Sentences with phrase «budget crisis in the state»

Still, with a looming budget crisis in the state and polls that suggest he will waltz to the nomination, it's hard to see how Crist passes up the Senate race.

Due to the budget crisis in state government, Louisiana's private school voucher program will not be able to take all students in the fall.

Not exact matches

Schultz and the President discussed Schultz's «concerns for the country,» the budget predicaments facing 42 states, and «the profound crisis of confidence in America.»

All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cuts.

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, New Mexico Finance and Administration Secretary Duffy Rodriguez, from left, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla and Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey give testimony to lawmakers about state budget shortfalls in Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutIn this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, New Mexico Finance and Administration Secretary Duffy Rodriguez, from left, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla and Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey give testimony to lawmakers about state budget shortfalls in Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutin Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutin courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cuts.

But the state is in a budget crisis, with school funding a central issue as Gov. Dannel Malloy seeks to overhaul the state formula to redistribute money to districts in need.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million.

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This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing parts of midtown and the east side, on Wednesday described the resolution as «more than a little disturbing» in reference to the Senate's response to the MTA's transit crisis and budget woes.

The Republican members concluded by saying, «We stand with our Democratic Council counterparts in acting now to meet the budget crises that the State's inaction is imposing on Yonkers.

New York's political leaders were on track to extend the court order to apply to all schools in the state and to fulfill the monetary obligation, but it was derailed after the 2008 recession and resulting state budget crisis.

Saying New York is «ground zero» in the financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget gap.

«NIFA has disallowed over $ 60 million in contingency revenue sources that we proposed and that municipalities around the state routinely use to balance their budgets, creating a budget crisis that does not exist in reality, but allows NIFA to unfairly continue its control of county finances,» she said.

«The Senate continues to be at the forefront of efforts to battle the state's heroin crisis and was instrumental in securing $ 214 million in this year's budget for measures to prevent and treat heroin and opioid abuse,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, waiting until last week's budget briefing, 39,000 words later, to address the crisis in Hooksick Falls.

The budget crisis in New York State is pressing and it's fair for union members to make sacrifices.

Paterson also made reference in his speech to the economic woes being faced in the United States, calling them a «crisis,» and promised to «adjust the budget accordingly.»

ALBANY, NY (04/21/2009)(readMedia)-- New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes, who served as a member of the Ravitch Commission, today urged all parties in Albany to work together to negotiate a fair, workable and comprehensive solution to the MTA's budget crisis.

They discuss the state's unresolved budget crisis, recent questions raised about where Cuomo is getting his political donations, and whether the state needs tax reform in order to keep its population.

They'll also discuss transparency in state government, ethics reform and a progressive approach to solving the state's budget crisis.

Joined by New York State Senator Timothy Kennedy Wednesday at the Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, leaders of several science and nature education centers warned that their ability to fully serve the public - and remain important contributors to the local economy - may be in jeopardy if they lose state funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crState Senator Timothy Kennedy Wednesday at the Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, leaders of several science and nature education centers warned that their ability to fully serve the public - and remain important contributors to the local economy - may be in jeopardy if they lose state funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crstate funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crisis.

Cuomo noted he has invited a host of interested parties in the state to «come to the table» to address the state's budget crisis, specifically speaking of «our brothers and sisters in labor,» 1199 SEIU (the health care workers), the Senate and the Assembly.

Worldwide, markets have been roiled thanks in part to the ongoing Greek debt crisis, but also the United States's own issues with government debt and the federal government's inability to determine how to close the budget deficit.

About $ 600 million in last year's budget went toward restoring the cuts, made at the height of the state's post-recession budget crisis.

The New York State Democratic Committee recognizes the State's fiscal crisis and stands strongly in support of Governor Cuomo's budget.»

Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, but he he quietly included proposals designed to prevent another Hoosick Falls - like scandal in his budget.

A successful businessperson, who has never held public office, but has worked in finance and is running to help steer New York through the current financial crisis, or A career elected official who is running on his experience in politics and government and knows how to create efficient state budgets,» the business person beat the career elected official 53 - 30.

Faced with a $ 5 billion projected budget shortfall, Malloy and the Democratic and Republican caucuses in the State Senate and State House of Representatives recently offered up revised budget proposals aimed at addressing Connecticut's growing fiscal crisis.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

Smack in the middle of the state budget crisis, the guv dropped almost $ 40K on Turkish rugs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won nearly every element of his hard - times budget proposal in talk with the Senate and Assembly, whose leaders acknowledged the state's grave fiscal crisis early on.

The budget crisis was averted when County Executive Mike Hein proposed releasing $ 1.4 million in unanticipated revenue (which came from an alteration in the state / county funding formula for another welfare program) to municipalities to offset the unexpected increase in Safety Net expenses.

Representative Chris Gibson (Republican - Kinderhook) and Representative Paul Tonko (Democrat - Amsterdam), two upstate congressmen, discuss the crisis in Syria and whether the United States should intervene, the chances we get a farm bill by the end of September and the looming showdown on the federal budget.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

What the naysayers won't tell you is that the high taxes caused by decades of irresponsible budgeting are what put the state in this crisis position in the first place.

The ongoing state budget crisis is pushing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer Costate budget crisis is pushing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer Costate Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer CoState Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer County.

Nearly half of Connecticut's high earners say they might leave the state in the next five years because of the state's budget crisis and a ballooning cost of living.

«Together, let's use the budget process we're engaged in to address the top priority we've outlined today: The crisis of inequality in our city and our state.

Reading and commenting on a Press Release, Day stated that the County was in «crisis recovery and the County needs to find a path to recovery and that is what the budget is designed to accomplish.»

The team is «working to educate people about the fact that the university is hiding behind the state budget crisis to pretend that there's no money,» he adds, citing a December 2009 informational picket on all 10 UC campuses staged in collaboration with UPTE - CWA 9119, the union that represents lab technicians and other technical employees and faces similar issues in its own contract negations.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

As the state's long - building budget crisis deepened, the governor was steadfast in his opposition to new taxes or adding to the state's deep deficits.

State rules surrounding local school - district budgeting procedures contribute to the opposite impression, making it appear that schools are in a perpetual financial crisis.

With the current economic crisis placing even more of a tight squeeze on state and local budgets, investing in the future of education is something Mayersohn does not want to be ignored.

Instead of embracing those ideas and running with them, Schwarzenegger backed away in January 2008, citing the enormity of the state's budget crisis.

«The way out of the budget crisis is to prepare the state for a bright economic future by supporting the educational programs that are in - demand and are getting results.»

campaign, says the latest survey shows the «stark reality as to how bad things are» and that schools are «stating unequivocally that their budgets remain in crisis».