Sentences with phrase «federal budget questions»

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When the federal budget is released on Tuesday, the two big questions economists and pundits will have are «how big is the deficit?»

The Trudeau government's fiscal plan as updated in the Fall Economic Statement meets a number of progressive commitments, but also raises a lot of questions about what can be expected of the federal Budget to be tabled next March.

Perhaps the biggest question mark for the industry is what'll happen with longer - term federal budget discussions.

Extended federal aid will run out in mid-2011, leaving coverage and financial questions to be decided in the state's biennial state budget beginning July 1, 2011, and extending through June 30, 2013.

The big questions for the year ahead: Is FY 2018 the year Cuomo abandons his 2 percent spending cap, using federal budget cuts as an excuse?

The federal judge in the upcoming corruption trial of Skelos and his son, Adam, said she expects to admit evidence that the two strategized about using questions about the finances of Cuomo's girlfriend to weaken him in budget talks.

On Wednesday at City Hall, Council members led by finance Chair Julissa Ferreras - Copeland had questions for city budget officials, who explained that most of the new spending stems from an increase in federal and state funding.

The mayor deflected questions about those findings at a news conference in City Hall on proposed federal budget cuts.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Monday questioned the federal government over what he called the paltry sums allocated to the South West geo - political zone in this year's N7trillion budget.

We wanted it to have an engine behind it that would take it out of the category of vision and into the context of something that would be empowered,» he explained, noting that he raised many questions about budgets and plans for funding technology at the federal level to no avail.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

Two questions are paramount in addressing the budget consequences of federal spending for childcare through CESAs:

While Bender said the budget has already received criticism from members of Congress for its steep cuts and will likely change, he believes the budget proposal has already accomplished its purpose of raising questions about the federal government's role in education.

She also questioned why L.A. Unified staff would not allow it to count a pending $ 575,000 state and federal grant toward their budget numbers.

We are encouraging folks to organize a delegation to attend local opportunities to meet with members of Congress, to ask questions about the budget and to demand no cuts to the federal education budget, no expansion of charter schools, and no vouchers!

Or, if you have questions about the CCB or other aspects of the federal budget, email us.

Questions remain after Liberal budget promise paves way for more service dogs for veterans with PTSD, Toronto Star Federal government weighs tactics to forestall dumping of steel, aluminum, Globe and Mail Fight over secret St. Anne's residential school documents back in court, Canadian Press

Yet the federal funds in question do not cover abortion care, and thus none of Planned Parenthood's abortion services — which, nationwide make up roughly 3 % of its work — are paid for through the state's family - planning budget.

Uncertainty is still a giant weight on our economic recovery — companies still hesitate to invest because of a few giant unresolved questions, starting with the federal budget.