Sentences with phrase «spending than education»

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Interest on the debt, at 9 % of annual budget spending, is now nearly half of what the province spends on each year on education and more than one - fifth of what's spent on healthcare.

The top 40 % also spend four times more on education than the bottom 60 %.

Specifically, she has called for shoring up spending for early childhood education and capping families» costs for it at no more than 10 percent of their income.

Combined (including Dalhousie law and the soon - to - be-settled school of education), they comprise 15,000 students and more than 2,500 faculty, have annual spending of $ 270 million, occupy 1.6 million square feet and give out 6,000 scholarships.

But, then again, Ottawa already spends more than $ 12 billion a year on post-secondary education, plus billions more on joint labour force training agreements with the provinces.

... as a result, more than 11.2 million families end up spending more than half their paychecks on housing,» money they could otherwise direct toward transportation, education, food, clothing or savings.

As can be seen, we are currently spending far more per capita on education than 10 years ago, even when 50 % is added to inflation.

Auditor general Bonnie Lysyk's report noted that the government now spends more on debt interest than it does on post-secondary education, and those interest costs are growing.

Such a result is puzzling, given the country spends a greater proportion of its GDP on education than the OECD average.

On average, Millennials under 25 spend 4.2 % more of their income on education than their parents did.3 Higher costs have meant more student debt which has put a damper on spending.

You could point out that pay should reflect more than just time spent on the job, but education and results as well.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

By: Donald Makhafola 4th May 2018 Minerals processing specialist Multotec spent more than R10 - million on education and training development in 2017, while an additional R2 - million was spent on the newly built, state - of - the - art training centre in Spartan, Kempton Park, says COO Jannie de Jonge.

Case in point: according to a 2016 study by the Finra Investor Education Foundation, only 2 in 5 Americans is able to spend LESS than they earn.

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

An absent father is likely to spend less money on his children's education and support than does a present, involved father.

I haven't done the calculations, but I imagine my proposed tax would produce more than half of what President Obama wants to spend to expand access to higher education.

Agreed; we spend too much time and effort worrying about obsessive compulsive religious activities than we do the education of our children.

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.»

More than 1 in 3 of India's 1.2 billion people are children, yet India spends less on health and education than comparable emerging economies.

This country has spent more time and resources on education than any other civilization in the history of the world.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Mozambique continues to spend more on debt servicing than on health and education combined.

In India, increased incomes are more likely to be spent on motorbikes, phones, computers, education, and housing than on food.

Though CNMs have far more education and training than homebirth midwives, homebirth midwives prefer to pretend that CNMs spent that extra time being «socialized» (i.e. brainwashed) in «techno - medicine.»

But inclusion is so much more than following the letter of the law, or making sure your child spends at least 80 % of their day in the regular education classroom.

Paul Tough writes about education, parenting, poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

Cuomo proposed a $ 960 million increase in education aid, but lawmakers back more than $ 1 billion in school spending.

The US spends more on education than defense, although most of that spending is private rather than government spending.

Assembly Democrats on Monday evening released their one - house budget proposal, a $ 170 billion spending plan that would fund transportation in New York City through fees on ride hailing services and cabs in Manhattan and add more money for education than what was proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The political action committee supported by the education reform and pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY, has spent heavily in the race backing Republican Chris McGrath, with records showing the group has spent more than $ 1 million the Nassau County district.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

A group that pushed for the education investment tax credit spent more than $ 5 million on the effort, according to a report from lobbying and ethics regulators released on Thursday.

«two in five people support increased taxes to fund higher spending on health and education, down from 62 per cent in 1997» Taxes and spending are higher now than in 1997.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

The state now spends a total of $ 74 billion on education every year, when higher education is included — more than the entire budget of 47 different states combined, the office said.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

New spending on schools includes $ 107 million in capital and operating funds to provide all schools with gyms or other physical education facilities and more than $ 10 million to offer more students free lunches.

Membership fees will be spent on enterprise, education, a better healthcare system, roads and other infrastructure rather than squandered on EU dreams.

It increases education spending by $ 769 million and sets aside more than $ 400 million for work on New York City's beleaguered subway and transit system.

Flanagan has pushed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to release more information on how education money is spent, declaring the mayor has been less than transparent with state funding.

The move added some education spending: $ 240 million — a figure far less than what the Democratic - led Assembly had wanted.

The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match.»

There is no need to accuse people of poor planning to realize that a rational citizen may well decide that money is better spent on near - term expenses (for example, their children's education) than on saving for an unlikely event.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

It is why, if you look around advanced economies, they all spend vastly more on health and education as a proportion of national wealth creation than they did 100 years ago.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.