Sentences with phrase «local governments spent more»

«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.»

Not exact matches

Those who want to curb the century - old SALT deduction argue it only motivates local governments to seek more tax increases and spend more money.

While local governments were more important in terms of their spending shares before WWI, their role diminished significantly after WWII.

China could allow local government to issue more special bonds to support government spending on urban redevelopment and infrastructure investment to shore up domestic demand, said Xing from Morgan Stanley.

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

«It is critically important, now more than ever, to make sure government controls spending in light of the federal cap on deductions for state and local taxes,» Law said, referring to the $ 10,000 limit on deductions of local property taxes and state income taxes on federal returns.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

Despite capping cost increases in recent years, local governments in New York spend more on Medicaid than localities in the other 49 states combined.

From 2013 to 2016, New York's government unions spent more than $ 52 million on state and local elections, according to the Empire Center.

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

Lobbying in New York remains an expensive business, with entities spending more than $ 240 million in 2017 to influence state and local governments.

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

Commenting on the Local Government Association's claim that more than # 160 million has been spent by councils on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects axed by the Coalition Government, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

The federal government spends $ 176 million a year on abstinence - only education, and millions more are spent every year in state and local matching grants.

Early next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget, cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending — cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.

According to Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center that tracks subsidies from local and state governments, New York leads the country in overall spending on megadeals — defined as corporate incentive packages that total more than $ 75 million.

Cuomo has pushed local governments — including the de Blasio administration — spend more on the trains.

Cuomo has called for increased control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is pushing local governments within the MTA's service area to spend more on transit in the area, including New York City.

«When the governor made this announcement (about shared services) at his regional «State of the State» addresses, he wanted people to believe that the prime reason for high property taxes is the existence of local government without acknowledging school taxes and without acknowledging that [New York] imposes more state spending on local property taxpayers than any state in America,» said Molinaro, a former state assemblyman.

Local governments will have more money to spend on paving and other road repairs.

«I think a lot of us were certainly extremely pleased to see the continued efforts out of Albany to place fiscal constraints on their spending and to create an environment more conducive to local business and job creation — and with an eye toward reducing the cost of operations for local governments,» Andrews said.

For just one program — Medicaid — counties spend $ 7.4 billion annually, which is more than local governments in any other state contribute to their state's fiscal plan.»

The «beating, radical heart» of the government was shifting power away from the centre to ordinary people, allowing them more choice over services, greater transparency about state spending and greater ability to get involved in running and shaping local services in their communities, he said.

Others, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, suggest spending more surplus dollars on economic development, so extra tax dollars would allow local governments to better fund infrastructure projects on their own.

The extent of both government and private - sector spending will also depend on how much of Puerto Rico can be rebuilt, and whether some areas — such as the capital, San Juan — should be given priority while more rural areas are left to be rebuilt using local resources.

Local governments now get about half of tax and other revenues, but are responsible for more than 80 percent of public spending.

October 5, 2012 • His plan calls for more spending on infrastructure, a tax cut for firms that hire new workers, aid to state and local governments, and a program to rebuild schools.

Nonetheless, the adequacy lawsuit has emerged as a prominent, if largely unnoticed, reform strategy, using the courts to force even more education spending on state and local governments.

Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8 % more on public schools during the 2014 - 15 school year than in the previous year.

The data comes from the 2009 Census of Government Finances and covers public school spending during the 2008 - 2009 school year and revenue from federal, state and local sources in districts with enrollments of 10,000 or more.

This week's report by the privately organized State Budget Crisis Task Force focused on fiscal conditions and indicators for a half - dozen states — California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia — that account for more than one - third of the nation's population and 40 cents of every dollars spent by states and local governments.

DeVos said, «I see you when you're bearing the brunt of the regulatory burden that local, state, and federal governments — including the U.S. Department of Education, though I'm working to change that — put on you... [Principals] should be able to spend more time focusing on the people, not on the paperwork.»

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.

As one of the leaders in curricular publishing, too, Scholastic's release of Wilhelm and Smith's title will hopefully hold some level of sway over administrative decision making at the local and state government school boards, allowing more time during the school day to be spent on individualized reading for pleasure rather than simply reading for the sake of the curriculum.

More recently, Lydia spent six months as Commercial Development Manager (maternity cover) for the Jersey Conference Bureau, working with businesses and partners in government and private sectors to bring meetings and incentives into Jersey, for the benefit of the local economy.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.