Sentences with phrase «hurt lower income people»

Supporters of the moratorium criticized the bag fee as nothing more than a tax that would hurt lower income people.

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We need to wage verbal war on the tories for hurting low income households if we ever want to regain our councillors and councils and the respect of ordinary working people.

«It would hurt low - income individuals, and it would result in serious numbers of people being removed from health care and not having any coverage whatsoever,» she told reporters after an hourlong meeting with both Republican and Democratic members of the House delegation.

any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

Councilman Brad Lander, the prime sponsor of the bill, has touted a provision mandating free bags, for «any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

«Begrudgingly, to get the budget done, we accepted the sales tax, but it's really going to hurt low - income people,» Gov. Paterson said.

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.

AEP Ohio's proposal to increase fixed charges would hurt low - income customers, the same people this powerful electric utility pretends to represent when it attacks clean energy policies, and fits into the company's long record of poor treatment of its most...

These barriers to care especially hurt people who already face inequities and barriers in the health care system — including people of color, people who live in rural areas, people with low incomes, and immigrant communities.

Those hurt most by this political attack will be patients who already face barriers to care, particularly people of color, people with low incomes, and people in rural communities.

So cutting off government funds, mostly through Medicaid and grants, would only hurt the thousands of people, most of them low - income women, who each day depend upon Planned Parenthood for birth control, cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and other health services.