Sentences with phrase «of national budget»

The Authority also considered a more far - reaching target of 25 % by 2020, which would send an unambiguous signal of commitment and provide more flexibility in the use of our national budget later on.

A nation can not spend the percentage of their national budget we do military without everything else suffering.

Social security costs the nation $ 700 billion per year, or around 20 % of the national budget.

Nearly every expert I've spoken with — Republican or Democrat, old or young, adherents of Milton Friedman or Karl Marx — has a theoretical explanation as to why the United States spends nearly 20 percent of its national budget on healthcare.

Education financing grew from 7 per cent of the national budget in 1986 to 20 per cent in 2008.

Although the government allocates about 18 percent of the national budget to education, the system lacks the resources to increase access and the quality of educational services.

But coming together also requires a tough trade - off for each country: surrendering significant control of the national budget for greater economic stability.

«The Grandes Ecoles with about 3 % of students receive about 40 % of the national budget for higher education,» says Lasserre.

The pan-northern socio - political organisation, through its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammadu Ibrahim, argued that the bloated allowances of public officers, which he said accounted for 40 per cent of the national budget, should be converted to capital allocation to boost the economy.

The minister, however, decried the low budgetary allocation to the agriculture sector, describing the current 1.6 per cent of the national budget allocated to the sector as «pathetic.»

«Budget allocations are always pathetically low; the Maputo Declaration says 10 per cent of national budget.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

Weprin went on the attack on Turner's math, saying Medicare and Social Security account for 40 percent of the national budget.

«It is source of great concern that in a country where an arm of Government is appropriated with less than one percent of the National Budget, it is difficult to refer to our judiciary as being truly independent.

How much of the national budget is devoted to the military again?

So while we will move forward here in SF with getting that central kitchen we need, I will never give up the fight to get more of our national budget devoted to the nutritioonal needs of low income children.

In terms of the national budget, he has said he believes Congress must reduce spending to address the U.S. deficit.

The onus should be on the EU to justify their intended policy of taking over control of national budgets, not on the Conservatives to defend their belief - a belief shared by a majority in the UK - in national economic control, rather than control by an outside agency.

Rich countries and fossil fuel companies should not be as scared as they are about this, Richards advises, adding that airline tax for international flights, aviation and maritime fuel, and high volume financial transactions could all be potential sources of funds, instead of national budgets.

(1) It specified that as far as the correction mechanisms towards the medium term objective through national provisions were concerned (Art. 3 (2) TSCG), the European Commission could only outline the objectives and the time frame, but not make any suggestions on the substance of national budgets.

Not exact matches

A national survey recently conducted by Stroz Friedberg, an «intelligence and risk services» company, found that 87 % of senior managers surveyed have put company information at risk by uploading emails or files to personal accounts or cloud services in order to work remotely — say, uploading a budget spreadsheet to their Dropbox account, or emailing a file to themselves so they can work on it at home.

Congress should enact new spending caps along the lines of the Budget Control Act, which helped to shrink outlays as a share of national income from 2013 to 2017.

WHILE B Digital's plan for world domination may not have eventuated it has certainly gained a significant national presence in the mobile telecommunications industry and, with an advertising budget of $ 8.5 million, is a big fish in Perth's advertising waters.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

What I look at right now is our growing national debt, what the impact of that's going to be to future budgets.

The National Tertiary Education Union has argued that the impact of the federal budget cuts would leave Western Australia's universities almost $ 500 million worse off.

«Spring Budget 2017 is a critical moment for the government to show it is unashamedly pro-business, and that the Chancellor recognises that small businesses are the engines of job creation,» Mike Cherry, the FSB's national chairman, said in a statement.

The president's $ 4.4 trillion budget, unveiled Monday, includes federal spending of $ 200 billion for infrastructure upgrades; $ 18 billion for Trump's border wall; and $ 716 billion for national defense.

For instance, Gingrich is a strong advocate for funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addiction.

When national budgets of various oil - producing countries are determined by crude prices, then a lower price forces capital to be repatriated back to the country of origin (and we haven't even mentioned Russia, which is flooding the crude market for budgetary reasons).

In response, Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican who described himself as the National Rifle Association's «point person in Congress,» submitted an amendment to strip the CDC budget of $ 2.6 million, the amount it spent on firearms research the previous year.

State revenues were down 2.6 percent this fiscal year, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.

It took some painful cuts and some reorganization of state agencies to balance the budget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget Offbudget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget OffBudget Officers.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says nearly a dozen states still had not enacted budgets for the new fiscal year as of mid-June.

Her agenda also includes proposals to connect every US household to high - speed internet by 2020, train 50,000 new computer science teachers, increase the research and development budgets of the National Science Foundation, and bolster cybersecurity, Reuters reported Tuesday.

«They've had cuts, significant cuts,» said John Hicks, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

Under Obama's proposal, national security programs would see an increase of $ 38 billion over current spending limits, raising the defense budget to $ 561 billion.

The cuts (plus the lack of commensurate budget reductions) would add $ 6 trillion more to the national debt relative to baseline projections.

Despite its success, the National Institutes of Health has faced decreasing budgets since 2003, as its purchasing power decreased 30 %.

The budget is also expected to include a major financial boost to basic scientific research across Canada, which would address some of the concerns outlined last year in a national review of the state of fundamental science.

However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

That spending recommendation — entitled «America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again» — would slash $ 5.8 billion, or about 18 %, from the annual outlay for the National Institutes of Health, and it would cut even more sharply from other programs within the Department of Health and Human Services.

[154] In addition, Corzine has served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Capital Budgeting under President Clinton, Chairman of the Treasury's Government Borrowing Committee and Chairman of the Public Securities Association.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

From fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2012, Rhode Island general fund spending grew 5.2 percent and it grew another 5.1 percent from FY2012 to FY2013, according to data from the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO).

The University of Missouri (MU) is losing about 1500 students and is facing a huge $ 32 million budget shortfall four months after it attracted national attention as the site of massive race - based campus protests.

Setad gives him the financial means to operate independently of parliament and the national budget, insulating him from Iran's messy factional infighting.

This grade was awarded as a result of the budget's focus on incentives to promote small and medium - sized businesses, improve gender diversity in business, and bolster national infrastructure.