Sentences with phrase «funding belt tightens»

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De Blasio, a Democrat, resisted the prospect of funding the program at a time when the state, which controls the MTA, is making the city tighten its financial belt.

There will always be a cost for democracy but a scenario where politicians ask taxpayers to tighten their own belts while demanding cash for party funding would damage the relationship between the two irreparably.

As with all governments, at any level, and even families that have had to tighten their belts, I understand the 2 % reduction of funding for Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM), which reflects the Governor's need to lower state spending.

A Forest Hills congressman took the Republican Party to task Tuesday for the millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts that would harm the working - class and senior citizens of Queens and the borough president bemoaned belt - tightening at the city level after $ 5 million of funding for the long - awaited Queens West library branch become embroiled in -LSB-...]

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

This is happening despite, or in some cases because of, belt - tightening in Washington; federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP is at its lowest levels in several decades, according to the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program.

Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds and law firms engaged in mass lay - offs and brutal belt tightening.

People faced with big expenses can also get a part - time job and / or tighten their belts to come up with extra cash, said Andy Smith, a certified financial planner and co-host of the Mutual Fund Show.

Emergency funds are defined in terms of months of tightened - belt living — that's according to the usual gurus such as Suze Orman, Dave Ramsey etc..

Unfortunately, with the recent change in government from Socialist to Social Democrat, there has been a round of fiscal belt tightening, and the EAC has been folded into a larger pre-existing arts organization which is widely viewed as short prelude to the governments total retreat from the funding of contemporary art.