It’s a primary election, so there are lots of questions on the ballot for you: candidates for US President, US Senator, members of Congress, members of the State Legislature, a few judgeships. The most exciting races, IMO, are for US Senate to replace the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, ...
he looked down on the valley a couple hundred meters below and to the Alps towering thousands of meters above. He spoke of his experiences applying for government grants and subsidies to support his small-scale farm holding. Like every other small...
Over the past quarter-century, government grants to non-profit organizations have nearly tripled (in inflation-adjusted dollars). And just as businesses lobby to keep government contracts flowing, non-profit organizations lobby to preserve government grants and to block measures to limit itemized deduc...
In 2015, the Scottish Government added £125 back on to some grants, costing it around £5m, and in 2016 it reversed most of the cut to the threshold for maximum grant, raising it to £18,999 (likely to have cost it a bit under £2m a year). The current system The resulting...
The weakness of English regionalism may also be partly due to local loyalties to their existing councils. But local authorities have no constitutional protection from Whitehall interference, and depend heavily on central government grants. Their relative weakness as a tier of government has been compoun...
—although the mainstream Mormon church has officially disavowedpolygamysince 1890, a number of sects still practice it in Utah and elsewhere—and grants equal civil, political, and religious rights, includingsuffrage, to all citizens. Voting requirements follow national patterns, though for elections ...
for helping rural women with problems of motherhood, and programs that make education available to girls from economically disadvantaged families. Grants-in-aid are given to social welfare and physical welfare institutions, while the government operates leprosy clinics, as well as homes for the ...
Grants-in-aid are given to social welfare and physical welfare institutions, while the government operates leprosy clinics, as well as homes for the impoverished or otherwise needy citizens.Load Next Page