Sentences with phrase «aid rates for»

My position might well be very different if we heard that the new revenue being collected off of HST on legal fees was to be invested in enhancing legal aid rates for those who currently can not adequately obtain representation.

The criminal justice system is under unprecedented pressure: police numbers are being slashed, our courts are creaking and legal aid rates for defence lawyers have been frozen for years.

Not exact matches

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

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).

2 Although the rules may vary slightly by state, generally, a 529 account owned by a parent for a dependent student is reported on the federal financial - aid application (FAFSA) as a parental asset and is assessed at a (maximum) 5.6 % rate in determining the student's expected family contribution.

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

Despite Trump's complaints during the presidential race that the Fed was aiding Democrats in keeping rates ultra-low under President Barack Obama, his choices for a chairman and for other slots on the Fed's board have been moderates rather than hard - core conservatives who would favor a faster tightening of credit.

It the region where people with albinism are killed for sake of richness (belief), it is the region where people sacrifice even their children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus high rates of HIV / AIDS.

His 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, showed how abstinence and faithfulness, for the most part in its religiously ordered form, had contributed more to Uganda's striking reduction of its HIV infection rate in the late 1980s and early»90s than «safe sex» could hope to.

Either a woman is actually raped (South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world; the rumor of the «virgin cure» has sent male AIDS patients on the hunt for younger and younger girls to rape), or she is pressured socially and economically.

Soaking the seeds for two or three days can sometimes aid the germination rate and percentage, but probably not a significant amount.

Looking forward to Raul Sanllehi appointment, with Sven getting gems signed and pushing for players he rates... If we have someone like Raul who can aid in getting deals done then I think we could have a good future.

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She is the Director of the Optimal Birth BC program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which develops syntheses of evidence for clinicians, decision - aids and information packages for childbearing families, and uses local data to evaluate clinical practice and direct change to reduce rates of cesarean section in BC hospitals and health authorities.

Another study has reported on a unique intervention previously shown beneficial for preterm infants, using a «breathing bear» with gentle body motion rates that can be adjusted to match infant's breathing rates to serve as a comforting, nonintrusive crib friend for the infant, and a reassuring aid for the mother.47 As infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcement.

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.

For example, Ethiopia's growth rates of close to 10 percent per annum are the product of the combination of soaring investment in dams, railways and roads (often in partnership with Chinese firms); a continued reliance on Western aid (to the tune of more than $ 4 billion annually); and, crucially, a domestically crafted strategy of agriculture - led development first.

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.»

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

Just last week, he won the endorsement of The New York Times as well as other left - of - center groups as they criticized Hochul's past opposition to state aid for illegal aliens and her 100 percent rating from the National Rifle Association, according to the New York Post.

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.

Another mentions that pay rates for legal aid work have not risen for 20 years and are now actually falling.

«Although school aid is statutorily capped at the annual growth rate of personal income, the projected increase for next fiscal year is a much larger 7.5 percent,» the budget watchdog wrote.

Mr Cretz said the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, in collaboration with Ghana's Health Ministry, the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana AIDS Commission played an important role in the decline of Ghana's HIV prevalence rate from 3.6 per cent in 2005 to 1.3 per cent in 2013.

This could mean no serious boost in education aid and a straight extension of expiring tax rates on millionaires — an ox gored for Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans alike.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

Mayor Richards says Rochester has the lowest per capita rate of any upstate city for the state's aid to municipalities fund, which results in the city paying more for its schools than Buffalo, even though there are fewer students.

DiNapoli in an interview in August indicated he would keep the contribution rates the same for local governments, which have struggled in recent years to raise revenue amid a cap on property taxes, the flat growth of aid to municipalities and mandated state spending requirements.

The Department for International Development's 2011 multilateral aid review rated nine organisations to be poor.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

The plan includes $ 180.5 million in debt service savings for Fiscal 2018, primarily from re-estimates of debt service costs related to variable - rate bonds and the retention of state building aid revenue by the Transitional Finance Agency.

C. Virginia Fields of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and Manhattan State Sen. Brad Hoylman, talk to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the HIV / AIDS infection rates for young people.

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.

AIDS advocacy groups, including the Gay Men's Health Crisis, stated that the city's most heavily policed neighborhoods are also those with the highest rates of HIV infection — and therefore the greatest need for the protection condoms provide.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

In 2011, Cuomo decided to cap growth in education spending at the rate of New Yorkers» personal income growth, and he cut state aid accordingly for the 2011 - 12 school year by $ 1.3 billion.

Dealing just with the state's spending of its own money, not federal aid, the governor is proposing to increase total state spending 7.8 percent, to $ 83.6 billion, or about three times the rate of inflation projected for the state.

The worst ratings are for the cuts to disability benefits for people reliant on aids or appliances.

Republican leaders did not speak, though some individual GOP members said they voted no because taxpayers should not finance college aid for the children of undocumented immigrants, and that they are already eligible for lower in - state rates at public universities.

The Prime Minister is pleased to have political cover for keeping the 50p top rate of tax, abandoning the «prison works» approach to crime, avoiding a return to grammar schools and retaining the ring - fence on aid — all policies that infuriate the rightwingers.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

Other budget provisions: The budget agreement also includes: an expansion of the state's Tuition Assistance Program for college students and their families; a 12 percent increase in aid to cities and local governments; a $ 3.8 billion transportation bond act; an increase of $ 1.1 billion in aid to schools; and an expansion of the EPIC program, which gives seniors access to reduced - rate prescription drugs.

(He earned a 20 percent rating in the 110th Congress by voting for PEPFAR, The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Reliefor PEPFAR, The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS RelieFor AIDS Relief.)

Arrived is the moment for New York Republicans to set aside the Kool - Aid of a candidate who has historic nationwide negative ratings, is especially loathed by women and is walloped by Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in general election polls.

The mayor has gotten, generally, good grades for the city's improved bond rating and what not, yet the city remains very reliant on state aid.

Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in the United States in more than two decades — an uptick last seen at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic in 1993 — and factored into a year - over-year decline in the nation's life expectancy rate in 2015, according to an expert addressing a congressional briefing and a related presentation on the opioid epidemic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's headquarters on May 10.

Newly public data on grant funding success rates reflect one impetus for abandoning the set - aside: At many institutes, AIDS grants have been much easier to get than non-AIDS funding, suggesting that officials were struggling to find ways to spend the money.

NIH notes, however, «that a higher success rate for AIDS doesn't always mean the quality bar was lower; certain institutes may have spent AIDS funds for a specific topic that attracted only a few proposals that were of very high quality.