Sentences with phrase «minimum aid increase»

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Goals such as a minimum wage increase to $ 15 and 12 weeks of paid leave were aided by Republican help.

Senate Democrats call for more education aid — at least $ 2 billion — while also backing an indexed minimum wage increase coupled with local control.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

Cuomo said lawmakers still haven't reached full agreement on the mechanics of raising the minimum wage, increasing school aid or creating a system of paid family leave for the state.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

Speaking to a Long Island business group on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said the minimum wage increase was a compromise in order to get a tax cut and a boost in school aid.

Unlike Senate Republicans, who had to accept a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the New York City area, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly are largely happy with the final agreement, which also includes a 12 - week paid family leave program and a boost in education aid by $ 1.5 billion.

The budget will not include a number of items that Governor Cuomo had desired, including a minimum wage increase, the Dream Act, which would provide college aid for children of immigrants who came into the country illegally, and an education tax credit sought by, among others, the Catholic Church.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

Not for profit groups that contract with New York to provide services like home health care and aid to the disabled say Medicaid payments from the state need to rise if they are ever to afford the minimum wage increase.

The session finally began in earnest after lunch, even as the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, held a celebratory news conference with reporters, promoting victories on increasing the minimum wage, establishing paid family leave for workers and increasing aid to schools.

He says he backs increasing the minimum wage and enacting the Dream Act for college aid of immigrants.

Rather than adding substantive increases in state aid to schools, the final plan provided a minimum allocation to three quarters of Texas schools.