Sentences with phrase «income as public officials»

In this regard, he enjoined the citizenry to desist from promoting and tolerating corruption through their action of encouraging corrupt officials to live above their legitimate means by making requests of them that they can not meet within their legitimate income as public officials.

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While officials in China must report their income and assets to authorities, as well as personal information about their immediate family, the disclosures aren't public.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Cuomo, as is custom for statewide elected officials, made public his taxes today, showing he earned $ 218,100 last year and is no longer receiving income from the proceeds of his 2014 memoir, «All Things Possible.»

The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

There hasn't been a lot of movement on ethics reform in Albany, as the legislative leaders remain at odds on key provisions like banning outside income and stripping pensions from convicted former public officials.

Cuomo did win ethics legislation in recent years that included new income disclosure laws for state lawmakers and statewide elected officials as well as new crimes for bribery and public corruption.

These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.

The annual disclosure forms legislators are required to submit to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics only asks the elected officials to provide income ranges, not specific dollar amounts, for their outside income as well as the value of stock and property owned by them or their spouse.

In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.

Today, 85 percent work in roles in public education or in low - income communities, including as school leaders, elected officials, advocates and union leaders.

Charter school officials say they should get just as much funding because their schools perform just as well, if not better, than traditional public schools while educating higher percentages of low - income, minority students.