Sentences with phrase «budget agreement raising»

Research advocates credit the generous increase to strong bipartisan support for NIH as well as the recent budget agreement raising mandatory caps on spending.

In addition to funding all government activities for another 6 weeks, the budget agreement raised by nearly a half - trillion dollars the amount of money that Congress could spend.

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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.

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 - up.

The government's current strategy is based on the hope that the EURO area will quickly recover from its 18 - month recession; that the US will find an agreement on a budget that will reverse sequestration and raise the debt ceiling; that emerging markets will become revitalized; that President Obama will agree to the XL pipeline; and that there will be a Canada - EU free trade deal.

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.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Sunday urged the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to block any votes on budget bills until a concrete agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility is in place.

The agreement on raise the age in the budget did not please all involved and had been part of a complicated back and forth over which crimes should be tried in diversion courts or in the Family Court system.

A key sticking point continues to be raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and an agreement that issue could pave the way for an official statement on a deal for a broader budget.

Lawmakers indicated on Thursday after meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo they are inching toward a final agreement on the state budget, but key issues on funding education and raising revenue for taxes remain unresolved.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

The issue is being raised in the resolution as Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is pushing to have the provision included in the final budget agreement, insisting that he and his eight - member conference will not support a spending plan that fails to include raise the age.

Additional space is needed after the «Raise the Age» measure was included in the final 2017 - 18 state budget agreement.

As negotiations over New York State's budget draw to a close, Governor Cuomo and the legislature are trying to hammer out an agreement to raise the state's minimum wage, which is currently just $ 8.75 and is currently scheduled to top out at $ 9.00 at the end of this year.

The New York State Association of Counties is raising an end - of - budget season alarm over mandated costs that could be part of the final state budget agreement.

The key Republican lawmaker involved involved in talks surrounding juvenile justice reform said Monday he's hopeful an agreement can be reached this week on raising the age of criminal responsibility as part of a broader budget agreement.

DiNapoli's report also raises issues with transparency in the finalized budget agreement beyond the so - called «sweeps» of funds.

Cuomo, in announcing the budget agreement on Friday night, praised the IDC for its work on getting a raise - the - age bill passed and for helping secure $ 10 million for immigrant legal services.

* Senate Independent Democratic Conference (IDC): The IDC which is aligned with the GOP, said it would not vote for a budget without a raise the age agreement.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

Under the terms of the September 2013 agreement, 443 workers who are part of Local 237 received raises of as much as 34 percent — retroactive to 2008 — for a total cost of $ 3 million, according to the union and the city's Office of Management and Budget.

While New York City Democrats would likely be the most frustrated if there's no agreement in 2016, there are dozens of lawmakers throughout the state who had to grapple with the issue on the campaign trail this year, and thus suffered a political headache for voting in favor of a budget bill that included a provision which didn't actually wind up raising their salary.

A pay - raise commission was nixed by Cuomo last fall, who wrote in a veto message that any raises for m / c workers should be done in the context of the budget, but no agreement on M / C pay hikes was reached in the approved 2014 - 15 state budget.

And, raising the possibility of a broader agreement in a budget package, Flanagan indicated measures were intersecting, as they tend to do in Albany during crunch time.

The move came amid a legislative impasse this weekend over raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 — a measure that stymied the Legislature to reaching a broader agreement on the final 2017 - 18 budget.

Heastie has pushed for the provision, which raises the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in New York, to be included in the state budget agreement, expected to be finalized next week.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo and lawmakers were nearing agreement Tuesday on a new budget that would provide additional money for NYCHA and the MTA — and also set in motion a process to give Assembly and Senate members a long - awaited raise.

The only action that somewhat resembled a development before Cuomo's 11:45 p.m. announcement came when Senate Democrats attempted to organize a boycott of the entire budget vote until there was an agreement on a raise the age announcement they supported.

Ryan said there are different ideas about Raise the Age - a campaign that does not want 16 - and 17 - year - olds prosecuted as adults - in «urban vs. non-urban backgrounds,» holding up agreement in the budget.

The budget was due by April 1 but lawmakers and Cuomo failed to reach agreement on several sticking points — most notably the juvenile justice reform known as «raise the age.»

«Citizens» Committee for Children is grateful to the members of the Independent Democratic Conference for their commitment to ensuring legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility was included in this year's budget agreement.

The «raise the age» issue has been a sticking point in talks, but was described by lobbyists and legislators as a linchpin for a budget agreement.

To cut a long - term spending deal, Democrats are pushing for an equivalent increase in both defense and nondefense funding above the spending caps set under a 2011 budget agreement - one similar to agreements reached in 2013 and 2015 to raise the caps for the following two years.

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The House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees that hold the purse strings for DOE and the Army Corps of Engineers received an additional $ 4 billion from the recent agreement to raise the budget caps, notes Michael Lubell, a physicist at City College of New York and a former lobbyist for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C..

Education Matters strongly supports both the proposed 15 % raise and the district's proposed additions to its agreement with UTR members as long as the raise is attainable within a structurally balanced budget.

Since the EU referendum in June 2016, the country has witnessed a series of defining political and financial shifts: David Cameron's resignation as Prime Minister and Theresa May's appointment as his successor; interest rates being cut to a record - low 0.25 % before then being raised back to 0.5 %; Article 50 being issued and Brexit negotiations officially commencing; a snap General Election in which the Conservative Party lost its majority, leading to the Tories entering into a confidence and supply agreement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party; and not one but two Budget announcements delivered by the Chancellor Philip Hammond in 2017.