Sentences with phrase «aid spending by»

LASPO aimed to cut legal aid spending by # 450m.

Financial aid spending by the federal government includes about $ 35 billion in Pell Grants, which provide students from low - income families up to $ 5,645 per year to defray college expenses.

Not exact matches

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.

We spent hours in the street until aid workers moved us into a school building,» Gharibian told Reuters by telephone.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- The U.S. economy grew 1.7 % in the second quarter, aided by stable consumer spending and a ramp - up in business investment, the government said Wednesday.

The trade surplus means struggling energy and manufacturing companies may contribute to growth aided by debt - fueled consumer spending on houses and cars.

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.

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

The ad and the broader campaign are aimed mostly at a spending measure passed by the Republican - led House of Representatives that cuts $ 61 billion from current spending levels, including cuts to Head Start, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program and international aid programs.

Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad is a technocrat who spent his career at the World Bank and was imposed by Western donors who were tired of Fatah's stealing the lion's share of foreign aid.

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.

Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programs to help HIV + people in the local community cope with the emotional and financial strains brought about by HIV and AIDS.

The federal government has approved New York City's plan to spend the first $ 1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start flowing by early summer to homeowners, businesses and others in need.

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.

«We believe that development aid should be judged by the criteria of effectiveness and value for money, not by whether a specific arbitrary spending target is reached.»

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.

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.

Meanwhile, the Assembly wants to increase education spending by $ 1.5 billion, putting school aid at $ 27.1 billion.

Assembly Democrats in April begrudgingly approved an spending spending plan that linked a boost in school aid to the adoption of education policy changes opposed by teachers unions.

A report by Christian Aid, Enough is Enough: The Debt Repudiation Option, hypothesises that had the money spent to service foreign debt «been spent on healthcare, education and infrastructure, the millennium development goals — which today seem like a fantasy — might have been within the world's grasp» (p. 9).

Meanwhile, more details on spending are trickling out: The state will increase education spending by $ 1 billion, including a $ 619 million hike in foundation aid and $ 240 million more in expense - based aid.

Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax subsidies for upper income households to aid private or parochial schools by allowing 529 account balances to spend up to $ 10,000 a year on private or parochial school tuition and supplies.

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.

SOF spending is a measure of cash disbursement for operations and debt service supported by State revenues; it excludes capital investments and spending supported by federal aid.

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.

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This could mean less money for costly items in the spending plan like school aid, which increased this year by more than 6 percent.

«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.

«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.

-- Invited the first openly gay couple to stay overnight in the White House — Encouraged her husband to fight the AIDS epidemic to the tune of $ 5.727 billion that was spent by the federal government by the time President Reagan left office — Sent a special message in support of Log Cabin Republicans that was read at our 2013 Spirit of Lincoln Dinner.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

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.

Lynne Featherstone and I were in Ethiopia, for whom Britain is now the first member of the G8 to have met the decades - old promise by rich countries to spend 0.7 % of our national wealth on aid for the developing world.

State Budget Director Bob Megna issued a statement yesterday rejecting the mayor's claim that the city stands to lose $ 2 billion if Cuomo's spending plan is enacted as - is by the Legislature and also insisting the mayor has more than enough stashed away to make up the difference of whatever the final aid reduction might be.

The Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of ability to pay.

General fund spending is reduced by $ 8.9 billion, including Medicaid and education aid cuts of $ 2.85 billion each.

It follows Afghan president Hamid Karzai's pledge at yesterday's Kabul conference that Afghan security forces would lead military operations across the country by 2014, in return for control over half of all aid money spent in Afghanistan.

He's said he'll recommend an increase in school aid by perhaps as much as five percent over last year, but he's also promised to not raise overall spending in the state budget above two percent.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Democrats argued that it's too late and the state would lose over $ 1 billion in federal aid already spent by schools on implementing Common Core.

The daylong veto-fest was designed to follow through on Paterson's vow to quash an estimated 6,900 spending provisions added to the budget by a defiant Legislature this week, including $ 600 million in school aid and thousands of legislative pet projects known as member items.

But the parties remain far apart on the issue of school aid, a major component of state spending and one Mr. Paterson has sought to slash by more than $ 1 billion.

New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a PAC formed by pro-charter group StudentsFirst and backed by hedge funders, has spent $ 4 million aiding Republican candidates, records show.

The bills were based, by law, on the spending plan Paterson first proposed in January, but they restored some of his school aid cuts, eliminated his tax cap and took out a proposal to allow SUNY and CUNY the ability to raise tuition unilaterally — basically all the stuff that might possibly have compelled any of the members to explain anything difficult to their constituents.

Democrats argued that it's too late for that, and the state would lose over $ 1 billion in federal aid already spent by schools on implementing Common Core.

And New Yorkers for Quality Health Care, which is directed by the Greater New York Hospital Association's for - profit affiliate, has spent $ 466,858 aiding the GOP.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal on a $ 168.3 billion spending plan that increases school aid by $ 1 billion, restructures the state tax code to respond to changes in Washington, directs money to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by raising fees on taxis and Uber rides and paves the way for the use of eminent domain near Penn Station.

The Assembly has proposed a spending plan that would provide $ 25 billion in total school aid, about $ 1.8 billion more than the previous year, but that budget was not supported by the senate or Gov. Cuomo.

Aided by some budgetary gimmickry, the governor through this year has, at least technically, stuck to the 2 percent line — but has also spent any resulting excess cash before it could accumulate into much of a true surplus.