Sentences with phrase «percent of future state»

Both House and Senate leaders had said an override session was all but certain on SB229, a bill earmarking some 30 percent of future state revenues for road projects.

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The stated maximum is 41 percent of income allocated to the future home payment plus any other debt payment such as auto loans and credit cards.

The same overbidding is at work today: The legislative proposal states that there are 3.5 million gays and lesbians in France and cites the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents (APGL) to the effect that 45 percent of lesbians and 36 percent of gays desire to have children.

Recognizing the future is moving towards sustainable seafood, two of the largest supermarket chains in the United States have recently committed to source 100 percent sustainable seafood by 2020 and 2022.

With 95 percent of the world's potential consumers living outside the United States, exports to foreign markets are key to future growth and employment in U.S. grocery manufacturing, and a strong NAFTA agreement is critical for success.»

Switching to 100 percent cage - free eggs by the end of 2016 is a tremendous commitment that will quickly improve the lives of countless animals and further cement the future of egg production as being one without cages,» said Josh Balk, Senior Food Policy Director, The Humane Society of the United States.

Las Palmas retains 30 percent of any future transfers, as well as incentives in the event the Chinese club were to win any tournament, the Spanish club stated, reports Efe.

The multi-year tables in New York State's just - released Enacted Budget Financial Plan for fiscal 2015 make continued use of Governor Andrew Cuomo's new fiscal conjuring device: a lump - sum, below - the - line reduction in future projected spending, based on the assumption that the governor will «propose, and negotiate with the Legislature to enact budgets that hold State Operating Funds spending growth to 2 percent.»

In addition, these proposals will limit future Medicaid Program State Funds growth to the 10 - year rolling average of the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index (currently four percent).

When it comes to higher education our SUNY 2020 and CUNY 2020 reinvestment and capital programs are working, we want to continue them for a second round the future of the economy is in STEM jobs, we should be incentivizing our education system to fill those openings we want to provide to the top ten percent of high school graduates full scholarships to any SUNY or CUNY school if they pursue a math of science career and agree to work in the state of New York for five years.

Onondaga County is receiving $ 2.5 million in the first year and is promised 10 percent of the state's take in the future.

On key issues facing the state — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and upstate concerns, improving infrastructure, growing the economy and planning for the state's future — only between 23 percent and 35 percent of voters believe the governor has done a good or excellent job.

«Four out of every five voters think more legislators are going to be arrested the near future,» says Siena's Steve Greenberg, who says 35 percent think their own state Assemblyman could be arrested soon, while 30 percent believe their state Senator will shortly be charged with corruption.

However, he destructively links this relief to local compliance with a misguided property tax cap, and he funds the needed tax relief with future surpluses predicated on billions of unspecified future spending cuts that will be required by his self - imposed two percent state spending cap.

According to the Executive Budget, the future cost of the credit will be covered with surplus funds generated by the state's adherence to the overall 2 percent cap on spending increases in future years.

While the state agrees to remove the eight - county region the Cuomo administration's proposed legislation for placing three new casinos in New York, the tribe is agreeing to also pay 25 percent of future gaming revenues to the state with shares going to the counties.

Nearly two - thirds of Americans (63 percent) say the future of the nation is a very or somewhat significant source of stress, slightly more than perennial stressors like money (62 percent) and work (61 percent), according to the American Psychological Association's report, Stress in America ™: The State of Our Nation.

For New York State, an average achievement state, this would be the equivalent of an eight percent higher GDP going into the future — enough to pay fully for K - 12 schools and to have considerable left State, an average achievement state, this would be the equivalent of an eight percent higher GDP going into the future — enough to pay fully for K - 12 schools and to have considerable left state, this would be the equivalent of an eight percent higher GDP going into the future — enough to pay fully for K - 12 schools and to have considerable left over.

K - 12 public schools received a proposed budget of $ 21.4 billion in state and local funding, an increase of $ 769.6 million; Florida colleges received $ 1.24 billion in state operating funds, an increase of $ 31.9 million; College students got a proposed continuation of Bright Futures» funding for 100 percent of Florida Academic Scholars» fees and tuition.

We ended the 2016 school year with a deficit of over $ 200 million and anticipated ongoing deficits in future fiscal years, which led the Connecticut State Department of Education to lower its budget by $ 108.6 million, or 3.5 percent, despite growing student need.

This 100 percent renewable power plant of the future will run on cow manure from the state's dairy farms.

The annual growth is expected to hit 20 percent in the future, according to the industry regulator the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

«Using low values,» then, Temple and Coleman multiplied their estimated 1.4 million rural free - roaming cats in the state by 28 («twice urban kill rate»), and then multiply that by 20 percent (the «low dietary percent,» as they call it, though it's actually a gross misinterpretation of Mike Fitzgerald's work, as Ellen Perry Berkeley points out in her 2004 book TNR Past Present and Future: A history of the trap - neuter - return movement [14]-RRB-.

Acquisitions and commissions are paid for by one percent of the construction cost of all future building projects, an initiative established in 1969, making UHS the first state university in Texas to adopt the program.

The governor and legislature would be wise to follow the guidance of the governor's year - long discussion on Michigan's energy future and pass a bill as soon as possible to increase the state's renewable energy standard to at least 30 percent by the year 2030.

The role of the United States as a climate leader is also at stake, with an uncertain future for the Clean Power Plan, U.S. commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the country's ability to meet its national target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent by 2025.

A sentence in Chapter 13 of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability states: «Up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.»

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In a Kansas wind supply chain survey, 66 percent of the 227 product supply companies have planned future expansions to support the growing wind industry in the United States.

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

Also, it is worth monitoring a very recent development in Oregon where the state legislature approved a bill that would provide free tuition to state colleges for students who agree to repay the government about three percent of their future earnings over roughly 20 years.

Furthermore, aspirations of homeownership are more prominent with women, with 66 percent of current female renters stating they intend to own a home in the future as opposed to 57 percent of men.