This is partly a matter of resources: for this coming budget year, the Obama administration is seeking a modest increase of $15 million for enforcement of both the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Family Medical Leave Act.
Bloomberg reported that Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil producers appear to be seeking a modest increase of 300,000 barrels per day, while Russia is looking for an 800,000 barrel per day increase.
Were the NEA to seek even a modest increase in its budget, given the economic benefit attendant to its work, many in Congress would be up in arms while our White House would benignly look away.
It was characteristic of his integrity and political naivete that he sought a modest expansion in his science budget by seeking a parental charge for university tuition fees, thus requiring no net increase in public spending.
"The corporation will continue to work with the Federal Reserve and intends to seek permission for a modest increase in its common dividend for the second half of 2011, through the submission of a revised comprehensive capital plan to the Federal Reserve," the bank said in the filing.
The trustees of the State University of New York have approved a 2004-05 budget proposal calling for no increase in state financing but seeking a modest but unspecified tuition increase.
A senior defense official, however, said today that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was more likely to seek a more modest increase of $10 billion to $12 billion in the overall budget for next year, slightly more than what the Senate passed but less than the House's open-ended version.
Steuerle cited policies as diverse as increased funding for early childhood education and worker training, subsidized child care, improving tax credits and phase-outs of means-tested programs (to mitigate the penalties facing low wage workers as they seek higher wage work or get married), and even a modest increase in the minimum wage.
The Google deal coincides with a modest increase in the number of technology companies seeking to go public.
Finally Hosie and colleagues [ 117] modelled the impact of a modest increase in demand for mental health services, based on an increased number of those with existing disorders seeking help, on the mental health budget.
