Sentences with phrase «suggested federal cuts»

Cathy Pennington, NYCHA's Executive Vice President for Leased Housing, told the Observer the agency has converted 3,500 of the former city and state - run units to Section 8 to date and suggested federal cuts to HUD are to blame for the slow conversion rate.

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The left - leaning Citizens for Tax Justice have asserted that the plan will cost $ 12 trillion to the U.S. economy over the next decade, and the more conservative Tax Foundation has suggested that the cuts will contribute $ 10 trillion to the federal deficit over the same period.

During an hour - long discussion with reporters, Cuomo seemed to suggested he perhaps didn't want a budget at all, at least not one without what he called «flexibility» for his administration to act — post-budget — to respond to widely expected federal cuts, particularly in the Medicaid program.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week has railed against the potential for federal government cuts and their impact on New York's finances, suggesting it has complicated the budget picture.

In its financial plan narratives, the DOB suggested high - income earners were delaying some profit - taking and bonus - claiming (including the exercise of stock options) in anticipation of the new Trump administration's plans for a big federal tax cut, effective as soon as 2019.

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

The UFT president suggested that the state pay for necessary public investments, such as education, by recapturing some of the funds lost to federal tax cuts for the rich.

ALBANY — State lawmakers are now seriously contemplating the loss of two major housing programs, and suggested that federal prosecutors hamstrung their ability to cut a deal.

Targeted federal government programs of the sort the administration is suggesting Congress cut are widely used by even the most conservative Republican governors to help businesses in their states compete.»

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

Many federal lawmakers, as well as state and local officials, have already expressed strong opposition to some of the cuts, and even new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, long an EPA foe, has suggested that he will push back against parts of the preliminary White House plan.

I'd find concerns about Trump's cuts far more credible if I could recall a time when education advocates had conceded some programs weren't working, voiced concerns about bureaucratic bloat, suggested cost - saving strategies, or acknowledged the burdens imposed by federal overspending.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

Educators have long suggested that the No Child Left Behind Act's singular focus on reading and math combined with state and federal budget woes has forced schools to dramatically cut their arts programming.

Given the almost total absence of research evidence supporting the effectiveness of professional development for teachers as it has been conceptualized in the U.S.A. (in effect, supporting the proposed cut in the proposed federal budget), one is left wondering if the major purpose of the US News article was to criticize the current presidential administration for proposing to eliminate it, as suggested by the sub-title.

More generous childcare benefits, middle - income tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programs, and new free - trade deals all are necessary to keep Canada from becoming an unequal society, the federal government suggests.

For the moment, President Barack Obama has suggested using federal funding as motivation to encourage colleges to cut down on their costs.

He suggests cutting support for construction of at - risk homes, doing away with breaks like the federal mortgage tax deduction.