Sentences with phrase «years of budget cuts at»

Years of budget cuts at the Department of the Public Instruction have left the state unable to accurately verify virtual charter enrollment figures.

Environmental Advocate's David Gahl says years of budget cuts at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, known as the DEC, has led to a one third reduction of staff, and an even greater decrease in the number of inspections of potential polluters.

Not exact matches

No agency has had its operating budget shredded as mercilessly as the SBA's (most agencies have gotten more money), and the cuts of the past six years have struck at all aspects of the agency.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

In December, as Greek policy - makers approved yet another round of budget cuts — tough legislation that caps salaries at state - owned companies, cuts many state salaries by 10 % and diminishes collective bargaining power — some 20,000 protestors jammed the streets in the country's seventh general strike that year.

For example, she said, if a new roof lasts 20 to 30 years, living until 90 instead of 80 means budgeting for one new roof at age 60 won't cut it; if they tend to keep cars for 10 years, their retirement might entail an extra purchase.

I worked at the CBC for nine years, from 2001 to the end of 2009 before I lost my job as a producer on the investigative unit due to budget cuts.

By 2015, the Harper government will have imposed permanent budget cuts of at least 10.8 billion dollars per year to federal departments and agencies.

For two years, Mayor Luke Bronin has fashioned his city budgets from a mix of steep cuts, labor concessions and, at times, layoffs as he pleaded with state lawmakers for more money.

Last year's aggressive tax cuts are at the heart of a worsening budget situation that will see deficits surge in the years ahead, according to an op - ed by former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and others.

Like I said he has the physique and qualities to cut it at the top level, but given that he won't improve on what he is now and that we may get a few years at his best 25 mill is a lot of money, especially + wages... Bear in mind our transfer budget is approximately 50 mill I may be proved wrong, but I'm not sold...

You must know that 3 or 4 years ago I was extremely anti-Wenger on this forum, but then I had a look at the bigger picture and realized there were a lot of other constraints and things going on in the background — the stadium, all our best players leaving etc etc and Wenger managed to pull us through on a shoe string budget cutting top 4 in the process.

Ten certified teaching positions will be cut at the end of the school year at Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officials said.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

However, three - quarters of voters believe a state income tax cut in next year's budget is at least somewhat important.

, «$ 2.6 trillion could be saved -LSB-...] It's possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [i.e., cutting the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.»

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.

A one - year 2.9 % as opposed to 5.9 % budget increase, though important in face of budget cuts at home, is pocket change in comparison to what Cameron could have achieved with the leverage that suddenly was handed him.»

George Osborne has taken an early swipe at departmental budgets, announcing # 4.5 bn of savings this year through a sell - off of national assets — including the remaining stake in Royal Mail — and spending cuts.

Governor Cuomo, at an end of the year cabinet meeting, said he still considers campaign finance reform and the other recommendations of the Moreland Act Commission a «top tier» priority, but says he will first focus on the state budget and a tax cutting plan.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

Vanderhoef will also be seeking to layoff 150 county workers, save $ 1.8 million by not reimbursing out - of - county students at the community college, cut the intelligence task force from the police budget, kick $ 1.4 million in local election costs back to towns, reduce funding to contract agencies by $ 300,000 this year and over $ 500,000 next year, and install a new charge on your motor vehicle registration.

About $ 600 million in last year's budget went toward restoring the cuts, made at the height of the state's post-recession budget crisis.

In George Osborne's Spring Budget, he announced a cut in corporation tax to 17 % from 2020 - 21 and costing # 945m in that year, the last of the forecast period at the time.

Cuomo wants to extend the existing rates on the wealthy that are due to sunset at the end of the calendar year, insisting it is key to paying for middle - class tax cuts approved in the previous budget year.

«I've heard the county executive call our cuts a sham, that they're reckless and irresponsible, but if you do your homework and look back at the cuts that were made by the Democrats to last year's budget, it's a lot of the exact same cuts,» Lorigo told WBFO News.

TRIBECA — One day after a homeless man allegedly raped and tried to strangle a 21 - year - old woman in the TriBeCa section of Hudson River Park, politicians gathered at the site of the attack to speak out against anticipated budget cuts to the NYPD.

Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) dinner last night, Mr Osborne pledged to cut corporation tax and suggested a five - year plan would be mapped out during the emergency Budget next month.

A spokesman for the governor counters that Cuomo has a number of items in his budget aimed at helping businesses, including a cut in corporate taxes and elimination of upstate manufacturing taxes, as well as recent reductions in the personal income tax for businesses making under $ 1 million a year.

DiNapoli, speaking at a forum sponsored by the Albany Times Union, says this year's $ 4.4 billion budget gap is on top of expected cuts from President Trump and the Republican led Congress.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

ALBANY — Many of the major parameters that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce in his executive budget proposal on Tuesday afternoon are already known: continued growth in Medicaid and education spending, a suite of tax cuts worth $ 2 billion over the next several years and a to - the - bone spending posture that holds state agency budgets flat for at least the third year in a row.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&racuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.&raCuts — Save Our Schools.»

The mayor told reporters at the press conference that he had had a lengthy conversation with new Governor Andrew Cuomo and was expecting a cut of some $ 1 billion from the state in next year's school budget.

The fiscally - strapped Buffalo school board has been looking at a laundry list of ways to cut spending in its budget for the approaching school year.

Other tax cuts: The tax - cut package in the budget also includes: a $ 250 million expansion in the state's Power for Jobs program, under which employers may receive reduced - rate power if they pledge to create or retain jobs in the state; a tax deduction for college tuition at any college in the country for up to $ 10,000 per student per year (valued at $ 200 million); elimination of the marriage - penalty tax ($ 200 million); and an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit ($ 125 million).

Mayor Bloomberg's proposed education budget for next year does almost nothing to make up for years of cuts to programs and staff, even though the state increased school funding to city schools next year by more than 4 percent, UFT Vice President Karen Alford testified at a City Council Education Committee hearing on March 21.

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Even though the Comprehensive Spending Review outlines average cuts of 19 % across all government departments, the main part of civil research spending, the science budget, was fixed for the next 4 years at this year's amount, # 4.6 billion ($ 7.2 billion).

Despite warnings to expect funding cuts of 20 %, 30 %, or even 40 %, the U.K. science budget has been fixed for the next 4 years at this year's amount, # 4.6 billion ($ 7.2 billion).

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

By contrast Republicans, in crafting a budget for the rest of this fiscal year, wielded knives all over the budget, making deeper cuts at favorite programs of liberals like the college grants, heating assistance, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which they want to zero out.

While representing a 6.3 percent cut below FY 2016 levels, it's something of a departure in a year that sees climate programs at EPA, NOAA, and elsewhere slated for much larger cuts, especially given White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney's belief that dollars spent on climate change are a waste of money.

«Heaven's Gate» (1980) Given carte blanche for time and budget after the success of «The Deer Hunter,» Cimino made an epic Western that became an unmitigated disaster at the box office and was widely panned by critics — until a full directors - cut restoration in recent years began to turn the tide in terms of its legacy.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

HEADLINE: Strong Libraries Improve Student Achievement Last month, site - based management teams at 11 elementary schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, chose to cut their budgets for the 2000 - 2001 school year by eliminating the position of school librarian.

However, looking at this objectively, while BESA's recent «Resources in English Maintained Schools» research shows that 2011/12 has seen budget cuts of 1.8 per cent in primary education and a 2.7 per cent drop in secondary education, schools still have significant funds to spend, particularly when compared with budgets ten, five or even two years ago.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, which has made deep cuts in its budget for the past three years, is projecting a budget deficit of at least $ 258 million for the 1992 - 93 school year.

«At a time when pupil numbers in England are predicted to rise by 8 per cent over the next five years while budgets are simultaneously cut, it is now more important than ever that we support our existing teachers and offer them a fair deal in terms of remuneration.»