Sentences with phrase «is in a budget crisis»

But the state is in a budget crisis, with school funding a central issue as Gov. Dannel Malloy seeks to overhaul the state formula to redistribute money to districts in need.
Connecticut is in a budget crisis with every expense being monitored, yet new charter school seats, which cost the state $ 11,000 each, are being initiated.

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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).
As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.
New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cuts.
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, New Mexico Finance and Administration Secretary Duffy Rodriguez, from left, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla and Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey give testimony to lawmakers about state budget shortfalls in Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutIn this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, New Mexico Finance and Administration Secretary Duffy Rodriguez, from left, Taxation and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla and Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey give testimony to lawmakers about state budget shortfalls in Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutin Red River, N.M. New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a visible toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cutin courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep spending cuts.
If you listen to the latest buzz, House Republicans are now thinking of triggering a crisis over the debt - ceiling debate, likely coming up in late October, rather than the federal budget.
As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million.
The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.
Back in August — with the Greek debt crisis escalating and U.S. political gridlock on budget policy frightening investors everywhere — Flaherty was pressed by NDP finance critic Peggy Nash to consider pumping some federal cash into the vulnerable Canadian economy.
It was the largest tax amnesty program in U.S. history — at a time when a budget crisis forced California to cut funding for schools, colleges, and police departments.
That is, will the legislation require that surpluses be realized during normal economic times to offset the run up in federal debt during the economic crisis or that only balanced budgets are required?
Despite some significant fiscal actions in the budget, they were seen as «inadequate» in resolving the fiscal crisis.
Budget 2018 continues this Ottawa - knows - best trend for issues that are wholly constitutionally provincial: the opioid crisis (health care), early learning and child care (education), more cash for «seasonal industries» via the provinces, a learning bond experiment in Ontario, apprenticeship programs, funding for harnessing «big data» at universities (again, education and health care in that list).
If you want to understand why the federal government has clocked deficits in every single year since the 2008/09 financial crisis, save one (2015), and why there won't be another black - ink budget until at least the mid-2020s, look at the pre-budget picture with Finance Minister Bill Morneau where he changes his shoes.
Because of the heavy borrowing that led to Greece's financial crisis, running a budget surplus was one of the conditions of the European rescue program in 2010.
This is what plagued East Asia in the 1998 currency crisis, and what wrecked the budgets of Canadian municipalities in the 1970s.
When the year started, we were staring at a looming budget sequestration, a lingering debt crisis in Europe, and a slowdown in China.
But with the budget crisis in New Jersey these programs have been underfunded and thus the rebate checks haven't been sent out.
There is only one thing worse than not addressing a crisis in your public finances through a budget, and that is ignoring it.»
The fact is everybody, wealthy, middle class and lower class included, are going to need to pitch in to fix the budget crisis the country faces.
The breakdown of the separation of powers has generated a low - intensity constitutional crisis in which the President is effectively deprived of command over the executive branch and the federal budget.
In Bahrain, when a budget crisis ended its subsidy program, live imports ended and were replaced by imports of Australian meat.
The Spanish club are currently suffering a financial crisis after revealing that they are almost # 15million in debt, and facing years of budget cuts after gambles by the club's owners.
Harabugh's tweet linked to a Detroit Free Press article that discussed why the SEC should be more focused on the problems in its league — Tennessee and its sexual assault scandal and Louisiana's governor threatening to cancel LSU football amid budget crisis.
The combined population of more - developed countries other than the U.S. is projected to decline beginning in 2016, raising the prospect of prolonged budget crises as the number of working - age citizens diminish, pension costs rise and tax revenues fall.
Officials said they had no idea what it will cost to restore the ceilings, but figure it won't be easy to find money to do the work, with the city in the midst of a budget crisis.
There is worldwide consensus that there is a global health crisis in nutrition 8 and that the costs of diet related diseases are fast consuming health budgets.
This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)
In Europe, for example, we are faced with low defence budgets as a result of the financial crisis and years of underinvestment.
The Republican members concluded by saying, «We stand with our Democratic Council counterparts in acting now to meet the budget crises that the State's inaction is imposing on Yonkers.
Senator Ndume also speak on the ongoing crisis in the House of Representatives saying it was as a result of personal differences between Yakubu Dogara and Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the house committee on appropriation, denying the allegation that the 2016 budget was padded.
Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.
None of the details are yet clear, but one thing is certain: in envisaging an integration of health and care budgets, decision - makers at the metropolitan centre are devolving desperately hard choices away from Whitehall at a moment when social care funding has been cut to crisis level and more cuts are required.
The need for savings in the first place was derived from the global financial crisis, but also from the Ministry of Defence's significant historical overspend of its procurement budget.
Taxpayers are spending $ 1.7 billion in the current fiscal year on the Department of Homeless Services — after twice injecting extra cash totaling $ 287 million beyond what was in the city budget passed in June to deal with the burgeoning homeless crisis.
New York's political leaders were on track to extend the court order to apply to all schools in the state and to fulfill the monetary obligation, but it was derailed after the 2008 recession and resulting state budget crisis.
Welcome them, starting today with Mr. Sampson and Mr. Silver, to the New York Hall of Shame, where we'll take a glance at what the leaders and all this region's legislators are doing in the middle of a budget crisis — by their own account on their taxpayer - funded websites.
Saying New York is «ground zero» in the financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget gap.
The tax was first imposed during a budget crisis in 2009.
«The Senate continues to be at the forefront of efforts to battle the state's heroin crisis and was instrumental in securing $ 214 million in this year's budget for measures to prevent and treat heroin and opioid abuse,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.
When Alistair Darling delivered his first Budget in March 2008 it was in the midst of a global economic slowdown precipitated by a crisis in the US mortgage sector.
This is the conclusion of my paper, Free Universities, that the government's claim that «our student finance reforms will deliver savings to help address the large Budget deficit we were left» was disingenuous at best and that in fact the public spending crisis was used as an excuse to private higher education.
Paterson also spoke of the need to unify the Democratic Party, and he praised the IDC, saying that its members «understood the budget crisis better» than their fellow conference members back when he was in the governor's office.
Mr Letwin told the environmental audit committee there had been «an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed» that prompted the Budget's growth agenda.
The budget crisis in New York State is pressing and it's fair for union members to make sacrifices.
Paterson also made reference in his speech to the economic woes being faced in the United States, calling them a «crisis,» and promised to «adjust the budget accordingly.»
«Next week the country needs an «emergency Budget» for our public services that are in crisis, not a budget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled ChancBudget» for our public services that are in crisis, not a budget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled Chancbudget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled Chancellor.
The Shadow Chancellor will argue that the country needs an «emergency Budget» to save our public services that are in crisis, not a budget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled ChancBudget» to save our public services that are in crisis, not a budget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled Chancbudget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled Chancellor.
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.
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