Sentences with phrase «national public spending»

TIMSS does not include data on spending, so current national public spending per student in secondary education in international dollars was calculated on the basis of UNESCO and World Bank data.

«Gordon Brown, the chancellor, has pushed up national public spending beyond the levels of former communist countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.»

In the beginning, the concern with national public spending, led to severe budget cuts in 2011 and 2012.

Not exact matches

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

The report noted that the spending by public entities to help Najib's United Malays National Organization stay in power was not illegal but «represented a new milestone in Malaysia's freewheeling electoral system.»

And they are to relinquish public spending to private contractors, and not to interfere with the international flow of investment funds, not even to impede capital flight by domestic elites or speculation against their national currencies.

As Europe's banking crisis deepens, Greece's and Spain's fiscal crisis spreads throughout Europe and the US economy stalls, most discussions of how to stabilize national finances assume that only two options are available: «internal devaluation» — shrinking the economy by cutting public spending; or outright devaluation of the currency (for countries that have not yet joined the euro, such as Eastern Europe).

But overall demand growth has remained quite strong, boosted to some extent by temporary pre-GST spending, and by public - sector expenditure which, at least as recorded in the national accounts, has also expanded quite quickly.

Public Citizen reports that only the National Rifle Association spent more than the Chamber of Commerce's $ 30 million during the 2016 federal election.

The figure is their calculation of what each Florida student is worth to the Republican senator; they came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

[T] hey came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

The need to cut public spending in order to help address ballooning national debt is now well - established.

The opposition isn't simply to spending money on art and culture and news, it is to spending public funds on liberal art and culture and news, and there is something to that given the track record of how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their public funds on liberal art and culture and news, and there is something to that given the track record of how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their Public Radio, have chosen to use their funds.

New York's public schools spent $ 21,206 per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year, topping all states and exceeding the national average by 86 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.

UK public spending was some # 711 billion in 2011; a saving of # 1.86 billion (0.26 %) would certainly have been welcome, but it's actually a pretty paltry reward for foregoing the ultimate backstop of national survival.

«The «big society» is a con, dreamt up by his so - called experts who have never spent a day working in the sector,» public sector union Unite's national officer Rachael Maskell said.

«New York public schools now spend more per pupil than any other state and 87 percent above the national average.»

The President of IMANI - Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has challenged the National Communication Authority (NCA) to make public, the full details of every amount spent in producing a mobile cellular consumer satisfaction survey.

Among the party's other policies: a # 50bn a year cut in spending, a 31 per cent flat rate of income tax, the abolition of national insurance, a five - year freeze on new immigrants settling in Britain, a ban on wearing the burka in public - and in some private — buildings, and boot camps for young offenders.

It was the first federal law to establish public disclosure of financial spending by political parties (but not candidates) by requiring the national committees of political parties to file post-election reports regarding their contributions to individual candidates and their own individual expenditures.

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600 per - pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009 per - pupil national average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

He and co-author Ben Jackson, an Oxford University lecturer, instead called on Mr Miliband to adopt a «patriotic, national growth appeal» which does not simply focus on «a simple defence of the public sector and public spending».

Overall, this approach would provide a better return on investment for public money spent supporting growth and a bigger contribution to the national purse.

The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including longstanding conservative targets like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.

The National Center for Education Statistics reported in January that local, state and federal public school spending for the 2014 — 15 school year had risen by 2.8 percent from the previous year after a 1.2 percent rise the year before.

Indeed, the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy judges them, along with the post-hoc spending scrutiny work of the Public Accounts Committee (acting on the National Audit Office's reports), as «one of only two areas where the Commons is clearly contributing to detailed policymaking».

The other key area is the post hoc scrutiny of government spending achieved by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), acting on the reports of the independent National Audit Office, the UK's «supreme audit institution» (or SAI).

After the binge of the Labour years, Britain is addicted to public spending, currently gobbling up 47 per cent of national output.

Threats to national pay structures are yet another unjustified attack on public sector workers and will hit spending power hard in the poorest areas of the country.

Graduation numbers are a controversial issue for New York state, which ranks below the national average in that area although its spending on public schools is among the nation's highest.

«He has written numerous books on economic theory and practice and he remains a prolific writer in national magazines and newspapers on a broad range of subjects including health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.

As expected, Governor Andrew Cuomo is only spending one day in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention, and it will be a lightly scheduled one, at least in terms of public events.

Cuomo during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on WNYC public radio said the state spends the most in the country on school funding and twice the national average per pupil.

Much of that spending went toward consultants and public relations firms, which were attempting to boost the mayor's efforts to secure funding for a universal pre-kindergarten program in Albany in 2014, and toward the mayor's effort to set up a new nonprofit geared toward advancing his national political platform.

He applauded Mr. Bloomberg for his «vision and for the energy» spent in expanding the No. 7 subway line; he credited him for a hard - fought victory in winning mayoral control of the public schools; and he even took to Twitter to defend him against the National Rifle Association.

«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

SERAP's statement reads in part: «The constitutional role of the National Assembly is limited to the authorisation of any public spending by the executive and not insertion of projects in the budget.

Here's the latest news, courtesy of the US Census Bureau and the Empire Center for Public Policy's E.J. McMahon: Per - pupil public - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 pePublic Policy's E.J. McMahon: Per - pupil public - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 pepublic - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 percent.

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Sarah Zielinski wanted to be a marine biologist when she was growing up, but after graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in biology, and a stint at the National Science Foundation, she realized that she didn't want to spend her life studying just one area of science — she wanted to learn about it all and share that knowledge with the public.

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science education.

• PUBLIC HEALTH After the attacks of September 11, 2001, biodefense spending soared at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, from $ 17 million in 2002 to $ 50 million in 2003 to $ 100 million in 2004.

Based on public data about national spending from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, «the true quantity of money that has been invested... in R&D is even less than what appears in the budget bills,» says COSCE President Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Mpublic data about national spending from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, «the true quantity of money that has been invested... in R&D is even less than what appears in the budget bills,» says COSCE President Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of MPublic Administration, «the true quantity of money that has been invested... in R&D is even less than what appears in the budget bills,» says COSCE President Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid.

► «The National Science Foundation (NSF) is... rethinking Science and Engineering Indicators — the agency's massive biennial statistical bible covering everything from spending on research and education to regional development, trade, and public attitudes toward science,» Jeffrey Mervis reported late Wednesday.

The Senate wants to give NSF $ 750,000 so that the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) can study the impact of the new criteria, which help legislators measure if NSF is meeting a 1993 law aimed at making sure agencies spend tax dollars wisely.

In 2012, 61 percent of people said they were dissatisfied with the time doctors spent talking with patients, according to a poll conducted by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Non-military spending includes federal funding for public education, veterans» care, the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, State Department and other programs means that the resulting balance.

Dr. Kathryn Williamson joined the West Virginia University Department of Physics in January 2016 after spending 3 years as the Public Education Specialist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.