Sentences with phrase «first raise since»

A common view among legislators is that Cuomo interfered with the work of a supposedly independent commission that was tasked with recommending adjustments to their $ 79,500 base pay, the first raise since 1998.
The Democratic governor had been haggling with legislators over the issue, offering to meet for a special session this month to potentially enact the first raise since 1999 if lawmakers also tackled some of his pet bills.
Many Assembly members remain upset over a 2016 commission that failed to push through what would have been lawmakers» first raise since 1999 in their $ 79,500 base salaries.
The Legislature is fighting with Cuomo over a failed deal last month that would have included lawmakers first raise since 1999.
The same three leaders determined that an independent pay commission was the best way to take politics out of the equation and give lawmakers their first raise since 1999.

Not exact matches

The release of the Trump campaign's May FEC report showed the presumptive GOP nominee raised just about $ 3 million in his first month since sealing up the Republican nomination.
Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.
The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.
Tony Sage's Cape Lambert Resources has announced plans to undertake its first capital raising since its initial offer, which was completed when the company listed on the ASX 16 years ago.
Earlier this year, Power Corp. raised its dividend, the first increase since 2008.
Sun Life also plans to raise its dividend for the first time since the recession.
In 2015, Power Corp. raised its dividend for the first time since 2008, and it did it again in early 2016.
The Fed has been suggesting it could raise rates in 2016 since it tightened policy in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but investors have doubts the central bank will follow through on that guidance.
Since its first round of financing in January 2009, the company has raised $ 142 million in venture funding, completing its most recent round for $ 85 million, in February.
For the first time since it started «stress - testing» banks in 2014, none of Britain's major lenders would need to raise extra capital, the BoE said.
And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).
The retailer's say its customer experience scores and associate engagement numbers have increased since the first phase of raises went into effect.
The European Central Bank (ECB) ready to reduce its monthly bond - purchasing program sometime in early 2018, and the Bank of England (BOE) isexpected to raise interest rates in November for the first time since 2007.
That's the question that confronts officials at the Federal Reserve and institutional investors everywhere ahead of March 15, when the U.S. central bank will decide whether to raise short - term interest rates for the first time since December.
Gross raised the proportion of U.S. government and Treasury debt in the $ 261 billion Total Return Fund to 35 % in May, the first increase since January and up from 3 % of its holdings in April.
And of course, any other unexpected event will be interpreted for how it might impact the Fed's move to raise interest rates for the first time since taking the fed funds rate to zero in 2008.
The central bank has given ample notice that it plans to raise short term interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis.
Importantly any VC investor will understand the «first close» mentality since nearly all VC funds are raised this way from our investors.
Some of these myths have been around for decades, at least since I first set out to raise money for RIM.
Cherokee Funds made its first brownfield investment in 1990 and has since raised five private equity funds focused on brownfield remediation: $ 50 million in 1996, $ 250 million in 1999, $ 620 million in 2003, $ 200 million in 2005 and $ 1.24 billion in 2006.
First, since monetary policy acts only with a lag failure to raise rates would risk an overheating economy and an acceleration of inflation possibly necessitating a sharp and destabilizing hike in rates later.
Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.
The raise was Gorman's first since he took over as CEO for John Mack, 69, at the beginning of 2010.
The first quarter was the best for IPOs overall since 2015, with nearly $ 16 billion raised by 44 companies, 10 of which were tech companies.
Also, the Bank of Canada last week raised rates for the first time since 2010 and markets expect an October rate hike.
(The Fed raised rates for first time since forever last month.)
Fed Chair Janet Yellen last week signaled the U.S. central bank is on track to raise rates this year, despite a weak first quarter that some analysts believe could force the Fed to wait longer before starting its first tightening cycle since 2004 - 2006.
Also contributing was the first Regulation A (Reg A +) offering on WealthForge's platform, which has raised capital from more than 400 investors since its October launch.
But this year's appearance will be the first since Trump told lawmakers not to fear the NRA in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting and floated some responses opposed by the organization, including raising the legal age to buy certain firearms to 21.
Czech central bank first in Europe to hike rates While the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have been contemplating shifting to less accommodative monetary policy stances, the Czech central bank took action on Thursday, raising its main policy rate from 0.05 % to 0.25 %, its first hike since 2008.
In another well - flagged move, the Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates in the United Kingdom (UK) for the first time since the global financial crisis, following data showing third - quarter UK growth was a little higher than consensus forecasts.
In December 2016, the Fed raised interest rates for the second time since 2006, after the first initial raise off of zero in December 2015.
Seeking to further explain the weakness, a number of economists emphasized the recurring pattern evident in quarterly GDP numbers since 2010 — whereby first - quarter growth has averaged less than half the rate for the rest of the year — raising suspicions that seasonal effects may be skewing the data.
In December 2015, the U.S. raised their interest rate, for the first time since 2006, to 0.5 %.
The IPO will be the largest in the space since MedReleaf Corp. went public last summer, raising $ 100 million in a disastrous IPO that saw prices fall 22 per cent on the first day of trading.
After a week since your first purchase, the exchange raises your limit even higher up to $ 500 USD.
Last month, the Fed modestly raised its benchmark short - term rate for the first time since December 2015, when it had raised it after keeping the rate at a record low near zero for seven years.
When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets in Washington next week, its members are widely expected to vote to raise interest rates for the first time since June 2006.
Many observers think US Federal Reserve (Fed) policymakers will vote to raise US interest rates for the first time since 2006 at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on December 16.
The rising rate environment that Canadian investors have been anticipating for a number of years has finally arrived after the Bank of Canada raised its overnight lending rate for the first time since 2010 earlier this summer.
China, the top foreign buyer of U.S. Treasury debt, increased its holdings for the first time since January, raising them by 0.6 percent to $ 1.27 trillion.
One thought that Behe raises is that since Darwinism was first postulated before the discovery of the electron microscope it fails to describe the evolutionary processes necessary for complex systems like sight and blood coagulation to have evolved.
ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.
In Australia, the first Chinese apples since the 1920s entered the country in January 2011, raising objections from local industry leaders and farmers, who urged shoppers not to buy them.
Since the first Challenge in 2010, DCC riders have raised almost $ 7 million dollars.
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