Sentences with phrase «lower than governor»

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Since Governor Abbott took office, more than 600,000 new jobs have been created and Texas set a new record for the lowest unemployment rate in four decades.

Ultimately, Canadian banks are in a starkly more beneficial position than their American counterparts, with more propensity for stable growth and lower stock volatility that, despite Governor Poloz's remarks, are definitely a reason to be confident about Canadian banks in the near - term.

But the governor's budget office pointed to state - related debt standing at $ 2.9 billion lower than when Cuomo took office.

DeFrancisco, a Republican candidate for governor, pointed to a push by GOP lawmakers, including Majority Leader John Flanagan, to end the START - UP New York program, which was created by Cuomo and has been criticized for its spending on advertising, but producing a lower number of jobs than initially projected.

«The Senate Democratic Conference would have a tough time supporting anything that goes slower or lower than what the Governor has publicly proposed in his budget,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, D - Yonkers, said in a statement.

The governor was, and probably is again, less than thrilled: Cuomo has made lowering taxes, with one notable exception, a foundation of his agenda.

Unlike his father, Andrew Cuomo is about to become the worst Governor in New York State, even lower than Elliot Spitzer!

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

The governor's team is lowering expectations at the moment, and Cuomo is dealing from a weaker hand than in the past.

McMahon, a former aide in the administration of former GOP Governor George Pataki, has been a long time advocate of lowering New York's spending and taxes, which are higher than most other states.

As part of the Governor's ongoing efforts to assist future homebuyers and existing homeowners, this investment includes more than $ 100 million in available funds to help new homebuyers purchase and renovate «Zombie» properties and support existing low - and middle - income homeowners with major repairs and renovations.

Although the INEC Returning Officer, Prof Emmanuel Kucha, declared that the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Abubakar Audu, was ahead of his rival, Governor Idris Wada, with a total of 41,353, the commission must declare it inconclusive because the number of votes is lower than the entire number of votes that were cancelled in the areas where irregularities were noticed.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».

The reason the Democrats had a lower turnout than Republicans, is that the Governor's race was the only primary where the nominee was not already settled.

Ensure that the tradable emission permits under Governor Pataki's proposed regional carbon cap are auctioned rather than given away with the proceeds used to mitigate negative distributional effects on low and moderate income households and to serve other economically and socially important purposes.

A recent Quinnipiac poll showed that de Blasio has lower approval ratings in New York City than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with 56 percent of city voters approving of how the governor is handling his job and 41 percent feeling that way about the mayor.

The Senate bill would provide a lower tax on hails than what the governor has proposed: Cuomo would tax rides 5.5 percent, the Senate's bill places a 2 percent tax on hails while also not subjecting the service to a 4 percent sales tax.

«When (former Minnesota governor) Jesse Ventura ran and was elected after being lower in the polls than I am now before debates, there were eight debates in the state,» Hawkins said.

By the time the last votes were tallied, the Governor had garnered 54 percent of the vote to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 41 percent — a full 12 points lower than Mr. Cuomo's showing in his 2010 stomping of Carl Paladino....

«Rather than force New York City riders and low - income families to pay more... the governor should return the money he diverted and support a tax on millionaires to bring the system into the 21st century.»

If you're a green governor you should kind of know better than to bring fracked gas to a low - income minority community in downtown Albany that's already suffered years ago with the Albany ANSWERS garbage incinerator.

The governor said the change is needed because less than one percent of teachers were rated ineffective (the lowest category on the rating system) last year but students continued to «lag behind in performance.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers should consider lowering the stakes in order to account for the flawed rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, rather than removing the test scores from the ratings altogether, King said.

The guilty verdict against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was less than 24 hours old when Governor Andrew Cuomo began lowering expectations that he and the Legislature would do anything about Albany's ongoing corruption epidemic.

And then there's a degree of Cuomo fatigue, evident from recent polling that shows the governor's favorability at one of the lowest points in the seven years he has held his seat and voters more interested in «someone else» than reelecting Cuomo.

NYPA President and CEO Richard M. Kessel said: «Under Governor Paterson's leadership, the Power Authority made it the highest priority to negotiate contract extensions with the Niagara Project's more than 100 business customers to optimize the benefits of the low - cost hydropower for the Niagara Frontier economy.

Expenses of the Community Projects Fund may be lower than projected in 2010 - 11 as a result of Governor Paterson's vetoes of member - item reappropriations.

He says the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Governor Cuomo's budget division's projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by around $ 1.5 billion.

Mr. Cuomo garnered a 58 percent approval rating from city voters in a Quinnipiac Poll released this week, and it seemed that Mayor Bill de Blasio's attacks on the governor weren't particular helpful — the mayor's polls are lower than ever, and New Yorkers are split when asked about their feud.

It was with those students in mind, with their future at stake, and in the interest of the Commonwealth's economic vitality, that the governor engaged more than 200 citizens to develop an action plan, a series of recommendations spanning 10 years with an immediate focus on turning around low - performing schools and ensuring that students are receiving the support they need outside of school to take full advantage of improved teaching and learning inside of school.

Nonwhites, those without college degrees, those with lower incomes, and adults younger than 50 are more likely than their counterparts to support giving the power to the governor, with the largest gap by income.

This year Governor Kasich signed a bill to close a legal loophole that allowed low - performing charter schools to hop from one authorizer to another, rather than closing down like the policy intended.

It also came after new results showed that 96 percent of the state's graded teachers achieved the two highest ratings, and fewer than 1 percent were given the lowest, an outcome that angered the governor.

While Governor Brown cautioned that April tax revenues were $ 1.9 billion lower than projected and the state may be heading into an economic slowdown, the Education Budget was largely untouched.

No less an authority than Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has been travelling the country telling Canadians to resist the temptation to load up on low - interest debt.

Prior to joining Art Agency, Partners, for more than 12 years, Melissa worked at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), where she played a leadership role in the development, administration, and artistic direction of major initiatives such as LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island, the River To River Festival, and the organization's Artist Residency programs.

Launched in 2005, with generous support from the downtown real estate community and LMCC's programming partners, Swing Space placed over 1,000 artists in more than 25 different locations throughout Lower Manhattan and on Governors Island.

This prompted Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, to declare a state of emergency — cautioning, alongside the Department of Fish and Game, that it would likely cost the state upwards of $ 255m and 2,263 jobs this year.This precarious situation was precipitated by another record decline in the Central Valley's salmon population — the second - lowest in more than 35 years.

AUSTIN — Today Texas Governor Rick Perry moved to effectively sabotage the entire Medicaid Women's Health Program, which provides preventive health care, including birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings, to more than 130,000 low - income women each year.