Sentences with phrase «big funding cuts»

Big funding cuts and changing government policies have had an impact, and the head of the Tackling Indigenous Smoking initiative Professor Tom Calma has conceded Australia won't meet its target to halve 2008 Indigenous smoking levels by 2018.

But it has always been extremely politically sensitive - with the expectation that there will be losers as well as winners - and the prospect of individual schools facing big funding cuts is going to be difficult to set against promises to protect school spending.

The state has a $ 4.4 billion deficit, and there's uncertainty over the effects of the federal tax overhaul on the state's finances, as well as possible big funding cuts by President Trump and Congress.

The state has a $ 4.4 billion dollar deficit, and there's uncertainty over the effects of the federal tax overhaul on the state's finances, as well as possible big funding cuts by President Trump and Congress.

Schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest funding cuts when the Government reallocates school funding, according to calculations by the NUT and ATL.

Indeed the CSIRO, probably more than any other organisation, deserve the big funding cut that I hope is coming their way in the May Budget.

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But even a tepid funding climate can carry big consequences for startups: Payfirma decided it would be prudent cut 30 positions, more than a third of its employees.

The proposed repeal of taxes that were put in place to fund Obamacare would give America's top earners the biggest cut.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percFund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percfund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percent.

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

The next big event that triggers a big sell - off in the junk market will cut the value of a lot of these junk bond mutual funds down by one - third to a half.

In the meantime, the funds cut their share by 2.3 %, but with over 84 % still remaining, this is not a big deal either.

They can cut risk further with equally weighted stock funds so that no one big company in an index can do much harm if it flops in price or goes bankrupt.

Of course, the big policy / political fight this week has been the budget / debt ceiling / government shutdown madness, including today's vote in the House to cut SNAP (food stamp) funding and Obamacare implementation.

The NHS made efficiencies of 1.7 % a year from 2009/10 to 2014/15 - which included making service cuts such as restricting access to hip and knee replacements - but the Health Foundation warned that Labour would need to make bigger savings, of 2 - 3 % a year, to close the funding gap.

Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.

Much bigger cuts lie ahead: Education Secretary Arne Duncan warns that as stimulus funding dries up, as many as 300,000 teachers and other school personnel could lose their jobs this year to budget cuts.

Over 100 New York City business leaders have written a joint letter to the leaders in Congress, asking that they not cut homeland security funding for the world's biggest terrorist target.

MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS — Johnson proposes cutting Council initiatives in search for Fair Fares cash — POLITICO's Gloria Pazmino and Brendan Cheney: Speaker Corey Johnson is floating a proposal to defund some Council spending initiatives as a way to pay for the Fair Fares plan, the Council's biggest budget request — and one that Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he has no intention of funding.

This comes after big cuts in SUNY funding and increase in tuition.

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats» Treasury spokesman, said: «What we really need is permanent, fully funded tax cuts targeted at those on low and average incomes, through reductions in income tax, rather than giving a temporary VAT cut, which will primarily reward the big spenders who have loads of money.»

But despite spending cuts and consolidations, the city's fund balance takes a big hit, in order to fill a multi-million dollar budget hole.

«Our report shows that the city could get over $ 1.5 billion in cost savings and fair - share taxes from big banks, millionaires and hedge funds to prevent the worst cuts.»

And, a big wild card that could further complicate things for Cuomo this year is what Washington does when it comes to funding cuts — particularly when it comes to Medicaid, which makes up a big portion of the state budget.

The Liberal Democrat made big strides on mental health, but his work was undermined by cuts to local government funding

As long as Osborne comes forward with big tax reductions funded by small % cuts in the amount of government waste, I'll be happy.

The members were also vocal about Cuomo's big push for tax cuts, protecting charter schools, and the tension they believed he caused with Mayor de Blasio over pre kindergarten funding.

About 85 communities would see their education cost sharing grants, the biggest source of state funding for public education in Connecticut, cut to zero in October.

He also said that he did not think it was appropriate for the «big society» to be given funding when universities are already facing huge cuts.

The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Thursday accused the Obama administration of cutting the Big Apple's anti-terror funding as «political payback» for Sen. Charles Schumer's vote against the Iranian nuke deal.

State officials will also have to respond if Trump and Congress move to repeal the Affordable Care Act or cut federal funding for Medicaid or other big - ticket programs.

... Dave Prentis, general - secretary of Unison, said Britain's biggest public sector union would cut its annual funding to Labour by # 210,000...» - Daily Mail

Progressives believe the probability of federal cuts in social service funding to the states makes it more important that New York fills the coming gap, in part, by taxing the wealthiest residents, some of whom are seeing big cuts with the new federal cuts for sole proprietorships and corporations.

The biggest piece of the GOP's budget - cutting plan would involve a $ 94.6 million municipal revenue sharing account, which is set to be funded by a half a percent allocation of the sales tax.

The program was spared a bigger, 23 % cut prescribed in President Donald Trump's proposed budget, which would have reduced HRSA funding to $ 11.7 million.

Money will be a big issue: the proposed price tag would re-direct about 1 per cent of NASA's current annual budget to Inspiration Mars, but funding is already so tight that the Congressional Budget Office has proposed cutting human spaceflight altogether.

The figures are based on calculations by the NUT and ATL, who have warned that schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest cuts when the government reallocates school funding.

Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.

Funding must also be increased for pupils with special educational needs or disabilities, early years pupils and 16 - 19 education, all of which have suffered even bigger real terms cuts since 2010.

A further 74 per cent of teaching staff claim they have already heard head teachers express concern over funding, while 59 per cent are implementing or due to introduce bigger class sizes to accommodate funding cuts.

The polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

Four of the five states with the biggest cuts in general school funding since 2008 — Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin — have also cut income tax rates in recent years.

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, the biggest cut in the entire Bridgeport school budget was for the funds needed to support Bridgeport students who require special education services.

Yet, our leadership wants to implement big cuts to after school funding and teacher quality.

A big factor is state higher education funding cuts over the past few decades.