Sentences with phrase «funding cuts instead»

Not exact matches

April 23 (Reuters)- Barrick Gold Corp reported a slightly better than expected increase in first - quarter adjusted profit on Monday and said it was done selling assets to cut debt and would instead use funds from any future sales to boost growth or pay dividends.

Unable to receive funds, Compassion cut back, limiting the hours of operation for its child development centers and serving snacks instead of full meals.

The board also ditched plans to cut the district's reserve funds by $ 800,000 and instead opted for a smaller cut of $ 300,000.

However, instead of increasing the support available to mothers, many support services were cut in 2016 because of reduced funds available.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats said the cut in the rate of VAT to 15 per cent, which cost taxpayers # 12.5 billion, should have been used to fund a green investment programme instead.

Instead, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has acknowledged that the «premium» will be funded by redistributing money within a shrinking schools budget, which means that most schools will see their funding cut.

In 2014, legislators did not take her advice to cut down on the county's workforce, instead opting to increase the tax levy over the state tax cap, and pull $ 1 million from the fund balance.

Instead, there would be a tax cut of 4p in the basic rate, funded by changes to the tax system as it related to pension contributions, capital gains and pollution.

«We want to remind people under the Republican majority a budget was passed that ends Medicare in order to fund tax cuts for millionaires... the Republican majority for 24 months has been trying to shut down Planned Parenthood instead of trying to open up small businesses.»

This means that, if there was a broadcasting tax instead of a fee or contribution, the parliaments could freely decide to cut funding at any time — in particular, of course, for programmes that might criticize the ruling majority.

«For those in the delegation who supported this legislation, New Yorkers will remember that you were elected to serve them but instead fought to cut our funding and our vital health care services,» Cuomo wrote.

WASHINGTON — President Trump didn't get the border wall or the budget cuts he wanted in a congressional spending deal that instead preserved funding for home heating aid, the Great Lakes, community development, medical research and a host of other programs important to the Buffalo area.

Despite this, Labour Ministers have chosen to cut funding to apprenticeship schemes in recent budgets, instead favouring less effective work experience schemes like Jobs Growth Wales.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

So, for example, what would have been described as a 10 percent cut in funding in the past, was instead a 3 percent increase in funding.

«As a St John's blue light ambulance driver, Gillian has seen first - hand the extent of the crisis caused by this Conservative government, which has chosen to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest instead of our health service.

De Blasio intended to protest cuts in the new state budget to Medicaid funding and the City University, but instead found himself fending off demands by lawmakers that the city limit increases in the property tax to 2 percent a year.

Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem

«Instead of giving hedge fund managers and others on Wall Street billions in tax cuts so they can gamble with our money, Governor Cuomo should make them pay their fair share and invest in our communities,» said Wayne Starks, a VOCAL - NY Board member and leader from Brooklyn.

The district doesn't plan on cutting checks to taxpayers, instead planning on allocating a portion of the fund balance to support programming.

Let's fight instead over a cultural center in a commercial district in downtown Manhattan — after Congress cuts back funding for anti-terrorism security measures in NYC so they can defend Montano and other high risk places.

Throughout all this, legislators continue to reject the deep cuts sought by the Trump Administration, opting instead for smaller reductions with some targeted increases, with the possibility alive that additional funding could be added later in the process should Congress reach a spending deal.

Instead, a bipartisan majority voted for a 3 - year freeze on the budgets for those agencies; it also cut all funding for DOE's new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.

• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.

He learned in March that funding the environmental geosciences program that his mercury work falls under will be cut short in a year instead of wrapping up four years from now.

Instead, the funding formula continued to deduct voucher expenses from MPS equalization aid, although the deduction was cut in half.

Our studies suggest that instead, many states have played a shell game with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, backfilling cuts to education with those one - time dollars.

Instead of bemoaning threatened cuts in federal funding for education, he speaks of eliminating the federal role altogether — provided that the government assumes full responsibility for social services.

In instances where stimulus funds failed to fill budget holes completely, states and districts generally did not blaze a trail for reform, instead opting for temporary, shortsighted cuts designed to help them hunker down and ride out the current storm.

The government launched the legal challenge to avert the strike over funding cuts, claiming that it was an unlawful dispute based on political grounds instead of a trade dispute about terms and conditions.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

Instead of paying for services, she wants to deregulate, thereby allowing for funding cuts.

Instead, it actually spends $ 105 million less on TAs than what was planned for the upcoming year, which means local school districts are taking a 22 percent hit to their teacher assistant funding stream — and that's on top of huge cuts to TAs over the past several years.

Edwards, who voted for NCLB legislation, contends that the funds needed for schools to «leave no child behind» instead went to provide tax cuts.

Instead, budgets were being cut in real terms as the government had frozen per pupil funding and loaded on extra costs such as higher pension contributions, the statement added.

«George Bush said he would leave no child behind, but instead he pushed tax cuts that left no millionaire behind, then turned around and cut funding for his own education bill by $ 1 billion.»

Since the maximum cut that can be imposed is 2 percent of current funding, Lusher's allocation will instead be cut by about $ 291,000.

Instead of taking massive budget cuts to public schools, California is flowing more money into schools and has taken steps to ensure school funding is more equitable.

Instead, state control and grossly inadequate state funding have led to dozens of neighborhood school closures, deep cuts in programs and services in District schools, and the disenfranchisement of families, whose concerns about their children's education were ignored by the SRC.

Instead, Brooklyn Castle chronicles a messy reality — that of Intermediate School 318, a Brooklyn middle school where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them engaged.

As Connecticut policymakers confront a large and growing state budget deficit, veteran Hartford educator James Mulholland correctly recommends that the $ 17 million in taxpayer funds that are being wasted on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme should be used, instead, to stop the disastrous cuts that will actually hurt and limit opportunities for Connecticut's poorest children.

Unfortunately, political leaders have made fully funding the foundation level a low priority, instead «prorating» (cutting) it year after year.

Instead, this bill creates a mechanism that will make it easier for districts to cut even more teachers from our children's classrooms while allowing lawmakers who have refused to adequately fund education for years to make the baseless claim that they somehow support our children's schools.

Instead of depleting funds to education, why not seek to cut spending in areas that would not affect children and ultimately society?

The Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program, in Title II of the Higher Education Act, provides funding to institutions of higher education, high - need local education agencies, and schools for teacher preparation programs.38 California State University, for example, recently received a $ 8.1 million federal grant to attract more Latinx candidates; to provide students with more opportunities for hands - on training; and to create systems to track student - teacher progress in the classroom.39 The budget should prioritize funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Higher Education Act, instead of cutting programs that attract teachers and improve diversity.

Although Florida has a reserve surplus of $ 5 billion dollars, the legislature has a history of cutting education funds and passing costs onto districts instead of dipping into reserves to fund schools.

But in the current climate, it is known that mandating elementary school librarians would require additional funding while the tax cap assures instead further cuts.

And so once again Americans will promise to cut back on presents, food and decorations and to fund their celebration from actual income instead of savings or credit cards.

And instead of a direct subsidy why not use the additional funds to cut taxes?

(Sydney's Roads and Traffic Authority, RTA, also has their Action for Bikes: BikePlan 2010, but it's tough to deliver the promised 200 km of new cycleways annually, while cutting funding and proposing to instead close bike paths.)