Sentences with phrase «less a government program»

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If these projections come true, it will mean the government will have less wiggle room to fund all the other programs in the budget, including defense, infrastructure, education, environmental protections and other discretionary programs.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

Food stamps: A temporary expansion to the food stamp program approved in 2009 expired at the end of November, leaving the 14 % of U.S. households that depend on it with less government help to put food on the table.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

FTC and state investigations in the U.S. have found that less than 10 per cent of consumers typically complete debt settlement programs there, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

In contrast, direct program expenses are expected to decline assuming, that the government is successful in restraining the growth to less than the growth in nominal GDP.

We have also questioned the impact of the restraint measures on direct program expenses — total expenses less public debt charges and major transfers to individuals and other levels of government.

This review was to focus on the approximately $ 80 billion of direct program spending — total program spending less major transfers to individuals and to other levels of government.

This would leave them with less to spend on government - sponsored programs and services.

This expensive, centrally managed, government - run program would offer even less choice than the Liberal plan.

(If program eligibility were widened, it would have more simulative effect on the economy, but save the government less and potentially lose money in the long run.)

The Trudeau government's massive new $ 23 - billion Canada Child Benefit program, which sends cash directly to families with young children to use how they wish, is also making government - funded daycare less relevant to parents.

Government run programs are inefficient, costly, and less effective.

So, because most Christians are in favor of less govenment and social programs from the government, means that we have left the basic of caring for the poor is at the least a misstatement or misunderstanding.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

@TC - The US government is in the red because when the argument between spending more on various programs and taking in less in taxes comes up, our politicians consistently go for the «make everyone happy» option where we spend more and tax less.

One of the appalling things about «social conservatism» was that it was no less set on expanding government programs for the poor than the welfarist's agenda.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Reduced income and loss of tax - exempt status makes the church less dependent upon the government and has the potential of helping the church to focus on Jesus and people instead of on buildings, staff, programs and so on.

Perhaps they're afraid that if people became more familiar with (and supportive of) such programs, they would be less ready to look to government for direction, or social engineering, or class co-operation, or any sort of empowerment.

The district also has received less ground beef, fruits and vegetables from government commodities programs, she said.

Those who hold this view pride themselves on not taking any handouts and certainly refuse to offer them, viewing tax dollars spent on programs assisting those less fortunate as an instance of government overstepping its boundaries.

But the governor also said that the state could use the two - month delay to get a better sense of what could be coming from the federal government as President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress craft their own budget, which is anticipated to result in less aid for New York state — especially in terms of support for its sprawling Medicaid program.

In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.

«That's what Andrew's HELP program for the homeless was about recognizing, that sometimes what the government is doing is insane or isn't the best way and that new ways have to be found to do things,» the source said, referring to Cuomo's nonprofit, Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged, which he founded in 1986.

Less than a year later, he worked for the Obama Administration as head of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to oversee the government bank bailout,» the Donnelly campaign email said.

Cuomo's budget assumes the federal government will approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver, and that state operating spending will hold to less than two percent a year, which helps balance his plans for a local property tax freeze and for $ 100 million in funding during this coming year, to begin expanding pre-K programs statewide.

To prevent any slippage, the report says, the federal government should reform the patent system to make litigation less common, ease financial regulations that may impose special burdens on start - up companies, and fund research programs aimed at some of the field's biggest challenges.

Government funding is less than $ 1 billion globally, with successors to completed programs in Japan, Korea and Germany not yet announced.

Because our program is built around cognitive - behavior skills, we don't treat them as an «optional extra» — because the entire history of weight loss in the 20th century tells us that simply telling people to «eat less, move more» and teaching them about calories, grams, and the government's exercise recommendations doesn't help anyone at any age lose weight and keep it off!

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

This report provides less guidance on the broader issue of the ideal level of government regulation in private school choice programs.

Scholarship recipients in Florida must earn less than 185 % of the federal poverty line, which is the income threshold for the federal government's free and reduced lunch program.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Because the maximum value of the voucher ($ 6,442) is substantially less than what the government pays to educate students in MPS, the state saves over $ 50 million per year from the operation of the program.

To determine the optimal level of a public policy program, voters and government officials must compare the marginal benefits and marginal costs of providing a little more of a little less of the program's services.

We feel that schools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

chools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

Other data are often just noise: For example, it's interesting that children enrolled in Head Start may be less likely to take to crime as adults, but it's pretty much irrelevant to judging the efficacy of an expensive government program that's failed to show much in terms of student performance.

The federal government contributes less than 10 percent to school spending in California, but it is concentrated in programs for students with disabilities and poor children.

Her genius was in the construction of a public identity of partial affiliation — a university - based historian who never wrote an academic dissertation, a former government official whose career in public service lasted less than two years, an overseer of the national testing program with no particular expertise in testing, and a champion of public school teachers who has never taught in a public school.

The federal government now spends less than it did about 30 years ago on some of the country's poorest children, the result of cuts to federal welfare programs, according to a new research paper.

Not only does the federal government lack constitutional jurisdiction (outside of Washington, D.C., military installations, and tribal lands), but a federal voucher program poses a danger to school choice efforts nationwide because a less - friendly future administration could attach regulations that undermine choice policies.

When Obama approved a short - term budget in April, Pell grants for summer semesters were eliminated — less than two years after the government had reformed and expanded the Pell grant and student loan programs.

With less federal government pressure for students to perform well at specific testing periods during the year, standardized testing may become less frequent, and the door is opened for districts to prepare individualized programs to bolster the success of each student.

All grades equipped with a 2.0 - liter engine qualify for Japan's eco-car incentive program and are subject to 50 percent less tax under the government's eco-car tax reduction program.

This is also a must read for all book groups and individuals who have the freedom to pick and choose not only what they read but, more importantly, have safe places to live and government intervention programs to help many of our less fortunate.

They do not offer financing; their program is an assurance to lenders that the loan is less of a risk since it's backed by the government.