Sentences with phrase «austerity policy at»

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I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

There's no question about it,» recalls Chris Ragan, an associate professor of economic policy at McGill University who agrees with the current austerity push.

J. Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at University of California at Berkeley, sees few signs of a rebound, adding that Washington's austerity policies only «dig the hole we are in deeper.»

When assigning hurricane relief funds to communities across the country, the oversight board's austerity policies may also privilege wealthier at the expense of the most vulnerable, argues Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, also at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, who published an op - ed in the Huffington Post.

«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.»

Indeed, the rhetoric of progressive austerity is at odds of a lot of the economic policy emerging from the coalition at the moment.

The SNP assert that in Alexander's case, given that his enthusiastic implementation of George Osborne's austerity agenda at the Treasury is so damaging to his reputation, Ashcroft's policy could actually do him a favour.

«The Government's continued policy of public sector austerity has driven thousands of teachers out of the profession and left schools at the mercy of the deepest recruitment and retention crisis since the Second World War.

At least what an account of Labour latest national policy forum revealed here on Left Futures in a piece headlined Trade unions vote against ending austerity in 2015.

This was clearly an «austerity NPF» with constant emphasis on spending constraints and a reluctance to commit at this stage to policies with financial implications.

The Liberal Democrats have an opportunity, at their annual conference, to make their dissatisfaction with George Osborne's self - defeating austerity plain, regain some of their Party's political integrity, give real momentum to a more intelligent economic strategy and help to restore a modicum of intellectual coherence to the Party's approach to economic policy - making.

Backing austerity is the policy equivalent of shooting at where the clay pigeon is, rather than where it will be.

We will also be targeting communities of color who feel abused and neglected by the Cuomo administration and his austerity policies on schools, criminal justice and human services,» said Hawkins, a working Teamster from Syracuse who unloads truck at night for UPS for a living.

This time around, nobody is in any doubt — not least because Labour helpfully remind people at every opportunity — that the austerity drive that has helped keep the markets» confidence in the Britain has been a deliberate policy.

A move against this policy may also be a move against the Tory leader, at a time when the Leveson Inquiry edges ever closer to No 10's doorstep, Labour climb in the polls and the European growth versus austerity argument looks to isolate the prime minister.

Organising the meeting, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy's George McManus reminded delegates that the Labour Party had rejected CLPD's calls to reject austerity in favour of an emergency budget at last year's National Policy Forum.

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

I want to make the committee an extremely active player in science policy, particularly in terms of how to stretch the science research dollars at a time of obvious austerity, and reauthorize both NASA and the Commercial Space Act so that the two are coordinated.

Unison shows that the tide is turning on the policies of austerity, and it would not be altogether surprising if court fees at the current level faced renewed opposition as a result.