Sentences with phrase «system of public financing makes»

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In particular, a variety of attributes make Canada an attractive investment destination, including our sound public finances, resilient financial system, and credible monetary policy.

But the governor, in making a refocused pitch for overhauling campaign finance laws with a system of public financing with matching dollars, told reporters earlier today in New York City he finds the process of raising money as it is now deeply unpleasant.

It's argument Cuomo has made before, often in the context of creating a statewide public financing system for elections.

When asked specifically whether they support creating a system of public financing in New York that would limit the size of political contributions to candidates and match smaller contributions made to candidates for state offices, 61 percent answered in the affirmative.

All the talk of progressive policies like another minimum wage hike and establishment of a public campaign finance system and a formal fracking ban makes business leaders very nervous.

Still, rank - and - file advocates remain unconvinced, especially over whether Cuomo will make a good - faith effort to create a system of public financed political campaigns, which is part of a tricky set of negotiations with the state Senate, divided between a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

Cuomo is proposing a five - point plan, including public financing of campaigns, full and complete disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, and reform of the legislative per diem system where the governor says lawmakers come to Albany just to make money through the daily expense payments.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has said he's supportive of a campaign finance overhaul and a public system of campaigns, has said he does not expect the ideological rift in the Legislature would make the measure possible this year.

«Throughout the history of the presidential public finance system, the program has operated admirably to the point of fairly equalizing campaign expenditures between the major party candidates, and providing primary candidates with the resources to be able to run campaigns,» said Holman «It made elections very competitive, quite open and fairly scandal - free.»

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

A New York legislative leader plans to propose a bill next week to overhaul campaign - finance laws and introduce a system of public financing for state elections, making him the third of Albany's four «men in a room,» including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to push for sweeping revisions in this area.

The Public Campaign Action Fund has released a new television advertisement and revised an existing spot to more prominently mention the governor, a Democrat, who has said he supports changes to New York's porous campaign finance laws but has also made use of the current system to raise millions.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

The money made by politicians on fees for consulting companies doing business with the state and the pay - to - play system of private campaign financing have to be ended with a full time legislature and full public campaign financing.

Schneiderman has said he will make fighting corruption a top priority for his office and backs the creation of a public financing system for state races.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In a trial run of a public financing system meant to encourage ordinary citizens to make small donations, the Buffalo millionaire Carl Paladino's development companies gave up to the $ 175 limit to Bob Antonacci's Republican state comptroller campaign - 46 times.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

«Academy finances are a matter of public interest and the present system does not allow parents and the public to have confidence that financial decisions are being made for the benefit of pupils and that public money is being spent effectively and ethically.

You'd want to look into that if you were a reporter covering schools because compensation makes up 80 percent of school budgets in America, so budget squeezes are almost ALWAYS about salary and benefits (Last year, according to the Census» survey of public school finances, school systems in American spent $ 523 billion, $ 419 billion of which was salaries and benefits).

But largely outside of the public eye, a number of states have made dramatic changes to their finance systems to redirect funding to low - income school districts.

In making difficult decisions on complex issues of who was to pay, how it was to be financed, how long benefits would last and whether the system would be public or private, Meredith's vision was both economic and humanitarian, focusing on the public interest.

Alexey Moiseev, the Russian deputy finance minister, said earlier this year that the government was heading towards the official acceptance of cryptocurrencies, in part because their public ledger system makes transactions quite easy to trace.

Ian McAuley, a lecturer in public sector finance at the University of Canberra, makes a similar point in this post, arguing that the more private insurance is used to fund healthcare, the more expensive the healthcare system becomes.

A Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan of $ 292 million, in combination with previously issued and authorized general airport bond revenues would make available the funds to finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car functions as well as public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport Transit System (ATS) at Finance Innovation Act loan of $ 292 million, in combination with previously issued and authorized general airport bond revenues would make available the funds to finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car functions as well as public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport Transit System (ATS) at finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car functions as well as public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport Transit System (ATS) at O'Hare.