Sentences with phrase «need for public services»

That advantage has dwindled to just six per cent, largely because the public's acceptance of the need for public service cuts is falling too.

• Payments made under the revised plan count toward the 120 payments needed for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Shelters are supposed to be the safety net for the neediest animals in a community, and given the inherently uncertain and changing nature of life, there will always be a need for animal shelters in the same way there will always be a need for public service agencies that care for orphaned abandoned or needy children, regardless of how many spay and neuter surgeries are done in a community.

Not exact matches

The New York Public Service Commission said the decision was needed «to prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing.»

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

But there is no need for political clashes to convince large trade surplus countries in East Asia to keep more of their hard - earned savings home - instead of financing deficits of much richer countries - to improve their infrastructure and public services.

The need for enough income to make large monthly payments may discourage some graduates from starting a new job - creating business or entering teaching or another lower - paying public service career.

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

WYATT: When you combine what we «re looking for, that is interest in public service, not needing public recognition for your successes, not being able to share often some of your successes with the people you most love and respect.

And for that he would need a «fiscal problem» that he could fix with tough spending cuts and public service layoffs.

We heard voices saying that Canada and the world economy need increased social services, expanded public infrastructure investments and restored regimes of strict regulation for banks and investment houses.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

DETROIT - Gov. Rick Snyder today authorized Detroit's emergency manager to seek federal bankruptcy protection for the city, saying it was the only viable option to provide the 700,000 people of Detroit with the public services they need and to restore the city.

Public Services Minister Judy Foote, who is responsible for Shared Services Canada, said she didn't see a need for the agency to be exempt from the IT arrangement.

Slowly but surely Albertans are being forced to deal with two difficult and inter-related issues — the need to restructure the way we pay for public services and the need to get serious about lessening our province's carbon footprint.

No one can doubt for a moment that the federal public service, like every other institution in human history, needs to keep up with the times.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

The minister heads the state oil company PDVSA, which is in desperate need of a hike in fuel revenues and favorable financial ratings to fund imports of consumer goods and medical supplies for its citizens and to keep the socialist government's public services afloat.

Politically, we need to provide much better formation for those young Catholics who would aspire to a life of public service; we also need to enhance our support — including spiritual support — for those already embarked upon this noble vocation.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

When churches believe that their mission requires them to provide education, health care, social work, disaster relief, refugee resettlement, shelter for the homeless, food for the hungry, assistance to the aged, or whatever, they are often providing needed public services for which the public is willing, able and responsible to pay.

Additionally, for the first time, it established as a matter of public policy the need to provide a wide range of mental health services to prevent mental illness and to improve the mental health of the American people.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

The fact that so many Christians here, and not just people like Naomi, consider it a scandal that they for once can't hijack a public event and turn it into a Christians worship service shows how laughable it is to think that it is atheists who need lessons on tolerance and co-existence.

Originally, Quest concentrated its efforts on serving high - end parochial schools in the Chicago area, but in time the company discovered that there was need for its services in the public school sector.

It also welcomed the unveiling of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights as an opportunity to ensure that the workplace and public services reflect the changing needs and aspirations of men as well as adding pressure to end pay and job discrimination against women.

If your child attends a private school you will still need to contact the public school where your child's private school is located in order for your teen to be evaluated for special education services.

We do know that children benefit enormously from having a strong relationship with their fathers and that there is a need for us, as public sector services, to engage with fathers.

Primary care trusts will play a key role in commissioning services that contribute to improving public health, encourage partnership working and user involvement, and emphasise normality.33 Further research is needed on the factors that maximise normal births and healthy outcomes for mothers and babies, in the short and longer term.

Under the law, bodies that commission maternity related services, like other public services, need to publish an overall scheme and action plan for promoting gender equality, covering all areas where gender equality issues are deemed to be relevant.

«They (students) do n`t seem to care for the casserole - type foods any more, the hearty meals, so we have to cater to those needs, «says Phillips, who recently was named acting director of food services for Chicago Public Schools.

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MPs, though, need to be upfront with the public about how to fund key services going forward, she argues, and can not continue with the «pretence that nobody has to pay for this stuff».

And we need to stop engaging in a narrative that blames voters for Tory failures in managing our economy and for ideological budget cuts that have stretched our public services to breaking point.The left are good at diagnosing problems, but too often we shy away from pitching solutions.

A review of US programmes by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy shows several interventions, including drug treatment programmes, intensive supervision of parolees, and various behaviour management courses can work — and that wraparound services tailored to individuals» needs are most effective of all, when done well.

The challenges and current issues imposed on Local Authorities are an opportunity for innovation and efficiency in the way that services are designed, managed and provided for taxpayers and the travelling public to deliver the infrastructure the UK needs.»

«It will be paid for by further years of austerity, public services brought to near collapse, public sector pay cuts and a welfare cap that bites into the safety net that any of us might need.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

If anything, this highlights a need for a greater collective co-operative effort in distributing resources in public services, as it's the only way to get the resources to the people who need them.

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Benito Romano said, «Attorney General Schneiderman understands that New Yorkers not only need stronger enforcement tools for fighting corruption, but also systemic reforms that make public service more transparent and ethical, allowing honest, hard - working public servants to thrive.

These are the arguments we need to be using; it has to be about cuts impacting on the delivery of key public services, services that people all too often take for granted and that they don't yet realise they're set to lose unless they're prepared to fight for them.

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Following the 2008 financial crash, the need to find additional public resources to reduce or obviate the need for painful spending cuts and fund growing long - term demand for public services makes wealth an attractive potential tax base.

PCS is joining the demand for public services that genuinely meet peoples» needs, and calling on the European Commission to bring forward European Legislation.

Simon Wren - Lewis — one of shadow chancellor John McDonnell's high - powered economic advisory team — argued that Corbyn needed to base his leadership on those areas where his brand of politics has a degree of popularity and consensus — notably on anti-austerity, support for public services and lessening inequality — and he needed to show both popular flair while conducting a charm offensive on his parliamentary colleagues.

What I can't stand about Blonde's argument over public services, is his failure to realize that private property in healthcare budgets is regressive because it lowers the quality of care for the sickest and poorest by depriving them of resources they need, and removes democratic accountability from healthcare.

We have a situation in which not too long ago Senior Minister, Hon Osafo Marfo, on the 7th August, 2017 informed members of the public of plans by government to downsize the public service in order to reduce the impact of wages and salaries on the country's fiscal space and create the needed efficiency to execute more projects for the masses.

At a joint consultative meeting organized by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) in Accra, the utility service providers presented their proposals for upward tariff adjustment and justified the need for it.

Migrants do not take up more public services or benefits than the domestic population, so there is no need for it.