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Hertzberg told MarketWatch that the policy was crafted to address both demand and supply, without using taxpayer money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the last year, the youth parliament received £453,000 in taxpayer funding with about £2.4m public money spent on it between 2017 and 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The unauthorized access happened after the most damaging leak of taxpayer information in the agency’s history, which had prompted a tightening of internal defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Budget: “Our first responsibility is to use taxpayer dollars efficiently while protecting instruction and student services,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Everyone—even those who had not had diversity training at taxpayer expense—knew that even though it was correct to recognize a person's ethnicity, it was not correct to comment upon it in public.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
It also reports that disability benefits for 120,000 teens "cost taxpayers £1bn a year".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
State police joined him each time, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job as attorney general.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
These are passed onto consumers or, in the case of New York City and other localities, taxpayers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It also comes amid other headwinds for colleges, including questions from families and policymakers about the amount of debt students take on and whether students and taxpayers are getting enough for their investment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
And more than 15 percent will go just to the top 0.1 percent, those 145,000 taxpayers.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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