His research has appeared
in Public Budgeting and Finance, Municipal Finance Journal, Educational Policy, Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management, and Developments in Education Finance.
More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw
in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.
Source: AAAS analyses of defense and nondefense R&D, based on detailed budget account projections
in the Public Budget Database of the Budget of the United States Government FY 1998.
Not exact matches
In return for its help, Germany has demanded that Greece slash its
public budgets, sell off
public assets, and reform its labor laws.
On the eve of his second federal
budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doesn't loom large
in the
public imagination.
As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities
in Ontario) and former parliamentary
budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending
in the
public service.
But prospects will vary by province and even by municipality, since many of these jobs are
in the
public sector and therefore dependent on government
budgets.
Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000
public employees
in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve
budget problems by confronting organized labor.
Perry Metz, who oversees WFIU and WTIU
in Indiana, told Business Insider that he was concerned by the proposed
budget and argued that the percent of the federal government's
budget that is spent on
public media is «tiny.»
CPB president Patricia Harrison said
in a statement that there was «no viable substitute for federal funding» that could help the CPB provide free
public media programming, which was slashed from the
budget that Trump released Thursday.
That represents a shift
in public thinking from Mulvaney, who as a member of Congress was one of the most stringent
budget hawks.
As The Washington Post reported
in 2012, many
public stations
in rural areas rely on federal government allocations for up to 50 % of their
budgets.
In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American
public — to the near - total exclusion of big
budget Hollywood blockbusters.
As always, Olympic
budgets can be spun to the
public in numerous ways, but one thing is certain: they always cost more than planned.
Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority
budgets had put
public safety at jeopardy and had played a part
in the fire that destroyed a tower block
in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.
OTTAWA — Mandatory balanced -
budget legislation, interprovincial booze runs,
public sector bashing and lifetime prison terms are among a grab bag of populist Conservative promises
in a mid-mandate policy makeover.
The state, which has the highest incarceration rate
in the country, is feeling the pressure of a massive criminal justice
budget, and is already slashing funds for
public defenders.
While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input
in battlefield decision - making — he has faced
public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the
budget and expanding US involvement
in Afghanistan.
In its FY17 union
budget, the Indian government announced 250 billion rupees will be allocated toward the recapitalization of
public sector banks.
Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions
in market value, and both
public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending
budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.
All levels of government, hurting from the toll the
public health crisis has had on
budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo
in WV; Nassau
in NY; Orange
in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).
In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30
In Quebec, for instance,
public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut
in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30
in funding slashed their repair
budgets by 30 %.
In light of sequestration, the petitioners want NASA to get its
budget line back funding
public outreach and science, technology, engineering and math programs.
For instance, the government says it will invest $ 950 million over five years to support «superclusters,» but the vast bulk of that money is repurposed from last year's
budget, with the remainder scraped from «
public transit and green infrastructure» funding allocated
in the 2016 fall economic statement.
By the time Martin recorded a «surprise»
budget surplus of $ 20 billion
in 2001, the opposition parties and the
public had stopped giving the Liberals the benefit of the doubt.
And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed
in the Trump
budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency
in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and
public health fund that puts a billion dollars
in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.
The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the
public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth
in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual
budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.
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In addition, Corzine has served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Capital
Budgeting under President Clinton, Chairman of the Treasury's Government Borrowing Committee and Chairman of the
Public Securities Association.
[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural
budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction
in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the
budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new
public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning
in 2010.
In an era when there is a $ 200 billion infrastructure gap just for Canadian municipalities but political leaders at all levels are convinced the
public wants balanced
budgets, where will the dollars come from?
Trump has vowed repeatedly that his administration will take more steps to lower drug costs, and included some potential actions
in a proposed
budget made
public last month that Congress is not likely to accept.
Yet BC Housing's
budgets for
public, non-profit and co-operative housing will receive a slight bump for 2008 - 2009 before declining again
in each of the two following years.
According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for
public welfare and education fueled the increase
in the two states»
public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.
However, a
budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as
in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion
in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest
in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare,
public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.
With interest rates lower than projected
in the March 2012
Budget,
public debt charges are correspondingly lower.
April 21, 2015 Federal
Budget Advocacy Win: Economic Action Plan 2015: $ 3 million over 3 years, starting
in 2016 — 17, to take steps to establish
Public Safety Broadband Network, a high ‑ speed mobile network dedicated to emergency management
It would have been better if the paper had been released after the Prime Minister's statement
in Davos and before
budget 2012 to allow for a
public discussion on the elderly benefit system, but that was not possible because the paper did not address the issue of the long - term fiscal sustainability of elderly benefits.
Southwest's place
in the
public mind is still as a U.S.
budget airline, and Rapid Rewards is Southwest's loyalty program.
The event's main purpose was to discuss recent developments
in Alberta
public policy, as well as expectations for the upcoming Alberta
budget.
Public debate
in Ontario tends to frame sales - tax harmonization either as an unjustified «tax grab» or as a needed contribution to the deteriorating provincial
budget.
The Standing Committees of the
Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based
budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based
budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations
in its financial reporting system».
At a minimum, such a plan must include a freeze on the salaries of the Prime Minister, all Ministers and Deputy Ministers and a requirement that any
public service salary increases be absorbed
in Departmental operating
budgets.
These include the information presented
in the
Budget, the monthly Fiscal Monitor, the Annual Financial Report and the
Public Accounts of Canada.
In 2003, the Government adopted full accrual accounting as its accounting standard for the
Budget and the
Public Accounts.
In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the
public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal
budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.
Less information is now provided to the
public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do
in the
budget has been eroded.
This led to
budget deficits, and Wall Street banks helped the government conceal its
public debt
in «free enterprise» junk accounting.
The Authorities used are on a different coverage and accounting basis than the spending projections
in the
Budget or
in the final audited results
in the
Public Accounts.
The Standing Committees of the
Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based
budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based
budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations
in in its financial reporting system».
Democrats Say «Bye» to Populist Option
In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the
public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal
budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.