In the short term, the recent
budget agreement in the U.S. House of Representatives (which, hopefully, will already have been passed by the Senate by the time this is published) provides more money for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science.
«I'm pleased to announce this evening that we have
a budget agreement in concept,» said Cuomo Wednesday night.
With the new fiscal year under way and no state
budget agreement in place, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for a two - month extension of last year's budget until the end of May.
As I write, there is still
no budget agreement in Albany, and the city school system is facing $ 500 million in cuts for next year.
The governor's office itself is now operating under a cloud as the U.S. Attorney's office examines the governor's deal to shutter his Moreland Commission Investigating Public Corruption as part of
a budget agreement in 2014.
Already a full month into the fiscal year and without
a budget agreement in sight, the state — now operating under the tight financial constraints of an executive order — is cutting services to its most vulnerable residents.
Furthermore, the bill, which was passed in a state
budget agreement in early April, fails to lower sky - high campaign contribution limits, close campaign funding loopholes, or mandate greater disclosure of independent expenditures by special interest groups.
The Moreland Commission, which was investigating potential wrongdoing in the legislature, was closed down as part of
a budget agreement in late March.
State lawmakers are hurrying toward getting
a budget agreement in place, with a stepped up schedule of conference committees and meetings with Governor Cuomo.
«I'm pleased to announce this evening that we have
a budget agreement in concept,» said Cuomo, who said bills would begin printing immediately.
The 2014 - 15 state
budget agreement in March included a public financing program for the state comptroller's race for this year only.
Organizations on the left have been vocally unhappy with Cuomo and the $ 138 billion
budget agreement in particular (self - identified liberal voters, however, continue to give Cuomo strong support, according to a recent Siena College poll).
The measure was passed after last spring's
budget agreement in which the lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to spend $ 19 million on an Enhanced Tuition Award program.
Given the holidays this year, there is a push to get
a budget agreement in place by Thursday, March 29th.
In the call, Obama cites the recent
budget agreement in Albany that Kaminsky voted for as a sitting member of the Assembly, which included a 12 - week paid family leave program and an increase in the minimum wage targeted for $ 15 in downstate counties.
Update: As part of the year - end
budget agreement in Congress, which was authorized on December 18, the Section 179 deduction and innovation credits have been made permanent.
Not exact matches
Although OPEC and allies have never officially targeted any specific price of oil with the production cut
agreement, each member of the pact knows very well where they want oil prices to be
in order to balance their
budgets that have been stretched thin
in the price plunge.
Morneau's comments came after he met with private sector economists
in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade
Agreement to global economic uncertainty ahead of the federal
budget on Feb. 27.
NDP MP Thomas Mulcair, who represents the Montreal riding of Outremont, further suggested that the federal government was stalling on finalizing the
agreement, rather than including it
in the
budget, for political reasons.
The
agreement handed a victory to Obama, who had promised before the election to address
budget woes
in part by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
European Union leaders reached
agreement on the first ever cut
in their common
budget on Friday after 24 hours of talks, seeking to placate millions at home struggling through government cutbacks and recession.
It has recently been reported that the University of Alberta wants to «reopen two - year collective
agreements» with faculty and staff «to help the university balance its
budget...» This appears to be
in direct response to Alberta's provincial government announcing
in its March
budget that there would be a «7 % cut to operating grants to universities, -LSB-...]
[1] Admittedly, the Trudeau government did announce $ 30 million
in temporary funding for some social housing
agreements in its first
budget; but that was just two years of funding.
summary of Canadian health care system: Canada has a single payer health care system, where the provinces are responsible for health care
budgets, administration and delivery, yet have inter-provincial
agreements that ensure you are covered anywhere
in Canada (for those
in the US not familiar with Canada, our provinces are much like your states; with a bit more autonomy from our federal government).
I congratulate the Prime Minister on what has been achieved thus far, which we must hope will translate into mutually beneficial withdrawal and trade
agreements, but given that that can not be guaranteed, will she give instructions for the sum set aside by the Chancellor
in his
Budget last month to be expended on upgrading our customs infrastructure,
in order to secure smooth international trade after Brexit and reassure business
in this country?
Aides and lawmakers say
budget talks
in the Senate are moving toward an
agreement for whopping increases
in Pentagon spending as well as domestic programs.
The
budget conference
agreement will have to reconcile these numbers and ideally set
in motion a process for offsetting an increase
in the caps if agreed upon.
Right now the government is unable to get
agreement with the provinces on its proposed training
agreement, because the government never bothered to discuss it with the provinces before announcing it
in the 2013
budget.
The
budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase
in domestic...
As Canada strives to fulfill its obligations under the Paris
Agreement, the 2017 federal
budget outlined plans to double investments
in clean energy innovation by 2020, with $ 2.2 billion earmarked to support cleantech R&D, commercialization and adoption.
Since Living Goods» overall
budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million
in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in reserves (about $ 2 million
in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2015 and about $ 1 million
in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149
In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and
in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through
agreements with funders who have supported its work
in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding
in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.
Tax reform and the
budget agreement may place more upward pressure on domestic interest rates, which may lead to more volatility
in fixed - income markets as well.
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Both President Obama and Speaker Boehner support switching to the chained CPI
in the context of a bipartisan
budget agreement.
CFTC head Tim Massad had it right when he condemned the recent
budget agreement as undercutting the ability to regulate derivatives
in a serious way.
Automatic
budget cuts and tax increases will kick
in if Congress can not reach an
agreement.
The statement did not mention the extra government stimulus that has been added since the Fed's most recent economic forecast
in the form of a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut and a
budget agreement that will add $ 300 billion
in government spending over two years.
Futures pointed to a higher opening as investors found reason to be positive
in the House's passing of the
budget agreement last night.
He said creditors should commit to discussing debt changes as a «second step» after an
agreement on Greece's
budget, economy and near - term financing is achieved
in coming days.
In the March 2013
Budget the government announced major reforms to federal - provincial training
agreements without any prior consultation with the provinces.
Remedial action on this front will require extreme vigilance over foreign aid
budgets, and careful attention will have to be paid to the Clinton Administration as it tries to square its adherence to an international
agreement that flatly rejects abortion as a means of family planning with its commitment to huge increases
in U.S. aid funding to organizations that actively promote precisely that evil.
That means, do we have to reconfigure the household
budget and put more of it towards the food
in the longer term,... We have to do that against the background of losing the sense of sovereignty globally and free trade
agreements, modern communications and non-market currencies.
That's the only organization he's ever known, but they're also
in kind of a weird place where they're trying to get their
budget back under control, especially with the new collective bargaining
agreement making it so that teams are punished even more the further beyond the luxury tax threshold they go.
Ferrari got its way, and the # 40m
budget cap that was the premise for Virgin Racing, Team Lotus and HRT entering the sport was dropped
in favour of a «Resource Restriction
Agreement».
Under the
agreement, the city would provide the Park District about $ 324,000 over five years to help pay for the rising maintenance cost to the 21 - year - old park, which
in 2001 was $ 581,000 or nearly 25 percent of the district's maintenance
budget.
In his first public comments since actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it is «the political silly season» and that he is focused on a downstate snowstorm and the state
budget agreement.
Talks extended
in the weekend to negotiate an
agreement over the provision, one of the more contentious policy measures included by Gov. Andrew Cuomo
in his $ 152 billion
budget proposal.
Not everyone was pleased with the
agreement in the
budget to raise the age of criminal responsibility
in New York.
Still, event with a raise the
agreement in place — believed to be one of the last and most contentious of the policy matters
in the
budget — there are remaining matters that must be dealt with, including a push to bolster charter schools and funding for education.
It's a perfunctory, but key step
in the process toward developing a state
budget agreement, scheduled by lawmakers to pass this year by March 29.