Sentences with phrase «aid budget by»

At the same time though, the Government could help save money in the legal aid budget by ensuring that its other departments function more effectively.

The LASPO cuts were originally planned to reduce the legal aid budget by # 350m, but the spending has reduced from around # 2.2 bn to # 1.6 bn.

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) removed around # 600m from the legal aid budget by cutting entire areas of law from its scope.

But $ 5 billion of that rests on the supposition that Japan will, as it hinted in a statement, increase its aid budget by 50 per cent over the next five years.

How can you justify increasing the aid budget by 50 per cent with SCHOOLS and POLICE being cut by 20 per cent?

And while the US increased its aid budget by 14 per cent, it remains one of the lowest donors, contributing just 0.19 per cent of its gross national income, compared to 0.33 per cent in the UK and 0.38 per cent in France.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

Not exact matches

For the many towns, cities and municipalities relying on state aid to fill out their own budgets, the cuts by states will likely make their fiscal problems even worse.

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

Senior Consumer Analyst Jon Wolfenbarger said he found this survey helpful in confirming his expectations for improving lodging demand in 2018: «This research suggests that corporate travel budgets could increase by 4 per cent, aided by a stronger global economy and US tax cuts.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

The budget increase, which has been praised by many non-governmental organizations working in overseas aid, squares with another seemingly competing Canadian opinion, however.

He heard government leaders talk about balancing the budget by cutting back on the food stamp program, even while they rescued a struggling aircraft corporation with massive federal aid.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The findings of the ComRes study commissioned by Christian Aid have been published ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, which is expected to include new measures against tax avoidance following further revelations made in the Paradise Papers.

Although the amounts given by churches are tiny compared to the aid budgets of governments, the money has usually been well spent.

Often these orphanages are funded by generous donations, foreign aid budgets and visits from church groups but the supply supersedes the «demand», therefore keeping children in homes and sometime kept intentionally undernourished.

More than half of the U.S. food aid budget is consumed by administrative and transportation expenses.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

If the food security budget were to double by 2016, and the aid program increased to 50 cents in every 100 dollars of government income as both major parties had committed to do, food security would be around 11 % of the aid budget.

In their first ever season in the top flight, Girona's tiny budget on paper is aided by Manchester City's part ownership of the Catalans with five players on loan from the Premier League leaders.

Our commitment to ring - fence the budget of the Department for International Development, and meet the target of spending 0.7 % of Gross National Income by 2013 on foreign aid, are founded on our conviction that the issues of development, security and trade are intertwined.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo disagreed and kept member items out of the state's $ 132.6 billion budget (though so - called «bullet aid» for education was allowed and allocated by Senate Republicans).

His announcement came just a day after the US State Department laid out plans to put «America first» and slash Washington's budget for diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 30 percent.

The government's plans to protect health and aid budgets have been attacked as unjustified by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

As per last year's budget agreement, this year's state education aid is scheduled to increase by 4 percent.

And Senate Democrats who hope to flip the district once held by Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos are pointing to the support from groups like the PAC maintained by StudentsFirstNY after the initial charter school aid proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was doubled to $ 54 million in the final budget agreement — a figure that was backed by Senate Republicans.

The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.

The Cuomo administration has quietly resolved a problem created by a single line in the state's budget that would have held up $ 20 million in federal aid to the state's Conservation Fund.

The final amount will be calculated after the district knows how much state aid it will receive — a figure that relies upon agreement on the state budget by Cuomo and the state legislature.

Even though the cap has been overridden by the Legislature every year since it was adopted, this is the first time Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a budget that exceeds the school aid cap.

Comparable to reductions for SUNY and CUNY, the Executive Budget reduces unrestricted financial assistance to New York's independent colleges and universities (Bundy Aid) by 10 percent, comparable to reductions proposed for SUNY and CUNY.

Governor Cuomo closes this year's budget gap by reducing spending at state agencies by $ 1.3 billion dollars, and reducing aid to local governments by another $ 756 million dollars.

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2018 budget and legislative priorities and state aid request for the 2018 - 2019 school year

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2017 State Aid Request and Budget & Legislative Priorities.

The Governor's proposed budget increases formula - based school aid by $ 651 million, or 2.6 percent, to $ 25.8 billion.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

The Executive Budget reduces Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) by two percent for cities, towns and villages outside New York City, which does not receive AIM in recognition of the city's numerous alternative funding sources such as a local income tax.

ALBANY — A coalition of major state education organizations is calling on the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase school aid by $ 2 billion in the 2018 - 19 state budget.

The Executive Budget justifies the elimination of Bundy Aid by replacing it with new funding for the Higher Education Capital (HECap) Matching Grant Program.

The Executive Budget increases School Aid by $ 961 million, including $ 428 million for Foundation Aid.

What it's done is balance the books by state aid and by dipping into reserves, which to me doesn't suggest that the city budget is really sustainable.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

Cuomo proposed increasing state aid by 3 percent, or $ 769 million, to a total of $ 26.4 billion as part of the budget.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

The Senate's proposed budget would increase school aid by $ 1.9 billion and includes a modified Education Tax Credit but not the Dream Act.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.