Sentences with phrase «government austerity plan»

To protect taxpayers and preserve Oneida County's hard - won fiscal stability, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today announced an Oneida County Government Austerity Plan that will severely limit spending.

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To try and secure the deal, the government announced an austerity plan to raise taxes and slash US$ 20 billion in public spending — including cuts to social welfare and public jobs, and a lowering of the minimum wage.

Investors in the PFC will now prepare to negotiate a restructuring plan — they will likely push for the government to take on austerity measures like cutting costs and raising taxes.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

George Osborne's omnishambles budget saw him ease up on austerity and commit the government to the Darling plan, something Miliband jumped on with alacrity.

But the failure of the Government's austerity plan means that the next Labour government is likely to inherit a deficit that still needs to bGovernment's austerity plan means that the next Labour government is likely to inherit a deficit that still needs to bgovernment is likely to inherit a deficit that still needs to be reduced.

His plans to ensure a future Labour government would make the economy work for everyone, not just the top one per cent, was a refreshing change to the austerity - lite that Labour had previously offered.

«Ahead of next week's Budget, today's unemployment figures serve as yet another reminder that the UK government's austerity plans are simply not working.

Indeed such is the need for austerity that public spending plans will mean the smallest government spending relative to the rest of the economy since the 1930s.

The City Hall Plaza press conference, hosted by the Hispanic Federation, called for a laundry list of federal actions, including implementing «a federal investment plan», eliminating Jones Act requirements that goods shipped between Puerto Rico and other places in America be transported on U.S. ships with U.S. crews, changing the U.S. bankruptcy code to allow Puerto Rico and its government related enterprises to file bankruptcy petitions and urging President Obama to «explore a Federal Reserve loan» and «oppose severe austerity.»

International organisations like the World Bank urged the British government to prolong austerity for a year rather than dilute the existing plans, one Treasury source says.

Writing in the New Statesman within days of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government taking office, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress dismissed the coalition's plans as «madness» and complained of «needless austerity».

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

Next week Ed Miliband marks his first year as Labour's leader as supporters of the party look to him and Ed Balls to articulate an alternative to the government's austerity plans.

But the recommendations, released today, come as the Australian government is reportedly considering a freeze on research grants as part of austerity plans.

The government's only possible rationale for this is to reduce the overall teachers» pay bill as part of its austerity plan.

«Austerity policies under this Government and its Coalition predecessor have already resulted in cuts to early years education and Sure Start provision, but yet more attacks are planned.

A slight digression: it was interesting to read in the Legal Action Group's (LAG's) Austerity Justice book that the coalition government dropped plans to introduce competitive tendering because, as LAG director Steve Hynes tells it, Ken Clarke was persuaded by «his old colleagues at the criminal bar».

Bank economists praised the budget plan as feasible, but said if the economy worsened the government should be wary of more extreme austerity measures like those that have hammered growth in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.