Sentences with phrase «more public expenditure»

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In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepeners).

The article states that for 10 years, «shareholders» have submitted proposals to Charles Schwab requesting more information related to its public - policy expenditures.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

More than thirty states have passed community mental health service acts or other legislation which makes funds available on a continuing basis to match local public or private nonprofit expenditures for mental health services.

In Mozambique, for example, where a fourth of all children die before their fifth birthday, government expenditures for debt repayment are four times more than for public health.

Omissions in expense reporting and payment methods prevented the board and the public from determining the Park District purpose for a number of significant expenditures, such as restaurant tabs totaling more than $ 4,300 for meals ranging from $ 25 to $ 185, primarily charged to the accounts of Atwell, Jeffress and Paetschow.

A bill sponsored by state Sen. Terry Gipson would only allow expenditures «promoting the nomination or election of a candidate» or for carrying the duties of public office, and would more clearly define the «personal use» ban to cover a range of specific non-campaign-related expenses, including mortgage and rental payments, clothing, cars and sporting events and concerts.

According to public filings and bank records subpoenaed by the Moreland Commission, the Maziarz campaign failed to report more than $ 325,000 in expenditures since 2008, including more than 300 checks made out to «cash» with no indication of who ultimately received the money.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James burned through nearly all of the more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds in a lopsided race against a poorly funded opponent — spending $ 500,000 on a single Election Day expenditure, public recordsPublic Advocate Letitia James burned through nearly all of the more than $ 750,000 in taxpayer matching funds in a lopsided race against a poorly funded opponent — spending $ 500,000 on a single Election Day expenditure, public recordspublic records show.

It widened the divide between Labour and the Tories further by raising inheritance tax to 60 per cent for estates worth more than # 1m, in order to balance out extensive public expenditure cuts.

So perhaps the Osborne and Cameron programme of reducing expenditure on public services will have more success in expanding the pool of «natural Tory voters» and further weakening Labour's social base.

Capel's statement ends by saying the report ignores Cuomo's achievements in pushing for greater disclosure of financial activities by elected officials as well as «independent expenditure» and nonprofit organizations, the establishment of web portals allowing greater online access to public documents, and the more recent formation of a Moreland Commission panel to examine public corruption.

She also pointed out potential inadvertent consequences of the bill, noting that there are strict criteria for qualifying expenditures under the public funds program, and more public funds could make it harder for candidates to justify spending on non-qualifying purposes such as defending a ballot petition in court.

To make this back - room game more public, Assemblyman Alexander Grannis, a Democrat, and State Senator Frank Padavan, a Republican, have put together an enlightened bill to require lobbyists to report their expenditures in trying to influence contracts or any other «official action» by the state.

«It is very hard to reduce public expenditure without impacting more on the poor than the well - off.

It is not possible to operate a small facility without taking huge losses each year, and a big facility with more features could be considered an unnecessary waste of public expenditures.

«The Spanish R&D world should recognize that after five years of more than a 25 percent increase in annual public expenditures, we should be willing to resist one or two years of budgetary retrenchments.»

If you attend Incline High School in the upscale town of Incline Village, for instance, you in effect «receive» more than $ 13,248 in public funds — that is, the per - pupil expenditure in that community, which is far above the state average of $ 8,274 per pupil.

With close to a $ 10.5 trillion economy, the unrealized gain for 2002 alone would have amounted to $ 450 billion, or more than the nation's total annual expenditure on K - 12 public education.

In sum, clear majorities of uninformed respondents want their districts to spend more, but when respondents are told current expenditure levels, they take those amounts into account — an indication that public thinking on expenditures would change if residents were better informed about actual fiscal practices in their schools.

When the public is provided with specific information on the current level of expenditure in the local school district, it is less willing to spend more money on schools than when this information is not given.

At that time, the country did not realize it was about to enter a deep recession followed by a prolonged, uneven recovery, and 50 % of the public was ready to spend more on schools even after being told current levels of per - pupil expenditure in the local school district.

In that year, 61 % of the «uninformed» public (those not told current expenditure levels in their local district) endorsed more spending.

Ironically, the primary effect of the city's revenue loss from rising charter payments may have been to slow the growth in expenditures in public safety and other city departments, where expenditures rose more slowly than the school budget.

The standard response to the must - be-paid-for stipulation by advocates of more public spending on childcare is that such expenditures will produce improvements in the cognitive, social, and emotional skills of young children that, in turn, will lead children to do better as they progress through school and enter the workforce as adults.

[13] First, complete reliance on public funding meant universities were under constant pressure to limit enrollments, reduce per - student expenditures, or both (with higher - achieving students, and more elite institutions, typically most insulated from these consequences).

Total annual public education operating expenditures in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student and aggregate spending increased by 43 % over the five years ended in 2002, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation over the same period.

While the funding increase to make expenditures at schools of choice more aligned with traditional school district expenditures is laudable, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding inequity: that public schools of choice are not included in ECS and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under challenging funding conditions.

«That is $ 541 million over two years — more than half a billion dollars that the state would need to find in its budget for Connecticut's local public schools,» says Waxenberg, who questions why the state needs a new concept to compare expenditures between traditional schools and charter schools.

Despite the massive expenditure of public dollars, including more than $ 20 million a year in Connecticut state funds, the SBAC test and its sister version which is called the PARCC test, fail to adequately measure student achievement and have no appropriate role in the teacher evaluation process.

Public school expenditures have more than doubled since 1992 (including inflation), and the percentage of those funds spent on teacher benefits has increased as well.

Read more about research on canine welfare in the following white papers — Public Perceptions of Dog Acquisition: Sources, Rationales and Expenditures — June 2016; Public Perceptions of Dog Welfare, Sourcing and Breeding Regulation — June 2016; and U.S. Residents» Perceptions of Dogs, Their Welfare and Related Information Sources — June 2016.

Over a 17 - year period, Exxon and its foundation spent more than $ 1.7 million to finance lobbying activity by ALEC on legislation and public policies that benefit the corporation, while improperly and illegally claiming a tax deduction for those expenditures.

Highlighting these priorities, Indonesia's energy minister announced that by «shifting the subsidy from consumption into more productive spending... [in] 2015, the public works, the transportation sector and the agriculture [sector] will double the [ir] capital expenditure budget.»

What I am saying is that these expenditures don't matter (they are more than countered by expenditures of the enviro advocacy groups), and have become increasingly irrelevant with the ascendancy of the auditor group, which is motived by a desire for public accountability and genuine scientific interest in the subject.

Austerity advocates are knowingly or unknowingly the useful idiots of the bloated financial sector, as artificially limiting government expenditure and giveaways to public assets, makes more room for and dependence upon private debt issuance.

An analysis by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council found that taxpayers would pay nearly 50 percent more over the life of the project's loan because of interest.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

Government expenditure and finance should be made more open to public scrutiny.

More so, it also pinpoints the allowed expenditure of public sectors depending on the regulations of a country or any other particular location.

Following a drop in public health expenditure by OECD nations during the global financial crisis, spending is beginning to gather pace again, according to an art... Read more

«We expect to see the increased expenditures over 2003 levels in guestrooms, public spaces, function rooms and relationship management systems, and these are all more «guest facing» than the allocations in 2000,» says Bjorn Hanson, PricewaterhouseCoopers» global leader for the hospitality and leisure practice.