Sentences with phrase «aid groups said»

Two aid groups said they have had to turn people away, one has had to intensify its fundraising, two have had to extend their operating hours to meet demand, while six who help to house new arrivals are struggling to find accommodation for them.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

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«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.

«As the EU by its nature brings so many countries together, it often jointly bats above its weight by working as a group... This helps to reinforce the political will needed to deliver aid and keep delivering,» said the statement from Bond and the U.K. Aid Netwoaid and keep delivering,» said the statement from Bond and the U.K. Aid NetwoAid Network.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

But Meadows, who leads a group of hard - liners that has frequently frustrated House Republican leaders, said attaching Harvey aid to a debt - ceiling increase would be a «terrible idea» that would be «conflating two very different issues.»

The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an influential group of House conservatives who have warned GOP leaders not to connect the two funding initiatives.

In a statement, the president and founder of the group China Aid, Bob Fu, said, «His arrest marks a major escalation in the crackdown against those who oppose the forced demolition of crosses.

Is there an aid group or something out there that can help these people to get away from their insane neighbors who want to kill them (freely admitting that the majority of iraqi muslims are not murderers... that much said, it only takes one crazy person with a gun and a full ammo clip to wipe out a family)... somebody do something...

Hannah Henderson from the group said: «Christian Aid Collective is a movement for change, challenging the systems that keep people poor.

His killers say they belong to the Taliban in Afghanistan, where Bae had led a group of 23 church volunteers (18 of them women) on a medical aid trip.

Mr Fu said in a statement through his US - based Christian non-profit group China Aid that the «Chinese regime should be totally held accountable» for Mr Li's sudden and «mysterious» death.

The voodoo «Supreme Master» in Haiti says that since much of the aid coming into the country is from evangelical groups, they are distributing supplies to Christians first and ignoring...

But the parallel structure of these «sayings - groups» affords such an aid to the memory — as anyone can test out even in our translated text — that here too a relatively faithful preservation of the text by memory seems quite possible.

Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the Ibec group, has said the increased likelihood of a hard and disruptive Brexit, and a fracture of the single market demands a series of exceptions from EU state aid rules for the Irish agri - food and drink sector.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

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 ad is funded by the group New Yorkers United Together, a nonprofit that says in the ad that it will provide legal aid to immigrants facing threats of deportation from the federal government.

Advocates, including the roughly two dozen groups that support the City Council legislation, promoted a state plan to reduce new HIV infections in New York from the current roughly 3,000 a year to 750 by 2020, which they say would «end» AIDS as an epidemic in New York.

«This is just another excuse from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for why it is he absolutely refusing to fairly and adequately fund high need schools in the state,» said Billy Easton, the executive director of the AQE, a group that has gotten under Cuomo's skin over the years by pushing him to hike school aid under the terms of a lawsuit over funding.

Meanwhile, a budget watchdog group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.

New York State Assemblyman Al Stirpe, D - Cicero, said he would donate $ 2,500 he received from COR Development and Aiello to Vera House, a Central New York group that aids victims of domestic and sexual violence.

But good - government groups say the measure is just a band - aid on chronic corruption in Albany.

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John Stype, an legislative aid for Al Krupski, a Suffolk County legislator, said the group should bring in South Fork officials to discuss how they have dealt with traffic concerns over the years.

Gerry Geist, the group's executive director, said state aid to two key funding pots has failed to keep up with inflation.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

A shadowy Independent Expenditure group run by a «charitable» charter school advocate organization is said to be aiding Cabrera.

«This working group will help continue these efforts providing both perspective and first - hand experience on how to bring out laws into the modern era and further aid in the growth of this great New York industry,» Cuomo said in the release.

All in all, the pro-casino campaign is huing rather closely to the ballot language voters will have before them next week: Namely that the casino amendment will create jobs, lower property taxes and provide for school aid, a contention that opponents say is wrong and good - government groups cringe at.

Speaking to a Long Island business group on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said the minimum wage increase was a compromise in order to get a tax cut and a boost in school aid.

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill provides a much - needed opportunity to mend our broken compensation system to ensure a better deal for genuine claimants, taxpayers, local authorities, the NHS and businesses alike» Matthew Davis, Head of Group Insurance, Home Retail Group (whose brands include Argos), said: «Managing our business costs is crucial to ensuring that we remain the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.

That increase is only for salaries for nonprofits» personnel, though, and wouldn't address what the groups say is a host of larger problems created by years of stagnant city aid.

Not for profit groups that contract with New York to provide services like home health care and aid to the disabled say Medicaid payments from the state need to rise if they are ever to afford the minimum wage increase.

«This is a scheme by landlords to evade the rent laws,» said Legal Aid staff attorney Kathleen Brennan, who brought the case on behalf of a group of homeless occupants at 60 Clarkson Ave.

Rallying at the Capitol Tuesday a day ahead of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state - of - the - state address, representatives of the groups aiding the poor say the state's richest 1 percent now account for 35 percent of all income in a disparity they say hasn't been seen since America's Great Depression.

In fact, says Governor Cuomo and his top economic development aids, it was too successful, and countless other groups and causes have adapted the now iconic image.

She says her group will educate lawmakers about public support for the legislation and about aid - in - dying laws in other states.

The Conference Board — an umbrella group of school boards, administrators, parent - teachers associations and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)-- said New York's school districts would need a minimum state aid boost of $ 1.2 billion next year to maintain current services.

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.

«The way to show he supports educational equity with more than fine words in a long speech is to fund Foundation Aid,» said Jasmine Gripper, legislative director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for school funding.

The text of the budget bill relating to school aid, the groups say, suggests that «no district would receive an increase in aid over what it received in 2014 - 15» if Cuomo's education reform agenda isn't included.

Stirpe, D - Cicero, said he would donate the $ 2,500 he received from COR Development and its president, Steve Aiello, to Vera House, a Central New York group that aids victims of domestic and sexual violence.

After all, the group said in a paper backing up its aid proposal, «New York's fiscal outlook has improved substantially» and «state budget surpluses are projected through 2018.»

That decision has led to criticism from education groups that say school districts need the aid runs in order to prepare their own budgets.

«This is just huge,» Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group, said of de Blasio's planned announcement.

The groups called for a return to higher rates for top income earners, more spending on education and municipal aid — which they said would keep locally imposed property taxes in check — as well as increased oversight of several business tax credit programs.

Friedman also invited George Clooney and his wife, Amal, to attend the event that emails said would compete with others sponsored by two other groups aiding women in politics, Emily's List and Emerge.

Executive Director of the New York State School Boards Association Tim Kremer says that's a far cry from the $ 2 billion in additional state aid his group requested.

Asked how they would select members of New York City advisory bodies, such as the one that decides how the city should spend the roughly $ 100 million in AIDS funds it receives annually from the federal government, all the candidates said they would consult with community groups.