Sentences with phrase «federal level still»

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On a macroeconomic level, the Scorecard survey found health care, slow economic growth, and repercussions from the federal budget are still major concerns.

While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and is illegal on the federal level.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

Cannabis sales are still illegal on the federal level, and the Trump administration has played coy about its plans for the burgeoning marijuana industry, even as the man the president hand - picked to be the country's law enforcement officer has made it no secret that he despises the drug.

In Canada, immigrants who arrived under the now - scrapped Federal IIP and the still - running Quebec IIP have paid woefully low levels of income tax, and breadwinners frequently return to greater China, from where the large majority originated.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

Rampenthal: Up until recently, we've stayed out of a lot of that, mostly because at the federal level, there's still a lot of illegality.

While Canada's parliamentary structure avoids the deliberate fractiousness of American politics, we still have plenty of issues that have devolved into non-co-operative games — at both the federal and provincial levels.

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Another area of concern, she said, «I think we still don't have good pay yet for maternity leave at the federal level.»

Yet Treasury yields are still testing all - time low levels, and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s rate normalization cycle is likely to continue, albeit very slowly.

Canaccord Genuity said in a note that the move could position Namaste for a potential TMX listing, as the stock exchange has threatened companies with possible delisting over any pot - related operations in the U.S., where marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

Some Social Security retirement benefits may still be taxed at the federal level, however.

Such an income is above the federal poverty level for a single person, but it's still not much.

Charitable donations are still deductible under the GOP, so reclassifying state taxes as charity would enable residents to still deduct them at the federal level.

The post is a Level III on the federal executive schedule, meaning he was making $ 172,100 a year, far less than he earned in the private sector but still nothing to scoff at.

If this means that the Government of Canada is just to transfer money without conditions to provinces, that does not help matters much at all, because for any given level of federal spending there will still be debilitating tax competition between the provinces.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Christine and I sometimes talk about the possibility of going to live in New York someday (temporarily, I'd never want to live in the US permanently, no offence) but even though New York has marriage equality at the state level, it would still be very difficult for us to go there as long as the ridiculousness that is DOMA remains in effect blocking any federal recognition of our marriage.

«After spending time with police officers on ride - alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.»

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by theU.S.

they are licensed at the state level, but there are still federal regulations that health care providers must abide by.

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

However, I am going to try to pry what I can from the changes at the federal level (though from what I have heard from mothers, some insurance plans or providers can still wiggle around; for instance plans that were «grandfathered» in).

Still, for a steel car seat that offers a superior level of protection and passes Federal Motor Vehicle Standards and FAA standards for air travel, it's hard to pass up on the Britax B Safe 35 Elite.

Does it only shield Arizona businesses from state - level prosecution of religiously motivated discrimination, but still leave them liable to federal discrimination prosecutions?

By the time of the Civil war, the political divide is about how much power should be given to various levels of government in a federal system (a debate which still rages).

But embracing the tax - hike argument at the federal level while still opposing tax increases even on the wealthiest New Yorkers at the state level, Cuomo does seem to be in an awkward position for now.

So, while they made a strong case while pushing unsuccessfully for a raise when the economy was still strong, their ask now needs to be tempered by the fiscal troubles being experienced at both the state and federal levels.

Think of a substantial amount of migration taking place within a larger country with significant differences in income levels in different parts of the country, but a still federal but somewhat homogenized legal system.

Cuomo has since then bemoaned the lack of action on the federal level on the issue, saying New York is still susceptible to illegal weapons flowing into the state.

Payroll taxes for businesses are still deductable on the federal level.

To a certain extent it still goes on at the Federal level (particularly with low - importance ambassadorships).

That way if the decision was reversed at the federal level, women in New York would still — in theory — have access to abortion services.

Booker said he's even met with techies in Silicon Valley to discuss digital changes because, «Government is still moving at a snail's pace at the federal level.»

The National Assembly should therefore enact a law that would bar all public officers at the federal and state levels from enjoying pension while still enjoying salaries as elected public officers or government appointees.

Yet in the United States, where 25 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana, there are no state - wide efforts to collect data on how patients are using cannabis or on whether they have been affected for good or ill, in part because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

Stamper would like to see the federal government put out requests for proposals and provide grants to develop best practices curriculum at the national level, although given the way our police forces are organized, he says, local agencies would still have to pick up the tab for actual training, which means fund appropriations from city or state politicians and taxpayers.

Still, advocates for landowners say they have seen little will, at either the state or federal level, to impose limits that could slow the pace of drilling.

The federal poverty level, still the most commonly used benchmark for determining who is defined as poor or in need of public assistance, was created in the 1960s and is based primarily on estimates of minimal food costs.

You can convince all the cafeteria ladies in the country (and even all the district superintendents in the country) and you'd still have to change policies at the federal level before anything happens.

Fortunately, Roosevelt's rule still has some force at the federal level.

Nevertheless, the federal government still relies on institution - level accountability outside the for - profit sector.

Though most education observers are sanguine about the RTT's potential, these same factors — enormous state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education directives, school - level preferences for existing jobs and programs, union opposition — are still in play and could lead to the same disappointing spending patterns.

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.

States and districts have wide leverage in establishing and implementing school funding policies, and in cases where there are obvious disparities between the needs of districts, there is still unwillingness by some states and districts to increase the level of support through local, state and federal aid.

This occurred at the federal level, as we all likely know, primarily via Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind Waivers essentially forced upon states when states had to adopt VAMs (or growth models) to also reform their teachers, and subsequently their schools, in order to continue to receive the federal funds upon which all states still rely.

Given the important role that assessment plays in the classroom, at the school and district level, and at the state and federal level, it still amazes many how little educators really know about them.

Although the ESEA blueprint shows promise in supporting the whole child approach at the federal level, «numerous details related to funding and implementation still need to be determined,» Carter cautioned.