Sentences with phrase «because of our public service»

«Keith Wright's only career has been in government and he's a valuable commodity because of his public service as an elected official,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.
The remaining Individual Plaintiff believed she would qualify for loan forgiveness because of the public service nature of her work and the fact that her employer was a nonprofit organization whose eligibility as a qualifying employer had already been certified by the Department.
Yet, instead of law, I chose education because of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Because of our public service mission, we offer the most high - quality, easy to use, affordable resources for workforce development.

Not exact matches

In the Bloomberg report, the now public rant pointed fingers at his customer service department because of an increase in canceled orders, which climbed to 17 percent, up from 5 percent.
If you thought or were told you didn't qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program because you were not enrolled in a qualifying repayment plan — typically an income - driven plan — the Department of Education might still let you erase your loans.
Under TREB's current rules, real estate agents and brokers can access this information through the Multiple Listing Service and turn it over by hand, e-mail or fax to their clients (the clients can't get it themselves because it's not available on Realtor.ca, the public version of MLS).
Perhaps he proposed both initiatives because he was appalled by the behavior of D.C. politicians in the summer scuffle over the debt ceiling and because he believes the public sector right now is incapable of microfinancing in the service of jobs creation.
Governor Snyder has said that the bankruptcy filing will allow the city to spend more money on public services because less of its money will be hurdled toward paying interest on debt.
Because so many of the new jobs created in recent years have been self - employed, it's reduced the amount of tax the government can collect and use for public services.
It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.
This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.
In the emails, Adams writes that Whitmarsh supports an independent and full review of how the Public Service Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investigPublic Service Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investiService Agency handled the 2012 investigation, as well as the actions the public service took because of the investigpublic service took because of the investiservice took because of the investigation.
But we need a major cultural shift because the problem is the expectation that all of these public social services are free — and they are free.
Canada managed the financial storm of 2008 better than others because we anticipated risks and acted proactively with public policy foresight, responsible oversight of our financial industry, and better decisions and performance by financial service providers and our clients than was the case in other countries.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»
I've been very public about this, but also I believe it's one of the reasons that we've had good partnerships both with streaming services — and remember, on the streaming services side, that includes Apple, that includes Google, that includes Amazon, Spotify — is because we're very transparent about that.
Lastly, Mr Prentice can promise to ask Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson to terminate Mr Berger's contract because it violates Alberta's conflict of interest rules that require a one year cooling off period before a former government minister can work for the public service in an area in which he's had significant dealings.
GORDON T LONG: Right now I am pretty well restricted to my work because I am retired, I'm an investor, I just manage my own money and I do this work to really narrow in on where my investing should be, but I publish and put all of this at www.matasii.com and there's a subscription service for it depending on what kind of detail you want to go down to, but a lot of it is right out on a public page.
Here's the important part though is you have to stick to the plan because I see too many people go down a path of like two or three years of potentially qualifying for public service loan forgiveness, but then, they deviate and they start doing other things.
Last spring the budget for human services and public education in Massachusetts was threatened with devastating cuts because of a shortfall in revenues.
The near elimination of local programming has come about because local stations have found it more profitable to sell time to evangelical and fundamentalist syndicators than to provide time free for public - service programming.
My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.
Non-Christian nations tend to have a rough time establishing democracy, because they have no foundation of teaching self sacrifice and unselfish service and other moral values and a public servant in a democracy must not be motivated by greed.
Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.
Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.
He also feels that it is unfair for the public to «impose» responsibility on scientists, which is to «exact disproportionate service from one group because of their special ability.»
In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.
Similarly, attempts to fight the new Gnosticism with the weapons of logic deployed in service to moral truth are almost certainly doomed to be frustrated, because public life is not, in the final analysis, an exercise in logic alone.
Because the liturgy gives us our best image of heaven, because the words and actions of public worship mimic the divine service performed by the angels and saints who attend God's throne, a rumor has gotten out that heaven will be church services that never end, This is a terrifying prospect to my 13 - yearBecause the liturgy gives us our best image of heaven, because the words and actions of public worship mimic the divine service performed by the angels and saints who attend God's throne, a rumor has gotten out that heaven will be church services that never end, This is a terrifying prospect to my 13 - yearbecause the words and actions of public worship mimic the divine service performed by the angels and saints who attend God's throne, a rumor has gotten out that heaven will be church services that never end, This is a terrifying prospect to my 13 - year - old.
Lynn Harvey, chief school nutrition services director for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, said she heard complaints from many public school districts about the 100 - percent whole grain requirement because the reformulation has affected a regional favPublic Instruction, said she heard complaints from many public school districts about the 100 - percent whole grain requirement because the reformulation has affected a regional favpublic school districts about the 100 - percent whole grain requirement because the reformulation has affected a regional favorite.
Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.
Because the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services evidence requirements and the resulting information about effectiveness are public, researchers can use them to increase the rigor of their evaluations.
§ 489.21 and § 489 - 22 provide that it is a discriminatory practice to deny, or attempt to deny, the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodation of a place of public accommodations to a woman because she is breastfeeding a child.
After I wrote a series of articles about the industrially - processed convenience foods being served in my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia I heard that Tony had been reluctant to talk to me because he thought I was putting too much pressure on Whitney Bateson, the nutritionist for Chartwells, the giant food service company contracted to provide meals for D.C. public schools.
Once this is exposed (and it will be because it is so widespread, and the amount of money and power in running the Agencies and Authorites to their own benefit is astounding), Cuomo will be gone from public service and his family totally discredited.
«My members are ready and they're out there and there working on positive changes because they're concerned not only about their own jobs and the staffing and the constant attack on government services, but they're concerned with the services themselves and the people who need them,» said Susan Kent, of the Public Employees Federation.
Because action now on growth is the best way to mitigate the scale of the cuts the Government says it has to make to public services in 2015 - 16 and beyond.
The audience share of the news bulletins of public - service broadcasters is now lower because the public shifted to private broadcasters in search of less biased news.
Speaking at a conference hosted by the Local Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildings.
«I hired Tim as an AUSA in the Southern District of New York in 2010 because I knew he was committed to public service and protecting the people we serve.
I'm just determined that we use it as a building block, because I believe then we can get better healthcare to more people, we can have a more effective set of public services for more people — not less — and that's the key part.
She took public transit to the speech but was late because she had to transfer trains due to out - of - service subway routes.
Libraries and other public services that may otherwise have closed have been saved because of public pressure, even if cuts need to be made.
The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.
The people who believe immigration is the biggest issue affecting the UK today (public services, housing, jobs, benefits, the lot) mostly believe this because they read it in various newspapers who make a big issue out of it.
Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.
Just as the quality of the public services you rely on are getting worse because of a politically driven austerity drive...
«Because the fare does not nearly cover the cost of delivering the service, if you leave it flat you're just asking the public to give you the money elsewhere,» said Vitiello, who believes that, even if the agency does find a new revenue stream, it would likely still need the anticipated fare increase.
The Democrats have said they plan to give the money to the Child Care Council because vital public services like child care suffered because of the scandal.
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