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He has raised the amount, after Obama proposed a $ 9 per hour minimum wage hike in his State of the Union speech in February.

On Monday the Times Union reported the effort to increase the state minimum wage to $ 6.75 per hour «apparently died in the Senate.»

The US president used his state of the union address yesterday to announce plans to cut the use of petrol by 20 per cent in the next decade and diversify the US» energy sources by investing in clean coal, solar and wind power.

New York spends more per capita than any state in the union on education.

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Trade unions have today backed a call for an immediate increase in the state pension to # 114 per week and to restore the link with earnings by next year.

The fact is that New York spends more on education per student than any other state in the union — an average $ 18,126 each, according to the latest federal data.

«At the same time that the Energy Company was paying Percoco's wife and the union president's daughter tens of thousands of dollars per year for low - show jobs, Kelly repeatedly sought Percoco's assistance in advocating on the Energy Company's behalf to various State officials, and the union president advocated directly to Percoco regarding the union's support for the Energy Company's proposed New York power plant and submitted a letter from his union, addressed to Governor Cuomo, setting forth the union's support for the plant,» the letter submitted by prosecutors states.

«I am 150 per cent in favour of having Britain as a constructive member state of the European Union.

A survey of 500 Poles in Britain for Newsnight suggests that just 64 per cent had signed the workers» register, which the government uses to monitor the number of people coming from the ten new European Union member states to work in Britain.

But in the United States, nearly 25 million pounds of antibiotics per year, up from 16 million in the mid 1980s, are given to healthy animals for agriculture purposes, according to a 2000 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

In January, the European Union set targets for its member states that would require 20 per...

The report said the trend in per capita carbon emissions over the five years to 2012 was down in Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Britain, the European Union, South Africa, Italy, France and Mexico.

The five states in which the two unions spent more than $ 100 per teacher were Oregon, Colorado ($ 173.98), Montana ($ 141.74), Utah ($ 140.60) and South Dakota ($ 132.15)-- states in which there were hotly - contested political campaigns during the 2007 - 08 election cycle.

Cambridge, MA — A first - ever national analysis of state spending per teacher on political advocacy by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released today found that the national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $ 100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the top of the list at $ 360 per teacher during the 2007 - 08 election cycle.

How Much Teacher Unions Spend in Your State By Paul E. Peterson 1/19/2010 Map showing campaign contributions of the NEA and AFT: Amount spent per teacher in recipient state (2008 - State By Paul E. Peterson 1/19/2010 Map showing campaign contributions of the NEA and AFT: Amount spent per teacher in recipient state (2008 - state (2008 - 2009)

Black and Hispanic boys whose full academic careers are spent in these union - dominated schools lose $ 3,650 per year in income and suffer almost an 8 percent drop in labor force participation compared to their peers in states without collective bargaining.

The LA Unified school board, along with labor unions and the wider education community in Los Angeles and statewide, are calling for the state to increase per - pupil funding to $ 20,000 by 2020, which would nearly double the state's allocation for education funding.

This very bad bill amazingly had the support of the Washington Education Association — the teachers union in Washington State — even though it led to the firing of more than one thousand public school teachers in Washington State as any student in any other school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K21 INC!

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

New York State has always been great with inputs — one of the highest per pupil costs in the country ($ 23,370 in 2015)-- and early adopters of the Common Core State Standards (currently under a re-evaluation - process per Gov. Cuomo's sop to suburban voters and union leaders).

The average per - member dues in the Top 10 state unions is $ 679.30; that provides the unions with a deep war chest to promote their agenda to lawmakers and taxpayers alike.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

By far the biggest drop for a major state was the 5.2 percent per year reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the Former Soviet Union in 1989 — 98.

According the The Union of Concerned Scientists, the average carbon emissions per person in the United States is 17.62 mT per person, or the equivalent to keeping 3.7 passenger cars on the road for a year.

According to The Union of Concerned Scientists, the average carbon emissions per person in the United States is 17.62 mT per person or the equivalent of keeping 3.7 passenger cars on the road for a year.

Bioethanol from corn in the United States is, by comparison, competitive at an oil price of US$ 55 per barrel, and bioethanol in the European Union requires an oil price of US$ 75 to $ 100 per barrel to be competitive (Worldwatch Institute, 2007).

Annual growth in total oil consumption of ~ 3 % or more in the Asia - Pacific region has contributed the most to this increase, although consumption there is still at lower per capita rates than in the United States and the European Union.

But Bush has talked in his State Of The Union address about reducing greenhouse gasses, and the administration spends $ 5 billion per year researching climate science.

The European Union, Japan and the United States have led pledges of $ 100 billion per year for poor nations up to 2020, plus $ 30 billion in immediate assistance.

[1] BILL C - 30, An Act to implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States and to provide for certain other measures (October 31, 2016); currently at Senate review stage; recent government commentators have suggested the Bill is expected to be passed by late Spring 2017 (per European Union Chamber of Commerce in Canada February 23, 2017 seminar in Toronto).

With average premiums of $ 873 per year according to the Insurance Information Institute, Arizona ranks as the 14th most expensive state in the Union, and those rates are tame compared to the $ 2,500 + premiums that some providers charge according to data compiled by the Arizona Department of Insurance.

The market has provided some great investment opportunities for our Canadian neighbours, particularly in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, but you'll find deals at 25 to 40 per cent below previous sale prices in virtually every state in the union.