Sentences with phrase «in vital public services»

The Legislature must add the funding necessary to eliminate the Governor's proposed cuts in vital public services that are essential to the well - being of working families and the needy.

Testament to its failure to deliver prosperity or improvements in vital public services, is Labour's management of the NHS, which remains the poor man of the United Kingdom.

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This in turn would reduce revenues to governments that support a wide range of vital public services.

Speaking at the time, Sir Leslie Turnberg, Chairman of the UK Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) commented: ³ The vital importance of infectious disease surveillance is clear from the global increase in infectious diseases and the looming threat of antibiotic resistance... The effectiveness of the PHLS is beyond question, and the astonishingly swift identification of the cause of the recent outbreak of salmonellosis from powdered baby milk undoubtedly saved many babies from becoming ill.

We can now expect to inherit an economy with families under real financial pressure, businesses that have lost vital opportunities to invest, and public finances in poor shape, despite deep cuts to vital public services.

«We've got to go on reducing that and go on funding the things we do care most about including our vital public services like the NHS and investment in the infrastructure, the capital backbone of the country, that are going to create the jobs of the future.»

Union leaders have responded by arguing the government would be better advised maintaining investment in the public sector, which educates and trains its workforce, buys many private sector goods and services and provides vital infrastructure.

The staff of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) wishes to bring to the notice of the general public the likelihood of our inability to provide Air Traffic Services in the Accra Flight Information Region (FIR — Accra Airspace) due to unavailability of land for the installation of vital safety equipment for Communication, Surveillance, and other Navigational Aids.

The Shadow Chancellor will call for a Budget that deals with the growing emergency faced by working families and our vital public services, which have been left in crisis after seven years of Tory austerity.

«As the Paradise Papers revealed yet again, the Tories have created an economy in which the rich elite at the top do better than ever, while the rest of us have to live with our vital public services teetering on the brink.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

De Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said a property tax and assessment cap «would result in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

This campaign believed in what we, as a union, bring to the state of New York and highlighted the need for respect for public services, while speaking out against the negative impact of privatization and diminishment of vital state services.

NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides a vital service in inspecting and evaluating early childhood centers, but much remains to be done to convey the results of their work to parents and the general public.

Of the proposal to create special tax districts on developments near transit expansions, an idea known as value capture, Mr. de Blasio said such a move would «blow a hole in the city's budget» and allow the state to raid the city's property tax revenue, forcing him to cut back on vital services such as education or public safety.

Voter apathy reveals the failures of devolution in such vital areas as education, public service management and the control of paramilitary violence

The party believes in Britain as an «open, trading nation», «within the European Union and beyond» and celebrates openness to «visitors who boost our economy», «migrant workers who play a vital role in business and public services» and «refugees fleeing persecution».

The Legislature must make clear what language in the Governor's proposed appropriations bills must be modified to keep vital public services operating effectively and efficiently.

Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and vulnerable people who depend on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.

IMAGINATION The minister will warn that the country needed to wake up to the «hideous reality of austerity Conservatism» in which Mr Cameron's party planned to hack billions of pounds from vital public services.

The city opposes the measure, with a de Blasio spokeswoman saying it would «cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

The budget also extends the millionaire's tax that was due to expire at the end of this year, preserving billions of dollars in annual revenue for schools and other vital public services.

It is alarming to us that there is no «Plan B» to preserve vital public health services in Brooklyn if the waiver is not approved.

«Eight years of Tory austerity, which Labour will bring to an end, have had a disastrous effect on our vital public services and workers have paid a heavy price in the cost of living and their working lives.

Additionally, an agreement in 2013 with Say Yes Buffalo and other partners placed Social Services» and Mental Health staff in Buffalo Public Schools to make vital services more easily available to students and fServices» and Mental Health staff in Buffalo Public Schools to make vital services more easily available to students and fservices more easily available to students and families.

One of my central priorities will be to aggressively exercise the Public Advocate's role in reviewing the performance of City agencies and developing proposals to improve vital services on which New Yorkers depend.

Organizations from Buffalo to Binghamton to Brooklyn signed on to letters that were sent to New York's Congressional delegation, warning that these cuts would devastate core public services that provide New Yorkers in need with vital support.

Other benefit models can provide public employees with retirement security without threatening to crowd out vital services in a future fiscal crisis.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

Medicaid also provides $ 4 billion to $ 5 billion in funding directly to public schools for services to students with disabilities and for vital support personnel such as school nurses and counselors.

There is a clash of ideas occurring in education right now between those who believe that public education is not only a fundamental right but a vital public service, akin to the public provision of police, fire protection, parks, and public libraries, and those who believe that the private sector is always superior to the public sector.

Their leadership will ensure the nation's public schools fulfill a vital role in the implementation of new programs and services to prepare students for success in the workforce.

The state has essentially taken over Chicago Public Schools» special ed program after a five - month investigation documented systemic delays and denials of vital services for children, in violation of federal law.

She noted that the AFT, as part of its recognition of the vital role of public employees around the world, has joined with the Council of Global Unions in the worldwide «Quality Public Services — Action Now!&public employees around the world, has joined with the Council of Global Unions in the worldwide «Quality Public Services — Action Now!&Public Services — Action Now!»

However, while vital programs are cut, the companies that own Connecticut's twenty - three (23) charter schools will be given more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds this year even though these privately owned, but publicly funded, schools refuse to educate their fair share of students who require special education services and students who need additional help with the English Language.

The candidate who falsely claimed that the state budget was balanced and that, if re-elected, he wouldn't make cuts to social services or raise taxes is now instructing his Democratic colleagues in the State Senate and State House of Representatives that not only must they make historic cuts to vital health and human services, while raising tax on the middle class, but that he will only accept a budget that includes funding for two new charter schools while the new budget cuts funding for the state's public schools.

«For many tribal members who live in remote areas and rely heavily on public transportation, this funding will help ensure continued access to vital services they need.»

Public service workers fulfill a vital role in the communities in which they serve, yet many still have student loans that are currently in repayment.

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I personally value PSLF so much, and know it is so vital from my fellow attorneys working to fight against the injustices and oppression in our society, as well as so many other professionals who are dedicating their lives to public service.

Serving San Diego County since 1880, San Diego Humane Society provides vital services to animals and people alike through sheltering and adopting animals, providing positive reinforcement behavior training for adoptable animals and for owned animals through public training classes, investigating animal cruelty and neglect, providing adult and youth education programs, sharing animals through Pet - Assisted Therapy and rescuing animals in emergency situations.

The Bucks County SPCA performs a vital public service in assuming responsibility for thousands of lost, injured or homeless animals each year.

Despite what the Conservatives have always maintained, public services are not inherently inefficient, but years of so - called reforms, continuous restructuring and top - down interference, combined with virulent attacks on public sector workers, have seriously damaged morale in the sector and virtually destroyed a vital public service ethos.

The Public Health Service played a vital role in the research and control operations and by 1947, the disease was essentially eliminated.

In a major victory, we helped convince the state Public Service Commission to re-examine the need for a destructive desalination plant on Haverstraw Bay, a vital river habitat.

«This bond marks a new era of cooperation between private, public and humanitarian agencies and will allow provide vital services to people in need.

Chair of the Bar, Andrew Walker QC, said: «Following significant cutbacks in the provision of legal aid over several years it is vital that the Ministry of Justice completes the thorough review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) to which it is already committed, to ensure that the public interest in the provision of high quality and efficient legal services is addressed.

CONAF recognizes that difficulty obtaining vital documents such as birth and marriage certificates is a significant obstacle to accessing public services and claiming basic rights — especially for women and children in rural communities — and will carry out a series of capacity building and educational activities over the course of the next year to improve access to civil registry.

Those who wish to apply should have an idea that bridges the access - to - justice gap in the U.S.; utilizes technology to deal with a vital legal need; designs or builds a more effective way of delivering legal services; provides the public with easier access to legal information; reduces the backlog of cases in various courts throughout the country; creates tools that allow lawyers to better represent their clients; or helps pro se litigants represent themselves more effectively.