Sentences with phrase «more public service spending»

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Governor Snyder has said that the bankruptcy filing will allow the city to spend more money on public services because less of its money will be hurdled toward paying interest on debt.

Gore's commitment to public service began when she spent more than two years in Bolivia with the Peace Corps.

If you think you will spend a decade or more in the military, it is important to enter into an income - driven repayment plan as soon as possible; each qualifying monthly payment gets you closer to Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

The budget highlights the huge imbalances created by five years of economic crisis: Spain will set aside $ 36.6 billion ($ 49.5 billion) to service its fast - rising pile of public debt, $ 2 billion more than it will spend on the 13 government ministries.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

It's possible that the cuts will have taken such a toll on public services by then that we'll be hollering for more spending, but I see no sign of it just yet.

However, defenders of civil service frugality would argue that public spending has more than doubled and maybe it's a success story that civil service costs are stable.

The communities secretary has suggested that although cutbacks are serious, local authorities will still be able to provide a «reasonable level of services», by cutting wasteful spending and allowing them to come up with more innovative ways of providing public services.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

After years of dedicated public service it's time for me to spend more time with my family, whose lives I miss each day that I spend away from home.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

Meanwhile, the party supports the idea that the Scottish Parliament should use its new income tax powers to raise rates in order to have more money to spend on public services (a far cry from their Westminster colleagues» advocacy of lower income tax when they were in coalition with the Conservatives).

Still, it's hoped, stripping more power from central government will enable improvements in public services which far outstrip the downsides of cutting departmental spending.

Only 9 % think the current level of public spending should be maintained, with more than two thirds believing that less should be spent on administration in public services.

Come 2015 or whenever the next election is, Labour isn't going to go into the election pledging to spend # 1 billion on giving cash handouts to the richest 15 % of families, and in a fortnight there are # 12 billion in welfare cuts plus untold billions more in cutting public services which will be higher priorities to oppose and pledge to reverse.

Anti-austerity and leadership dominated the 2017 campaign, with Labour's manifesto tapping into a widely felt desire for change, promising more spending on public services, the NHS, and education.

It seems rather incongruous that he should spend half of his time on seemingly narrow tasks like trying to get local councils to cut out waste and be more efficient at providing public services, and the other half of his time on «Communities» - ie religion.

But, Mandelson said: «What it is right for the government to do is to set out how we will back our key frontline public service priorities and be explicit about the different priorities, where some things that we would otherwise have wanted to spend more on will now no longer be the case, where there are things that we wanted to do which we will now have to do more slowly or put on the back burner.

You don't have to like Tony Blair, or what he did to Iraq to concede that he achieved more for ordinary people — increased spending on public services, the minimum wage, a reduction in child poverty, peace in Northern Ireland — than Foot, Kinnock, Miliband or Corbyn combined, by virtue of actually getting elected.

Slaughter spent nearly 50 years in public service, and among her latest accomplishments was securing more than $ 15 million in federal funding for a new train station in Rochester.

The Legislature is free to modify the Clean Energy Standard however it chooses, and more importantly, to place restrictions on the Public Service Commission to limit its ability to levy taxes and spend the proceeds — a power that's supposed to be reserved for the people's elected representatives, and that Flanagan's bill seeks to partially take back.

«Rather than finding more and more ways of attacking and penalising public service workers, time and energy should be spent on pressing the Coalition to clear up the economic mess.»

Although nationally, money received through such services amounted to less than half the sum brought in through council tax, the public spending watchdog found that one in three (32 %) districts were collecting more money through these additional services than they were through council tax.

As Fraser Nelson writes: «If spending can be more than doubled with little or not effect on services (some, like education, have grown worse) why should [the public] believe that cuts should be so damaging?»

This is not the first year Centro has spent more money running buses in its four central New York county service area than it's taken in to do so, but according to the public transit authority's executive director, Frank Kobliski, they've run out of one - time funding streams to fill the hole.

Asked what the next government should do in the event that it has to find more money than it expects, 30 per cent said it should increase taxes more than planned «in order to limit the impact on public services», but 55 per cent preferred to «reduce spending more than planned, in order NOT to increases taxes further».

They argued that the keys means of achieving public service improvement was higher spending, that spending more constituted a sort of achievement, and that any tax cuts were disguised spending cuts.

Welsh Conservatives would spend the same as Labour overall on public services, but we would spend the Assembly's block grant more effectively.

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

So, K - 12 public education costs more than parents are paying for daycare and preschool, which is reasonable given that K - 12 education is a more resource - intensive activity, teachers typically make more, and the K - 12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

BY KATHLEEN HAUGHNEY THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA → Florida's public schools and universities will take a more than $ 3 billion hit under the budget proposed Monday by Gov. Rick Scott, with public elementary through high school spending dropping by nearly $ 300 per student.

This past legislative session, these charter school and education reform entities spent in excess of $ 500,000 successfully persuading legislators to cut their own district's public school funding, at the same time they were sending even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that these private institutions have traditionally refused to educate their fair share of students who need special education services, children who require help learning the English Language or those who have behavioral issues.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

To keep up with rising demand, library spending on ebooks grew at a compound annual growth rate of 38 % for the past four years, from $ 30 million in 2009 — according to a Public Libraries Survey conducted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-- to more than $ 110 million in 2013 — according to a 2013 estimate from the Primary Research Group's report on library use of ebooks.

A billionaire president and billionaire education secretary, neither of whom spent a single day of their lives in public service before stumbling their way into positions of immense power, are targeting a program that's basically meant to make life in underpaid government work a little more tenable.

Governments can spend more per person on public services, families can spend more on each child, and more money is available to invest in economic development.

He has more than 27 years of professional experience in public accounting, the last 19 years spent exclusively in litigation support services and valuation.

Overall, Washington spends 10 times more on home visiting today than it did two years ago, thanks in part to the creation in 2010 of the Home Visiting Services Account, which supports matching public and private funds for home visiting.

This means a shift in culture and spending across children and families agencies towards prevention so that local health and other public services, the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector and the wider community work together to co-produce and deliver less bureaucratic, more joined - up services for all families living in the area.

Family support services also cut down on future public spending because families become more self - sufficient.

Previous studies have documented the association between bullying and both health behaviors and symptoms.21, 43,44 These studies indicate that while being bullied is associated with difficulty making friends and lower use of alcohol, 21 perpetration of bullying is associated with more time spent with friends44 and increased use of alcohol and cigarettes.21 This suggests that although adolescents who are bullied may be at less risk for adverse health outcomes associated with substance use, they may be at increased risk for somatic complaints associated with poor peer relationships.3, 18 New initiatives such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration's Stop Bullying Now campaign45 should be evaluated for their efficacy in raising public awareness and reducing the prevalence of bullying.