Sentences with phrase «earlier than the federal government»

The 3 - level of government Climate Emergency Declaration petition and campaign targets all levels of government since individual states or territories could declare a climate emergency earlier than the federal government might.

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On February 3, 2011, the C.D. Howe Institute released its 2011Shadow Budget [1] entitled A Faster Track to Fiscal Balance, arguing that federal government should undertake aggressive actions to restrain the growth in program expenses in order to achieve a fiscal surpluses one year earlier than forecast in the October 2010 Update [2].

There is also no doubt that without these tax cuts the government would have been in a much better fiscal position to deal with the 2009 - 2010 recession; that any resulting deficit, would have been eliminated much earlier than 2015 - 16, and without the need for draconian cuts in federal programs and services.

He said the federal and provincial governments need to act to shore up companies and avoid a repeat of the early 2000s when it took more than a year for Ottawa to react with an aid package.

The federal government contributed another $ 1.6 billion in 2000 - 01 toward meeting the Clinton administration's goal of decreasing class size nationwide in the early grades to no more than 18 students.

New Orleans is in the early stages of a construction spree both to build and renovate dozens of schools, and recently got news of an eye - popping settlement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $federal government is providing more than $ 1.8...

The federal government and more than 20 states have launched class - size reduction initiatives that seek to lower the average class size in the early elementary grades of U.S. schools to 15 — 18 students.

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

OTTAWA — Canada's finance minister is hinting the federal government could take steps as early as this autumn's economic update to help the economy at a time of slower - than - expected growth.

In a report earlier this year, the think tank estimated the cost of federal employee pension plans is more than $ 100 billion higher than the government says it is because Ottawa is underestimating the future costs.

An Oregon judge ruled earlier this month that a complaint filed by more than a dozen young plaintiffs against the federal government — referred to by advocates as «the most important lawsuit on the planet right now» — can go to trial.

«If all unintended pregnancies were prevented, the resulting savings on medical spending alone would equal more than three quarters of the federal FY 2010 appropriation for the Head Start and Early Head Start programs and would be roughly equivalent to the amount that the federal government spends each year on the Child Care and Development Fund.»