Sentences with phrase «spending by all levels of government»

Total spending by all levels of government on education will hit a record $ 493.3 billion this school year, a 50 percent increase over the past decade after adjustment for inflation, according to the U.S. Education Department's annual back - to - school forecast.

Not exact matches

The government beat this projection by nearly $ 1.6 billion — by taking $ 1 billion from reserve, keeping spending levels $ 600 million less than projected, and through $ 335 million of savings from lower than anticipated interest rates on government debt.

The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

Conservatives would doubtlessly — and not without some justification — respond by noting that expressed as a share of GDP, direct program spending has simply been returned to the levels they inherited from Paul Martin's Liberal government.

In addition, economic activity will be constrained by lower levels of government spending than before and a weak banking system.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

At the lowest level of municipal government, the city is still managed by its medieval patchwork of contrade, neighbourhood - based collectives that raise money to be spent on local projects, including the lavish feasts that run for days after a contrada's horse has won the Palio.

The vote followed a four - hour backbench business debate on a motion endorsing a minimum level of spending on defence as 2 % of GDP — a level set by Nato — in which MPs from across the political spectrum repeatedly urged the government to protect defence spending.

Beyond DACA, lawmakers will also have to agree to new government funding levels or pass another short - term extension of spending limits - known as a continuing resolution - by Jan. 19.

Half his career has been spent in business, half in government at the highest levels, most recently doing an excellent job as Leader of the House of Lords where he has proven a skilled negotiator respected by all parties.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

After all, Labour have spent the past five years criticising a whole series of cuts by the coalition government at both a national and local level.

He was said to have regretted that such development could happen in the camps despite billions of naira spent by the different levels of government as well as donor agencies and philanthropists.

(So far, the government has been funded by a series of so - called continuing resolutions that have essentially frozen agency spending at 2017 levels.)

On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.

There are a couple of other major changes — neither crippling — but the thrust remains the same: Constantly shifting between two time periods (2001 and today), it follows an intrepid investigator (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as he spends years trying to locate the man who raped and killed a young woman, assisted in his efforts by his colleagues (Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts) but meeting heavy resistance and even interference from top - level government officials.

Incorporating this category of transfers does not alter the conclusions of the analyses reported below, but it does increase the implied level of government spending on higher education by 10 to 20 percent.

Trac objectives In response to these concerns, the «Transparency Review» was established by the government following the 1998 comprehensive spending review in order to develop a better understanding of the shortfall in funding across all university activities, and to ensure a greater level of accountability for public funds.

Congress finally ended its 16 - day shutdown of the federal government by passing a short - term spending agreement (PDF) that will continue to fund education programs at FY13 levels.

The IFS has also warned that the date by which all schools would reach their formula level of funding could differ significantly as a result of the spending decisions of a future government.

Some astute investors (such as Hussman and GMO) have argued in essence that the combination of record government deficit spending and unemployment levels has propped up corporate revenues while lowering labor costs, thereby boosting corporate profit margins by as much as 70 percent above historical averages.

GDP growth was reduced by higher levels of imports and weakness in federal government spending, particularly for defense spending.