Sentences with phrase «close budget deficits»

These state - run schools enroll 11,000 students and have steadily been cut over the last several years as state legislators worked to close budget deficits.

The report goes on to explain that the new budget uses borrowing, one - time revenues, and fund transfers to close budget deficits and cover operating expenses and reports that, «By relying on these measures, rather than recurring revenues to close the state's budget gap... state policymakers have opened up a larger revenue hole in future budget years.»

First, states and localities struggling to close budget deficits could reasonably consider restraining teacher compensation, particularly pension and retiree health benefits.

«Both places are keeping our tax dollars to close their budget deficits,» Bloomberg said.

This is a clear peace offering to the public employee unions, which have long called for the state to review its outside contractors and reduce its use of them before turning to state worker layoffs to close budget deficits.

The cost of petrol and diesel will also increase in the next fiscal year to close a budget deficit of over 15 percent.

Why didn't he ask Texans to pray for money when the legislature was trying to close the budget deficit?

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

Asked about Gov. David Paterson's New York Times OpEd that slammed the Legislature for daring to consider borrowing to help close the budget deficit, (something Ravitch has proposed as long as it also includes reforms), Silver told NY1's Erin Billups:

After speaking to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, Gov. David Paterson is reconsidering a deal to tax nonresident hedge fund managers as a means of generating new revenue to help the state close its budget deficit.

AG Andrew Cuomo opposes the soda tax and the cigarette tax increase as a means to close the budget deficit.

Should layoffs of the state workforce be on the table to close the budget deficit?

Gov. David Paterson, who has been back and forth on whether borrowing is a viable option for helping close the budget deficit, yesterday took it off the table once again, saying he will veto any spending plan that includes deficit financing.

Skelos, who has endorsed fellow Republican Rick Lazio for governor, noted that all of the candidates — including Cuomo — have espoused fiscally conservative positions that the Senate GOP has long pushed, including a property tax cap, holding the line on taxes and a ban on borrowing to close the budget deficit.

Faso has a long record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits that go back to his tenure as Minority Leader in the Assembly, where he developed and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

The WFP endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo last fall, agreeing to accept his platform even though it included some things the party had in the past opposed — like the property tax cap and closing the budget deficit without raising taxes.

It follows another positive spot that featured Faso's wife, Mary Fran, along with others that have highlighted Faso's fiscal record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits and outlining his key reform principles to help small businesses, notably simplifying the tax code, ending corporate welfare, investing in small businesses and ending Washington's regulatory madness.

Two other 30 - second spots — called «Better Off» and «Challenge,» respectively — highlight Faso's fiscal record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits and outline his key reform principles to help small businesses, notably simplifying the tax code, ending corporate welfare, investing in small businesses and ending the regulatory madness coming from Washington.

Previous ads run in the primary also highlighted Faso's fiscal record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits and outline his key reform principles to help small businesses, notably simplifying the tax code, ending corporate welfare, investing in small businesses and ending Washington's regulatory madness.

Cuomo and state lawmakers next year will have to close a budget deficit estimated to be as high as $ 4.6 billion and growing — forcing difficult decisions in a re-election year.

Paterson Unveils Plan for Closing Budget Deficit [NYT] Earlier: David Paterson Facing a World of Trouble Over Budget Cuts

He joked that his 6,745 - vote margin was a «landslide,» but also argued it was the result of a brutal honesty about how he planned to close the budget deficit.

Cuomo has said he does not want to raise taxes to pay for programs and to close a budget deficit of at least one billion dollars.

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.

Still, along with changes to the state's tax code that helped generate revenue to close a budget deficit, the tax cap is one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic achievements of his first term.

After the reported drop in revenue from the red light camera program, the Nassau County legislature increased the administration fee attached to the fine by 50 percent to close a budget deficit in 2015.

It follows a series of positive spots highlighting Faso's long - standing commitment to his community — he's lived here for 33 years — and his fiscal record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits and outlining his key reform principles to help small businesses, notably simplifying the tax code, ending corporate welfare, investing in small businesses and ending Washington's regulatory madness.

The Times calls on state lawmakers to «stop chasing gamblers» as a means to close the budget deficit.

«New York State deserves a share of this huge windfall to close the budget deficit and return some of taxpayers» hard - earned money to ordinary New Yorkers.

Cuomo, a Democrat, has proposed the fees as he seeks to close a budget deficit estimated at $ 1.8 billion.

They'll discuss the economic condition of the state and what is being done at the federal level to revive the economy and help close the budget deficit.

As part of its plan to close a budget deficit, the county's school board required more than 200 teaching - certified administrators to substitute in the classroom for up to seven days before the school year ends next month.

And the new chair of the School Reform Commission, former Democratic City Councilman Bill Green, wants concessions from the union so the district can do more, even as the district closes its budget deficit.

Some have suggested CPS use this line of credit to close our budget deficit.

, a significant contributor to closing the budget deficit this year and helping to address the long - term structural deficit.

PEPÓN OSORIO: REFORM Responding to the shuttering of more than 20 schools in the Philadelphia area to close a budget deficit, Temple Contemporary commissioned a Pew and MacArthur fellow, the artist Pepón Osorio, to address the loss of one school near Temple University.

San Jose, California is having a lot of trouble closing its budget deficit.

Every couple of years, the Louisiana legislature discusses a tax on services to help close the budget deficit, and every time, the Louisiana REALTORS ® fight back to protect consumers from a huge increase in costs to get in to a new home or business property.

Not exact matches

In a recent speech to the Empire Club of Canada, Manley recalled that, while serving as industry minister, he had his departmental budget cut by 50 % as the government struggled to eliminate a close to $ 40 - billion deficit.

There is also a good possibility that the deficit good still come in closer to the budget forecast.

The government's budget had less short - term impact on financial markets, but there is starting to be a clear pattern whereby the closing of the budget deficit (and the stabilisation of government debt) which were supposed to be achieved by 2015 are continuously being pushed further into the future.

If this information had been available at the time of the January 2009 Budget, the original status quo deficit estimate for 2009 - 10 would have been close to $ 8 billion higher than announced, at the time of the bBudget, the original status quo deficit estimate for 2009 - 10 would have been close to $ 8 billion higher than announced, at the time of the budgetbudget.

In particular, more than half of those surveyed knew who ran the oil well that exploded in the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percent.

«I do not want to come back to Albany with an unbalanced budget like we did in the middle of the year last year because remember, that deficit was never closed by the Legislature,» the governor said.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

This poll could provide some cover to state lawmakers are they continue struggling to find ways to close the remaining $ 3.2 billion or so of the $ 9.2 billion budget deficit.

Cuomo is seeking a third term this year and with the Legislature must close a $ 4 billion budget deficit by the end of March, when the budget is expected to pass.

Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $ 1 trillion - plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.

In Albany this week, legislative leaders declined to take action to close the state's current $ 315 million budget deficit.