Sentences with phrase «agency spending»

State agency spending, for instance, was held basically flat for another year, despite growth in staff salaries and other costs.

But school systems are public agencies spending public dollars to serve the public's children.

Do you know how much money does recruitment agencies spend to optimize their recruitment processes?

Advocates for biomedical research note that the small increase won't allow agency spending to keep pace with inflation.

It causes a great deal of human suffering (ref); so Medical schools and international agencies spend a great deal of time looking for ways to control it.

These ratings agencies spend a lot of time going through all the paperwork with a fine tooth comb to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a life insurance provider.

Employers and recruitment agencies spend a sizeable portion of their budget advertising on job boards and social networks to make sure job seekers find out about their vacancies.

The Internet Research Agency spent $ 46,000 on Facebook ads, while Trump and Clinton together spent $ 81 million on the platform.

Facebook previously reported that the Internet Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on Facebook ads that reached 10 million users.

D - Nev., authorizes new safety requirements and funding for NHTSA, setting a ceiling for agency spending at $ 65.4 million in fiscal 1990 and $ 68.4 million in fiscal 1991.

Modest reductions in agency spending on state administrative functions could close the remaining gap.

The government agency spent years exploring the stone's potential as an unlimited power source — making the Captain pretty angry — until it was stolen by Loki who used it to open a portal unleashing alien hell on New York City.

Cuomo said he has budgeted for zero percent growth in state agency spending by redesigning State agency operations to reduce duplication, redundancy and waste.

But insiders say that the program was held up because DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences objected to another DOE agency spending money on fusion when it was struggling to meet its commitments to ITER and other projects.

What's more, federal agencies spent about $ 4 billion on «sensors and data collectors» between 2011 and 2015, according to the business intelligence platform Govini.

Mr. Pompeo was also asked about reports last week by The New York Times and The Intercept that American intelligence agencies spent months negotiating with a Russian who said he could sell stolen American cyberweapons and that the deal would include purportedly compromising material on Mr. Trump.

Public and private agencies spend approximately $ 2.5 billion on animal care every year, and reducing their burden by rapid adoption diminishes labor, feeding, and physical infrastructure costs.

«That would sustain the budget recovery,» in science agency spending since Congress first put in place steep spending cuts across all federal agencies in 2011.

«We closed the $ 4.4 billion deficit by achieving many of the savings proposals put forth in the Executive Budget, such as actions to hold state agency spending flat, containing Medicaid growth within the global cap and service consolidation and reorganizations,» said Morris Peters, a spokesman for Cuomo's budget division.

«State agencies spent nearly $ 52 million more on overtime in 2012 than the year before for nearly 14.5 million hours of overtime,» DiNapoli said.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Every quarter, Chinese government state agencies spend hundreds of thousands on Facebook ads.

(So far, the government has been funded by a series of so - called continuing resolutions that have essentially frozen agency spending at 2017 levels.)

Although that number makes ORD a relatively small research office by federal standards (other agencies spend far more on basic and applied studies), it plays a critical role in underpinning EPA's regulatory tasks.

I called up and confirmed it for my card and recently confirmed that my travel agency spend did indeed receive the 2X bonus.

Russian information troll farm the Internet Research Agency spent just 0.05 percent as much on Facebook ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's campaigns combined in the run - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, yet still reached a massive audience.

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

Citing a change in the administration's «participants and values,» Ms. Viverito promised to review agency spending «in its totality, evaluating each agency for its efficiency.»

Malloy offered his own deficit reduction proposal Monday, and it included major cuts in state aid to cities and towns as well as a range of sometimes dramatic state agency spending reductions.

According to a fact - sheet released by the committee, government agencies spent more than $ 267 million hosting or sending employees to 767 conferences in fiscal year 2012.

But departing Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Cass Sunstein's demands that executive agencies spend time searching for obsolete rules is an unjustified burden and cost to government agencies.

It also meant that the departmental expenditure cuts contained in the 2012 budget were not included in departmental / agency spending estimates submitted to Parliamentary Committees for review.

Also, and very importantly, it is imperative that the government and public service provide departmental and agency spending plans to Parliament and Canadians.

Those of you were that were pining for free agency spending, hold out, just a little longer.

An additional 58 appropriations were for areas that have already received enough state funding within agency spending.

«And the state captures an administrative efficiency, helping us keep agency spending flat through Governor Cuomo's first two terms.»

That increased agency spending comes in a re-election year for de Blasio, and will go to programs like «universal 3 - K,» an expansion of his popular pre-K program to include 3 - year - olds, legal services for undocumented immigrants and air conditioning for classrooms.

Spring Valley poice said agencies spent five months investigating «a network of career criminals» who had been alleged to be dealing heroin and crack cocaine in the Lakeview Village apartment complex on Memorial Dr and South Lake Street in Spring Valley.

The preliminary budget, which would take effect July 1 and must first be approved by the City Council, also includes more than $ 740 million worth of new city agency spending, mostly on programs de Blasio has already announced in recent months, like new initiatives to help the homeless and an overhaul of the city's mental health system.

Agency spending levels in the omnibus thus represent a step in the longer - term negotiation that will have to eventually involve the Senate and the White House.

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flight.

The NIFC calculates that nearly 39,000 homes — more than 3,000 per year — were lost to wildfires from 2000 - 2012 and that federal, state and local agencies spent an average of $ 4.7 billion annually during that period on WUI fire suppression.

The Senate wants to give NSF $ 750,000 so that the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) can study the impact of the new criteria, which help legislators measure if NSF is meeting a 1993 law aimed at making sure agencies spend tax dollars wisely.

The suits, ENTIRELY frivolous, represented an even BIGGER waste of taxpayer money than any of the IRS members» COMMONPLACE spending habits (serIously, government agencies spend taxpayer money — that's how the system works).