Sentences with phrase «aid increase holds»

If the school aid increase holds in negotiations Monday, that would mark a 4 percent increase in current spending, although how that funding would be distributed hasn't been decided, according to Senate and Assembly sources.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

We need to hold the line on property taxes, continue helping Superstorm Sandy victims get back in their homes, work to increase aid to our local public schools, and fight the scourge of opioid abuse that has plagued Long Island.

If the $ 1 billion number holds for school aid, it would be a 4 percent increase in spending, though how the money will be distributed has not yet been decided.

The City of Buffalo will never confront its basic problems when the state increases its aid by $ 52 million, he said, and burdensome labor contracts will continue to hold back municipalities as long as their unions are protected by the Taylor Law.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

«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.

While total state spending has been held to two percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have been held essentially flat, School Aid is increasing by 6.5 percent for the 2016 - 17 School Year and will have increased by nearly 27 percent since 2011 - 12.

[Cuomo is reportedly holding back a promised 4 - percent increase in school aid in exchange for a tougher teacher evaluation system.

Cuomo has demanded that education policy changes be passed along with the state budget, or he'll hold up school aid increases.

The session finally began in earnest after lunch, even as the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, held a celebratory news conference with reporters, promoting victories on increasing the minimum wage, establishing paid family leave for workers and increasing aid to schools.

Heastie says that's an improvement over the governor's initial plan, which directly linked school aid increases to the new plans, and would have held up the additional school aid until the teacher reviews were completed.

Frame's Bend it Like Barbie class has «touching your toes» as a main aim, with a focus on making hip flexors, hamstrings, shoulders and spine more supple (even building up to splits in time if you keep at it), while Barrecore holds Stretch classes at its locations nationwide to aid fascial release, elongate muscles and increase flexibility.

In the face of a dramatic $ 1.2 billion cut in state aid, school districts held the average statewide property tax levy increase at 3.4 percent under the proposed 2011 - 12 district budgets.

«While the fees are not part of state formula aid, which has been held at no less than flat for districts, the fees nonetheless reduce a school district's budget and the high increase was another bad surprise,» read prepared testimony from Lynne Strickland, director of the Garden State Coalition of Schools.

The automatic transmission is a six - speed unit aided by a Sport mode that increases throttle response and holds gears longer when compared to the default setting.

Variable - assist power steering, which increases or decreases mechanical aid according to need, seems right on the money, and four - wheel disc brakes hold Prelude with gentle firmness.

If parents want to increase the odds of a larger financial aid package, they should start transferring assets — held in the dependent's name — two or more years before college enrollment.

Trump campaigned on a platform of increasing jobs and fighting systems that were rigged, so we hope he will keep important protections in place ensuring that when schools rig the game and use students to line their pockets with federal student aid, students and taxpayers aren't left holding the bag.

And as our fund aid we sell fully valued holdings, further increasing our concentration and exchange some of the remaining debt holdings into equity and restructuring.

Fostering can extend holding periods, increase likelihood of adoption, aid in healing and recovery from injury or illness, reduce shelter crowding and improve socialization between animals and people.

Climate Security Index holds that climate change will change the nature of US foreign aid and humanitarian relief, anticipation of natural and manmade disasters, and military operations, placing a new importance on developing more effective and adaptive foreign assistance programs and increasing the flexibility of US armed forces.

In other news senior judges criticised dramatic increases in court fees, the Labour party Access to Justice Commission held its first meeting and Justice Alliance staged the «Voices for Justice» rally in London, in which Jeremy Corbyn described legal aid as a basic human right.