Sentences with phrase «on pensions and health care»

«We spend the bulk of our money on pensions and health care and special ed services,» said Borges.

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The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

According to latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical U.S. household now spends about 20 percent of their annual budget outlays on health care, personal insurance, life insurance, pension - like products and social security.

Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

Greater demand for Asian fixed income, both from within and without With a growing emphasis on individual responsibility for pensions, education and health care, Asia is likely to see growing demand for all types of financial assets — and fixed - income securities top the list.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Alternative kinds of pension plans and health - care programs liberate many professionals from their mystical reliance on their own denominations.

Also, many countries have social insurance taxes, typically impose on the basis in employment income, that fund universal pensions, health care and other social services, in which the distributions of benefits may be more equitable that the taxes that pay for them.

The Mayor went on the say that what does threaten the city are rising pension and health care costs for public employees.

DiNapoli was upbeat on Cuomo's 2015 - 16 budget, but wanted to know how Albany's money gurus can maintain balanced budgets in coming years when expenses for significant programs like education, Medicaid, health care and pensions will continue to soar.

On the other side of the coin, our expenses are slated to go down, specifically health care costs thanks to new union contracts and pension obligations.

About 45,000 of the telecom giant's workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, walked off the job on Aug. 7 in protest against Draconian concessions demanded by the highly profitable company, including eliminating pensions for new hires; slashing paid sick time and holidays; and increasing employees» contributions to their health care costs.

On the cost of pensions: Astorino said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is right when she says the biggest uncontrolled costs in local government are in employee pensions and health care.

Decades of overspending on health care, schools, and pensions — much of it to prop up Bruno's Republican majority in the State Senate — are combining with the broader economic meltdown to sink New York State into a gargantuan hole.

On or before the 1st day of October the County Executive shall submit to the Comptroller all revenue estimates and expenditure estimates for Medicaid, public assistance, and pension contributions and health care insurance costs for County employees to be used in the proposed budget.

The bills would increase benefits, expand eligibility for pensions, ease restrictions on health care benefits and increase death benefits.

Durant says the best way to reduce costs for schools and local governments, and reduce property taxes, is to get rid of mandates on governing health care, pensions, and limits on construction contracts.

The last item has the eternal ire of education groups, who say it will unfairly hurt school, and point to mandated cost - drivers such as pensions and health care placed on schools.

Exploding health care and pension costs, among other problems, are beyond the city's control but have an increasingly oppressive effect on municipal finances.

He says schools must obey numerous state - mandated regulations on pensions, health care, and transportation requirements that drive up labor and other costs.

If OTB closes, the state could be on the hook for more than $ 500 million in retiree health care and pension costs.

Reducing pension payments merely increases poverty among the elderly, exacerbating ill health, which places additional requirements for social care and expenditure on the state.

The popular majorities — those who are forced to survive on wage labor, sometimes known as the 99 percent — are never able to win great substantial victories for democracy, but are forced to accept incremental steps towards achieving some small victories in the areas of progressive taxation, health care, universal education, retirement pensions, and environmental and consumer protections and civil rights.

It is of interest, then, that the American public tends to look favorably on a proposal that would require teachers «to pay from their salaries 20 percent of the cost of their health care and pension benefits, with the government covering the remainder.»

On average, teachers enjoy considerably larger pension benefits and health - care packages than do comparable professionals in the private sector, a point of contention in recent policy debates.

Even when districts do try to achieve this balance, some costs like pensions and health care can actually increase, becoming more concentrated and dependent on the funding of students who remain.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

This report parses the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree health care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

The gap between the promises states have made for public employees» retirement benefits and the money they have set aside to pay these bills was at least $ 1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2016, according to Pew's comprehensive analysis on pension and retiree health care funding.

Professor Marty West mentions that largely lost in the debate about teacher pay, meanwhile, is that state education budgets are increasingly being allocated to the rising costs of health care and pensions, putting downward pressure on salaries.

The annual bill for pension and retiree health care totaled $ 124 billion, as of fiscal year 2010 — about what states spent on transportation that same year.

States could be required to reform costly pension and health - care structures, and districts could be required to report on their cost - effectiveness, he suggests.

But by 2025, the combined repayment of the 2003 POB, along with health care and pension contributions, will cause total retirement spending to equal spending on classrooms.

â $ œPipeline construction and maintenance, â $ Trumka said, â $ œprovides quality jobs to tens of thousands of skilled workers.â $ The head of the Building Trades Unions agreed: â $ œMembers have been relying on these excellent, family - supporting, middle - class jobs with family health care, pensions, and good wages.â $ Another union official put it most eloquently: â $ œLetâ $ ™ s not turn away and overregulate or just say, â $ ˜No, keep it in the ground.â $ ™ It shouldnâ $ ™ t be that simple.â $

The head of the Building Trades Unions agreed: «Members have been relying on these excellent, family - supporting, middle - class jobs with family health care, pensions, and good wages.»

While it's important not to overstate the case — again, improved health care can be a double - edged sword, if people are able to live longer because of it but at greater financial cost — one way to interpret this study is that if more people are not economically old, that is they are still contributing to society on their own and not collecting pension or requiring increased health care, there is less burden on falling population levels from an otherwise aging population.

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Time is money — basic fact — you go to a job to trade your time for your paycheque only you get paid for the days you're sick, when you are on vacation and maybe even have a health care plan and a sponsored pension — in exchange for your time.