Sentences with phrase «public funding cuts»

Mark, who was instrumental in the establishment of DACS in 1984, joins the organisation at an important time as debate continues about the future of copyright, and the global recession and public funding cuts impact on visual artists.

On top of that, London arts scene is facing public funding cuts and expensive college tuitions.

Public funding cuts also push students to for - profit colleges that sometimes serve them well but very often create outsize debts.

Not exact matches

Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have stalled even though the program enjoys broad bipartisan support over the all - important issue of funding, with Democrats balking at proposals cut an Obamacare public health fund to finance an extension of CHIP.

To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.

In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 %.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percFund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percfund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percent.

Crucially it would also mean an estimated $ 4.2 billion in federal funding cuts to the states, where public - sector employment is just now recovering.

The deal, agreed to on Monday after 17 hours of talks with eurozone leaders, contains tough conditions including pension cuts, tax increases and the movement of public assets into a trust fund to pay for the recapitalisation of Greek banks.

Ending public subsidies would roughly cut overall party funding by 42 per cent for the Liberals, 56 per cent for the NDP, the Greens by 61 per cent and a whopping 77 per cent for the Bloc.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights.

Announcing this week that the government will increase funding to the Ministry of Energy and Mines is simply an admission that years of cuts to inspection and enforcement have hurt not only public safety but industrial development in B.C.,» said Horgan.

Mr. Kenney, chanting the mantra of «choice,» appears to be committed to increasing that public subsidy while cutting education funding for most Alberta schoolchildren.

And if corporations pay a lower share of taxes, that means the rest of us will pay moreâ $» either through relatively higher taxes or cuts in funding for public services.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

It's about the determination of Republicans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the Environmental Protection Agency - efforts that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit.

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

By focusing the attention of faculty members now accustomed to routine spending increases, cuts in funding may have the unintended effect of improving the situation of teaching and learning about which a concerned public is justifiably upset.

Two years after the creation of CPB, Nixon instructed his staff to see to it that «all funds for public broadcasting be cut immediately.»

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

Even though statistics prove that art education benefits the child in so many ways, funding for art and music and other creative instruction is continually one of the first program cuts from public school programs.

The fund was established in 2002 by then - incumbent Betsy Gotbaum to «reinforce and support» the public advocate's office at a time of budget cuts.

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

«The government is tripling fees and cutting public funding for university teaching by 80 %, leaving English students facing the highest public university fees in the industrialised world.

«Everyone in policing understands the difficult financial position the country faces, and we accept that all parts of the public sector must shoulder the burden of the cuts in funding.

«He's supported charter schools, cut funding for public schools, and has said failing schools should face the death penalty.

One interesting illustration of the issue came up when the US Republican presidential candidate last fall, Mitt Romney, opened the first of the three presidential debates by saying that he wanted to cut off funding for PBS, the public - funded broadcasting service in the US.

At 11 a.m., groups committed to improving the health of New Yorkers call on the state Legislature to reject the proposed consolidation of public health funding, and the 20 percent cut in funding, state Capitol, third floor, outside state Senate lobby, Albany.

Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

The decision came the same day a federal judge made public an order that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal maintain Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood centers for 14 more days while the court considers plans to cut it off permanently.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

New Labour's police funding brought about real results in cutting crime, but public perceptions didn't improve.

Following the 2008 financial crash, the need to find additional public resources to reduce or obviate the need for painful spending cuts and fund growing long - term demand for public services makes wealth an attractive potential tax base.

His proposal cuts funding for the department of public works, among other things, in an effort to close a $ 16.5 million budget deficit without raising property taxes.

As Kelly's proposals involve an additional # 23m of public funds, they are unlikely to be implemented in the current climate of spending cuts.

Last year the governor's budget called for the consolidation of 89 public health programs coupled with a cut in funding of 10 percent.

This is the first event Cuomo has scheduled to help fund a planned public - relations blitz to defend his budget strategy, which will include major cuts.

Environmental agencies have seen hefty funding cuts over the past two years, which forced hundreds of layoffs and temporarily closed several parks and historic sites (public outrage ultimately convinced the legislature to restore park funding).

Cuomo has previously opened the door to a special session of the Legislature to contend with cuts in funding for health care to the state amid financial constraints placed on public welfare hospitals.

Bloomberg's budget cut funding for the public advocate's office by 11 percent, which comes on top of last year's 40 percent reduction.

They are concerned about funding cuts for foster care programs, public health and federal social service funds being reprogrammed.

Cuomo said the DSH cut «is so drastic we will not able to fund any public hospital at 100 percent» and will impact hospitals that aid the uninsured or provide reimbursement for Medicaid loses across upstate and downstate New York, including SUNY Upstate, SUNY Downstate and SUNY Stony Brook.

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

Since public - school funding is safe for now, the Medicare cuts are likely to be his most unpopular proposal.

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

U.S. Rep. John Katko (R - N.Y.) spoke out Wednesday afternoon about a House bill amendment that would cut funding for the Centro public transit company by 20 percent.