Sentences with phrase «education and health care spending»

Cuomo said the only alternatives to increased fees and surcharges are reductions in education and health care spending.

(Well, yes, except all the hard stuff had already been either passed prior to the budget — like tax code reform and the so - called «big ugly» mentioned above — or negotiated last year, liuke the 4 percent increase in education and health care spending).

Moody's pointed to the state budget in New York creating workarounds on the SALT deduction cap, including charitable funds for education and health care spending.

The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of balance, would require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.

The main issue: Cuomo's opposition to extending the millionaire's tax and his proposed education and health care spending cuts.

Not exact matches

Sousa, however, is confident investment will pick up, owing to the government's spending on health care, education and other social programs.

CF: Unfortunately I think all those choices are sort of being hidden, they're choices that are being made right now that we spend more and more on health care and less on education and social supports and all these other things.

While the proposal to spend more on things like education, sick leave and health care was sure to delight many members of Obama's own party, the Republicans now fully control Congress.

Similarly, one of Martin's suggestions for increasing our prosperity is to spend less money on publicly funded health care and more on education.

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It's absolutely essential to increase spending on education and health care.

The rising cost of necessities like health care, housing and education is crowding out discretionary spending for middle - class Americans, said Stephanie Pomboy, founder of MacroMavens, an independent economics consulting firm in New York.

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Brazil has also recently been gripped by an anti-establishment mood, fueled by anger over spending on mega-events such as the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, while many ordinary people believe that services such as education, health care and transportation languish.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

Cuomo told reporters last night that a combination of Washington's inability to act, the state's worsening finances and his desire to keep a promise to increase health care and education spending by 4 percent in the 2012 - 13 budget forced his hand here.

Cuomo also appears ready to go after the sacred cows of state spending: education and health care.

So how do the spending numbers compare for health care and education?

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Further complicating Cuomo's task, 52 percent of voters want Cuomo to balance the budget without cuts to health care and education — the two biggest spending areas, which the governor - elect has been quite clear will likely suffer next year.

In some instances, the federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources of revenues to support.

The challenge to Cuomo came from Catherine Nolan, Rory Lancman and Barbara Clark, all of Queens, who argued that vital health - care and education spending would be lost if the $ 4 billion - plus in annual revenues produced by the «millionaire's tax» is allowed to expire at the end of the year.

Saying New York is «ground zero» in the financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget gap.

The WFP largely sat out the battle over the so - called millionaire's tax, which other lefties were pushing very hard to see reinstated in full to offset the deep health care and education spending cuts Cuomo had proposed.

The enacted budget held spending growth to 2 % for the sixth consecutive year and the Governor's commitment to spending restraint has led to higher reserves and reliable funding for key State programs, including education and health care.»

The taxes are being proposed as the $ 168 billion budget proposal avoids cutting the two most expensive and politically senstivie areas of state spending: education and health care.

HANYS President Dan Sisto assailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget during a CapTon interview last night, taking the governor and his business community allies to task for being unwilling to extend the so - called millionaire's tax while advocating deep spending reductions in health care and education.

Adding to the need for revenue is last year's pledge to increase spending in the coming fiscal year by 4 percent for health care and education — the two most expensive portions of the budget.

There are also debates about spending on health care programs, economic development, education and taxes.

Along with the reduced bump in aid to K - 12 schools, Cuomo called for a modest 1 percent increase in higher education spending, a 3 percent increase in health care and 14 percent hike on big - ticket capital projects.

Tony's stance on key issues such as job creation (bringing jobs back to the New York State), access to affordable and quality health care for all, improving the quality of education for students, and holding state officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers» money is aligned with the Coalition's point of views.

They define social welfare as having five components: health care spending; education spending; cash retirement benefits; other government cash transfers such as unemployment insurance and the earned income tax credit (EITC); and non-cash aid such as food stamps and public housing.

The letter takes issue with Cuomo's deep health care and education spending cuts while giving wealthy New Yorkers a «massive tax break» by allowing the temporary three - year PIT increase to expire on schedule at the end of this year.

The U.S. has very high levels of health care spending per capita and education spending per student.

The spending plan calls for two - year appropriations on health care and education, cutting about $ 2 billion with fixed rates of growth.

Contact your state legislators and ask them to support my budget so we can reduce wasteful spending, and fix our broken education and health care systems.

Back in December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said half the budget was more or less finished thanks to the tax code overhaul deal that enabled a 4 percent spending increase for health care and education.

Malpass said he was very impressed with Cuomo last spring — about the time when the newly - minuted Democratic governor was laying down the law with the Legislature, pushing for deep health care and education spending cuts along with a 2 percent property tax cap.

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

DeFrancisco says that if he were governor, he'd tackle the state's current $ 4.4 billion deficit by squeezing health care and education spending.

«The 2017 - 18 Executive Budget seeks to balance spending and revenue and proposes much needed capital investments in clean water projects while increasing funding for education, health care and other programs,» DiNapoli said.

Paterson has insisted that cuts in spending on education and health care are needed to balance the budget.

«When people believe that their cases will be speedily and justifiably treated, I am telling you, they will mind their own businesses, but when they are in cover with the police and the judiciary, then we have a problem and the money that we need for development especially education infrastructure and health care will be spent on security.»

To close the deficit, Cuomo wants at least $ 1 billion in new fees and taxes — including on opioids, vaping products, and insurance companies that benefit from the federal tax law — while increasing spending on education by 3 % and health care by 3.2 %.

«We tackled the tough ones,» said Cuomo, who said he tamped down the growth of spending on education and health care.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

Unions like 1199 and the U.F.T. that pushed for more money to fund education and health care will get almost $ 2 billion toward bridging next year's budget deficit, which books 4 percent increases in spending to both of their topical areas.

Foreign aid would hardly make a rounding error in US spending on education and health care.

City residents and businesses paid about $ 4.1 billion more to Albany in taxes and fees than the state returned in spending for education, health care, transit and other services in 2009 - 10.