Sentences with phrase «first budget surplus»

Suffolk County budget officials say there's a slowly improving fiscal picture for the county and that Suffolk actually had its first budget surplus since 2006.

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In his first term, Bush won passage of tax cuts that helped swing the federal budget from surpluses to deficits.

WA Labor leader Mark McGowan today guaranteed that, if elected in the March state poll, he would return the budget to surplus within his first term as premier.

Unless you have overwhelming proof that your audience primarily uses iPhones (or you have a surplus of funding), it's more prudent to target Android first, especially on a modest budget.

In the more realistic case that growth is 1pc lower than forecast, but is coupled with an ambitious budget surplus of around 2.5 pc of GDP, Greece would still require a total write - off of its entire first bail - out package worth $ 53.1 bn.

First, as the Government has been running budget surpluses, the stock of CGS outstanding has fallen.

Osborne also said he would slash general departmental spending by a further # 13bn in the first two years of the parliament — enough, alongside growth, to put the overall budget in surplus by 2018.

The state Division of Budget on Monday estimated the state will end the current fiscal year with a $ 6.2 billion surplus, according to the first quarter financial plan that outlined the impact of the major windfall financial settlements.

In a 10 - minute address, he went on to list what he has accomplished since he was first elected in 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic development.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

Under Roberts, the Detroit Public Schools has generated an annual operating surplus for the 2011 fiscal year, its first surplus since 2002; accelerated the elimination of its $ 327 million legacy deficit; and adopted a balanced budget for fiscal 2012.

With the federal government projecting a budget surplus for the first time in years, lawmakers are confronted with an unusual problem: how to spend (or not spend) the money.