Sentences with phrase «over public aid»

Blaine amendments, a remnant of the 19th - century battles over public aid to parochial schools, are named for James G. Blaine, a presidential aspirant and congressman from Maine, who in 1875 tried unsuccessfully to enact a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting such aid.

Not exact matches

Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Hysteria over AIDS drove Magic Johnson out of the NBA, but it hasn't sidelined Philip Tepe, a ninth - grader at Lone Wolf (Okla.) Public School.

But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation's free lunch program that provides nutrition to low - income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration of President Donald Trump will protect food aid programs for children, NPR reported.

A mini war has sparked between Gov. David Paterson and the Senate Democrats, who are incensed over the governor's veto of a bill that would establish a 30 percent rent cap people on public assistance who are living with HIV or AIDS.

As the Spectator reported in 2011, they interpreted polling which show people evenly split over the principle of international aid as meaning there was a public support base for increasing it.

The suit was filed in April on behalf of two tenants who say they went without heat during a particularly frigid winter, but Legal Aid is looking to represent any of the approximately 323,000 public housing tenants who were in similar predicaments at some point over the winter.

ALBANY — A new, well - financed partnership plying both fundamentals of democracy and modern high - stakes lobbying plans to bring Albany's fight over public school aid into New Yorkers» homes.

It's an important point, because the apparent rift over the Inner Harbor development project has raised questions about the relations between the two offices, which will be critical to the future of Central New York — public discussions about different possible regional government arrangements are on the horizon, via the upcoming Consensus report and the fact that a plan to consider alternative governing structures was embedded in the recent $ 500 million aid package from the state.

«This is clearly profits over people,» echoed Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, who also pledged to provide legal aid to store owner Rodríguez.

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

... also restored: About $ 12 million in federal aid over six years for Centro, which provides public bus service in Central New York.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly floated a special session of the Legislature over the last several weeks to consider several issues ranging from health care funding issues for public welfare hospitals, children's health insurance and a package of flood relief aid for Lake Ontario property owners.

«Mr. Cuomo's adversarial stance toward teachers borders on disdain,» Astorino wrote of the series of battles Cuomo has had with teachers over everything from Common Core educational standards to an evaluation system to the level of state aid to public schools.

As WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports, Schenectady's public school district is celebrating a big increase in state aid over last year.

In interviews with over a dozen state committee members, Capital heard common frustration with Cuomo's fiscal record — he blocked an income tax hike on wealthy city residents, cut corporate taxes, reduced school aid in 2011 (and slowly dialed it back up), reduced pensions for newly hired public workers and pushed for a cap on local property tax increases.

Mr. Spitzer, readying for a fight over the health care cuts and school aid, told lawmakers on Wednesday morning that he would take his case to the public.

The governor limited the majority of his public appearances to upstate over the summer, offering aid and support to flood victims, appearing at a wine tasting contest, and organizing a white water rafting race.

Centro, which provides public bus service in Central New York, would have lost about $ 12 million in aid over the six years, forcing steep cuts to an already struggling system.

But one wonders if choosing him would be seen as unnecessary bashing of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who left her post as state party co-chair after a public spat with Cuomo over aid to localities.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

They pay over $ 50.000 on AIDS money to produce this voguing ball and than use the door money as they please, its a huge scandal that the public yet needs to be educated about.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

In August, Berkley, who founded and heads the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), will take over the GAVI Alliance, another public - private partnership focused on vaccines but with the broader agenda of immunizing children in poor countries against many diseases.

Over the last few years Sports Luxe or «Sports Luxury» clothing has been on the incline in public popularity, undoubtedly aided by the rise of celebrities and musicians showing off their outfits on social media.

Students from working poor families, earning an average of $ 16,000 a year, are asked to fork over as much as $ 12,000 a year — after taking grant aid into account — in order to finance attendance at a public bachelor's degree — granting institution.

Over $ 6 million in aid and grants to support student mental health services and bullying prevention in public schools and independently run private charters.

The following proposals adopted today (Sept. 6), and described below, are estimated to expand special needs voucher program participation by 250 pupils in 2018 - 19 and result in an over $ 3 million aid reduction to public school districts in 2018 - 19: Continue reading JFC Approves Special Needs Voucher Expansion →

This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003, state fund balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).

Local taxpayers have no say over charter school costs, which are deducted from a public school district's Chapter 70 state education aid, based on the number of students attending charter schools.

Bradley funded WILL primarily to be a «litigation center» to aid the fight over school vouchers, to attack public sector unions and to backstop Wisconsin's right - wing infrastructure.

Over the last decade, Kentucky's investment in need - based financial aid has not come close to keeping up with public tuition or with the cost of living.

Impact Aid provides critical funding to over 1,200 public school districts nationwide that educate military children, children residing on Indian lands, children living in federal low - rent housing facilities, children of civilian employees of the federal government, and the children in school districts with significant tax - exempt federal property.

At the time the public's response to the AIDS epidemic was a complex one, owing to the fears not just over the disease itself but from homophobia as well as the then government's containment of information.

A sense of magic realism permeates the images, which range from shots of Aztec ruins, rooster fights, and street footage to portraits of the artist performing symbolic gestures meant to convey Wojnarowicz's sense of powerlessness over the purposeful indifference of the American government and public to the AIDS epidemic.

In 2009, these nations pledged $ 30 billion in «fast start» climate finance over the next three years, with a promise to scale that up to $ 100 billion per year in aid from both public and private sources by 2020.

It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.

At the same time the law on public services is under the influence of a whole range of EU law provisions and regimes: namely the rules on free movement, competition law and state aid, general and sector - specific primary law provisions, horizontal rules of secondary law, as well as a large body of sector - specific secondary EU law, which has increased substantially over the past few years.

In sum, no matter how intensive or extensive any lobbying efforts for increased public funding for legal aid may be over any period of time, they will never lead to an allocation of funding at a level sufficient to close the justice gap in the US.

This proposal surfaced in a new discussion paper called Legal Aid and the Public Interest (which accused the government of having «lost its way» over legal aid reforAid and the Public Interest (which accused the government of having «lost its way» over legal aid reforaid reform).

Chair of the Bar, Andrew Walker QC, said: «Following significant cutbacks in the provision of legal aid over several years it is vital that the Ministry of Justice completes the thorough review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) to which it is already committed, to ensure that the public interest in the provision of high quality and efficient legal services is addressaid over several years it is vital that the Ministry of Justice completes the thorough review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) to which it is already committed, to ensure that the public interest in the provision of high quality and efficient legal services is addressAid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) to which it is already committed, to ensure that the public interest in the provision of high quality and efficient legal services is addressed.

Public law children cases have increased, but the numbers of other types of cases taken - up by legal aid lawyers have fallen, for example there has been a three per cent drop in housing cases over the last year.

For over 30 years I have run a small and effective legal aid practice in North London focusing on working for people who depend on legal aid for advice and representation in public law disputes, including education and community care.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Whilst the Euratom Treaty takes precedence over more general European laws established under the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union («TFEU»), general EU law still applies to areas that fall outside the scope of the Euratom Treaty such as public procurement, state aid and environmental protection.

Members have over recent years advised and represented a wide range of private clients and central and local government bodies on a number of high profile state aid cases including cases arising out of the banking crisis, challenges to public funding of broadcasters, and public support for major infrastructure projects.

The solution, if there is one, is either to (i) provide greater public subsidies for legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «routine» legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).

It took the view that the council's commercial interests were not sufficient to outweigh the public interest in the information being disclosed — the airport was publicly funded and it was making a loss of # 1.3 m a year and there were concerns over Ryanair's eligibility for state aid on the back of the agreement.