Sentences with phrase «increase education and health care»

But they do not understand how to work within a foreign culture to increase education and health care resources.

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The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.
Similarly, one of Martin's suggestions for increasing our prosperity is to spend less money on publicly funded health care and more on education.
It's absolutely essential to increase spending on education and health care.
But new technologies like artificial intelligence and online education, increased domestic energy production and slowing growth in the cost of health care have prompted Mr. Cowen to reappraise the country's prospects.
That would mean increasing the federal money for health, education and social assistance, creating a national child care program or putting millions into much needed home care.
The NDP budget includes modest increases and projected stable funding for health care, education, advanced education and human services — core services that Albertans depend on.
Funding was returned to health care, education and human services, two panels studying climate change and natural resource royalties were struck, corporate taxes were increased, a 3 - year minimum wage increase was implemented, and a provincial budget is expected to be tabled in the fall.
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We aim to provide education, training and support to parents and babies, increasing the health and wellbeing of families, using infant massage, baby health care guidance and first aid techniques.
With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.
Cuomo told reporters last night that a combination of Washington's inability to act, the state's worsening finances and his desire to keep a promise to increase health care and education spending by 4 percent in the 2012 - 13 budget forced his hand here.
Concurrently, persons with disabilities face relevant barriers to access social protection and health care services, quality education and livelihood opportunities, increasing their chances of remaining in poverty.
In some instances, the federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources of revenues to support.
Education aid, one of the costliest items in the budget aside from health care, is expected to increase by 4.8 percent in the current fiscal year and grow by 5.3 percent on average over the next three fical years.
Adding to the need for revenue is last year's pledge to increase spending in the coming fiscal year by 4 percent for health care and education — the two most expensive portions of the budget.
Along with the reduced bump in aid to K - 12 schools, Cuomo called for a modest 1 percent increase in higher education spending, a 3 percent increase in health care and 14 percent hike on big - ticket capital projects.
The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of balance, would require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.
But he predicts that the continued Wall Street boom, and the increased tax revenues that brings to the state, could allow the governor and legislature to continue «investment» in the two biggest parts of the budget, education and health care.
The letter takes issue with Cuomo's deep health care and education spending cuts while giving wealthy New Yorkers a «massive tax break» by allowing the temporary three - year PIT increase to expire on schedule at the end of this year.
(Well, yes, except all the hard stuff had already been either passed prior to the budget — like tax code reform and the so - called «big ugly» mentioned above — or negotiated last year, liuke the 4 percent increase in education and health care spending).
But Cuomo has locked himself into a 4 percent increase on the two most expensive areas of the budget, education and health care, for the coming fiscal year, which begins April 1.
Back in December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said half the budget was more or less finished thanks to the tax code overhaul deal that enabled a 4 percent spending increase for health care and education.
«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.
«The 2017 - 18 Executive Budget seeks to balance spending and revenue and proposes much needed capital investments in clean water projects while increasing funding for education, health care and other programs,» DiNapoli said.
To close the deficit, Cuomo wants at least $ 1 billion in new fees and taxes — including on opioids, vaping products, and insurance companies that benefit from the federal tax law — while increasing spending on education by 3 % and health care by 3.2 %.
Unions like 1199 and the U.F.T. that pushed for more money to fund education and health care will get almost $ 2 billion toward bridging next year's budget deficit, which books 4 percent increases in spending to both of their topical areas.
This year won't require anything as drastic, but the budget director says Cuomo is seeking to keep the total state spending increase, which includes health care and education, at under two percent.
Along with a 3 percent increase in aid to K — 12 schools, Cuomo called for a 1 percent increase in higher education spending, a 3 percent increase in health care and 14 percent on big - ticket capital projects.
Cuomo said the only alternatives to increased fees and surcharges are reductions in education and health care spending.
He secured a new source of revenue, and can keep his pledge to increase spending on health care and education after slashing those parts of the budget last year.
And in the end, Cuomo got the budget he wanted passed the Legislature: no broad - based tax increases and deep cuts to the state's most expensive items, education and health caAnd in the end, Cuomo got the budget he wanted passed the Legislature: no broad - based tax increases and deep cuts to the state's most expensive items, education and health caand deep cuts to the state's most expensive items, education and health caand health care.
Universities, colleges, and their students in Canada were not anticipating much in the way of increased funding for postsecondary education initiatives because much of the talk leading up to this year's federal budget focused on health care..
Given the trend toward women having children later in life, health officials should emphasize improvements in prenatal care, including family planning education and increased training of birth attendants to manage and encourage deliveries for women of advanced maternal age at health - care facilities.
Our mission is to increase education and awareness of the most advanced practices in health care for all patients, bringing the best that City of Hope has to offer to underrepresented and underserved patients and communities.
Rural, older Floridians encounter a multitude of factors that put them at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) such as limited education, decreased health literacy, low income, increased heart disease, lack of insurance, and limited access to health care.
APTA seeks to improve the health and quality of life of individuals in society by advancing physical therapist practice, education, and research, and by increasing the awareness and understanding of physical therapy's role in the nation's health care system.
«I started looking at education, trying to figure out why our education is lagging when our technology is increasing at great rates and there's great innovation in so many other areas — health care, biotech, information technology, moviemaking.
The borough also has the largest youth population of any London borough, and since 2010 has seen the number of young people with special educational needs for whom the borough maintains an education, health and care plan increase from 1,800 to 2,500.
While the plan called for a cut of 5.5 percent to education, dropping per - pupil funding by $ 550, funding limits could be offset at the district level by increased employee contributions to health care and pension programs, and by giving local school districts other tools such as wage freezes and adjustments in salary schedules.
The Gates Foundation makes monetary pledges «driven by the interests and passions of the Gates Family,» namely global access to health care, international poverty reduction and in the United States, increased access to quality education and information technology.
Supplemental services may include, but are not limited to: English as a Second Language instruction; computer literacy instruction; family literacy; general education diploma (GED) preparation; and outreach / advocacy work to increase the quality of nutritional, health, and dental care.
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report Majority of Louisianans open to increased taxes for education, health care and transportation infrastructure
Even as enrollment - driven revenue declines, costs for special education continue to increase, $ 200 million a year in the last decade, and health care and pension costs continue to rise.
If we outlaw profiteering in these two sectors, my bet is that it will increase the quality of public education and decrease the cost of health care.
We have increased transfers to the provinces and territories to record levels to support health care and education.
By way of monthly meetings and annual conferences, we provide the membership with quality continuing education to improve the health care for the animals and human residents in the local area and increase the public awareness of problems concerning animal health and disease control.
Progressive programs in shelter medicine like the University of Florida's online master's degree and innovative leaders like Dr. Brittany Watson at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (BOX 1) are expanding the reach and redefining the meaning of shelter medicine by bringing students into communities to provide medical care and education to at - risk animals and their owners in an effort to further increase companion animal health and decrease relinquishment.
Reductions in state and local resources may contribute to increases in inappropriate or unnecessary use of PEP by decreasing resources to investigate animal exposures and confirm animal health status, and by reducing county health department staff time to provide regular rabies PEP education for health care providers.»
For the only proven routes to development — to water and food security, improved health care and education, secure livelihoods — involve expanding access to energy services, and, consequently, a seemingly inevitable increase in fossil fuel use and thus carbon emissions.
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