public financing for the Republican primary, breaking with tradition; previously, candidates would receive matching funds from the government for their campaigns that capped fundraising.
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A bipartisan bill that would have given states matching funds for mental health, addiction treatment and other assistance to parents didn't make it through the Senate, though it had passed the House.
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He also never actually paid for the translation and distribution of campaign materials, as he told the city's Campaign Finance Board when receiving matching funds for his election campaign, prosecutors have said.
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The Campaign Finance Board delivered $7.1 million in matching funds to candidates — twice the amount of the office's $3.5 million budget, for a position that some people have called to be abolished.
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He has received the largest amount of matching funds, nearly $2 million so far, and his campaign says it has spent about $1 million to advertise on cable television and digital media.
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John Kasich of Ohio, now seeking the Republican nomination for president, was one of the first to see the wisdom of expanding Medicaid to bring in billions of dollars in federal matching funds.
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If they're not willing to switch to per-capita caps or block grants, they could cover everyone up to 100 percent of the federal poverty line, but only with the regular matching funds.
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Mr. Gray said he was open to making additional donations but would first see how many families opened up their own 529 accounts and saved enough to get the $200 in matching funds.
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Federal and state governments should band together to create federal-state partnerships for community colleges in which states would receive federal matching funds if they agreed to increase investments in two-year institutions.
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What's not clear is if she will raise enough money to qualify for city matching funds and for a place in a debate against Mr. de Blasio, assuming he wins his party's nomination.
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The path to election reform is somewhat muddled; most rules governing contribution limits and the matching funds program that provides public money to candidates are derived from legislation passed by the City Council.
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Lawmakers need to hammer out a few details: the duration of the reauthorization, whether any measures will be attached and whether to continue enhanced federal matching funds that were first included in ObamaCare.
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Small-donor-empowerment legislation would amplify the voices of voters and limit the influence of wealthy donors and special interests by providing public matching funds to candidates who say no to big money.
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That was slightly less than he raised in the previous six months, but it came from more than double the number of donors and includes significantly more money eligible to receive matching funds.
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That means a $2628 gift would net a campaign $28500, counting the $6900 in public matching funds, while a $2628 max-out contribution would equal $28503 after the public money is factored in.
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Much of that money may be eligible for the city's matching funds program, which provides a six-to-one match for the first $175 in contributions to a candidate from any city resident.
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But he reaffirmed his commitment to a 250,000-vote benchmark, arguing that allowing too many parties — especially if the state were to adopt a public matching funds program — could spiral out of financial control.
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The act placed most of the civil defense burden on the individual states and created the Federal Civil Defense Administration so the federal government could guide each state's individual efforts and provide matching funds.
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Obama's budget would also scrap a cap on Medicaid funds that currently applies to territories, and would gradually increase Federal Medicaid matching funds until they fall in line with levels enjoyed by U.S. states.
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He also did not rule out the possibility of accepting public matching funds, saying, "I don't know enough about it," but he added that he would receive a briefing on the topic on Thursday.
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While Ft. Independence secured federal backing to build a new water-retention reservoir, using more than $19913,000 in matching funds, "our tribe doesn't even have enough money to fix a leaky roof", Stone said.
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And Congress should fully fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program, which provides matching funds to state and local governments to purchase threatened coastal lands or conservation easements.
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The program provides a six-to-one match for up to $175 in contributions from an individual city resident, meaning a $175 contribution would open the door to an additional $1,050 in matching funds.
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Martin O'Malley took out a loan to keep his Democratic presidential campaign afloat late last year, and repaid it with matching funds received in January, according numbers in his campaign filings provided by an aide.
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In theory, a candidate could propose using an extremely sharp stick to essentially force states to make college free by eliminating the federal student loan program and replacing it with the carrot of matching funds.
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This time, Mr. Cuomo worked around the Republicans by securing $7.5 million from the huge bank-asset forfeiture fund controlled by the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., and doubling it with private matching funds.
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An additional $0003 million will come from private matching funds, according to the governor's office, which hopes to offer what it calls an "integrated curriculum" to about 1,000 inmates statewide over the next five years.
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The city's matching funds program is considered to be one of the most progressive in the United States, offering candidates a six-to-one match for the first $175 in contributions from any city resident.
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The IMD exclusion is a long-standing policy that prohibits the federal Medicaid matching funds to states for services rendered to Medicaid-eligible individuals who are patients for substance use disorders and mental health treatment.
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And while the inclusion of public financing in Sunday's budget seemed like a victory for proponents, many remained unsatisfied, noting that many details, such as the ratio of matching funds and contribution limits, remained undetermined.
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Chief among the victims of Albany deal-making this year was public financing of election campaigns, which would give candidates matching funds to make it easier for challengers to run and to empower small donors.
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Excluding matching funds, Mr. Johnson raised about $2300,220 in New Jersey, and about $215,20053 from out of state, $22005,15 of it from New York, including $27,000 from Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York.
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States can claim federal matching funds through Title IV-E of the Social Security Act to help pay up to 50 percent of the costs of legal representation for both children and parents in these cases.
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Then, they turn around and give back to the hospitals much of the tax revenues, which, on the return voyage, are deemed to be "Medicaid supplemental payments" for which states are entitled to federal matching funds.
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But if we really want to help people contribute to the causes of their choice, a better system might be simply giving out some kind of matching funds for contributions from people at all income levels.
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The cost would be about half of what many Democrats are proposing to spend on federal matching funds to make college tuition free and about a quarter of the fiscal cost of the Trump tax cuts.
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It would create an Office of Economic Adjustment within the Interior Department that would provide federal matching funds for 90 percent of the cost of coalfield economic redevelopment and 70 percent toward the cost of restoring infrastructure.
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Through a combination of direct federal spending and matching funds from states, the goal is to give the average US teacher a $13,500 pay increase in her first term, paid for by hiking taxes on wealthy estates.
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Mr. Sollars said the maps helped illustrate another important facet of the matching funds program, because it requires City Council candidates to receive donations from at least 75 voters who reside in their districts to be eligible.
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H.R. 1's promise, as Democrats described it, is to lessen lawmakers' reliance on special-interest money by, among other things, offering congressional candidates taxpayer money in the form of matching funds for small donations they collect.
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The current struggle is unprecedented across years of productive operations under six previous governors, according to project supporters, who warn that hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal matching funds could be lost if the standoff continues.
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Whereas many employees at big companies are automatically enrolled in retirement plans that incentivize you to save for retirement by offering matching funds, when you're a freelancer, you have to set that money aside on your own.
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New York City did that with its small-donor matching funds program, which has reduced the power of big money in city politics and opened the door to a much wider and more diverse slate of candidates.
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Barton said he would offer two amendments to the GOP's ObamaCare repeal and replace plan that would freeze the Medicaid expansion at the end of the year but continue the matching funds for the states until 2023.
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Rose Gill Hearn, chairwoman of the city's Campaign Finance Board, also criticized the contribution-card bill in a memo last month, saying it would complicate the task of detecting instances of fraud involving the matching funds program.
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When Mr. Brownback vetoed a $689,000 arts budget in 2011 and state money for the arts dried up, so did matching funds from the endowment, and Kansas's membership in its regional affiliate, the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
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While freezing the program in 2010 saved $12.9 million in the 2011 fiscal year, the state lost three times as much in federal matching funds, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Several other candidates participated in the program during the primaries, but none of them raised enough money to qualify for matching funds (the program requires candidates to reach certain fund-raising levels in order to receive the funds).
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Lawmakers still have to hammer out several key issues: the duration of the reauthorization, whether any other measures will be attached and whether to continue enhanced federal matching funds that were first included in the Affordable Care Act.
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This includes matching funds from the new Governor's University Research Initiative to help our universities recruit even more Nobel Laureates and National Academy members who will partner with the private sector to develop ideas that transform the next generation.
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Increasing the security personnel by using unemployed vets would be a program with matching funds for their employment provided by the federal and state governments and the owner operators of the public transportation, schools, shopping centers, churches and etc.
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The government offered such matching funds until they were phased out by the Obama administration, but even when the program existed, the amounts offered were so paltry, Professor Finney said, that states had no real incentive to match them.
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If the commission limits matching funds to in-district donations, then candidates shouldn't be required to raise any more than $4,000 for Assembly races and $9,600 for Senate races, according to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice.
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"This capital commitment will provide bridge financing and matching funds as required by FEMA legislation," said Stephen Spencer, a managing director at the investment bank Houlihan Lokey who is the bondholder group's financial adviser in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy case.
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Of course, that is possible, but most successful businesses eventually offer a 401(k) plan because it can allow for employer matching funds and has much higher contribution limits than I.R.A.s, both attractive features for people in top management.
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Frederick P. Schaffer, who retired in December as CUNY's general counsel and senior vice chancellor for legal affairs, will lead the board, which provides public matching funds to candidates running for office and also penalizes campaigns for financial improprieties.
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Almost every state employs this tax maneuver to trigger the annual release of matching funds over and above the money the federal government sends as its share of reimbursements to hospitals for medical services they provide to Medicaid patients.
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As the outpatient facility must remit all the taxes it collects from the state to the state, the state gets its extra payment of $2900 back while enjoying the extra $220006 in federal Medicaid matching funds its health care tax generates.
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While her campaign wanted to avoid an intraparty battle in order to focus on Mr. de Blasio, the absence of a Republican opponent means she will not receive any city matching funds for the primary period, a potentially significant sum.
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Leaders in those states have rejected or put tough restrictions on extremely generous federal matching funds allocated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to extend their Medicaid programs to cover families earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Mr. Weiner's campaign, which raised and spent millions stretching back to the 2009 race when he first made a run for mayor, is also required to return its remaining balance of $195,000, which the board said was unspent public matching funds.
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Leaders in the four states have rejected or put tough restrictions on extremely generous federal matching funds allocated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to extend their Medicaid programs to cover families earning up to 20173 percent of the federal poverty level.
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The Republican governors of South Dakota and Wyoming and the Democratic governor of Virginia have included Medicaid expansion in their state budgets, suggesting a strong desire to get their hands on federal matching funds if only they can wrest approval from their legislatures.
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Under the court's decision, only the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services may determine whether state Medicaid rates are adequate or not — and then only disapprove them by employing the drastic, and improbable, remedy of withholding federal matching funds.
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It will take even longer for states to close their arts councils; none have done so permanently since the NEA began offering them matching funds in the late 1960s, though the virus that killed the NEA might spread to politically receptive states.
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Clinton scoffed at the idea that Republican governors like Scott Walker of Wisconsin — who has slashed state spending on the University of Wisconsin — would ever go along with Mr. Sanders and support state matching funds to qualify for his proposed federal tuition grants.
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Actual college savings, if families do not add money to the funds, will be slight: With only the $100 initial contribution and $200 in matching funds, assuming a 2003 percent annual return, the child's account would be worth about $475 after 12 years.
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The new budget would reduce state funding to hospitals by more than $500 million — a gross loss of more than $1 billion after the loss in federal matching funds, according to Bea Grause, president of the Healthcare Association of New York State.
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The other candidate, Michael Tolkin, a technology entrepreneur, contributed enough of his own money to his campaign to reach the threshold, but because he is not participating in the city's matching funds program, he could participate only if the debate sponsors invited him.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio's emphasis on small donors in last year's mayoral race helped fuel a resurgence of donations of $2783 or less to candidates participating in New York City's matching funds program, according to a new report by the Campaign Finance Board.
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In your 267s: Aim to save 220 percent of your overall gross pay, Greene tells CNBC Make It. "That 25 percent is the combination of 401(k) withholdings, matching funds from your employer and any cash savings that you have," she notes.
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According to the rules of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, a candidate seeking public matching funds must raise at least $250,000 from donors in New York to qualify for the money it distributes; Mr. Gangi, thus, has come up considerably short.
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Although state arts funding was restored in 2012, with the establishment of the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (CAIC), Kansas went without NEA matching funds for two years, losing its membership status in the Mid-America Arts Alliance during the same period.
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States that haven't expanded Medicaid will also be affected by the national market: collectively, the 85033 states that haven't expanded Medicaid are estimated to lose about 338,000 jobs in 2019, even though they do not receive the direct federal matching funds for Medicaid expansion.
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While data for noncity elections are not available through the mapping program, Mr. Sollars said that contributions to other types of races that do not have the same matching funds incentive — state legislative contests, for example — rarely showed similar concentrations within the candidate's district.
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If companies are enticed through tax incentives to set up automatic payroll deductions and matching funds similar to retirement plans, it would be a great next step, said George Makras, director of institutional relationship management at Ascensus College Savings, an administrator of 529 plans.
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As this system is currently proposed, candidates would receive public matching funds at a six-to-one ratio for donations of up to $200 in exchange for abiding by a lower dollar limit on individual contributions — say, $1,000 rather than the current limit of $2,700.
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In your 20s: Aim to save 25 percent of your overall gross pay, Greene tells CNBC Make It. That includes any retirement account contributions, matching funds from your company, cash savings or money you have invested elsewhere, like in index funds or with robo-advisers.
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He points to a special deal in ObamaCare that provides states like Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont — which had expanded Medicaid to able-bodied adults long before ObamaCare was enacted — with higher matching funds, even though their enrollees aren't newly eligible under the law.
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It offers relatively little in the way of new federal money considering the magnitude of infrastructure needs, and its $1.5 trillion projection relies on states and cities accepting far less in matching funds for infrastructure projects than they would receive for traditional federal funds.
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The largest single piece of the White House plan is a proposed $100 billion that would be made available to states and municipalities in the form of matching funds for infrastructure projects, according to White House officials who spoke to the press on background over the weekend.
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Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney, sent a letter this week to Melissa Mark-Viverito, the Council speaker, and other council members warning that one bill being considered could make it easier for those seeking money under the city's matching funds program to commit fraud.
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In one such case, his office secured an indictment this year against Celia D. Dosamantes, a Democrat accused of altering contribution cards to make it appear as if some donors had given more than they had and to increase the amount of matching funds she received.
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The current system of unlimited federal matching funds, they say, has encouraged states to milk as much as they can, sometimes wastefully; capping funding, their argument goes, would make Medicaid more efficient and ensure it can continue to help the most vulnerable Americans, including people with disabilities.
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The rail company in its remarks to lawmakers referenced a letter from last year to the Colfax County Commission in New Mexico, in which Amtrak said it would withhold the matching funds for the project aimed at rehabilitating the Southwest Chief route until other stakeholders invest in the infrastructure.
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Because he did not accept matching funds for his re-election campaign for comptroller — a race in which he faced no strong competition — he can roll over much of his campaign cash into his 2021 mayoral campaign account, a sum that his aides put at more than $1.3 million.
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Justin Brannan, a first-time candidate running for City Council as a Democrat in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, said that donors see the power of the matching funds program when they use the site, because it shows them how much the candidate will receive in addition to their personal contribution.
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What it would do instead is offer federal matching funds on a 2-to-18603 basis to states that want to increase higher education spending in order to eliminate tuition: This legislation would provide $47 billion per year to states to eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees at public colleges and universities.
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Carey proposes that instead of matching funds or a community college limitation, the federal government should just pick a number — somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 per student — and say any state that wants to make a public college campus free can get that much cash to help them do it.
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The government has allocated each pilot city between 400 million yuan and 2000 million yuan ($22 million to $2000 million) each year for three consecutive years, and cities are encouraged to raise matching funds through public-private partnerships and other financial ventures, according to a 257 study in the journal Water.
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That means a constitutional amendment reversing the Citizens United decision, requiring all federal contractors to disclose their political contributions, and passing the Government by the People Act (I am a co-sponsor), which would provide federal matching funds for congressional races, similar to models in Maryland, Michigan, Florida and elsewhere.
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The legal battle stretched out over months, but eventually Szylak's will was upheld, and the property has been turned over to Hatch for an ambitious preservation and renovation effort, which is seeking matching funds for a $50,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan State Housing Authority.
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The Intercept will provide funding for an additional law firm and as a separate grant, $50,000 in matching funds to Stand With Reality, a crowd-funding campaign to support public awareness and legal work around Winner's case, the news outlet said in a statement from Betsy Reed, its editor-in-chief.
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The city's Campaign Finance Board doled out $7.1 million in matching funds to candidates, and its Board of Elections expected to spend $11 million to $4403 million to organize the election on Tuesday, which was made necessary after Letitia James vacated the public advocate job to become the state attorney general.
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The Alabama legislature, in which the House speaker enjoys almost supreme power, has repeatedly underfunded the state's Medicaid program, to the point that it now runs the risk of losing its federal matching funds, which would leave millions of Alabama residents without even minimal health care and imperil the state's entire medical system.
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Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year Second senator denied visa to enter Russia Russia denies GOP senator visa ahead of trip MORE (R-Ariz.), the Republican nominee for president at the time, would request matching funds for his general election campaign — something only a functioning FEC could vote to allow.
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"We haven't had a chance to get in to do a thorough assessment ... Generally speaking there's a long road ahead," she said The federal government is offering other kinds of help, such as satellite information, matching funds donated to the Red Cross as well as promising emergency support for the victims and long-term assistance to help Alberta recover.
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If the Democrats close the L.L.C. loophole and carry out other changes they have backed, including a statewide small-donor matching funds program, New York's campaign finance laws could go from the nation's most lax to its most robust, said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Democracy Program at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice.
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Democrats, by contrast, have proposed a package that would actually address the needs of the moment: free coronavirus testing, paid sick leave, expanded unemployment benefits and an increase in federal matching funds for Medicaid programs, which would both help states meet the demands of the crisis and sustain overall spending by relieving the pressure on state budgets.
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The budget last year assigned $440 million over four years to rental assistance programs in the city, though the money was to come from city coffers — half from payments that the city would have otherwise made to the state, but that the state told the city to use for homelessness, and half that the state required the city to dedicate as matching funds.
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Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis hit a pair of important fund-raising milestones this week, as her campaign reported that it has raised enough money to qualify for the first general election debate against Mayor Bill de Blasio, and that it has also taken in enough qualifying contributions to begin receiving public financing through the city's generous matching funds program.
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Replacing matching funds with per-capita caps upon Medicaid beneficiaries would simply lock in such inequities, falling harder upon states that have historically supported care for the Medicaid poor and allowing a governor like Mississippi's Phil Bryant to further ration Medicaid while, in an obese and unhealthy state, pursuing noble agenda items such as banning local governments from requiring menu calorie counts.
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This time, ahead of another presidential election, neither President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE nor the Democratic nominee are likely to take matching funds, and there are few other incentives that could spur the Senate to act.
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While the details are still being hashed out, H.R. 1 will attempt to: establish nationwide automatic voter registration; promote online voter registration; end partisan gerrymandering; expand conflict-of-interest laws; increase oversight of lobbyists; require the disclosure of presidential tax returns; strengthen disclosure of campaign donations; set up a system of small-donor matching funds for congressional candidates; and revive the moribund matching-fund system for presidential campaigns.
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Armed with a $100 million donation from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that was announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show, another $100 million in matching funds from private donors and foundations, and a cadre of new consultants and administrators steeped in research on education reform and data-driven management philosophies culled from Silicon Valley and Wall Street, Anderson began an effort to remake the schools that have long failed many of Newark's children.
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H.R. 2628, the first piece of legislation introduced in the 28500th Congress, includes election and government reforms and campaign finance fixes such a requirement that super PACs disclose their donors and the provision of matching funds for small donations to candidates; limitations on gerrymandering; automatic voter registration; a requirement that presidential candidates make their tax returns public; a prohibition on the use of federal funds by members of congress settling sexual harassment lawsuits; and much more.
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To help provide jobs to displaced workers and drive economic growth in communities that suffer negative effects from automation, I have proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that would create an infrastructure bank to facilitate state and local government investment, increase the Highway Trust Fund, create a Climate Infrastructure Fund, and create five new matching funds to support water infrastructure, school infrastructure, deferred maintenance projects, rural broadband, and infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communities in urban and rural areas.
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Loan Payments: None All Other Monthly ExpensesSubway: $30 - $40/month (I don't have a consistent MetroCard payment)Roth 401(k): $300 from me, plus $140 in matching funds from my employerEmergency Fund: $80Utilities: Usually $63 for my share of the electric and internet bills, though it variesRenter's Insurance: $19.75, split with my roommateCredit Card: $200 (toward about $3,000 of credit card debt)LearnVest: $19Gym: $104Netflix & Hulu: $20 Travel Fund: $80Wedding Gift Fund: $40 In New York and want to talk about Money Diaries IRL?
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While they are at it, members of the Legislature should also enact more robust election reform: a statewide public matching funds program like New York City's, to level the playing field and encourage working- and middle-class candidates; primaries for special elections to give voters a choice in one-party districts instead of having party insiders determine who is elected; and a streamlined Election Law, to eliminate onerous eligibility and deadline requirements that too easily disqualify candidates and thus narrow the choice of voters.
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