Sentences with phrase «budget increases so»

Although Congress and the White House agreed in 2002 to double the budget of the National Science Foundation over five years, annual budget increases so far are too small to meet that goal.
$ 15 is just crazy and now I read the NON-profits in NY want their budgets increased so they can pay higher wages.
Perhaps a budget increase so that PD offices won't have to cut staff?

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We're now approaching the end of that «next term,» and the budget is pretty close to being balanced, so we're now seeing increased attention to TFSAs as we get closer to the 2015 federal budget.
And over his seven - plus years, the budget's gone up by 86 %, so that's quite a large increase.
Get a side gig to increase your income so you can build savings or pay down debt to free up more cash in your budget.
So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.
Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent.
If you do so, you must need to increase your budget from usual range to brand value.
For the third time in the last 18 months, the Midlothian Park District will ask for a 25 - cent increase for each $ 100 of equalized assessed property valuation so that it can boost its strained operating budget.
However, convertibility does increase the price, so if you're on a budget, consider getting either a bouncy seat / rocker or a swing.
Reverend Jim Ketcham, a Baptist minister who is on the New York State Council of Churches executive board, called the budget so far «obscene and immoral» for not increasing funding for the needy and not including proposals by the governor and the Democratic - led Assembly to increase taxes on the rich.
The handouts have already been given and at the same time the tax increases which will be necessary won't be made until 2010, so I would predict a neutral Budget.
The Rev. Jim Ketcham, a Baptist minister who is on the New York State Council of Churches» executive board, called the budget so far «obscene and immoral» for not increasing funding for the needy and not including proposals by the governor and the Democratic - led Assembly to increase taxes on the rich.
But Miner's job, first and foremost, is as an advocate for her city, and if that means calling out the governor for «budget gimmicks» that could increase the long - term fiscal pressure on Syracuse, then so be it.
Reverend Jim Ketcham a Baptist Minister is on the New York State Council of Churches executive board, called the budget so far «obscene and immoral», for not including proposals by the governor and the Democratic led Assembly to increase taxes on the rich, while at the same time not increasing funding for the needy.
Finance Committee Chairwoman Kathleen Joy says the city can't continue to cut it's way out of yearly budget deficits, so lawmakers felt the time was right for this increase.
I was heavily criticized for a budget that increased taxes last year, I listened and we reduced the burden slightly, but I insisted we do so by not further tapping into our fund balance and that will prove to be significant as we close 2008 and continue in 2009.
Even so, stretching budgets for some local governments won't go far enough, which could lead to an increase in officials seeking tax cap overrides next year.
City & State magazine published on Tuesday an op / ed from a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that, in essence, issued a subtle warning to lawmakers who may want to hold up the budget process this month: Do so and risk a scuttling of a pay increase at the end of next year.
(Well, yes, except all the hard stuff had already been either passed prior to the budget — like tax code reform and the so - called «big ugly» mentioned above — or negotiated last year, liuke the 4 percent increase in education and health care spending).
He was also a liberal throwback completely unconcerned about, for example, the wisdom of hiking budget spending by 11 percent, as he did one year, or by enacting a package of tax increases so huge and costly it was called «The Big Ugly.»
While he's glad a minimum wage increase is in the mix for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 142.6 budget proposal, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says future increases should be tied to the rate of inflation so it doesn't become part of a «political football.»
Despite not ruling out the wake hike from being included in the budget, Golden said the impact of another wage increase so soon could be detrimental.
Cuomo's additional efforts to induce lawmakers to pass a version of the so - called «circuit - breaker» that ties tax increases to a households income have faltered in the last two budget proposals.
«While Howard Kopel voted to eliminate the tax on heat and electricity and voted for two no - tax - increase county budgets, his opponent, Adam Moser, wants a 39 percent tax hike so county employees can continue to get free health care, 61 paid days off and big six - figure salaries.
School taxes would go up significantly and force many districts to present budgets exceeding the so - called property tax cap if state lawmakers approve a minimum wage increase to $ 15 an hour, according to leaders of various Monroe County school districts.
What you say here about education funds could be said about any major budget line — education, medicaid, welfare, roads, and so on.There are always those who demand cuts and those who lobby to have the funds increased.
May I suggest that it would be much better to provide a whole week of Back - Bench business, so that all the matters that I am sure Government Members would like to debate, such as why the European Commission is demanding an increase of 7 % in its budget, and all the issues that Opposition Members would like to discuss, such as the double - dip recession, can be put not only to Ministers, but to the Prime Minister, who will be avoiding Prime Minister's questions for another two weeks?
He did not insert it into the state budget, which would have greatly increased its chances of passage, despite calls for him to do so
There was a modest (# 2bn) increase in total spending in cash terms, so the overall retrenchment spelt out in the Emergency Budget remains unchanged.
The Library appreciates and thanks Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for recommending a county funding increase of $ 469,483 (2.0 %) to libraries in his 2017 Proposed Budget through funds generated by growth in the equalized full value property tax base so there is no increase in the property tax rate.
Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski expressed her appreciation, stating: On behalf of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System we want to thank Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for recommending a county funding increase of $ 451,766 (2.0 %) to libraries in his 2015 proposed budget through funds generated by growth in the equalized full value property tax base so there is no increase in the property tax rate.
15 - 18 % of the total property tax bill is county tax, so it makes a difference if this county tax levy is increased and how future budget allocations will be determined.
All budget options are said to be on the table, including property tax increases above the tax cap, some union givebacks (but not a giveback of their contractual salary increase), and a return of the so - called «nuisance taxes,» including the Real Estate Transfer Tax and the Income Tax Surcharge.
The Library very much appreciates and thanks Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for recommending a county funding increase of $ 460,277 (2.0 %) to libraries in his 2016 proposed budget through funds generated by growth in the equalized full value property tax base so there is no increase in the property tax rate.
The budget's details have not yet been released but lawmakers say it will include increased college tuition assistance and a higher age of criminal responsibility so 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders aren't prosecuted and incarcerated as adults.
Downing Street is playing down his prospects of success, as 17 of the EU's 27 member states are net recipients of the EU budget and so favour a real - terms increase.
The preliminary budget renewed last year's increase in funding for runaway and homeless youth so that the city could provide 100 emergency beds above the level it had in previous years.
So, we would welcome any increase that the Trump administration wants to make in the defense budget that would result in additional soldiers coming back to Fort Drum.»
Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.
First, on Tuesday, «[a] Senate spending panel... approved a tiny budget increase next year for [NSF] and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government,» Jeffrey Mervis reported.
A Senate spending panel today approved a tiny budget increase next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government.
Although it faces stiff opposition on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposal would dial back spending reductions to provide a 7.2 percent increase over 2015 levels, and a $ 329 billion increase cumulatively through fiscal 2021, when the so - called sequestration caps expire.
«It's not a windfall by any means, but on the other hand, certainly we understand it's a pretty constrained budget environment so being able to see any increase at all is a positive thing,» says Thom Mason, director of DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
«The so - called 21st Century Cures Act contains huge news for supporters of biomedical research: It recommends substantial budget increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including $ 10 billion in extra funding over 5 years.
The 2018 budget request cancels NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission — an Obama administration - era project to bring part of an asteroid near the moon so astronauts could visit the space rock and retrieve samples — but included no details on cancelation other than it was needed «to accommodate increasing development costs.»
Doubling the budget, he realized, would, of course, encourage rapid growth — so smaller, continual increases would then be required to keep this bigger enterprise humming.
The lab was lucky in 2017 because Congress voted for a budget increase, so the lab recouped all the money it initially lost.
The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171
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