Sentences with phrase «fund other priorities»

The health insurance program for low - income people consumes 17.6 percent of Utah's budget, hurting the state's ability to fund other priorities such as public schools, said Herbert, sounding a theme popular among conservatives.

He said both education systems deserve more resources, but tying them together gave lawmakers the political cover to fund other priorities while schools competed for limited income tax resources.

As that number continues to grow it crowds out their ability to fund other priorities.

Not exact matches

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

«Such a controversial move could only be funded by cutting other vital priorities for our service members, mere weeks after the Department communicated its needs to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee during omnibus appropriation negotiations,» Democratic Sens. Jack Reed and Dick Durbin wrote.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

She admits that though she has faced other obstacles as a researcher — including the challenge of securing funding for her projects — a new Science Center should take priority over other funding concerns.

In a recent speech, Julie M. Riewe, Co-Chief of the AMU, discussed the AMU's collaboration with other SEC divisions; detailed the AMU's 2015 enforcement priorities with respect to registered investment companies, hedge funds, private equity funds and separately managed accounts; and discussed the AMU's focus on conflicts — their ubiquity, the difficulty or impossibility of eliminating them, the limited extent to which disclosure can cure conflicts, the salience of conflicts when an investment adviser and broker - dealer are affiliated, and related considerations.

An engineering firm has been hired with the few dollars left in the district's Capital Improvement Fund to pinpoint a cost for parking lot repairs and other high priority projects.

In the meantime, the World Service, like any other taxpayer - funded body, must ensure that it is working on the right priorities and as efficiently as possible.

Cuomo also proposed a $ 1 billion reserve fund to guard against future health care cuts that, legislators say, may be funded at a lower level to free up cash for other priorities.

Heastie said the higher taxes on millionaires would generate sufficient revenue for the state to increase funding for schools, the aging, infrastructure and other public priorities.

«With this initial round of funding, we are investing in high - quality, locally led projects that will enhance open space, green neighborhoods, foster education and stewardship, and address other environmental improvement priorities of the community,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office is overseeing the fund, in a statement.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

«If the project is funded by skimming property tax revenue that would have been collected anyway, that's a plain old subsidy that comes at the cost of other public priorities in the city budget.»

Mayor de Blasio's work to push forward national policies through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and other partnerships is vital to our efforts to secure key federal funding for priorities like infrastructure and homeland security, and move forward an agenda that will lift up New Yorkers around the five boroughs,» Spitalnick said in an emailed statement.

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

In its one - house budget, the state Senate Republican majority stripped out the entire $ 200 million in funding for the trail «to allow for other funding priorities.»

The budget included gubernatorial priorities including an expanded system of college tuition subsidies, funding for several infrastructure projects and the legalization of ride - hailing outside New York City — among other things.

He said community learning schools, Teacher Centers and the Positive Learning Collaborative are among the union's other top funding priorities for the upcoming year.

The raises come as the state faces stagnating tax revenues and lawmakers remain reluctant to raise taxes to fund Murphy's other spending priorities.

Along with the Victory Sports athletic and health complex, the council is requesting funds for more than 30 priority projects, including three other projects in Cayuga County.

Wearing my other hat as dear friend of the Hein administration — Mike and I played golf together when he was county administrator — I note one of Hein's first priorities as county executive was pursuing federal funds for the repair of the Wurts Street bridge.

Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker, and Daniel Dromm, the Council's finance chairman, said in a statement that they were «disappointed» that no money for Fair Fares and the other City Council priorities was in the executive budget, though they believed there was enough money from additional revenue and potential savings to fund the proposals.

The UFT's other legislative priorities this year include new curriculum and teacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education programs.

Other members followed Johnson's lead, some forcefully pushing their priorities that included funding for the summer youth employment program, increased contracting for minority - and women - owned businesses, senior services, health coverage, and more.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

Among her priorities are grant - funded projects that link youth and seniors; keeping taxes low; a more vibrant Main Street, with art galleries and other producing businesses; an enhanced atmosphere of respect within town government; and keeping the rural character of Gardiner intact.

He proposed $ 750 million for an eighth round of Regional Economic Development Councils, which set regional economic development priorities and compete against each other for funding allocations.

Budget deals could hypothetically include additional funding for charters bartered for flexibility on teacher evaluations, sources say, or for myriad other non-education related priorities for members of the Senate and Assembly.

Australia's other main grant funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), invests its A$ 700 million yearly budget in fields that cover the government's health priorities, such as dementia, obesity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health.

Systems biology is a priority area in the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, and the E.U. has just funded a $ 9 million pan-European systems biology project called Experimental Network for Functional Integration (ENFIN), among other projects.

«The PHI is a tool that should be used in addition to others because it can highlight the top health priorities for specific regions, which later can be used to justify distributing funds and other resources to address the risks identified.»

Social and political determinants impact how healthcare resources such as direct funding, national educational priorities, societal normative gender role assignment, and other factors all contribute to patient outcomes in varying degrees.

Thirdly, our funding priorities are unusual since we aim to support highly interdisciplinary science at the interface between biology and the other natural sciences.

Unlike many other countries, China has the muscle, funds, and, increasingly, talent to ensure science remains a priority.

«National security is our number - one priority, and this bill will fund essential programs that maintain our nuclear deterrence posture in the face of growing global threats — including North Korea and other countries that are testing the tolerance of the international community,» House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen said.

The birthday greeting contained an unintended irony, for while CIRM was approved by California voters a decade ago to give priority funding to human embryonic stem cell research, eight of the 10 approved clinical trials referenced by City of Hope were for research projects using adult and other non-embryonic stem cells.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.

To be eligible for funding through the IvP 2016 call, all proposals must be aligned to SFI's legal remit and must also either be aligned to one of the 14 priority research areas (see below) or to any other research area where there is convincing evidence that there will be significant potential for economic and / or societal impact in Ireland.

He stays in close contact with his policymakers and sends them regular emails on the importance of federal research funding and other priorities.

«When the funding sources were no longer available, however, other programs became higher priorities, and when staff turnover occurred, many of those opportunities were no longer available,» Kreul said.

In addition to funding for ELL students, Michigan has a small program for bilingual education, with the goal of fostering both English and another language, but funding for the program was cut in half a few years ago because the state legislature had other priorities.

In order to achieve the district's goals, good managers will attempt to find ways to use categorical and restricted monies that are not in line with the district's aims to free up other funds that can then be used to pursue its priorities.

The hope is that if enough of these efforts show sustained results, funding priorities may change, and programs such as Quiet Time could find a place next to blended learning, English - language learning, and other strategies that make a substantive difference for students who face a steeper path to success.

The Leadership Conference Education Fund reports that African American families consider ensuring that students have access to computers and other technology in school the second - highest priority for additional school funding (after ensuring that there are enough books and instructional materials), with 94 percent saying it is one of the most important or very important uses.

The share of funds devoted to Title I dropped as the federal government added new initiatives to wire classrooms to the Internet and reduce class sizes, among other priorities.

Others argued that NASDC had misplaced priorities and ignored such pressing issues as equalizing funding for poor districts and addressing the needs of minorities.

State pension debt is flexible, and legislators have a tendency to shirk their long - term pension funding responsibilities in favor of other, more immediate spending priorities.

Rather than focusing on simply raising the level of funding made available for education (and the tradeoff of other public priorities required by such an approach), we should view our productivity failure as a signal that we need to alter education's incentive structure.