Sentences with phrase «year cut funding»

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Already this year, some local NPR affiliates went as far as to advertise the potential federal funding cuts in their annual pledge drives.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

Conversely, if you don't have the discipline to sit down and assemble a business budget, you may not have insight into how your business is performing from year to year, whether there are cuts you can make to improve performance and whether you have the needed funds to purchase new equipment — be it computers, trucks, machinery, or a new factory.

Congress cut funding for the Bonn, Germany - based UNFCCC from $ 7.5 million in previous years to $ 3 million this year.

Pantera Capital, a hedge fund that gained attention for returning 25,000 percent over its lifetime through the end of last year, saw the value of its cryptocurrency fund cut nearly in half in March, according to an investor letter Tuesday.

Less than a year later, after a bad quarter, the company cut off funding for most of the initiatives.

«If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of this year, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal, and then presumably to land a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect from a Republican speaker of the House.»

This year cast doubt on the sustainability of these returns, and coupled with high fees, a 2 % annual management fee and a 20 % cut of the profits, many have opted to take control of their own investments rather than trust in crypto hedge funds.

The Florida Legislature is cutting short its help for affordable housing, diverting tens of millions of dollars each year from a trust fund meant to aid such housing developments.

That will be tricky given that 10 - year Treasuries currently yield below 2.20 per cent and this would decline precipitously with a recession and any move to cut Fed funds.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

When the OASDI trust fund is exhausted, beneficiaries will face an across - the - board 23 percent benefit cut, the equivalent of about $ 5,800 per year in today's dollars for a typical beneficiary reaching the full retirement age in 2033.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

My guess is the years ahead will see more of these cuts along with consolidation in the fund industry through mergers and acquisitions.

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As Congress moved the tax bill forward, investors pulled the highest amount out of equities funds in more than three years, suggesting some investors may see «tax cuts» as already priced in.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, «He [Robert «Skip» Livingston] spent a year studying the impact a Palatka mill owned by Georgia - Pacific has had on Rice Creek and the nearby St. Johns River — but then the company cut off funding for further studies.

Canada's largest health startup showcase takes over MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read More

Moreover, during its recent analyst meeting, management disclosed that it would have to borrow money to fund a $ 6 billion contribution to its pension plans next year, as well as cut its 2018 capex by 26 %.

Announcing this week that the government will increase funding to the Ministry of Energy and Mines is simply an admission that years of cuts to inspection and enforcement have hurt not only public safety but industrial development in B.C.,» said Horgan.

The observed cash outflow indicates that average mutual fund investors have gradually cut back their equity positions since the beginning of last year.

We have frozen post-secondary tuition for two years, funded teachers and nurses that the PCs were going to cut, and created the Alberta Child Benefit Plan for low - income families, which is a $ 340 - million investment in new direct help to families who need it most.

The hedge funds also expressed concern that OPEC and Russia won't continue cutting oil production to keep prices high after the current deal expires at the end of the year.

The new funding package provides schools with a partial restoration of nearly $ 400 million in recession - era cuts, with a promise to restore the rest in five years.

Other key policies in the Ukip manifesto include an extra # 11 billion a year for the NHS and social care by the end of the next parliament, funded by cuts in foreign aid.

Two years after the creation of CPB, Nixon instructed his staff to see to it that «all funds for public broadcasting be cut immediately.»

Drastic cuts are probable this year because appropriated federal funds do not match the admissions figures.

«We have made available $ 250 million in concessional loans funding nationally this financial year to assist farmers to rebuild their businesses following drought and retrospective farmgate milk price cuts, part of a $ 2.5 billion, 10 — year commitment to concessional loans.

MA our captain that can't cut it anymore should be sold to free funds up MF should be given a new 1 year contract Our keeper wants more playing time and I think a keeper as good as him should do that and AW should let him go.

Unfortunately this fantastic scheme, which has greatly assisted many budding young pilots over the years, is being cut back and is of risk of ending this year due to a lack of funds.

That same year, Jindal cut $ 219 million in state funds for higher education, including $ 5 million that would have been earmarked for Grambling.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Cuts in state funding earlier this year forced the agency to drop more than half of its young clients, but it hopes to restore services in the West Town, Logan Square and Humboldt Park neighborhoods by the end of the year.

A cap was placed on student numbers last year to cut costs after ministers discovered a # 200 million hole in university funding.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

The NHS made efficiencies of 1.7 % a year from 2009/10 to 2014/15 - which included making service cuts such as restricting access to hip and knee replacements - but the Health Foundation warned that Labour would need to make bigger savings, of 2 - 3 % a year, to close the funding gap.

Ed Balls has vowed to provide extra funding for school pupils for the next three years, despite the need to cut the deficit.

Mr Pickles told MPs there would be an average cut in spending next year will be just 4.4 %, with those councils most heavily dependent on central government grants protected with funds shifted from the departmental budget - in a bid to head off opposition claims that cuts were being «frontloaded».

«I'm supporting Todd because he delivered for Nassau County families — passing 12 weeks of paid family leave, winning a $ 15 minimum wage for New Yorkers, $ 1 billion in tax cuts for middle class families, and $ 20 million in new funding for our schools this year,» Obama says in the call.

Earlier this year, the Bureau revealed local authorities across England have cut their spending on domestic violence refuges by nearly a quarter (24 %) since 2010, with some slicing funds by more than a half in that time.

Big firms are able to afford expensive advisors, consultants and lawyers, while HMRC has few staff members with deep knowledge of tax affairs and stands to lose employees and funding as spending cuts bite in the new year.

A White House spokeswoman insisted the reports of funding cuts are «wrong,» adding: «When all federal funding is totaled, NYC has received a net increase of $ 47 million for port and transit security over the previous year's budget.»

«More funding is needed, especially following the virtual demise of legal aid and what is likely to be another round of harsh local authority cuts in the coming year,» Hawkes warns.

Cuomo has been sounding the alarm about the damage that will be done to New York's bottom line — a loss of several billion dollars over the next several years alone — if Congress does not reverse funding cuts to safety net hospitals, which took effect Oct. 1.

If it is passed in its current form, Labour predicts the legislation will cut the party's funding by # 8 million a year.

Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.