Sentences with phrase «percent of public spending»

Local governments now get about half of tax and other revenues, but are responsible for more than 80 percent of public spending.

Not exact matches

Perry Metz, who oversees WFIU and WTIU in Indiana, told Business Insider that he was concerned by the proposed budget and argued that the percent of the federal government's budget that is spent on public media is «tiny.»

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Other» professional services by 212 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 18 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 332 million per year.

Furthermore, the government is expected to spend 0.3 percent of GDP on public infrastructure that should support growth.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Business Services» by 150 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 14 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 188 million per year.

The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and other public infrastructure.

There's only one given: Any amount of money spent on such an ill - advised campaign would be 100 percent waste to the public, yet hugely profitable for big pharmaceutical companies.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

The two greatest sources of spending in 2017 were education spending, which made up 40 percent of the annual budget, and public safety, which comprised nearly 20 percent of the budget.

Unsurprisingly, (considering the nasty tone of the governor's race and all the cash Cuomo spent on attack ads), a whopping 68 percent of New Yorkers have a negative view of Carl Paladino, and being out of the public eye hasn't helped him any.

«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.»

Given that each Senate district has roughly the same population, within a 10 percent margin, the analysis of how much was spent on direct mail should be straightforward, said New York Public Interest Group executive director Blair Horner.

The sheer magnitude of continued «unspecified» spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in fiscal year 2017, $ 3.3 billion in 2018, and $ 4.8 billion in 2019 — will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

The $ 77.7 billion spending plan, up 3.6 percent from last year, also includes a spate of new social programs that would aid homeless New Yorkers, spur prison reforms and expand literacy programs in public schools.

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600 per - pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009 per - pupil national average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

That's right, while the state has spent 7.5 percent more than it did at the beginning of the Cuomo Administration, students have been forced to pay more and the state has shortchanged public colleges in the budget.

The sheer magnitude of continued spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in FY2017, $ 3.3 in FY2018, and $ 4.8 in FY2019 — although particular program areas are unspecified today, will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

But 90 percent of that highway and bridge spending was already included in the state Department of Transportations 5 - year capital plan last year, according to E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.

«Senator Flanagan didn't get a pay raise, so now he wants a return to member items and pork barrel spending,» Azzopardi said in a statement, adding that 70 percent of the public opposes a pay increase for lawmakers.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

Taking a firm stand for the first time in public on reducing the city's share of sales tax revenue, County Executive Mike Hein has charged the City of Kingston with accepting some $ 8 million from the county in Safety Net welfare relief over the past four years and using it to «mask» a collective spending increase of almost 40 percent.

«Sen. Flanagan didn't get a pay raise, so now he wants a return to member items and pork barrel spending,» Azzopardi said in a statement, adding that 70 percent of the public opposes a pay increase for lawmakers.

«I mean, obviously, governing is the vast majority of the time... I think most people who are decent human beings, in public life, would like to tell you we would like to spend zero percent of our time on fundraising.»

Here's the latest news, courtesy of the US Census Bureau and the Empire Center for Public Policy's E.J. McMahon: Per - pupil public - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 pePublic Policy's E.J. McMahon: Per - pupil public - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 pepublic - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 percent.

In 2012, 61 percent of people said they were dissatisfied with the time doctors spent talking with patients, according to a poll conducted by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breedinOf the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breedinof the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breedinof Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

After it became clear that some of these outfits were making scandalous profits by offering minimal services, California legislators passed SB 740, which imposed strict financial guidelines on cybercharters, including a requirement that they spend at least 50 percent of public revenues on salaries and benefits to state - certified teachers.

Setting aside that this is less than 0.16 percent of the more than $ 625 billion spent annually on public education nationwide, the report tells only half the story.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

In 2003 - 04, families spent 21 percent of their incomes to cover the cost of a public four - year college, up from 18 percent in 1992 - 93.

All this hoopla and RttT was only $ 4.35 billion (SIG was $ 3.5 billion), a tiny fraction of the $ 100 billion in education funds passed out in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and less than 1 percent of the $ 600 billion spent on K — 12 public education in the United States.

[viii] The increases would be very large — equivalent to 38 percent of current spending at community colleges and 56 percent at four - year public colleges.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

The 11th edition of the Washington - based association's yearly report says that although spending per student has increased nationwide by 53 percent in the past 20 years, 73 percent of public school 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics exam in 2003 performed below the level of proficient.

In another sign of less - than - wholehearted support for an education spending spree, only 35 percent of the public says taxes should increase to fund the schools.

The results of my preferred analysis indicate that public - welfare spending in fact explains roughly half of the post-1987 decline in higher - education appropriations, with health accounting for another 23 percent (see Figure 3).

William J. Mathis, for example, claims in a recent Phi Delta Kappan article that public K - 12 spending needs to rise by at least 20 to 35 percent to meet the goals of NCLB - an increase of $ 85 to $ 150 billion a year.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too low.

The scholarship, worth $ 4,880 this year, amounts to less than 60 percent of the cost of per - pupil spending in public schools.

Any dollar spent to subsidize or incentivize private school education is a dollar lost on the public education system that educates 90 percent of Americans and must accept and educate any and all school - aged children.

With his ESA, Max was able to access 90 percent of the state funding that would have been spent on him in Arizona public schools to pay for private school tuition at Brophy College Preparatory Academy.

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

For poor children, a twenty percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with nearly a full additional year of completed education, 25 percent higher earnings, and a 20 percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood.

With an ESA, parents receive 90 percent of what would have been spent on their child in the public school into a restricted - use savings account, and can then use those funds to pay for private school tuition, online learning, special education services and therapies, textbooks, tuition, and other education - related services, products, and providers.

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

Public spending on education made up 2 percent of GDP in Brazil and 2.4 percent in Chile, in contrast to 5 percent in the United States.