Sentences with phrase «over reforms on»

Lately, the union and City Hall have been at odds over reforms on Rikers Island, but it appears they have set aside their differences for now.

Not exact matches

The battle over healthcare reform may look and sound as if it's a war on the periphery of daily life, but it is core to it.

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

«Many other steps could be taken to strengthen our economy over time, such as putting the federal budget on a sustainable path, reforming the tax code, improving our educational system, supporting technological innovation and expanding international trade,» he said.

On Tuesday, the Dow and S&P posted their first 1 percent fall in five months on worries over health care reform in the U.On Tuesday, the Dow and S&P posted their first 1 percent fall in five months on worries over health care reform in the U.on worries over health care reform in the U.S.

University endowments would face a 1.4 % tax on income and 20 % excise tax on managers paid over $ 1 million in tax reform proposal.

According to a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the House GOP tax reform bill — the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)-- would increase the federal deficit by $ 1.487 trillion over the 10 years after it is implemented.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday to rapidly push through economic and political changes in France over the coming months and said he would seek to jolt Europe into reforming too.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

Republicans say their tactics on tax reform are at the very least no worse than the debate over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which passed through a Democratic - controlled Congress in 2010.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

Germany and France publicly clashed on Tuesday over plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising banks, deepening a dispute over the scope of the ECB's powers that threatens to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.

Instead, he says Canada should focus on tax reform over cuts.

Tarullo, who is the Fed's point man on bank regulation reform, said the Fed was considering capital requirements that could amount to between 20 percent to more than 100 percent over the Basel III requirements.

So I am confident that current pressures on China will lead to reforms, which will be enacted over the coming year or two.

In order to implement labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take on the French unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades of French political infighting.

Michael Hudson: The missing item in today's economic reforms is what classical economics focused on, from the French Physiocrats through Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill to Marx and his contemporaries: freeing industrial economies from the rentier carry - overs of European feudalism.

Over the last few months, merchant lobbying groups have stormed Capitol Hill requesting two things: that lawmakers sink federal tax reform by opposing border adjustability and that they support federal price controls on debit interchange fees.

The new tax reform bill (which, again, draws on plans Trump and congressional Republicans have released going back over a year now) would significantly change individual income tax brackets:

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

Indeed, looking at two nearly - identical tax reform packages, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated in 2011 that one producing $ 600 billion of net revenue would generate about one - third more growth over the long run than a revenue - neutral tax reform with the same structure.

The recent tax reforms will give Apple the opportunity to spend a lot of money on itself and their shareholders which gives me a very positive outlook, as they have over $ 200 billion in cash.

This can be verified, many times over, by reading my early lectures on Poland's reforms, Poland's Jump to the Market Economy (MIT Press, 1993).

Indeed, looking at two nearly identical tax reform packages, the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated in 2011 that one producing $ 600 billion of net revenue would generate about one - third more growth over the long run than a revenue - neutral tax reform with the same structure.

As a result, revenue estimates will vary based on reform plan — though they will always be substantially larger over the first decade than over the long - run.

The European Commission said on Wednesday it would start legal action against Poland over a law reforming the judiciary that undermines the independence of judges and therefore breaks EU treaty rules.

And tax reform could save the bank billions on its corporate tax bill, as its effective tax rate is over 31 % currently.

These allocation changes are based on the expectation that the enthusiasm over Trump de-regulation, tax reform, and infrastructure spending is justified and will not face a countercurrent from excessively protectionist measures.

Furthermore, China's emphasis on consumption over government investment and India's ongoing structural reform efforts may create conditions for continued economic and corporate earnings growth over both the short and longer terms.

Another outlier was health care employment, down 6,000 and the first monthly decline in over a decade, undoubtedly a data point that will enter the civic discussion on health care reform.

Most of tax reform has a direct revenue impact and probably could be enacted through reconciliation, but it would either need to be revenue - positive over the long run or else rely on gimmicks, such as sun - setting rate reductions or other revenue - reducing provisions, to avoid increasing the long - term debt.

Khalid Al - Falih, the Saudi oil minister, over the weekend acknowledged that some U.S. investors had been slow to sign on the reform proposed by Prince Mohammed dubbed «Vision 2030» because they are focused on dividends.

The International Monetary Fund warned Arab states on May 2 against complacency over a looming debt crisis, urging continued economic reforms despite a rise in oil prices.

A giant wrecking ball still hangs over this construction site, however: the Supreme Court decision on a 26 - state constitutional challenge to the health reform.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

These reformers recognized a lack of authority on the Earth, but desired to reform the doctrines which had become corrupt over the centuries.

Ulf Ekman's conversion to the Catholic Church sparked a healthy discussion over how to hold the reforming impulse of Protestantism alongside the new ecumenical impulse.The starting place for such a discussion is the recognition that the reforming impulse and the ecumenical impulse converge on....

Especially sticky is the fact that over the last six months I've been working to reform the way that our church interacts with folks in the neighbourhood (or at least the intentionality and sharing of that interaction) to focus more on love rather than proselytizing, so I feel like to abandon now would leave even more than the usual mess behind...

Nonetheless, eager for an evangelical partner, President Obama named Wallis to the President's Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, giving Wallis the ideal platform from which to try to subvert the debate over health - care reform for his anti-choice cause.

Recently an Israeli journalist in Jerusalem commented on the fracturing dispute in Israel over who constitutes a real Jew, orthodox, conservative or reform.

Over at Cato, Julian Sanchez has written a post about how the aftermath of healthcare reform could reveal faultlines in existing political coalitions and trigger realignment: There's no intrinsic commonality between, say, «left» positions on taxation, foreign policy, and reproductive....

Polarization took over, and by the time the Democratic Party (with the almost unanimous support of mainline liberal churchpeople) had reformed itself enough to take the presidential nomination from traditional liberals and bestow it on a more radical candidate, the crusade's tactics had doomed the movement to minority status.

Current immigration reform legislation already looked likely to founder over provisions that conservatives insisted on to make our borders secure.

On the basis of an examination of the relevant figures, one estimate shows that in the first year of reforms, «nearly 6 to 7 million people went below the «poverty line» in contrast to an annual improvement of nearly 10 to 15 million moving above the poverty line over the last decade.»

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

The UK's leading experts on parenting leave have urged the Government to think again over its plans to reform parenting leave.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Experts urge Government to think again on parenting leave reforms The UK's leading experts on parenting leave have urged the Government to think again over its plans to reform parenting leave.