An extra 20bn roubles (£182m) was allocated to HIV prevention in 2016 after the health minister, Veronika Skvortsova, called for the number of HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy to be raised from the current 23% to 60%.
(Doesn't that happen already?) These Tory MPs complain that in the last three years "fiscal drag" has seen another million people pulled into the higher 40% tax bracket: they want that threshold raised from the current £41,450 to £50,000.
National insurance: The upper earnings threshold could be raised from the current limit of £29,900 to £33,935 for employees, so that it matches the higher-rate income tax threshold, although Tim Norkett of Horwath Clark Whitehill suggests the upper limit could be axed altogether.
Having tasted economic power, the regional parties will not surrender it.The BJP has a lunatic fringe wanting to throw out all foreign multinationals, leave the World Trade Organisation, and raise the exchange rate from the current 39.5 rupees to the dollar to 17.
Mr. Tu believes the true plan — prior to the Japanese crisis — was to raise output from the current 10.8 gigawatts to 86, superseding an earlier target, set in 2007, of 40 gigawatts.
Presented with arguments for and against the minimum wage -- that it would help low-income workers get by, but that it could lead some businesses to cut jobs -- 66 percent supported raising it from the current $7.25, while 31percentt opposed doing so.
Additionally, the union is seeking a raise in minimum salaries to $60,000 a year for tenured faculty members, and a raise to $45,000 (from the current $30,000) for nontenured faculty.
Put up with this for the food, and do so soon, for I suspect they will quickly raise the price from the current £45 for three courses.
That would raise the stakes from the current practice, which strongly encourages lenders to evaluate defaulting borrowers for a modification but does not make it mandatory.
From September next year, universities will be able to raise their fees from the current maximum of £3,375 to £9,000, following cuts of 80% in their grants from central government.
