Sentences with phrase «overall public spending»

Turnaround from 3 hours Obama to call for freeze in overall public spending.

When we look back at the historical data summarised in Figure 1 below, we find the period since the mid-1980s has been one in which successive governments have opted for small, year - to - year reductions in the growth of overall public spending, rather than greater reductions over a shorter period.

Not exact matches

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

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But overall demand growth has remained quite strong, boosted to some extent by temporary pre-GST spending, and by public - sector expenditure which, at least as recorded in the national accounts, has also expanded quite quickly.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

He said the government's efforts to boost spending by public sector companies - which still dominate large areas of the Indian economy - could help lift overall growth.

Only weeks ago the Tories had pledged that, although they intended to cut public spending if elected, they would protect overall health and international aid budgets.

The future strategic tanker aircraft has seen a # 336 million increase in cost because of fuel price inflation, but a failure to take advantage of opportunities to cut the overall bill on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was criticised by the public spending watchdog.

«With our maximum - security prisons at 122 percent capacity and our overall prison population at 100 %, protecting the safety of inmates, corrections officers and the public at large means that tax dollars must be spent efficiently, and any reforms must address the extremely dangerous overcrowding and «double bunking» conditions at our medium - and maximum - security prisons.»

Overall, this approach would provide a better return on investment for public money spent supporting growth and a bigger contribution to the national purse.

In 1999, Pelosi voted against the Ten Commandments being displayed in public buildings, including schools [105] Pelosi voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, which instituted testing to track students» progress and authorized an increase in overall education spending.

The Manhattan - based fiscal watchdog group said state spending on two major programs — public education and Medicaid — is due to rise more than double the overall 2 percent government spending increase cap.

It has to be more hard - headed about the proportion of public spending in the overall economy — and thus about the level of taxation — that it thinks is good.

Welsh Conservatives would spend the same as Labour overall on public services, but we would spend the Assembly's block grant more effectively.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Piana has come forward numerous times to the public explaining how he had been spending an enormous amount of money every month on anabolic steroids, which constituted an essential part of his look, career and overall lifestyle.

While some of those private placements are indeed expensive, the overall cost of private placement nationwide constitutes a tiny portion of public school spending.

Overall, the foundation is spending about $ 20 million a year to «leverage change in public education — especially in schools serving disadvantaged students — through large strategic investments in a small number of initiatives that bolster student achievement.»

It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction than public schools.

While the Government is already reforming the way in which money is distributed to schools through the introduction of a national funding formula for schools, the spending review process will determine the overall level of public funding for schools and colleges.

We agree that the overall cost of private placement, on average, nationwide constitutes a tiny proportion of the overall cost of public school spending, but that's not the point.

That amounts to a total of $ 17 billion annual spending on educational materials, or 2.8 percent of the overall public - education expenditures of $ 617 billion in the nation.

It's a bit worrying if the man in overall charge of spending public money doesn't appear to have read the Auditor's report.

Price says while there has been an increase in overall spending on public education in recent years, most of those funds haven't gone into the classroom.

While public education spending is at historic levels and is already the largest portion of our state budget — about 55 percent overall (K - 12, community colleges, and IHL) and around 40 percent for K - 12 alone — legislative leaders have begun preparing to «fully fund» the Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula should Initiative 42 pass.

Horn blamed the current clash over classroom size on legislators» willingness to package major policy decisions like this one with the state's overall spending plan, a move that he acknowledged is made to avoid lengthy, sometimes bitter, public discussions and bad publicity for lawmakers.

The post makes the absurd claim that the budget for public schools has increased in both overall and per - pupil spending, even when adjusted for inflation.

And although such savings are only a small percentage of overall public education spending, the evidence provides yet another reason for states to consider, create, and expand vouchers.

Intensifying the heated political clash between charter schools and traditional school districts is that overall spending on public education, for all schools, has fallen.

These 1 % ers (they provide less than 1 % of overall education spending across the US) have used their money and political clout to force ineffective and harmful changes in our public schools.

Like Malloy, Walker spent his first term trying to destroy teacher tenure, eliminate collective bargaining rights for teachers and dramatically expand public funding for charter schools and the overall effort to privatize public education.

And heading up the overall operation, which has spent more than $ 300 million in public funds, Commissioner Stefan Pryor recruited a school principal from Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company that Pryor co-founded.

The increase for the voucher amount is tied directly to the overall increase in public education spending.

Overall spending on public education is rising modestly year to year, but not in a way that keeps pace with growing enrollment.

The initial response from public school advocates has been lukewarm to the overall House plan, although some K - 12 leaders have complimented a House proposal to spend an additional $ 11.3 million each year on students with disabilities and relaunch a GOP - axed Teaching Fellows program that provides university scholarships in exchange for a commitment to teach in North Carolina.

Maxine Sweet, vice president for public education at Experian, said in a statement: «We want consumers to understand that spending at the holidays or at any other time of the year can often have broader implications to their overall fiscal fitness.

Technology policy (development, diffusion and transfer) complements other mitigation policies across all scales from international to sub-national, but worldwide investment in research in support of GHG [greenhouse gas] mitigation is small relative to overall public research spending (high confidence).

The bill actually cut overall per - pupil spending and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars from traditional public schools — which educate almost 3 million students — to charter schools — which educate about 300,000.

Since Google Project Fi uses a special feature known as Wi - Fi Assistant to connect the phone to suitable Wi - Fi networks around you, the overall amount of data used will be much lower, especially if you spend most of your time around areas with public Wi - Fi hotspots.

Overall, Washington spends 10 times more on home visiting today than it did two years ago, thanks in part to the creation in 2010 of the Home Visiting Services Account, which supports matching public and private funds for home visiting.

A considerable drop in public construction spending brought down the overall increase for the month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.