Sentences with phrase «percent more aid»

Cuomo's budget provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal from the State of the State address for longer school days and school years.

Not exact matches

Shares of Rite Aid were more than 12 percent lower Tuesday at $ 2.40 a share, while Walgreens stock closed down about 1.7 percent.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

A 1986 study by the University of Minnesota's Management Information Systems Research Center with 3M support found presentations using visual aids 43 percent more convincing.

Just a day earlier, the White House released a preliminary budget for 2010 that would boost the SBA's appropriation to $ 700 million, about 45 percent more than what the Bush Administration had sought for 2009, excluding disaster aid.

Shares of Rite Aid tumbled as much as 30 percent on Thursday — its steepest plunge since December 2007 — and closed down more than 26 percent.

Uber has sought to aid the kingdom's Vision 2030 plan, which includes more than doubling the number of women in the overall work force by 2030, to 30 percent.

Hoezee: More than 95 percent of Liberty students receive financial aid.

Lancaster cites data showing that foreign aid accounted for 10 percent or more of GNP in some 20 countries during ten or more of the years from «70 to «93.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Several of the proposed exemptions include processed foods produced with the aid of GE processing aids or with no more than 0.9 percent GE ingredients.

A cup of cooked, mashed pumpkin contains more than 200 percent of your recommended daily intake of vitamin A, which aids vision, particularly in dim light, according to the National Institutes of Health.

For example, Ethiopia's growth rates of close to 10 percent per annum are the product of the combination of soaring investment in dams, railways and roads (often in partnership with Chinese firms); a continued reliance on Western aid (to the tune of more than $ 4 billion annually); and, crucially, a domestically crafted strategy of agriculture - led development first.

His announcement came just a day after the US State Department laid out plans to put «America first» and slash Washington's budget for diplomacy and foreign aid by more than 30 percent.

According to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report, «between 1995 and 2008, the United States provided North Korea with over $ 1.3 billion in assistance: slightly more than 50 percent for food aid and about 40 percent for energy assistance.»

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

He is calling for single - payer health care for all, more school aid, a ban on new fossil fuel plants and pipelines, and «100 percent clean renewable energy within 15 years.»

The State Aid subcommittee's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full Board of Regents later Tuesday, would phase in, over three years, an annual increase of 7 percent on school funding, for a total of $ 2.1 billion more a year by the 2019 - 20 school year.

Slightly more than half of this increase is dedicated to Foundation Aid, which increases by $ 338 million, or 2.0 percent, to $ 17.5 billion.

This could mean less money for costly items in the spending plan like school aid, which increased this year by more than 6 percent.

In 2015, almost 11 percent of 4,205 incoming inmates at state prisons had hepatitis C, with more than half of them identifying as injection drug users, according to Joanne Morne, director of the state Health Department's AIDS Institute.

He is imposing more cuts in local government services by tying the state tax relief programs to municipal compliance with the 2 percent property tax cap while simultaneously freezing revenue - sharing aid to municipalities at 75 percent below its 1980s level,» Hawkins said.

The federal government was actually much more generous to New York in those drop - dead days of the 1970s, when more than 20 percent of the city budget came from federal aid.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

Some 20 districts lost at least small amounts of operating aid, while other systems enjoyed gains of more than 6 or 7 percent.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

Korn notes that state aid to schools in the last two years dropped by more than 8 percent, or by more than $ 1 billion a year.

The state Division of Budget says more than 70 percent of state school aid goes to salaries and benefits.

«It says, «If your spending per enrollee is more than 25 percent above the national average, you're going to take a little extra haircut on your federal aid,»» Hammond said.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

Long Island public school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic year released by Cuomo's office.

Already cash - strapped from budget tightening, they'll have to live within a 2 percent property tax cap next year, making federal aid all the more important.

Walker said his plan for the next budget involves an investment of 25 percent more than the last budget for the Local Road Improvement Program, $ 65 million in new aid to local governments and «the largest increase to the Local Bridge Improvement Program in over 20 years.»

Dating back at least to 2006, advocates have tried to close an anomaly in housing aid to certain clients of the city's HIV / AIDS Housing Administration (HASA), by providing sufficient support so that their out - of - pocket rents are no more than 30 percent of their monthly income.

The extra state aid will help the more than 700 school districts in New York as they struggle to stay under the state property tax cap, which allows them to increase their tax levy by only.12 percent this year without seeking voter approval.

That would bring the total school aid hike to $ 1.9 billion, or nearly 9 percent more than the $ 22.2 billion in state aid budgeted for the 2014 - 15 school year.

In addition to Valley Central, the Goshen, Tuxedo and Fallsburg districts would see aid cut under Cuomo's proposal, while Greenwood Lake, Kiryas Joel, Middletown, Washingtonville, Livingston Manor, Ellenville, Highland, Kingston and New Paltz would see increases of 6 percent or more.

Many criticized the governor, whose budget set a modest 2.6 percent increase in operating aid for the Island's schools, and the region's legislative delegation for not coming across with more money.

«While closing a $ 4.4 billion gap, this year's budget sends $ 16.5 billion in aid to the city — more than 40 percent of funding awarded to all local governments — and a half billion dollar increase over last year,» Peters said in a statement.

As for state aid, the governor has proposed 1 percent increases for both districts — Greenport will receive an additional $ 10,755 and Southold will get nearly $ 11,910 more.

With that extra money I estimated we would have about $ 30 billion a year, with about $ 6 billion we could provide full revenue sharing of 8 percent and it would be about 8 times more aid to municipalities than we get now, and with that you can pay for your state mandates,» said Hawkins.

And today, according to some press accounts, he will get more concrete and tie a promised 4 percent increase in state aid to adoption of the teacher evaluation system put forth by the state Board of Regents last year.

Dating back at least to 2006, advocates have tried to close an anomaly in housing aid to certain clients of the city's HIV / AIDS Services Administration, by providing sufficient support so that their out - of - pocket rents are no more than 30 percent of their monthly income.

At Monday's news conference, Spring said his district received roughly 54 percent of the aid due to it under the formula — a shortchanging of more than $ 62 million per year.

This may be aided by the fact that more women vote than men, and low voter turnout — just 14 percent of New York Democrats voted in the mayoral primary happening the same day as the other primary elections.

Under this proposal, school aid, as a percentage of the General Fund, is 30.5 percent for 1998 - 99, and would grow to more than 35 percent by 2001 - 02.

Matt Pommer Gov. Jim Doyle's talk of a 2.5 percent cut in state aid to local schools guarantees more stress for school boards, unionized teachers and property taxpayers.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

NSF, primary supporter of academic basic research in most non-biomedical fields, is also a winner, with 4.8 percent more to spend this year than it had in FY 1994, aided by a significant increase in last year's appropriations cycle.

In fact, WHO estimates that 50 percent more people will die from illnesses due to tobacco use than from AIDS that year, although tobacco itself is not listed as a cause of death.