Sentences with phrase «millions in government spending»

Murphy said Mahoney's plan could save millions in government spending.

«Since taking office... Mangano has reversed this trend by blocking a 16.5 percent property tax increase, placing money back in our residents» pockets through the elimination of the home energy tax and by cutting over $ 170 million in government spending.»

That data includes an estimate that the merger could immediately eliminate $ 20 million in government spending.

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To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

The federal government has a cybersecurity spending fund in place for $ 19 - million, called the Cybersecurity National Action Plan.

Simon Stevens will in a speech on Wednesday reference Vote Leave's contentious claim that Brexit will give the UK government an extra # 350 million a week to spend on areas like the NHS.

The federal government will spend $ 8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on - ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

Amazon estimated in June 2013 that it would spend about $ 46 million to install Kiva robots at its warehouse in Ruskin, Florida, including $ 26.1 million for the equipment, according to company filings to local government.

That billion dollars the government is spending is from Medicare Part D, a program for elderly Americans (not infants) that spent more than $ 500 million on the drug in 2015 alone.

In January, Mallinckrodt raised its price to $ 36,382 a vial, according to the data provider Truven, but that wasn't far off what it cost back in 2015 when Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program, spent over $ 500 million on the drug, making it one of the top 20 expenses for the program, government data showIn January, Mallinckrodt raised its price to $ 36,382 a vial, according to the data provider Truven, but that wasn't far off what it cost back in 2015 when Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program, spent over $ 500 million on the drug, making it one of the top 20 expenses for the program, government data showin 2015 when Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program, spent over $ 500 million on the drug, making it one of the top 20 expenses for the program, government data shows.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($ 173 million) on the previously unreported project, a budget breakdown shows, as part of a government policy to get back Japan «s mojo in the world of technology.

As you can see, although Alberta was the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between how big the government predicted the deficit was going to be in fiscal 2013 ($ 882 million) and how big it expects it to be now ($ 3.9 billion), it is still the only province without net debt (that is the accumulated total of annual deficits, which, in turn, result from the government spending more than it generates in revenues every year).

After spending $ 2.5 million renovating the Arctic Institute of North America's Kluane Research Station, the Harper government just eliminated the funding for the global leader in climate change and boreal mammal research.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

The report highlights the Liberal government's spending of roughly $ 66 million on ever - changing organizational direction in the Ministry of Children and Family Development while basic services for Aboriginal children and families have foundered.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a combined $ 14.2 million lobbying the U.S. government last quarter, as some in the tech industry began to weather an investigation into Russia's election meddling and others tried to battle a host of new regulations targeting their platforms.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.

The Harper government's 2012 budget called for substantial cuts to federal spending on the environment: $ 83.3 million in 2012 - 13, $ 117.9 million in 2013 - 14 and, starting in 2014 - 15, $ 180.5 million per year on an ongoing basis.

The toll removal reduces government revenue by $ 224 million this fiscal year, which is larger than any of the increases in spending announced for this year.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 198In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 198in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 198in November 1989.

In this video, we're only talking about $ 0.50, but I sometimes look at the millions of dollars our government and our churches spend on helping the rich in various ways, and I wonder what would happens if we used that money to help the poor and the homelesIn this video, we're only talking about $ 0.50, but I sometimes look at the millions of dollars our government and our churches spend on helping the rich in various ways, and I wonder what would happens if we used that money to help the poor and the homelesin various ways, and I wonder what would happens if we used that money to help the poor and the homeless.

In order to distinguish between the trivial and compelling, he reassured the audience, the government was spending millions to set up boards of ethical experts.

According to a Government Accounting Office study, the U.S. Air Force spent $ 3.3 million on drug interdiction, using sophisticated AWACS surveillance planes over a 15 - month period ending in 1987.

The powerful beverages industry offered to display anti-littering messages on its trucks and spend $ 3.5 million a year on NSW recycling programs in a bid to kybosh the government's plans for a cash - for - containers scheme.

The government reportedly spent more than $ 300 million to resettle or compensate them, and it agreed to leave untouched their cemetery, nestled in a grove of trees now adjacent to the Fisht Stadium.

Any club in debt that spends more than 5.9 million euros on a foreign player - or 2.6 million euros on a domestic player - would have to pay the same amount to a government - run football development foundation under the control of the CFA.

Each year, governments in lower - and middle - income countries spend approximately US$ 250 million on breastfeeding promotion; and donors provide only an additional US$ 85 million.

«There is no good reason why our local governments should be asked to spend an extra $ 50 million to hold three primary elections in one year,» Silver said in a statement.

So, in desperation the government spent millions on an advertising campaign which has now been exposed as dishonest.

Official figures show almost half a million pounds has been spent by government departments on Christmas festivities in the last five years.

«Even people in the know will wince at parts of the report: that the Government can not explain why the national roll out of Universal Credit was set for October 2013; that there has never been a «convincing strategic plan» for the project; and that the # 303 million already spent on IT has only produced an insecure, inflexible system that is not fit for purpose.

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 government is spending millions on helping the wealthy buy electric «plug - in» cars as a second motor.

But there were lots of spending pledges (i.e. # 840 million on that free childcare), which created the impression the Scottish government might be softening up voters for tax increases in that same budget.

A record $ 243 million was spent on lobbying state and local governments in 2015, an annual report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

«The penny may well have dropped with Nick Clegg that the government of which he is a senior member was wrong to attack spending, but his words offer nothing to the 20,000 people thrown onto the dole queue in the past three weeks alone, they won't revive our pock - marked high streets and they offer nothing for the millions more for whom life under this shambles of a government is bleak.

The size of the NHS — almost # 1 in every # 5 of public spending, employing over a million people — makes problems in the health service hard to manage even for governments with a healthy majority.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

AV IS COMPLEX: The Government will have to spend millions of pounds explaining to voters how AV works to prevent a fall in turnout at elections.

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

«When government spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to send a message that New York is a place to visit and open for business, it should have clear objectives and show the public actual results,» DiNapoli said in a news release.

In the initial petition, a litany of allegations have been levelled against her, including spending GH cents 3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the erstwhile John Mahama - led NDC government, spending about $ 14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorised her to use only $ 7.5 million, as well as attending Cabinet meetings during the tenure of the President John Mahama, among other issues.

The government hopes to increase the number of visitors to the UK by four million over the next four years and by doing so increase the money they spend in Britain by # 2 billion, boosting the # 90 billion the tourism industry already contributes to the economy.

Our government spends nearly # 400 million a year on advertising to reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the largest websites in the world, spends about one per cent of that to reach 280 million people.

He is the county executive in a county with almost 1 million people and he has a story to tell about reducing spending and the size of government and negotiating to keep big businesses in Westchester County.

«When government spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to send a message that New York is a place to visit and open for business, it should have clear objectives and show the public actual results,» DiNapoli said in a release accompanying the audit.

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

Despite significant cost pressures on local government, our relentless pursuit of value for money has meant that we have cut council spending by # 7 million (or 4 per cent) in cash terms, cut the workforce by 18 per cent (or 950 full - time equivalent employees) and cut the council's debt by # 20 million.