Sentences with phrase «dollar funding cuts»

Florida teachers have been excoriated by politicians, they've used student test scores are being used to punish everyone, districts are facing historic billion - dollar funding cuts, unfunded mandates and could face retribution for speaking out.

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And by leveraging the above tips, hopefully more technology startups may boost their odds of taking a cut of the more than the $ 1 billion dollar pie of Kickstarter funding the platform has accrued so far.

The Florida Legislature is cutting short its help for affordable housing, diverting tens of millions of dollars each year from a trust fund meant to aid such housing developments.

When the OASDI trust fund is exhausted, beneficiaries will face an across - the - board 23 percent benefit cut, the equivalent of about $ 5,800 per year in today's dollars for a typical beneficiary reaching the full retirement age in 2033.

Under CBO's Alternative Fiscal Scenario — which assumes many of the 2017 tax law's expiring provisions and other temporary tax cuts are made permanent, the recent spending deal is extended so that most discretionary spending grows with inflation, and emergency funding for disasters is kept in line with its historical average — deficits will exceed the two - trillion dollar mark by 2028.

He wouldn't get into details on where he found the dollars before he presents the budget to the county board next week, but he did say no departments were cut specifically for witness protection money and the overall budget will reflect enough savings to create the funding.

The November 15th program will include cutting - edge discussions such as: how non-exchange traded alternatives are becoming the mutual funds of yesteryear; what is driving retail's demand for non-exchange traded alternatives; using micro-investing technology to diversify across and within online marketplaces; how legislation is being used to engineer a new breed of alternative products; how innovations in self - directed IRAs will create new retail distribution channels for the entire alternative product universe; how technology will ensure the scalability of online platforms and enable traditional financial services providers to increase AUM; how millennials will fuel the growth of FinTech and redefine financial services; how FinTech will replace the 401k and transform the way Americans save for retirement; and how modernizing the Self - directed IRA is the trillion dollar FinTech opportunity.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

That is only a fraction of the income - tax rate that most workers pay — on top of which is piled the 11 % FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare that all workers have to pay on their salaries up to the cut - off point of about $ 102,000 (This cut - off frees from this tax the tens of millions of dollars that hedge fund traders pay themselves).

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

Cuomo has been sounding the alarm about the damage that will be done to New York's bottom line — a loss of several billion dollars over the next several years alone — if Congress does not reverse funding cuts to safety net hospitals, which took effect Oct. 1.

Norway's trillion - dollar wealth fund, the largest of its kind, in November proposed cutting billions of dollars in oil and gas stocks.

They also added more than a billion dollars to the funding pot, which comes after years of financial cuts at the K - 12 level.

The state faces an over $ 4.4 billion budget gap, as well as funding cuts and policy changes from Washington that could cost New York and some of its taxpayers billions of dollars.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

And just getting those dollars up to restore funds that had been previously cut.»

This administration has proposed cuts to funding for human services, starved our infrastructure of the resources it needs and paid millions of dollars in fines for being unable to provide clean drinking water but can spend several million dollars taking care of the law firms that employ his campaign donors,» said Brian Hegt, spokesman for the BoL Democratic Caucus.

PLATTSBURGH — With millions of dollars in federal arts funding on the chopping block, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) appeared at the Strand Center Gallery in downtown Plattsburgh on Friday to rail against President Trump's proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

But despite spending cuts and consolidations, the city's fund balance takes a big hit, in order to fill a multi-million dollar budget hole.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany, where he will be delivering his executive budget at 1 p.m. at the State Museum — a proposal that is expected not to include a lot of good news news to a multibillion dollar deficit and funding cuts from Washington.

Even more galling, the Administration's recent budget request would cut funding to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, by another $ 400 million dollars — that means about a $ 40 million cut for New York.

He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.

For example, the state would cut $ 50 million in Medicaid funding from the city unless Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration comes up with a plan in the next five months to receive $ 100 million more in federal Medicaid dollars for preschool and school supportive health services.

The state has a $ 4.4 billion dollar deficit, and there's uncertainty over the effects of the federal tax overhaul on the state's finances, as well as possible big funding cuts by President Trump and Congress.

At a time when thousands of teachers in New York have foregone raises simply to keep their jobs, and while the state is poised to cut an additional $ 1 billion or more in education funding, NYSUT is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in cash and investments and spending lavishly on six - figure employee salaries and conferences at high - end resorts.

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

A Forest Hills congressman took the Republican Party to task Tuesday for the millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts that would harm the working - class and senior citizens of Queens and the borough president bemoaned belt - tightening at the city level after $ 5 million of funding for the long - awaited Queens West library branch become embroiled in -LSB-...]

Gov. David Paterson isn't backing down on cutting state spending, including holding back on millions of dollars of already allocated funds to schools.

MIDTOWN — New York City could lose billions of dollars in federal aid after a spokesman for President Donald Trump said the government will seek to cut funding to sanctuary cities.

Carrying posters and air horns and chanting «Education Yes, Cuts No,» the protestors were furious that the New York State Education Department rejected an application from the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation for $ 1 million dollars in funding to continue the adult programs.

«While Gov. Walker spends millions of taxpayer dollars making it harder for working families to put food on the table, Wisconsin communities continue to struggle with crumbling roads, school funding cuts and economic uncertainty,» Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling tweeted on Tuesday.

The state faces a more than $ 4.4 billion budget gap, as well as funding cuts and policy changes from Washington that could cost New York and some of its taxpayers billions of dollars.

Katz also suggested the other candidates in the comptroller race look at the task of investing the city's multibillion - dollar pension fund in a manner that is cut - and - dry.

Opponents of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to services for the developmentally disabled, say its disabled people who were among those who lost out in the budget.

«The Department of Education is mismanaging education funding at a time when budget cuts make every dollar more precious to classrooms,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

That same year, NASA cut funding for a proposed multibillion - dollar mission called the Jupiter Icy Moons Observer, virtually eliminating all graduate - level jobs for studying Europa.

Because the President's base budget had sought billion - dollar cuts to NIH and NASA, as well as a deep cut to DOD basic research, it tallied up to a more than two percent reduction to basic research funding, and a smaller cut to applied research.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

Money could be spent within weeks of passage of a stimulus package to fund many highly rated applications that have been waiting in line for support in FY 2008 and to restore dollars cut from the budgets of funded grants in recent years, with virtually no increase in administrative cost.

The state cut meant a loss of about a million dollars, the ARRA «funding cliff» another million.

Our studies suggest that instead, many states have played a shell game with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, backfilling cuts to education with those one - time dollars.

In other budget areas, including K - 12, Medicaid, transportation, and a host of other social service programs, states lose out on matching federal dollars when they cut funding.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

Last spring BVP's local and state funding was cut by almost $ 1 million dollars.

Yes, an «adversarial» relationship is what develops when your funding is cut by over a billion dollars.

If these cuts were enacted, states would have to either backfill the loss of federal support for out - of - school care by drawing from other limited funding streams or accept that previously served students would now be in unsafe, unsupervised environments outside of school hours.54 Attendance, student achievement, and peer and student - to - teacher relations could suffer.55 States that cut after - school programs would likely have to allocate additional dollars in future years to triage the loss of jobs or depressed student outcomes.

Earlier this year, BVP's local and state funding was cut by almost $ 1 million dollars.

As an example: Common Ground High School would have to lay off 16 of their current 20 teachers to balance their 4th - quarter budget and cover the cut of more than a quarter - million dollars in funding.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

They allege that these laws unjustly require Newark, a struggling school district, to retain ineffective teachers, while cutting millions of dollars each year from other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.