Sentences with phrase «major public spending»

And Alan Johnson said Labour and the Lib Dems had both opposed Tory plans to push through major public spending cuts this year.

It should be a no - brainer for both chambers to get behind the reform: Major public spending ought to be done in a transparent and accountable way — which requires independent oversight.

Not exact matches

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

Haskell analyzed public financial filings from 15 major chains and determined that those companies spent about US$ 73 million more on labour last year than the year before.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Given that childhood obesity is a major public health concern, the amount of sedentary time that children spend with screens is a big problem.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

In response, de Blasio said last week the city would spend $ 200 million expediting major heating upgrades at 20 public housing developments within eight to 20 months.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

The fact that all the major political parties have already made extensive and frequently conflicting promises on public spending, taxes and benefits means that such negotiations are likely to be more complex and take much longer than the 22 days of May 2010.

But the tax burden would remain the same, and the 62 - year - old ruled out any major rises in public spending, saying: «I am quite clear that we are in a new political environment in which the era of big increases in central government spending is over.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

This year, both major party candidates for governor, incumbent Democrat Dannel Malloy and Republican Tom Foley, qualified for public financing and each has received more than $ 6.5 million to spend on the general election.

Lawmakers have already introduced three major budget bills: transportation and economic development, a merger bill and a measure that would allocate cash for general government and public protection spending.

Councils have no choice but to undergo «major restructuring» to cope with public spending cuts, the Audit Commission has warned.

The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.

The shadow chancellor supports major capital infrastructure projects as a way of driving down unemployment while public spending is cut.

With outside spending groups expected to again play a major role in New York's 2016 elections, the state Board of Elections has posted for public comment draft rules regulating such independent expenditure committees.

Michael Jacobson, President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice, said, «State leaders everywhere facing major budget shortfalls are looking at corrections spending, seeking strategies that save money and increase public safety.

When alarms were raised over monetary inducements and reckless political spending during the campaigns, none of the major contenders for public offices questioned the sources of funding of the electioneering because doing so at that period might jeopardise their political aspirations.

For too long the state has lived far beyond its means, leading the nation in virtually every major category of public spending.

Labour should dispel the Tory lie that Public Spending was high under Labour — in fact it was * higher * under Thatcher / Major than Blair / Brown.

Those changes came after the public disclosure of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had been spent.

Bill Mahoney, research coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that while the spending seems to violate election law, it's not a major infraction.

Buffalo public schools are proposing to spend $ 56 million over the next three years for major upgrades of the district's computer system and providing a computer for every student.

Major casino operators are aggressively pushing for the licenses, and spent more than $ 11 million in the past two years to influence state and local policymakers, according to the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group.

The Manhattan - based fiscal watchdog group said state spending on two major programs — public education and Medicaid — is due to rise more than double the overall 2 percent government spending increase cap.

«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

Since 2009, the board has made major cuts to the public schools, eliminating over 400 positions and reducing kindergarten to a half day while increasing spending on special education and transportation for private school students.

Despite the squeeze on public spending, Major said he expected funding for the universities and the research councils to rise in real terms next year.

In his first major science address since taking office, President Obama promised today to increase U.S. public and private spending to historic highs for science research and development.

Almost monthly we see major media and public outcry against high health care costs, wasteful spending in hospitals, exorbitant pharmaceutical costs,» said team member Tommy Angelini, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace.

On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.

Lawmakers in New Jersey are calling for major reforms in compensation practices for public school administrators in the wake of a scathing report that concludes that millions in taxpayer dollars were spent on lucrative contracts, hidden perks, and pension padding for dozens of superintendents and their top deputies.

The abbreviated version of Ho's own story involves a junior year abroad in Kyoto, Japan, where the Brown University neuroscience major spent several months doing research at a public high school.

According to Feistritzer, the «old way» of training public school teachers — putting undergraduates through an education major — does not suit many of today's candidates, who get interested in the profession only after completing a degree in science or the humanities or spending several years pursuing another career.

The winning team in each category will then spend the following six months having their app professionally produced in association with major sponsors and app development companies, before being launched to the public in February 2016.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

TFA's underlying idea is that many smart, accomplished college graduates would make significant contributions to public education - if it weren't for the fact that they must have majored in education or be willing to spend one to two more years (and significantly more in tuition) earning a master's in education in order to get certified.

The bashing and the budget cuts continue, the new tax bill undercuts public education in a major way, children and teachers in Baltimore City are forced to spend their days in unheated public school buildings, and teaching is — understandably — losing quality women and men.

While it is certainly true that adequate spending is necessary to sustain the public school system, it is not true that per pupil spending is a major determinative factor in improving test scores.

Local input has emerged as a major concern in the budget debate, and it's now clear that no vote on spending will take place until a series of public meetings are complete.

Public comment will likely weigh heavily on one of the major points of contention in the battle over spending priorities.

Horn blamed the current clash over classroom size on legislators» willingness to package major policy decisions like this one with the state's overall spending plan, a move that he acknowledged is made to avoid lengthy, sometimes bitter, public discussions and bad publicity for lawmakers.

A major new report from the progressive One Wisconsin Institute finds that the right - wing Bradley Foundation spent more than $ 108 million, working with 130 partner groups, to privatize public schools in Wisconsin between 2005 and 2014.

Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am

There will likely be targeted infrastructure funding for major public transit projects, spending the government will promote as «green» to help cover a weak environmental policy flank while wooing those suburban commuters Calandra referenced.

Before spending millions of dollars on a major - league baseball stadium, Orange County commissioners want to know whether the fans will support a team and whether businesses are willing to pay some of the costs.Today, commissioners will consider spending $ 40,000 to research those questions and to find out how much of the county's resort tax money would be needed to build a stadium if Orlando wins a major - league franchise.The 17 - week study would be conducted by Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia financial consulting firm.

Walking through the galleries, it's hard to believe the works of such a major artist spent so much of his life out of public view.