Sentences with phrase «cuts more aid»

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Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.
«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.
Spending cuts and the reverse, more marketing spending, are both just Band - Aid fixes.
A Christian barrister has said the government's cuts to legal aid will cause «huge amounts of injustice»... More
I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.
Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.
I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.
Some of the same voices have more recently called for cutting off U.S. aid to the elected government of Alfredo Cristiani.
The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.
I go through a box of princess band - aids almost once a month... most of them are for my daughters - but I swear I get more cuts when I have them around too.
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It is particularly concerning that more and more of the families seeking food aid are actually in work, but on poverty pay and facing cuts to their tax credits.
Central administrative costs are being cut by 33 per cent, the money going instead to support even more effective aid.
«More funding is needed, especially following the virtual demise of legal aid and what is likely to be another round of harsh local authority cuts in the coming year,» Hawkes warns.
Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.
Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.
DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.
Otherwise, the cuts would take more than $ 3 million from library programs as well as tens of millions from health plans, including those concerned with covering HIV and AIDS.
«We have also seen more women in work than ever before, a tax cut for 11 million women, we have stopped pensions being discriminated against women and we are putting women at the front of our international aid programmes.»
He is imposing more cuts in local government services by tying the state tax relief programs to municipal compliance with the 2 percent property tax cap while simultaneously freezing revenue - sharing aid to municipalities at 75 percent below its 1980s level,» Hawkins said.
The governor, in a conference call with reporters, refrained from saying whether he'd favor more dramatic steps, such as cutting school aid or freezing overall spending.
To avoid cuts in services, local aid or tax increases, the Executive Budget directs State agencies to be more efficient and focuses resources on their core programs and services.
Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»
Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.
«Since a state aid increase such as the one that was received last year may represent upwards of $ 500,000 or more there is no way a district can trim that much from the budget after years of already cutting the expense side of the budget.
Not that they'll necessarily get it though; some hard line austerity hawks in cash strapped councils across the country are undoubtedly going to balk at the idea of being inundated with more calls for aid than they can possibly service after Westminster cut their budgets.
He said that provides the state with more options, including delaying school aid rather than cutting it and risking a further «drag on the economy.»
They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.
Because less wealthy schools rely more heavily on state aid, Cuomo's cuts would affect them more.
«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.
In addition to Valley Central, the Goshen, Tuxedo and Fallsburg districts would see aid cut under Cuomo's proposal, while Greenwood Lake, Kiryas Joel, Middletown, Washingtonville, Livingston Manor, Ellenville, Highland, Kingston and New Paltz would see increases of 6 percent or more.
The vetoes also include $ 419 million in restorations of Paterson's more than $ 1 billion in cuts to school aid and $ 106 million for community colleges and the Tuition Assistance Program.
The governor, who has feuded with de Blasio since 2015, also proposed cutting $ 11 million in state aid to the city's health department, arguing that the city is more readily able to access federal funds compared to the state's county governments.
«The state's budget includes a $ 248 million increase in school aid, $ 212 million more for the state takeover of Medicaid, and $ 60 million in additional tax revenue — calling this significant increase a cut is disingenuous and the city should check its math.»
«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.
Acquario, with the counties, says in the long run, though, local governments are going to need more state aid, or he predicts, counties will be «socially bankrupt» due to drastic cuts in services.
Republican Councilmen Dean Bodnar and Jim Gordon proposed additional revenues of $ 128,000 for commercial businesses to recycle; $ 150,000 in fees for special events; $ 225,000 more in state highway aid that's been announced; and various cuts to positions such as the mayor's spokesman.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed cutting more than $ 1.5 billion in education aid statewide for the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year.
Statewide, unless education advocates rally and the Legislature intervenes, municipalities and school districts will suffer more than $ 1.1 billion in slashed public school aid — the largest school cut in more than two decades.
«For months now, we have faced the prospect of big cuts in aid from Albany that would have meant fewer new school seats and more overcrowding,» Walcott said in a statement.
The final state budget, which was reached on March 27, adds more than $ 200 million to Governor Cuomo's proposed education budget, though the cut to statewide education aid still totals more than $ 1 billion.
Stephen Crabb argued that charities and Conservatives must both do more to trumpet the arguments in favour of spending 0.7 % of GNI on overseas aid, amid rising domestic pressures and cuts in spending.
They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.
CITY HALL — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo patted himself and fellow state lawmakers on the back after reaching an early deal on the state budget Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the cuts as «an outrage» and warned that, despite some restorations to city aid, the deal will force more layoffs and another round of new and painful cuts.
Matt Pommer Gov. Jim Doyle's talk of a 2.5 percent cut in state aid to local schools guarantees more stress for school boards, unionized teachers and property taxpayers.
Cut aid and we can afford tax cuts, battleships, more police officers, cheaper trains and one hundred other impossible things
«If the choice is tax rises or defence cuts, we should opt for the latter Main Cut aid and we can afford tax cuts, battleships, more police officers, cheaper trains and one hundred other impossible things»
«It says «if you're spending per enrollee is more than 25 % above the national average, you're going to take a little extra hair cut on your federal aid»,» Hammond said.
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