Sentences with phrase «of wealthy districts»

His $ 157,000 haul was notably low for the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who represents one of the wealthiest districts in the country.

They use less than one - third the amount of water used by residents of wealthier districts, but pay four or five times as much for the water.

For example, the survey found that 58 percent of those districts have contract language establishing reverse - seniority layoffs for tenured teachers, compared to only 34 percent of wealthier districts.

Not exact matches

The Washington, D.C., region is home to five of the wealthiest counties in the U.S., yet almost one - fifth of the District's population is living in poverty.

Like it's their place of leisure... In actuality it's the business district for one of the wealthiest cities in the USA.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

The city is home to many wealthy residents, and housing costs in the District are out of reach for many.

He cited the explanation given by a wealthy district for its request to back out of a cross-busing plan with a poor district: The wealthy district did not want to integrate with the poor district because of the latter's «old and dilapidated buildings, lack of adequate equipment and materials, [and] lack of science programs.»

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If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

From the very poor to the ridiculously wealthy... How can I maintain my efficiency as a large district, and cater to the wide spectrum of taste diversity while -LCB- insert any reformer's agenda platform here -RCB-, and stay in my tiny little budget?

Early on the Pubs (who spent almost $ 12M in this district most donated by the wealthy beneficiaries of that tax cut) pushed the tax cut.

When he voted for that bill he said to the people of his district I approve borrowing more money from foreigners to hand it over to the wealthy so we can have an excuse to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security after November!

«From the pending ethics investigation against him to his decision to ignore his district in favor of his wealthy donors, people were fed up with Chris Collins and his cronies,» Zellner said.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

He said the swoop on its law offices, located in Panama's banking district, had begun on Tuesdayon the basis of the news reports about the offshore businesses it created and in some cases ran for wealthy clients around the world.

State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox knocked President Barack Obama's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest earners, saying that he has failed to heed the message of the GOP victory in ninth congressional district.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

Democrats are haunted by the 2014 loss of Sean Eldridge, the wealthy husband of Facebook CEO Chris Hughes, who never recovered from the perception that he was out of touch with the district.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

He said the disparity between districts is mostly due to the ability of wealthier areas to raise more in property taxes.

A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.

Critics, including education activists, say potential changes in might jeopardize a steady steam of funding in the future, and gradually widen the gap between wealthy and poor districts.

Supporting wealthy «outside - the - district» candidates is the Democratic party allowing themselves to be sucked in by the conservative agenda of «might makes right.»

Much of the shortfall that remains is owed to wealthy or semi-wealthy districts, many of them on Long Island.

The existing Foundation Aid Formula does not properly calculate the local contribution and has too many floors, ceilings, phase - ins, and add - ons that distort the final aid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State support.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

The coalition is also organizing supporters to make calls in these districts, urging voters to call their respective senators and urge them to support extending the temporary PIT hike on the state's wealthiest New Yorkers rather than voting in favor of budget cuts.

A new poll conducted for wealthy businessman Mike Whalen's (R) campaign sheds some light on the state of play in eastern Iowa's 1st U.S. House district — one of the most competitive open seats in the country.

With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts, including many on Long Island.

But Rick Timbs, executive director of the East Syracuse - based Statewide School Finance Consortium, argues that the adjustments are minor, and the basic inequities that have plagued less wealthy Upstate districts for years are still in force.

In Jordan - Elbridge, for example, Cuomo's cut is equal to 5.8 percent of the district's general fund, while in Dobbs Ferry, a Westchester County district that is four times wealthier, the hit would be only 1.3 percent.

He says if Syosset and other wealthy districts didn't spend so much on their schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.

«People who are driving into the central business district of Manhattan are pretty uniformly a lot wealthier than people taking public transit, so the folks who would have to potentially change behavior or who would pay a toll are the kind of folks who are already making quite a bit of money anyway, so it's equitable to make sure there's a toll in place,» said Sifuentes.

They will vote on May 20 and will likely determine the next member of Congress from the heavily Democratic district, which begins in the working - class segment of northeast Philadelphia and fans out into the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.

Wealthy hotel chain owner Jim Graves, who came within 4,300 votes of unseating U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year and planned to challenge her again in 2014, unexpectedly announced on Friday that he was ending his bid for Minnesota's 6th congressional district seat.

One question... why is it a problem when DeBlasio raises money to help elect Democrats in upstate districts while the extremely wealthy NYC real estate interests ship boatloads of money upstate for the same purpose?

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

Susan Lee, an education advocate and the spouse of a wealthy casino executive, founded a homeless shelter and self - funded a failed bid for Congress for a different Nevada district in 2016.

Republicans are seizing on some of the less flattering parts in the story, characterizing the wealthy Eldridge's efforts to reach out in the largely rural district as being more than a bit awkward.

One of the nation's most conservative districts has made it clear that sacrificing Medicare for continued tax cuts on the wealthiest 2 % and subsidies for oil companies is NOT acceptable.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

Considering it's one of the wealthiest towns in the district, this shows how much trouble Republicans have overall in the state.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

Many educators on both sides of the divide acknowledge that these inequities have an adverse effect on all students, both those in poor districts and those in wealthier ones.

Klein's Bronx district is largely Hispanic, also taking in wealthier parts of Riverdale and a sliver of voters in Westchester.

Koppell, if he runs, would be counting on some of the wealthy Democrats to vote against Klein for the failure of comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, which stalled thanks to a lack of support from Andrew Cuomo and Klein's Republican partners in the Senate, and on Hispanics in the district who are, in Koppell's words, «very disappointed at the way he failed to get the Dream Act through.»

The district is one of the poorest in the city, and though Mark - Viverito champions policies for the low - income and disadvantaged, she is one of the wealthiest members of the council.