Sentences with phrase «of state budget crisis»

A new report, released by RBC members Chicago Jobs Council, Heartland Alliance, the Shriver Center and other Illinois advocacy groups, in partnership with the Coalition on Human Needs, takes a look at the impact of the state budget crisis on those with low - income.

Smack in the middle of the state budget crisis, the guv dropped almost $ 40K on Turkish rugs.

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Schultz and the President discussed Schultz's «concerns for the country,» the budget predicaments facing 42 states, and «the profound crisis of confidence in America.»

All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).

The state is also suffering a major fiscal crisis that is impacting its budget, pension fund and tax revenue — and the capital city of Hartford is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

With Aetna Inc. looking to move its headquarters from Hartford, on the heels of General Electric Co.'s shift to Boston, Connecticut's economic development strategy may now turn inward, boosting its cities to attract high - tech workers and fixing state government's crisis - prone budgeting.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

To the right, the budget crises engulfing American cities and states stem from one cause: as Nick Gillespie of Reason repeats ad nauseam, «They spend too much!»

State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing parts of midtown and the east side, on Wednesday described the resolution as «more than a little disturbing» in reference to the Senate's response to the MTA's transit crisis and budget woes.

With the nation still reeling from the harm caused by underregulated markets, conservatives are using city and state budget crises to call for across - the - board privatization, entrusting unaccountable private companies with an ever greater share of the public good.

«NIFA has disallowed over $ 60 million in contingency revenue sources that we proposed and that municipalities around the state routinely use to balance their budgets, creating a budget crisis that does not exist in reality, but allows NIFA to unfairly continue its control of county finances,» she said.

«The Senate continues to be at the forefront of efforts to battle the state's heroin crisis and was instrumental in securing $ 214 million in this year's budget for measures to prevent and treat heroin and opioid abuse,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, waiting until last week's budget briefing, 39,000 words later, to address the crisis in Hooksick Falls.

ALBANY, NY (04/21/2009)(readMedia)-- New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes, who served as a member of the Ravitch Commission, today urged all parties in Albany to work together to negotiate a fair, workable and comprehensive solution to the MTA's budget crisis.

Less than two years after Governor Jerry Brown coaxed voters into approving a multi-billion dollar tax hike as a solution to the state's budget crisis, a plurality of Californians believe that...

Joined by New York State Senator Timothy Kennedy Wednesday at the Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, leaders of several science and nature education centers warned that their ability to fully serve the public - and remain important contributors to the local economy - may be in jeopardy if they lose state funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crState Senator Timothy Kennedy Wednesday at the Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, leaders of several science and nature education centers warned that their ability to fully serve the public - and remain important contributors to the local economy - may be in jeopardy if they lose state funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crstate funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion dollar budget crisis.

Cuomo noted he has invited a host of interested parties in the state to «come to the table» to address the state's budget crisis, specifically speaking of «our brothers and sisters in labor,» 1199 SEIU (the health care workers), the Senate and the Assembly.

At 9:15 a.m., ahead of Cuomo's State of the State / budget address, Democratic activist Bill Samuels, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, former LG Richard Ravitch, county executives and others discuss the fiscal crisis of New York's counties, 101 Park Ave., ManhaState of the State / budget address, Democratic activist Bill Samuels, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, former LG Richard Ravitch, county executives and others discuss the fiscal crisis of New York's counties, 101 Park Ave., ManhaState / budget address, Democratic activist Bill Samuels, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, former LG Richard Ravitch, county executives and others discuss the fiscal crisis of New York's counties, 101 Park Ave., Manhastate Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, former LG Richard Ravitch, county executives and others discuss the fiscal crisis of New York's counties, 101 Park Ave., Manhattan.

About $ 600 million in last year's budget went toward restoring the cuts, made at the height of the state's post-recession budget crisis.

The New York State Democratic Committee recognizes the State's fiscal crisis and stands strongly in support of Governor Cuomo's budget.»

Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, but he he quietly included proposals designed to prevent another Hoosick Falls - like scandal in his budget.

New York State will begin 2015 with the largest one time windfall budget surplus since the end of World War II, due to settlements with major banks after the financial crisis.

Faced with a $ 5 billion projected budget shortfall, Malloy and the Democratic and Republican caucuses in the State Senate and State House of Representatives recently offered up revised budget proposals aimed at addressing Connecticut's growing fiscal crisis.

New York state will begin 2015 with the largest one - time windfall budget surplus since the end of World War II, due to settlements with major banks after the financial crisis.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won nearly every element of his hard - times budget proposal in talk with the Senate and Assembly, whose leaders acknowledged the state's grave fiscal crisis early on.

«As representatives of health care workers across New York state, we are proud to be part of this broad coalition of New Yorkers standing up for fairness as we try to get through this budget crisis together,» said George Gresham, president of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

Bloomberg said the city realizes how serious the state's fiscal crisis is, noting he's not asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo (whom he endorsed last fall) to spare the city from budget cuts, but merely to «ensure those cuts are fair, and to give us the ability to save money, so we can off - set some of those cuts.»

Hein, who has dubbed the situation the «Cahill crisis» because State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill (D, Kingston) blocked the approval before lawmakers went home this summer, said as a result of the potential loss of $ 5 million at the end of the year, he is preparing for all financial contingencies as he works up the county's 2014 budget.

[67] Paladino has proposed the use of repeatedly calling special sessions to pressure uncooperative legislators into passing his legislation, much as governor Paterson did during the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis and the 2010 budget negotiations.

Gov. David Paterson of New York has finally gotten so fed up with the failure of legislators and the unions to deal with the state's budget crisis that he wants to do something revolutionary — make them shoulder part of the burden of saving taxpayers» money.

Representative Chris Gibson (Republican - Kinderhook) and Representative Paul Tonko (Democrat - Amsterdam), two upstate congressmen, discuss the crisis in Syria and whether the United States should intervene, the chances we get a farm bill by the end of September and the looming showdown on the federal budget.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

What the naysayers won't tell you is that the high taxes caused by decades of irresponsible budgeting are what put the state in this crisis position in the first place.

It's the kind of budget the governor had no choice but to propose at a time when the state was on the cusp of a financial crisis.

The Democratic plan would also delay for two months the transfer of sales tax money to the state's Special Transportation Fund, to provide $ 35.2 million to help solve the immediate budget crisis.

The ongoing state budget crisis is pushing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer Costate budget crisis is pushing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer Costate Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to close nearly all of Thacher to the public, as well lock the only road leading into Schodack Island State Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer CoState Park on the Hudson River in Rensselaer County.

Nearly half of Connecticut's high earners say they might leave the state in the next five years because of the state's budget crisis and a ballooning cost of living.

«Together, let's use the budget process we're engaged in to address the top priority we've outlined today: The crisis of inequality in our city and our state.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

The protests were sparked by a lack of funding for domestic violence shelters due to the state's budget crisis.

Though nearly every state felt the sting of what has been called the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a complex and varied set of regional factors amplified the fiscal damage for states already struggling with budget pressures, while leaving a handful of others virtually unscathed.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

District officials were negotiating with banks and state education officials last week to stave off the crisis, which they project could leave them $ 26.6 million short — almost a quarter of the district's total budget — if they are allowed to continue operating until the end of the school year.

With the current economic crisis placing even more of a tight squeeze on state and local budgets, investing in the future of education is something Mayersohn does not want to be ignored.

Instead of embracing those ideas and running with them, Schwarzenegger backed away in January 2008, citing the enormity of the state's budget crisis.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

«The way out of the budget crisis is to prepare the state for a bright economic future by supporting the educational programs that are in - demand and are getting results.»

Some are in place in California, but others have been phased out in recent years, victims of the state's succession of budget crises.

In 2009, following state budget issues as a result of the financial crisis, the charter funding formula was frozen.

Given that the state remains in a budget crisis, «I think there are higher priorities for our state at this time,» Winnetka Public Schools District 36 Superintendent Trisha Kocanda said of the inquiry.