Sentences with phrase «real government spending»

When asked for sources to support the statement, a spokesperson for the Productivity Commission told The Conversation that real government spending on education had increased from $ 40.7 billion in 2004 - 05 to $ 50.4 billion in 2013 - 14.

Real government spending in New York and New Jersey rose more than 40 percent from 1977 to 1997, the last year for which complete data are available.

Not exact matches

Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the real world.

The German - dominated European approach is to avoid easy fixes and seek real, long - term solutions, notably deep cuts to government spending.

And yet, as Reynolds points out, the Conservative - Liberal coalition government actually increased spending in real - dollar terms by 5.3 % in the past year.

If the government took the resources they are spending on television ads telling us about how they want fairness in the mobile phone market and spent it on effectively executing a mandated wholesale regime, then Canadians would have real change.

Budgets are a moment where governments show their real priorities: if something matters to them, they spend money to support it.

So government debt is increased by giveaways to the banks, not by spending into the «real» economy.

The government spending that Mr. Bernanke has endorsed is pure bailouts to the banks, insurance companies, real estate packagers and other Wall Street institutions so that they can support asset prices and thereby save the economy's financial balance sheet, not its employment and living standards.

Well it's not too bad at all if you're a banker because now these countries like Greece and Ireland are broke and now the bankers get to go to them and say, well, you have to finance your government spending not by government running a deficit — but sell us your real estate, sell us your mines.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

Cutting back government spending will reduce private - sector income, making it even harder to carry the corporate, real estate and personal debt overhead, so the debt problem will snowball.

Unfortunately, for nearly two decades, the real value of this fund has not increased in any significant way, as successive governments decided to use the royalty revenues to fund current spending, not to invest for tomorrow.

The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

Take Away: The package might include measures to boost exports, investments, infrastructure, real estate and other sectors with government spending.

Weak demand across residential, office and retail sectors has been evident since the decline of oil prices at the end of 2014 and continues to impact government spending and general sentiment, says the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Market Overview Q3, 2016.

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

In simple terms, government took real revenue, spent it, and then added more debt each year.

Isn't the real problem the government's fear of intervening in the economy directly despite the crying need to crowd in emissions - reduction and climate - change - adaptation spending?

This money too can be spent on foreign assets, real estate, stocks, bonds, luxury cars, clothing, and the purchase of political favors, as well as to pay taxes to foreign governments on these holdings and the income they generate.

While you are at it our great government spent billions on Katrina clean up yet 96 % of the real work came from charitable organizations and yes churchs were the biggest releif and work force present.

Solve the real problems (jobs, the economy,,,) and the deficit, government spending and creating «smaller government» all become realistically more achievable.

While we wait for our government to go through it's usual «slow to respond / proceed cautiously / let's hear both sides for a few years before we spend anything on this issue», my stalwart position remains that, in the meantime, we need to do everything we can as parents, educators, private companies, friends and neighbors to simply offer our kids real, wholesome food over the junk.

Assembly Republicans are united and more committed than ever to advancing real solutions such as delivering mandate relief, cutting government spending, lowering taxes and growing the private sector so we can restore the unfulfilled promise of New York.»

The result would be that QE for People bypasses the financial markets and gets money straight into the real economy, either through increased government spending or by transferring it to the pockets of the people who will spend it.

This structural deficiency of what government spends its resources on and who are the real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.

In our analysis, the rarest type of fiscal squeeze is «double hard» when governments reduce public spending and increase tax revenue both in real terms and as a proportion of GDP.

The coalition government's first Spending Review in 2010 set an ambitious target to reduce running (administration) costs by 34 per cent in real terms by 2014 - 15.

He rails against government spending and Albany corruption, except when the spending benefits him personally or the insider deals concern his real estate empire.

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

«Returning to fiscal reality after the Labour government's huge spending spree is clearly necessary, but the overall fall in real terms spending will be modest.

The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any point under the last government.»

«Welcome to the real world: values cost money, but right now the government just doesn't have money to spend.»

«Isn't it time the Government intervened and looked at the real cost of this — which is damage to children's education but also # 1.3 bn spent last year on agency teachers?

School districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential services.

While the Department of Health (DoH) has been spared many of the cuts being implemented in other government departments, the rising costs of the NHS mean that a cap on income amounts to a real - terms spending reduction.

When compared to 2000 levels of spending, is this an increase / decrease in federal government spending (in real dollars) per citizen?

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

Rather then take on real issues like pension reform, spending cuts and privatization of government services he chooses to take on meaningless issues.

The result of adopting these spending totals is that under a Conservative Government there will be real increases in spending on public services, year after year.»

Although total cash spending by the government will actually rise by a cumulative 5 % by the end of this Parliament, there will be a real fall of around 4 %.

Spending in these areas will rise by 0.4 per cent in real terms, far smaller increases than they enjoyed under the last government.

At stake is the authority of the prime minister, as Tory rebels dispute the government's motion suggesting that the best way to approach next month's EU budget negotiations, covering the period from 2014 to 2020, is to argue for a real - terms freeze in spending.

«I congratulate Charles Djou for his victory and a successful campaign based on the widely - shared values of cutting spending, shrinking government and creating real, permanent American jobs,» said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (Texas).

The state's ethics commission released the top spending lobbyists to try to influence state government during the 2015 legislative session, and found that education and real estate groups were the biggest spenders.

The truth is that this Government has de-stabilised the NHS with a re-organisation nobody wanted and two years of real - terms spending cuts.

Government figures show that spending on Housing Benefit rose in real terms by 34.7 per cent between 2007 - 08 and 2013 - 14.

The The group wants the government to provide more details of spending plans for government departments and a path for spending that is flat in real terms rather than the future real terms growth that was pencilled in at the time of Darling's pre-budget report.

He confirmed the government will defend NHS spending in real terms, but made no similar pledge for the schools budget or the overseas aid programme.

The Labour leader then abandoned the economy (Ed Balls has just told the BBC he ought to have done a second question on the economy) and spent two questions claiming the Government was not going to increase health spending in real terms, praying in aid a health committee report.