Sentences with phrase «reduced public budgets»

The chapters from Paul Crowe, Kevin Meagher and myself emphasise that these reduced public budgets need not come at the expense of increased delivery.

Not exact matches

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

He continued to use budget cuts and public employee layoffs to reduce the state's sizeable budget gap.

This reduces the difference between the Main Estimates and Public Accounts / Budget / Updates.

I think increasing private school's subsidy back to 70 % from the reduced 50 % I suggest would fit in the same category, especially if it happens on the same budget that public school funding is increased — the optics are terrible.

Governments, harassed by the burden of debt service payments, reduce public expenditure on health and education and other social services to balance their budgets.

They object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.

Hence, a sizeable number of local authorities successfully applied participatory budgeting to develop a strategy for reducing the public debt.

A press release from the group says the students and faculty «object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.»

Significant cuts to bilateral aid budgets due to the consolidation of public finances have reduced member states» willingness to pool further resources and competences in Brussels.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Take the issue of public spending cuts to reduce the Budget deficit.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

Gov. David Paterson today sent the Legislature a program bill to provide another temporary early retirement incentive for public employees in hopes of reducing the workforce to trim the budget deficit.

[48] Shortly before the 2010 election, Osborne had pledged to be «tougher than Thatcher» on Britain's budget deficit, [49] and he duly set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015 — 16, total public debt would be falling as a proportion of GDP.

The PEF president went first and rejected the governor's repeated claims that public employees have rejected efforts for them to share the burden of reducing the state's $ 9.2 budget deficit.

If public broadcasting would be financed out of the general budget it would be easy for the government to reduce its funding levels through its yearly budget.

Labour also said today they would pledge better value for public money while making no big spending commitments in a bid to reduce a record budget deficit.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

And as Cuomo plans to run for re-election on a platform reducing taxes, Silver is likely to oppose any reduction in revenue after years of flat budgeting have lowered the quality of public services.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

Public employee unions were angry with the governor for reducing pensions benefits for new workers, and teachers were upset over a property tax cap, which impacts school budgets, and test - based evaluations.

RFID provides the opportunity to use technology to improve public service and assist staff, whose numbers have been reduced by previous years» budget cuts, in meeting the demand from heavy patron usage of library services;

In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per cent cap on public - sector pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).

This is a clear peace offering to the public employee unions, which have long called for the state to review its outside contractors and reduce its use of them before turning to state worker layoffs to close budget deficits.

The government seeks to take money out of the economy by public spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit.

Anyone who believes that reducing police budgets by 20 % will not affect front line policing is clearly mistaken and NARPO believe public safety will suffer if these cuts go ahead.»

«Liberal Youth Wales have been campaigning for fairer fares for young people on public transport and I am delighted that as a result of our influence in budget negotiations, young people across Wales will now benefit from reduced fares when travelling by bus.»

The governor, in his budget proposal, wants a new benefit tier that offers the choice of a reduced public pension or a 401k style plan, but he says he's open to discussions.

18 - A (TED Part S) Executive Budget - In accordance with the recommendations of the New York State Tax relief Commission, Part S of the TED Article VII legislation, would reduce the Public Service Law § 18 - a (6) Temporary State Energy and Utility Service Conservation Assessment (Temporary Assessment) by a total of $ 200 million per year by eliminating the assessment on industrial utility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other customers.

After his talks with the public - employees union to reduce workforce costs didn't produce savings, the governor is specifically looking for «one day of furlough in each appropriation that we make from here on until we pass this budget,» he said, adding for dramatic effect: «The crisis is worsening and we must take action.»

Public sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bePublic sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bepublic sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would be lost.

Additional Investments in NYC Public Schools: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers.

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.

Majorities oppose cutting public employee benefits or pay in order to reduce state budget deficits or taking away some collective bargaining rights from public employee unions.

Poloncarz presented the 2013 Erie County Proposed Budget on October 15, 2012, which maintains the quality of life programs and services demanded by the public amid increases in State - mandated costs and reduced revenues.

The budget closes a $ 10 billion state budget deficit by cutting the state workforce by 9,800 (mostly through attrition), closing several prisons, and significantly reducing aid to public schools, colleges and Medicaid programs.

Legislator Ed Day and candidate for Rockland County Executive is an experienced public and private sector executive with a plan to stimulate economic growth, balance our budget, reduce taxes, stop overdevelopment, and ensure that our kids share a bright future in Rockland.

Education is an investment in the future, leading eventually to higher productivity, better social outcomes and reduced spending on other public services; cuts to this budget are a false economy.»

Ms Rayner pointed to an Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) report from November last year which warned that public sector pay rises in the wake of the lifting of the cap would have to be met by «squeezing non-pay spending and by reducing the workforce».

Despite multiple rounds of budget cuts, which reduced Kettle Moraine's state aid by half in the decade between 2005 - 06 and 2015 - 16, the district has continued to innovate, says Alan Borsuk, a senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School who also writes about education for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Despite the fact that 95 percent of those surveyed in the August 2015 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on Public Education said that the most important way to improve schools is to improve the quality of teachers, professional development is often the first budget item to be cut or reduced.

In 1988, Gov. Thompson vetoed legislation to increase funding for the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and provide additional teachers to reduce class size — but he included a voucher program proposal in his state budget.

Despite the fact that 90 percent of students attend public schools, this budget dramatically reduces funding for these schools in favor of a massive investment of $ 1 billion — four times the amount in last year's proposal — in ineffective private school voucher schemes, putting the most vulnerable students at risk.

State Superintendent Tony Evers also criticized the expansion of voucher programs at a time when Walker's budget proposes cutting public education by $ 800 million and reducing how much schools can raise from property taxes.

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

«Sending money to private schools in the form of school vouchers, reducing public school budgets, telling us our advanced degrees are not appreciated, and now McCrory says experience is not appreciated?

Roughly the same dollar amount was reduced in the public schools» budget to anticipate the number of students that would be leaving the public school system to attend private schools with taxpayer - funded vouchers.

In its 2015 - 16 budget, Detroit Public Schools called for classes in grades four through 12 to increase class size by five students in order to help reduce the district's $ 127 million deficit.

School groups, led by the California School Boards Association and the Association of California School Administrators, argued in a suit filed in September that the 2011 - 12 budget agreement improperly reduced funding for K - 12 public education by excluding revenues from the general fund without adjusting the Proposition 98 minimum funding calculation.