Sentences with phrase «about aid spending»

«It is in everybody's interests for the government to make informed decisions about aid spending,» committee chair Sir Malcolm Bruce said.

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In the ensuing furor, he opened up to radio host Charles Adler about his volunteer work during college at a nun - led centre for (mostly) gay men: «If the things they say about me are true, then explain to me why a young Jason Kenney spent his time washing bloody sheets at an AIDS hospice in San Francisco in the 1980s.»

In truth, the final Sandy aid package did not include money for fisheries in Alaska and other states after complaints from conservatives about spending unrelated to the storm.

The federal government spent about $ 277 billion on relief aid from 2005 to 2014, responding to natural disasters like Harvey, according to a 2016 report from the federal Government Accountability Office.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

We spent part of today having hard discussions about relief, international development, aid work, orphan care and prevention, all of the gigantic snarl of issues and mess and problems.

It's more likely we'll all be asked why we didn't spend more time concerned about our neighbors in Darfur or fighting the global AIDS pandemic.

Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programs to help HIV + people in the local community cope with the emotional and financial strains brought about by HIV and AIDS.

I would also like to add that I'd spent all of 2012 up to the first week of June when I got my BFP talking to my doctor about my issue with not having a period and TTC and had an appointment to see a fertility specialist about starting fertility aid medications literally one week later!

As far as aid spending is concerned, this is about leadership — the chance to set the clearest example to other wealthy countries to persuade them to join us in the commitment.

Defence secretary Liam Fox has reopened the debate about Britain's spending on international aid.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

Separately, Fishkin found that of 459 randomly selected people 59.3 % thought the US spent too much on foreign aid and 26 % thought the level was «about right».

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

There's a lot to like about the blueprint for spending $ 1 billion in state aid to revitalize the Western New York economy that was released Tuesday.

The Assembly has proposed a spending plan that would provide $ 25 billion in total school aid, about $ 1.8 billion more than the previous year, but that budget was not supported by the senate or Gov. Cuomo.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

Cuomo at the time said the tax code changes aided in completing about half of the spending plan for next year.

Spending aid this way might be good for businesses» profit margins but it ignores years of lived experience and evidence about what the best economic strategy for a developing economy is.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget this year increases education aid by about $ 990 million, with $ 2.1 billion being spent over the next two years and also ends the education cuts known as the gap elimination adjustment.

Sarah Garland, a journalist who spent years writing about MS - 13 on Long Island, says this focus to provide aid to students rather than to go on an all - out offensive against MS - 13 might work better to end gang violence in Suffolk.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

About $ 250 million (# 125 million) is spent on nutrition aid annually compared to $ 3 billion combating HIV / Aids, despite malnutrition being responsible for five times more child deaths than Aids.

Easy talk about liberty and «British values» while Britain repeatedly ratchets up the criminal justice system, repeatedly encroaches on civil liberties, undermines legal aid and spends like there is no tomorrow on police and prisons.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

In addition to member items, Paterson also vetoed about $ 530 million on spending on aid for schools and higher education.

Dealing just with the state's spending of its own money, not federal aid, the governor is proposing to increase total state spending 7.8 percent, to $ 83.6 billion, or about three times the rate of inflation projected for the state.

We've heard a lot about the new teacher evaluation plan, school aid and ethics reforms but this week on New York NOW we'll take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

The governor, in his speech to business leaders, also made the case for a Washington - style continuing resolution to keep state spending going beyond the April 1 deadline without a settled budget, if there's uncertainty about whether federal aid may be significantly cut.

Lawmakers and education leaders seemed especially concerned about a proposal by the governor to cap certain «expensed - based aids» that schools receive when they spend money on student transportation, building construction and BOCES services.

1.15 pm WATCH: William Hague talks to Sky News about the disaster in Haiti and Tory plans to increase aid spending

Governor Paterson released a relatively austere budget proposal for the 2010 — 2011 fiscal year this morning, one that cuts about $ 1 billion each from health - care spending and school aid in an effort to close an estimated $ 7.4 billion budget deficit.

For example, at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which spent $ 300 million on AIDS in 2014 — totaling 30 % of its overall budget — about 23 % of AIDS proposals won funding, compared with only 18 % of grants overall.

Still, at some institutes, program officers have had to get creative about how to spend AIDS funding.»

He had only recently met the wealthy, Cambridge, Massachusetts - based software executive and was about to spend two full days touring AIDS - ravaged Durban with him in hope of obtaining a donation.

She has spent time in India, Cambodia, and Africa, working with prostitutes and street children, teaching yoga, providing support for child labor, and educating people about HIV / AIDS prevention.

By contrast, K - 12 gets about $ 400 billion annually, and at least $ 100 billion is spent on postsecondary education, including student aid.

Financial aid spending by the federal government includes about $ 35 billion in Pell Grants, which provide students from low - income families up to $ 5,645 per year to defray college expenses.

For example, Texas awards almost $ 300 million in need - based grant aid to students at private, non-profit institutions, about 35 percent of all spending on need - based state grants.

When asked about their spending focus for the school year 2014/15, the survey shows that primary schools are more likely to focus spending on continuing professional development (CPD), training, teaching aids, books and digital content than in 2013/14, while reducing the focus on staffing and building works.

Investing in stationery When asked about their spending focus for the school year 2014/15, the survey shows that primary schools are more likely to focus spending on continuing professional development (CPD), training, teaching aids, books and digital content than in 2013/14, while reducing the focus on staffing and building works.

Nationwide, 24 percent of state need - based grant aid (about $ 1.9 billion) is spent at private, non-profit colleges.

Spending index: While no consensus exists about how much money is necessary to provide an «adequate» education, it is clear that districts with certain characteristics tend to require more aid.

Around two - thirds of local school districts are funded by the state; if the state has to reduce that aid, districts have the ability to make up the difference by raising dreaded property taxes — which is why, despite districts» constant complaints about «cuts,» total school spending rose 12.7 percent between 2006 and 2010.

There was a strange set of exchanges inspired by Ed Hughes» complaint about tertiary / negative aid (whereby Madison and other high spending districts lose progressively more state aid the higher they spend).

Public charter school students in New York currently receive no per pupil facilities aid, can not provide preschool programs, and on average receive about 75 cents on the dollar when compared to traditional school district spending.

I spent most of my time at the London Book Fair 2017 sitting in the front row of the surprisingly pink ALLi stand, listening to independent authors talking about their success and author - aid services sharing the tips and tricks of the business.

Otherwise, the assets are in the child's name (a strike against financial aid and loan rates) at the age of 18 and it will likely be spent on college and its related expenses — I'm talking about booze here.

The average American dog owner spent about $ 274 boarding the dog and $ 95 for vitamins and $ 73 for grooming or grooming aids.