Sentences with phrase «local government spending»

He said a recent report shows that local government spending on infrastructure has dropped dramatically.

No 10 said the government had to look at local government spending because it represented a quarter of all public money.

I suppose that this need not be an argument for an alternate reality so much as a return to the past when local government spending was actually more important.

Mr Balls said: «Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed and I were worried because there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about.

In 1902, state and local governments spent $ 12.80 for each citizen within their confines; in 1970, they spent $ 646.20 — 50 times higher.

«Eric Pickles fell asleep for a quite extended period of time and Ed [Miliband] and I were worried because, you never know, there might have been some big cut in local government spending coming which he didn't know about so we just politely suggested to Vince Cable that he should wake him up.»

At the same time, two major drivers of local government spending that officials on that level can't control, pension rates and Medicaid costs, are expected to decline and seen slower growth respectively.

And in the many parts of the United States with no sheltering options, where local government spends no money on animal control, affordable spay / neuter is absolutely critical in preventing dog and cat homelessness and its terrible consequences.

Sports events, they argue, increase local government spending on public safety and traffic control.

The funding local government spends on tackling anti-social behaviour should be protected, a poll has indicated.

For example, the Department for Communities and Local Government spends less than # 3 of public money over time for every # 1 raised up - front in private investment.

Their exhaustively - documented series lays out in excruciating detail how the roughly $ 8B a year New York State and local government spend subsidizing businesses, and on -LSB-...]

Local governments spent about $ 1.2 billion on capital needs for transportation, water and sewer systems in 2012, down 8 percent from 2010, when $ 1.3 billion was spent, according to a 2014 state comptroller's report.

Albany mandates local governments spend too much money.

The shadow chancellor and leader of the opposition were «worried», Balls explains, because they didn't want Pickles to miss anything important like massive local government spending cuts.

The report Kolb cited also includes local government spending, so the $ 8 billion can not be attributed completely to the state.

«In 2008 alone, state and local governments spent more than $ 66 billion to improve the overall quality of school facilities, and another $ 400 billion is owed in school improvement and construction bond debt.»

It's an ambitious enterprise, but through partnerships with government, business, and grassroots supporters, the library system receives more than $ 21 per capita income in a state where average local government spends only $ 8.75 per person on libraries.

First, it provides no incentive to curtail school and local government spending because there are no constraints on raising new revenue.

At 11 a.m., Reclaim New York will host a press conference with Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos and Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel to announce the launch of New York's first searchable online database of local government spending, and a new government transparency scorecard, Nassau County Comptroller's Office, 240 Old Country Road, 2nd Floor, Mineola, Long Island.

The fundamental assumption is that power, in zero - sum terms, belongs to Whitehall and it may release some to a local elite if they are deemed to be responsible and can demonstrate they will behave well (i.e. not make too much fuss about the scale of cuts in local government spending).

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Again, federal transfers to other governments are accorded to the provinces and provincial transfers to other governments are accorded to local government spending.

Breaking the GDP report down, we see that in addition to overall modest strength in the economy (growth was still off from the fourth quarter's 2.9 %), the upturn was helped individually by positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, private inventory investment, federal government spending, and state and local government spending.

Radical cuts in local government spending need not damage frontline services if councils cull unnecessary jobs, according to the Taxpayers» Alliance.

Eric Pickles has defended his decision to scrap the Audit Commission, telling the Commons the local government spending watchdog made «errors of judgement».

Those lobbying state and local government spent a record $ 226 million in 2014 trying to influence public officials, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the state's ethics and lobbying regulations.

The governor linked the push to reduce property taxes and local government spending to the tax bill, which is expected to pass the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the coming days.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also criticized the move, which would cut money used by state and local governments spent to help maintain records on those who are ineligible to purchase firearms.

There were two important announcements, on local government spending and Lords reform, accompanied by oral statements to the Commons.

Studies on government consolidation have been gathering dust for decades in Onondaga County, but the Consensus effort has generated high - voltage public interest in part because it coincides with Gov. Cuomo's hard push to cut local government spending.

His audits and reports have identified the need to control both state and local government spending.

State and local governments spend that money in several different ways, ranging from tax credits for film companies to property tax waivers.

This work includes making sure that departments include specific open data commitments in their business plans, regularly publishing open data sets on central and local government spending, senior staff salary details and how the government is performing against objectives.

For access to state and local government spending, public authority financial data and information on 50,000 state contracts, visit Open Book New York.

The comptroller is the state's chief financial officer, who with a staff of about 2,500 audits state and local government spending and manages the roughly $ 130 billion retirement fund for public workers.

Schools will also have to face the knock - on effect of cuts to local government spending, which could mean reductions in support services and transport.

And, according to author and environmental activist Amy Larkin, the environmental impact of climate change is an actual financial issue: «Would you rather federal, state, and local governments spend our money on preventing extreme weather in the future or on recovering from extreme weather?

The revision was largely due to upward revisions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports and state and local government spending, and a downward revision to imports, which reduce output growth.

Stronger personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and less drag from weaker imports were offset by weaker growth in inventory investment, exports and state and local government spending than in the initial estimates.

Downward revisions to inventory investment and exports were offset by upward revisions to state and local government spending.