Sentences with phrase «address budget deficits»

Reforming the deduction or replacing it with some kind of affordable housing tax credit could help address budget deficits.

The purpose of the education funding is twofold: to help states address their budget deficits — education is one of the largest expenditures — and to forestall teacher layoffs at the local level.

In 2009, federal education programs received an unprecedented $ 100 billion in economic stimulus funds to help states address their budget deficits, forestall teacher layoffs, and promote education reform.

Over time, the share that students are asked to pay has risen as states turn to tuition increases to address budget deficits.

Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes informed hospital chief financial officers this week that the Department of Social Services will hold off until Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy's administration finds ways to address the budget deficit.

The Brockton Enterprise reports that the Brockton School Committee is looking at several cost - cutting options to address a budget deficit of $ 8 million to $ 9 million.

The Brooklyn Museum is offering voluntary buyouts to address a budget deficit of about $ 3 million, the museum's director, Anne Pasternak, informed the staff on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Before any candidate sets out to make changes to Quebec's budget or economy, they'll have to address the deficit the province currently faces (exceeding $ 2 billion), which has become a major campaign issue.

The economy is really being supported — this isn't just in the United States, it's in Japan, the ECB and Britain — the economy is being supported by quantitative easing that is allowing for a massive budget deficit and money printing exercises to go on... As you address the fiscal problems, you are going to have weak economic growth.

He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

In terms of the national budget, he has said he believes Congress must reduce spending to address the U.S. deficit.

The concerns that we raised in our assessment of the March 2011 Budget (see «March 2011 Budget: The Deficit That Won't Go Away» March 2011 www.3dpolicy.ca) were not addressed in this Budget and they remain.

But as our provincial credit ratings have been downgraded, it will be important for the current and future governments to implement policies that will actually address the government's significant revenue shortfall and growing budget deficit.

The Update should have addressed this issue by providing analysis and projections of the structural deficit given its importance to budget planning.

The governor questioned whether the legislative budget deal will be balanced (we have yet to see the revenue bill, although there's supposed to be one out today), saying he doesn't want to see a repeat of last year, when the Legislature was forced to enact mid-year cuts to address a post-deal deficit.

The Minister presented the Government's strategy for addressing the significant budget deficit and debt inherited from the previous administration.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address on Wednesday, kicking off a challenging year of budget deficits and re-election races.

If approved, the health taxes in the Deficit Reduction Plan and Executive Budget will drive up the cost of health insurance for all Business Council member employers that purchase health coverage — from sole proprietors and small businesses to the largest self - insured companies — yet will provide no additional covered benefits or have any effect on addressing the rising cost of health care.

In his annual budget address on October 21, 2009, Daley projected a deficit for 2009 of more than $ 520 million.

[187] In his annual budget address on October 13, 2010, Daley projected a deficit for 2010 of $ 655 million, the largest in city history.

In addressing the nation's $ 16 trillion deficit, Crowley could not identify any non-military programs that she would eliminate from the budget.

Major issues in the 2013 legislative session included addressing education, energy, domestic violence, jobs, strengthening the state's economy, and a new two - year budget that's facing a $ 128 million deficit.

Gov. David Paterson proposes a $ 5 billion deficit reduction plan to address this year's budget gap, including a $ 223.2 million cut to New York City schools.

Given the necessity of agreeing Government spending plans and departmental budgets for the 2015 - 16 financial year, this will be challenging, and it is of particular importance that the Party develops and articulates policies addressing its approach to the deficit beyond 2016.

As Cuomo did in his address, Hochul stressed that New York faces budget challenges in 2018, due to a $ 4 billion state deficit, and as much as $ 2 billion of cuts to federal aid.

This is the conclusion of my paper, Free Universities, that the government's claim that «our student finance reforms will deliver savings to help address the large Budget deficit we were left» was disingenuous at best and that in fact the public spending crisis was used as an excuse to private higher education.

[51] On Tuesday, July 29, Governor Paterson gave a rare televised address that was broadcast on all of New York's major news networks, stating that the state budget deficit had gone up 1.4 billion dollars over the 90 days since his original budget submission, citing rising costs due to the poor economy and a struggling Wall Street, and calling the State Legislature back to Albany for an emergency session starting on August 19, 2008.

At 11:45 p.m. on March 31, Albany lawmakers passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 168.3 Billion NYS Budget for fiscal year 2018 - 2019, but no mention of how to address the $ 4 billion deficit the state faces were included.

Frank Zarb, former chief executive of Nasdaq and the original chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, will lead a task force to address persistent deficits in the county's $ 3 billion budget.

By Kathy Kahn At 11:45 p.m. on March 31, Albany lawmakers passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 168.3 Billion NYS Budget for fiscal year 2018 - 2019, but no mention of how to address the $ 4 billion deficit the state faces were included.

«Nobody disagrees that we need to address the deficit, but it is absurd to balance the budget on the backs of working families, the elderly, the disabled and the poor,» Sanders said in a summary of the plan.

Heastie said the only reason his house would return is if federal budget cuts later in the year lead to a state budget deficit that would need to be addressed.

Technically speaking, the governor called this lame duck session to address the $ 315 million (or up to $ 1 billion, depending on whose numbers you believe, the administration's or the state comptroller's) mid-year budget deficit.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is out with his assessment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2011 - 2012 budget proposal, which the comptroller «begins to address the state's structural deficit by bringing recurring expenses into better alignment with recurring revenues,» but also relis on more than $ 4 billion in yet - to - be specified actions.

«What they should be coming back in to do is address the deficit in the budget they passed which is only going to be impacted and made greater by any changes in the spending program that you are talking about.»

The legislature had to address a $ 120 million budget deficit.

«The millionaires tax is the majority of closing the deficit,» he said following his budget address in Albany last week.

Paterson reiterated the importance of making aggressive budget cuts in areas such as Medicaid and education in order to address New York's estimated two - year $ 10 billion deficit.

«With Governor Paterson delivering his State of the State address today, we know that there are clear solutions to these challenging economic times that truly and equitably share the sacrifice of this budget deficit without putting the brunt of the burden on working and middle - class families.

During his budget address last month, he highlighted superintendents» pay as a reason why state spending hasn't kept up with revenue, generating a $ 10 - billion deficit.

In President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, he talked a bit about the budget, and the need to reduce the deficit.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo gives his budget address next Wednesday, the state will begin the year with a $ 5 billion surplus — a big change after years of budget deficits.

«It does not fully address our current year budget deficit.

«Unfortunately the Legislature's last best offer does not take sufficient action to restore New York state's long - term fiscal stability and does nowhere near enough to address next year's budget deficit,» Paterson said in a statement.

He says that's why he's asking them to work together on a new public education funding formula and the difficult budget cutting decisions needed to address the state's projected $ 1.5 billion budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year.

The Mayor's executive budget acknowledges the short term and long term risks facing the city - notably the $ 2 billion structural deficit in FY 2016 - and begins to address serious fiscal and management issues that previously went ignored.

Walsh said he would partner with Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to address Syracuse's budget deficit.

«It's just too big a deficit and the choice of cutting education or cutting health care, I don't think is a place anyone wants to go this year,» Cuomo said in his budget address Tuesday.

Cuomo said his budget proposal due Feb. 1 will address the state's current and future deficits without raising taxes or borrowing.

Prior to the meeting The Journal News summarized Day's challenge in his first official budget as being the provision of «enough money for daily operations while also addressing ongoing issues, including repaying money borrowed to attack the deficit.