Sentences with phrase «aid cuts for»

In some rare good news, the Court of Appeal last month ruled that the 2013 legal aid cuts for prisoners were unlawful after a three - year legal battle by the Howard League and the Prisoners» Advice Service (PAS).

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

Legal aid for prisoners: The government has withdrawn its application to the Supreme Court to appeal the Howard League's successful challenge to legal aid cuts for prison law.

The average proposed School Aid cut for the same districts under the Governor's budget is over $ 1,438,000.

Not exact matches

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

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.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

David Miliband, the CEO of International Rescue Committee, explains why it is a bad idea for US to cut foreign aid.

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

Diplomacy and foreign aid would face a 37 percent cut that would be felt across the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

CEO Alain Bellemare said he believes the efforts to cut costs will help revive Bombardier, which has appealed for federal aid as it struggles to sell its signature CSeries passenger jet.

The Florida Legislature is cutting short its help for affordable housing, diverting tens of millions of dollars each year from a trust fund meant to aid such housing developments.

Every mom's solution to all cuts, scrapes and boo - boos, Band - Aid, debuted in the number one spot for this year's 10 best perc...

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.

Markets have been gripped by uncertainty since Greece's prime minister unexpectedly announced Monday that he would call a national vote on the European bailout plan that entails painful tax increases and drastic welfare cuts in exchange for massive aid to keep his debt - ridden nation solvent.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

Multilateral assistance to Nicaragua in 1979 - 1980 had made up 48 percent of the country's new aid commitments, but under U.S. pressure multinational lenders cut back sharply so that for 1981 - 1983 they provided just below 15 percent of Nicaragua's aid.

Other key policies in the Ukip manifesto include an extra # 11 billion a year for the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, funded by cuts in foreign aid.

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

For Speaker Boehner to claim cutting the debt is a «moral» imperative and then attempt to do so by cutting food aid for children while giving millionaires tax breaks... I think Matthew 15:8 sums it up nicely: «This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.&raqFor Speaker Boehner to claim cutting the debt is a «moral» imperative and then attempt to do so by cutting food aid for children while giving millionaires tax breaks... I think Matthew 15:8 sums it up nicely: «This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.&raqfor children while giving millionaires tax breaks... I think Matthew 15:8 sums it up nicely: «This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.»

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

Some of the same voices have more recently called for cutting off U.S. aid to the elected government of Alfredo Cristiani.

Thereby human rights terminology has often been used to justify decisions to provide aid or to terminate it; while human rights criteria - to the extent that there is such a thing in the aid policy of any donor - have been confined to the search for those human rights violations which could justify cutting off aid.

The company in June invested $ 1.5 million in new plant equipment including a new canned milk tray packer in one of its plants that will aid in wrapping products, and a new exact weight cutting machine for retail cheese packaging.

I go through a box of princess band - aids almost once a month... most of them are for my daughters - but I swear I get more cuts when I have them around too.

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.

She also plays an active part in the Trevor Project and has worked with the L.A Gay & Lesbian Center concerning homeless LGBT youth, has conducted fundraising for Susan G. Komen in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month and recently led this year's 30th annual Aids Walk Los Angeles, cutting the starting ribbon for over 25,000 walkers.

First Aid Kit: Since I also had an older daughter, I always carried a miniature kit with a couple of bands and alcohol wipes for any little cut or accident.

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You will definitely need Band - Aids or other adhesive bandages for minor cuts and scrapes.

Ginger really aids digestion and helps cut down on gas — but remember to treat it as a «new» food and introduce it for the first time with a food your baby is already safely enjoying.

The country's Prime Minister Tony Abbott proposed cutting off government aid to parents who refused vaccines for their children.

Skin experts say shaving lotion is way better for the skin because it has the components that can hydrate and definitely aid preventing cuts.

Advocates also brought attention to the fact that any cuts to HFNY funding would disqualify New York from applying for millions in federal aid for home visiting because the state is required to show a Maintenance of Effort in order to receive federal funding.

And — together with legal aid cuts and over 45,000 new immigration rules since 2010 — it has helped make it impossible for people to sort out their legal situation.

They object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.

Does this line of argument ultimately endorse the coalition government's draconian cuts to legal aid as a tool for securing higher success figures for the UKBA?

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prisoners» Advice Service (PAS) argued that legal aid cuts had left vulnerable prisoners, including the mentally ill and mothers being separated from their children, without any protections.

A press release from the group says the students and faculty «object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.»

The Lib Dems have voted for every single cut to legal aid.

The two - year budget deal reached in Washington on Friday ensures no draconian cuts in federal aid to the state and city, undercuts arguments to raise some local taxes and portends problems for Cuomo as he exaggerates the impact of Congress's tax bill on New Yorkers.

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.

LGBT and HIV / AIDS advocates are bracing for potential cuts as a result of the congressional supercommittee's failure this week to come up with a deficit reduction deal.

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 balancing act for local municipalities is that the cuts in state aid must be coupled with mandate relief.»