Sentences with phrase «cuts in public funding»

On 1 October 2010, in an open letter to the British Government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt — co-signed by a further 27 previous Turner Prize nominees, and 19 winners — Gillick opposed any future cuts in public funding for the arts.

Many farmers disapprove of past cuts in public funding for agricultural advisory services.

Not exact matches

To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.

In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 %.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percFund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percfund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percent.

Crucially it would also mean an estimated $ 4.2 billion in federal funding cuts to the states, where public - sector employment is just now recovering.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

Announcing this week that the government will increase funding to the Ministry of Energy and Mines is simply an admission that years of cuts to inspection and enforcement have hurt not only public safety but industrial development in B.C.,» said Horgan.

And if corporations pay a lower share of taxes, that means the rest of us will pay moreâ $» either through relatively higher taxes or cuts in funding for public services.

By focusing the attention of faculty members now accustomed to routine spending increases, cuts in funding may have the unintended effect of improving the situation of teaching and learning about which a concerned public is justifiably upset.

Even though statistics prove that art education benefits the child in so many ways, funding for art and music and other creative instruction is continually one of the first program cuts from public school programs.

The fund was established in 2002 by then - incumbent Betsy Gotbaum to «reinforce and support» the public advocate's office at a time of budget cuts.

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

«The government is tripling fees and cutting public funding for university teaching by 80 %, leaving English students facing the highest public university fees in the industrialised world.

«Everyone in policing understands the difficult financial position the country faces, and we accept that all parts of the public sector must shoulder the burden of the cuts in funding.

One interesting illustration of the issue came up when the US Republican presidential candidate last fall, Mitt Romney, opened the first of the three presidential debates by saying that he wanted to cut off funding for PBS, the public - funded broadcasting service in the US.

At 11 a.m., groups committed to improving the health of New Yorkers call on the state Legislature to reject the proposed consolidation of public health funding, and the 20 percent cut in funding, state Capitol, third floor, outside state Senate lobby, Albany.

Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

New Labour's police funding brought about real results in cutting crime, but public perceptions didn't improve.

His proposal cuts funding for the department of public works, among other things, in an effort to close a $ 16.5 million budget deficit without raising property taxes.

As Kelly's proposals involve an additional # 23m of public funds, they are unlikely to be implemented in the current climate of spending cuts.

Last year the governor's budget called for the consolidation of 89 public health programs coupled with a cut in funding of 10 percent.

Cuomo has previously opened the door to a special session of the Legislature to contend with cuts in funding for health care to the state amid financial constraints placed on public welfare hospitals.

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

Tough economic times obviously mean tough decisions have to be made; but Gov. David A. Paterson's proposal to cut education funding by a devastating $ 1.4 billion would decimate public education in our state and region.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

And we will use funds returned from Brussels after Brexit to invest in our public services and the jobs of the future, not tax cuts for the richest.

Rep. John Katko asked a committee of House and Senate members Wednesday to restore $ 12 million in funding for Centro and billions for other public transit systems that were cut in a highway bill the House passed earlier this month.

New York City's public housing authority will see at least $ 35 million less in federal aid this year, in what appears to be the first significant funding cuts to the city under President Donald Trump.

Burnham also used his interview to round on the government decision to commit to a real terms increase in NHS funding, which he said will result in «severe cuts» for other crucial public services on which people depend.

The report released Monday as part of a collaborative study between the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million in funding.

Republican Congressman Richard Hanna is joining fellow New York Congressman Louise Slaughter in a push to restore federal funding for local public transit systems.The money would be cut in the new federal Highway bill.

He insisted Labour's plans for extra spending on police and other public services, to be funded by an estimated # 2.7 bn in savings from reversing capital gains tax cuts, were «fully costed».

«Tonight, the chancellor cut funding for thousands of students who attend excellent public schools,» Jeremiah Kittredge, the executive director of Families for Excellent Schools, said in a statement.

The Legislature must add the funding necessary to eliminate the Governor's proposed cuts in vital public services that are essential to the well - being of working families and the needy.

Hizzoner said that Trump's plan would undermine public safety, and that if funds from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security were cut, «We would be in court immediately.»

About 85 communities would see their education cost sharing grants, the biggest source of state funding for public education in Connecticut, cut to zero in October.

Now, with the cuts are real and in effect, there is no way to adequately fund the public hospitals if the $ 1.1 billion cut is not rolled back.

Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday there's «no excuse» for the state's «dangerous» decision not to hand over millions in federal funds for New York City's cash - strapped public hospitals — a move Gov. Cuomo said is necessary due to federal cuts.

Given the «funding roller coaster» the Library has been on since 2000, including in 2010 when budget cuts forced a reduction in service hours (98.5 total per week), plus cuts in programming and staffing, the Library System Trustees voted to pursue becoming a Special Legislative District Public Library (SLDPL) in September 2011.

The Board of Election's $ 15 million salary budget, Maragos said, would be cut nearly in half, with the savings used to fund public election financing.

The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.

The No - Turning Back Group will call for tax cuts: «David Ruffley, a leading member of the group, said: «Some of us would like him to cut public spending even more in order to fund tax cuts to inject a fiscal stimulus int o the UK economy at the Budget.»»