Sentences with phrase «about government spending»

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

The IFS has released a briefing note which questions a lack of detail about government spending beyond the end of this Parliament when certain protections for schools could wear off.

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

Consensus, a commission of volunteers examining the county, city of Syracuse, 19 towns, 15 villages and 20 fire districts with taxing powers in Onondaga County, has issued a report full of statistics about government spending, services and structure.

She then launches into Labour's meat - and - potatoes: a «we invested in hospitals and schools and we don't regret it» section, delivered in response to insinuations about government spending.

His clients, generally conservative, are worried about government spending, the national debt and the future of their children.

The survey polled almost 30,000 Albertans about government spending.

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Yellen was also asked about previous calls from the Fed for greater spending by government.

Trump has sought to assuage concerns about foreign government spending at his properties by offering to donate profits from such business to the U.S. Treasury.

The government already spends about $ 12 - billion each year to pay interest on its debt, about 8 per cent of revenue.

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

It's true that the government will still collect revenue far in excess of what it needs to pay interest on Treasury bonds, only about 7 percent of total spending.

Namely, investors are concerned about potential policies that could benefit corporations, including tax cuts and higher government spending.

The U.S. government spends about $ 425 billion each year on goods and services.

This fact of life matters because we use those guesses to make important decisions about, for instance, government tax and spending policies.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has been taunting the U.K. government over Twitter in recent weeks about how he's getting ready to spend more time in Frankfurt after Brexit, as well as gently nudging the country to have a second referendum in case it wanted to change its mind.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Governments need to boost spending by about $ 37 billion a year to sufficiently maintain and expand roads and bridges, according to the FHWA.

Amazon estimated in June 2013 that it would spend about $ 46 million to install Kiva robots at its warehouse in Ruskin, Florida, including $ 26.1 million for the equipment, according to company filings to local government.

The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $ 43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the program because Ottawa already spends about $ 32.9 billion a year on support to low - income Canadians.

The BBC is publishing star pay after the government asked it to be more transparent about the way it spends its # 3.7 billion income from TV licence fee payers.

Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.

If our government wants to talk seriously about fixing our long - term healthcare spending problem — the only budget problem that is really a problem — then, great.

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO talks about the launch of USAFacts, a new website which offers a the American people an «annual report» on where the government is spending its money.

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO, talks about tracking U.S. government spending with his new website USAFacts, and where found areas that are improving and those areas that are not.

The defence contractor will cut 4,000 jobs, about 3.5 per cent of its workforce, amid vastly reduced government spending.

Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO talks about the launch of a new website that tracks government spending.

For one, federal spending cuts are also likely weighing on state and local government hiring — as about 25 % of their funding comes from Washington.

They also need to ask themselves hard questions about their government's fiscal policy, including why their country continues to spend so much money on defence.

The very first table you come across when reading the Trudeau government's 2017 budget isn't about tax changes, spending measures or the Canadian economy at all.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Musk originally believed a hyperloop connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would cost about $ 6bn, 10 times more than the $ 68bn the government is set to spend on a high - speed train line connecting the two cities.

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.

This is not surprising given that the federal government currently spends about $ 4.5 billion annually (0.24 % Of GNI) on international assistance.

To date, these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears and Parliamentarians and Canadians will continue to remain in the dark about the Government's spending intentions.

«We will continue to urge the government to remain vigilant about its spending and keep our debt - to - GDP ratio on a downward trajectory.

O'Neil said he's skeptical about the assumptions that a Trump agenda of increased government spending and tax cuts will be fully enacted and lead to faster growth, higher inflation and bigger budget deficits.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Earlier this month, two former senior officials in the finance department assailed the Conservative government for eroding the «integrity and credibility» of federal budgets through what they argued is a system of secrecy that keeps parliamentarians and Canadians in the dark about how federal dollars are spent.

(For some perspective: The US government spends about $ 60 billion on housing every year for the entire country.)

Some economists have raised concerns that recent moves by the Trump administration and Congress to boost economic growth through $ 1.5 trillion in tax cuts and increased government spending could cause the Fed to worry about overheating and inflation.

Questions and criticism have been mounting from multiple fronts about the Harper government's transparency and accountability on its spending decisions and budget cuts.

This review would affect about $ 80 billion of direct program spending and the government is targeting a 5 % reduction.

[2] Main Estimates for 2011 - 12: They tell us very little about what Government Spending will be» www.3dpolicy.ca March 2011

White House and congressional leaders have not yet made final decisions about the amount of funding, or whether to link it to extensions of the debt limit or of broader government spending, and conversations remained fluid Thursday evening.

The savings would represent about 5 per cent of direct program spending.Since that announcement, the Government has directed departments and agencies to find savings amounting to $ 8 billion or 10 per cent of direct program spending.

The Asia Society's China Dashboard shows local governments are currently spending about 144 % of their revenues.

He bragged about how the Government was controlling spending.