Sentences with phrase «states and nations spend»

Cities, states and nations spend huge sums of money today via incentives, subsidies and programs to increase economic growth, the effect of which is to increase population, consumption, and pollution.

In an instructional technology site visit organized by the National School Boards Association in November, 96 visitors from across the state and nation spent two days in the East Irondequoit Central School District.

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He noted that the more a state spends, the worse its health outcomes are; the U.S, which spends 18 % of its GDP and more than any other nation, has similarly poor results.

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

Reviewing commitment to clean energy research and development June 1 The United States committed along with 21 other nations and the European Union to double research and development spending on clean energy technology.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

Though the United States is defined as a «Christian» nation, this Mia Love said truthfully that «Americans care about jobs, the economy; they care about the debt and deficit spending», but not what the Bible really teaches about involvement in the political arena, with Mormons included.

A former coordinator at UConn and FIU, Orlando spent the last two seasons maintaining one of the nation's best mid-major defenses — probably the best mid-major 3 - 4 — at Utah State.

The breastfeeding research knowledge available clearly shows that if all women in the United States breastfed for just six months exclusively, the nation would save $ 3.6 billion a year, mostly in health care costs and time spent paying parents for sick time to stay home to care for their children.

Similarly, African - American fathers in the United States and First Nations / Métis fathers in Canada have a higher likelihood of facing barriers relative to Caucasian fathers, which in turn limit the time spent with their children.

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

The Suffolk County Republican Committee works hard to advance the interests of taxpayers by reigning in out - of - control spending at the state level and lowering taxes in New York, which is already the highest taxed state in the nation thanks to the policies of politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Charles Schumer.

«Tom DiNapoli has spent the last three years providing solutions to our state's tough fiscal problems, conducting a top - to - bottom overhaul of the Office of the State Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension fstate's tough fiscal problems, conducting a top - to - bottom overhaul of the Office of the State Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension fState Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension funds.

In releasing his plan, Faso — who as a member of the Assembly cut spending and championed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — called it a smart way to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and align New York with most other states in the nation that don't pass their Medicaid expenses down to county taxpayers.

The other co-chair, former State Comptroller Carl McCall, a Democrat, chided local governments and schools for what he says is a continued high rate of spending that's contributed to the state's highest in the nation property tState Comptroller Carl McCall, a Democrat, chided local governments and schools for what he says is a continued high rate of spending that's contributed to the state's highest in the nation property tstate's highest in the nation property taxes.

«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending and taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people.»

New York state taxpayers are already subject to some of the highest state and local taxes in the nation as a result of the tax - and - spend policies that come out of Albany.

«While the independent expenditure spending aspect of the bill has been widely discussed across the nation and includes many recommendations that have been discussed for several years, including several provided to your administration by our organizations, little else in the bill addresses the strong public consensus that corruption is a serious problem in New York,» the letter states.

«This is the system that has brought New York to the brink, and it is why we are the highest «spending - and - taxing» state in the nation with programs that fail to perform for the people,» Cuomo writes.

New York spends more than any other state in the nation on pensions for government workers, and the costs continue to escalate.

Having spent several summers in the island nation, Wu speaks Mandarin and has campaigned heavily in Manhattan's Chinatown and the Flushing section of Queens, home to the state's first Asian - American congresswoman, Grace Meng.

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

Rhodes also said the United States spends more on its military «then the next seven nations combined» and that it should focus more on diplomacy and reforming military spending so that more money can be used on education.

The group found the state's residents spent, on average, 12.7 percent of their income on state and local taxes, «the highest burden in the nation.»

Together with Danny Donohue, and all of CSEA's membership, I will work to ensure that our state and local governments make every dollar that we spend count and that our pension fund remains one of the strongest in the nation.»

She was an outsider who spent much of her life in either Vermont (Sanders» adopted home state) or New York City before challenging a member of one of the nation's most prominent Democratic families, and doing so from the left.

«While several Democratic Party candidates spend the next year trying to out liberal each other for the right to be the Democratic Party designee, Congressman Zeldin will remain completely focused working harder than anyone else to deliver positive results to grow our economy, protect our security and improve in many other ways our community, state and nation.»

The actions of these agents of state, observers say, are reminiscent of the executive lawlessness and human rights abuses that characterised the nation's military era, including the period that President Muhammadu Buhari spent in power as a military dictator.

Over the last 15 years, spending on education in New York has more than doubled, from $ 28 billion to $ 58 billion, and we spend more per pupil than any other state in the nation, yet our students remain in the bottom half when it comes to results.

Del Lago spokesman Steven Greenberg said Tuesday the casino faces a «blatantly unfair competitive disadvantage» because the Seneca Nation stopped making casino revenue sharing payments to state and local governments in Western New York and spent $ 50 million on promotions and incentives «to lure customers from del Lago.»

With spending under control, the State should cut taxes and reverse the mentality of New York as the tax capital of the nation, an image that defined New York for decades.»

The nation's federal and state research ministries spend about $ 1.5 billion a year on the centers, with grants from other German and European research agencies and industry adding another $ 500 million.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

The state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high - level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons:

Neither of the nation's two major teachers» unions has trouble finding fault with the many provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act nor with how much the Bush administration is spending to help states and districts implement the law.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

These are among the findings of five former education - school deans who have spent several months studying the fiscal well - being of many of the nation's largest education schools — those housed in the state, land - grant, and major private universities.

Taxpayers deserve to know how much their kids» school spends per child and be able to compare that with the neighboring school or a school across the city, state, or nation.

Those precious resources were spent developing the EngageNY curriculum materials that schools and teachers in other states have eagerly downloaded in enormous numbers; rigorous exams that reflect real - world standards of proficiency in math and reading; and teacher certification standards that are now among the highest in the nation.

The new governor, Andrew Cuomo, in his first major postinaugural speech, complained, «We spend more money on education than any state in the nation, and we are number 34 in terms of results.»

Beating the Odds found that between 1999 and 2003 the share of all elementary and secondary school spending that states devoted to the nation's major city school systems decreased, although the demands and mandates placed on urban schools have increased.

Students in the United States spend much less time in school than do students in most other industrialized nations, and the school year has been essentially unchanged for more than a century.

Even as California heads into 2014 with lots of good news — a rebounding economy, a stable state budget and a functional state government — state spending on children's health and education continues to lag far behind the rest of the nation.

Despite the nation's troubled economic times, voters across the country approved several state and local ballot measures Nov. 5 that call for billions of dollars in new spending on school programs for students of all ages.

More is spent by the United States, in the aggregate, than by hugely populous nations such as China and India.

«For less than 1 percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we've convinced nearly every state in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning — the first time that's happened in a generation,» said Obama, referencing the Common Core.

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