Sentences with phrase «while aid money»

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«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

Last week, Mr. Cuomo proposed major cuts to Medicaid, school aid and the state work force, while inviting unions to come to him with their own proposals to save money.

• While he worked at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it doubled the amount of money it devoted to housing for those with HIV / AIDS and his staff urged gay organizations to apply for grants to open community centers.

But trying to «band - aid» a deep problem while it gets worse means you end up spending EVEN more money a few months down the road.

Happy Socks teamed up with GILES DEACON and the THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION to make a great collaborative project and help bring notice to World AIDS Day while raising money for the foundation.

It features two modes, Blitz mode which pits 1 to 2 players on a split screen or up to 4 players over Xbox LIVE against waves of robot armies and Crossfire mode, where players play competitively, 6 versus 6, to destroy the enemy's Money Ball while protecting theirs aided by robots.

While Senior Lecturer and Director of TEP Kay Merseth aided the students in raising funds to travel to New Orleans, students also had to be willing to put their own money forward.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into long - term reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into lasting reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

Still, while complaining about the lack of money, Reading school officials have seen the district's federal aid increased from $ 513 per student to $ 1,022 per student from 1998 through 2002, a boost of 99 percent.

Ironically, while property tax cuts helped precipitate the district's fiscal plunge and the repeated cries for state money, the oversight board in August recommended property tax increases - a half - mill increase annually in 2005 - 06 and 2007 - 08, along with largely unspecified spending cuts; some new spending, such as upgrading the computer system; a new «welcome center» for students; and, of course, additional state aid.

Spending index: While no consensus exists about how much money is necessary to provide an «adequate» education, it is clear that districts with certain characteristics tend to require more aid.

-- Why have federal funding cuts reduced aid for regular public schools, which educate 90 % of American students, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to send more federal money to charter schools, which educate less than 5 % of American students?

While the school will then be required to craft a plan detailing how it will seek to increase test participation, there is absolutely no impact on state aid or Title I monies, and the school district would continue to remain in good standing.

Nearly 40 percent of that money came from a reduction in state aid for public schools in the city of Milwaukee, while the rest came from tax dollars, according to DPI.

While most states have created so - called 529 plans to encourage families to save for college, economists Roberto Ifill and Michael McPherson have found that saving money in 529 plans can reduce the amount of financial aid a family receives.

If you have federal work study as a part of your financial aid package, you should really use that money to pay as much off of your student loans as possible while you are in school.

Democrats on the committee argued that the legislation cuts student aid programs while giving more money to for - profit colleges.

While SAFRA does not change the process for applying for federal grants, it does increase the amount of money awarded through the ever - popular Pell Grant program, which provides financial aid to low - income undergraduate students.

It should be noted that, while scholarships are a great source of college financing, the amount of scholarship dollars you receive will reduce the amount of financial aid money you can obtain.

According to the CFPB, the Genesis loan program featured default rates between 50 and 70 percent, so Corinthian was taking advantage of federal financial aid money while borrowers were failing in repayment at considerable rates.

While I understand that the amount of money this project has raised is only an indicator of «pre-orders» in order to aid manufacturing cost reduction, I do feel that it would be nice to reward us for showing so much affection to the project.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

If a developed nation's contribution to climate funds such as the Green fund are simply a shift of money from existing foreign aid funds, they should expressly admit to this while explaining why they have no ethical obligations to increase funding for adaptation and response in vulnerable nations.

While he believes that world leaders can not ignore climate change, Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, says he is concerned that precious resources are too often squandered on ineffective solutions, and that aid money could be spent on better interventions that do the most social good.»

Then he launched an international campaign to distract public policy makers by understating the potential devastation of climate change, while setting up a false choice between spending money addressing global warming or spending instead on eradicating poverty or AIDS.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

While I am sympathetic to the need of these organizations to raise money for operation, in my humble opinion, the first priority of bar associations ought to be aiding the profession, including attorneys from other states.

More money for legal aid, while a good idea, maybe, is unrealistic given the crushing debt load this government has heaped upon itself, and us.

It has been reported that while some of the new housing projects were originally offered as aid, Tibetans were later told they were required to pay large sums of money to take possession.

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