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Pensioners demonstrate to protest against deep cuts to pensions and measures included in the government's draft 2018 budget, on November 23, 2017 in Athens.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

On the same day the Prime Minister promises «major transformation,» Tony Clement hints at deeper budget cuts.

The SNA Executive Board founded the PAC on the heels of the 1981 federal budget crisis that resulted in deep cuts in federal child nutrition program budgets.

NYSUT gave its top honor to Kennedy last April following a bruising budget battle during which the union and the governor were at odds on his proposed deep education funding cuts (eventually approved by the Legislature).

Turner told me in an interview Tuesday morning that while he voted for the latest version of the Paul Ryan budget — which includes deep cuts to socials service spending — he expects a compromise on revenue - generators might be needed.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said he was an effective negotiator for his conference, despite deep cuts to traditionally taboo budget areas like education aid and health care.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

MANHATTAN — Deep cuts announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday will slash $ 1.6 billion from the city's budget, eliminating thousands of jobs and reducing services across the city.

Bronx Sen. Ruben Diaz in a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday raised «deep concern» with a proposal in the state budget plan that could cut $ 17 million in Title XX funding for the elderly.

Most protesters, without prompting, said they were upset with corporate greed, but also deep cuts to the most recent state budget that didn't seek to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.

Speaking to The Post's Fred Dicker on AM TALK 1300, Cuomo said he understands he'll be targeted by organized labor when he proposes deep cuts in his first executive budget, adding: «They will attack me.

At 3 p.m., Sen. Tim Kennedy stands in solidarity with Meals on Wheels for WNY, which faces deep funding cuts in the president's proposed budget, 100 James E. Casey Dr., Buffalo.

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 13 states, called on the U.S. Senate and House to reject «deep and damaging» cuts in funding for the EPA and anti-environmental riders in federal budget bills.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are ready to break a hard - fought budget deal with Democrats as they try to quell a revolt by conservatives who are insisting on deeper spending cuts ahead of the November elections.

Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's wealthiest citizens.

Thanks to the Library Protection Act, the B&ECPL escaped the worst of Erie County's «Red Budget / Green Budget» disaster of 2004/2005, but Library officials knew it was only a matter of time before the deep cuts that devastated almost all County services would be inflicted on the Library.

WASHINGTON — Meals on Wheels of Syracuse would lose almost one - third of its annual budget under President Donald Trump's budget blueprint that calls for deep cuts to domestic spending.

With no state budget and Albany leaders passing emergency spending bills that keep the state government running, the mayor has cut school budgets for next year on the assumption that the deepest cuts to education being contemplated in Albany will come to pass.

http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/feb1-nys-budget-1-haskell.mp3WCBS 880 Reporter Peter Haskell reports on the deepest cuts proposed in the state budget.

While the measure is unlikely to make it through the divided Congress to become law, Democrats hope to score politically with voters frustrated by a confluence of deep budget cuts in Washington, sky - high prices at the gas pumps, and staggering profits on the oil giants» bottom lines.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised on Thursday to be an advocate for scientific research and for the broad mission of the Department of Energy he previously proposed to eliminate and that may soon face deep budget cuts.

However, President Clinton has promised to veto the bill, which is closely tied to GOP plans for balancing the federal budget, because he said it includes «deep cuts that are tough on children.»

While the President's budget proposal is dead on arrival, it will provide a framework by which the House and Senate could advance deeper cuts than they otherwise would.

Darling - Hammond warned, however, that a focus on high - stakes testing and budget cuts is cutting off low - income students» access to a richer curriculum that can foster deeper learning.

Indeed, the majority has called in the past for a cut of $ 1 trillion in NDD funding.100 At the federal level, NDD spending is poised to be at its lowest, as a percent of GDP, since 1962, the lowest point on record.101 With states still struggling to stabilize their budgets after the 2008 recession, a deep cut in NDD would halt positive momentum toward recovery.

Along the route, students plan to march past CPS offices and the home of Chicago Board of Education President Frank Clark in calling on state lawmakers and local leaders to avoid deep budget cuts and layoffs at city schools this year.

Among the deep spending cuts are $ 143 billion in cuts to higher education over the next decade, according to a budget summary released on Monday.

Even though they mostly talked past each other on issues like the deep budget cuts Trump has proposed and the desirability of school choice everywhere, the visit did seem to signal the end of the long war between the education department and the teachers unions over the school and teacher accountability issues that have dominated the relationship for the last 17 years or so.

While the board had hoped a new bond measure - the only funding mechanism for school facilities - might be placed on this November's ballot, more pressing budget matters led Gov. Jerry Brown to propose a tax - increase initiative to save schools from deeper program and personnel cuts.

The SNA Executive Board founded the PAC on the heels of the 1981 federal budget crisis that resulted in deep cuts in federal child nutrition program budgets.

Meanwhile, the deep «sequestration» budget cuts of 2013, which forced automatic reductions on most federal programs, didn't kick in until spring, and mostly affected students the following school year.

«The tax on books and the closure of libraries is an attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this budget six ways to Sunday, through school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).

That is one reason US President Donald J. Trump, who has campaigned on putting the needs of Americans first, has proposed deep cuts to foreign aid in his 2018 budget.

Just over two weeks later, on March 16, the President has released a budget blueprint that, with its proposed deep cuts to non-defense discretionary programs, undermines this very goal, as well as the goal of an American future that is both competitive and creative, with opportunities to help all children and families succeed.