Sentences with phrase «burden of austerity»

However, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat government is ultimately responsible because their economic policies have unnecessarily delayed economic recovery, and they have unfairly put the burden of austerity on the most vulnerable parts of society, and on those least able to bear it.

The new leader concluded by saying the poorest were suffering a terrible burden of austerity and have seen their wages cut or are forced to rely on food banks under the Conservatives.

But the move risks undermining the coalition's claim that the burden of austerity is being shared fairly.

A vote for the Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, is a vote for a party which — wherever we're in power — does it's best to spread the burden of austerity fairly, investing in jobs and help for hard - pressed families.

It is vital that the momentum to introduce a mansion tax is kept up, in order to shift the burden of austerity from the poor to the wealthy.

Not exact matches

As Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.»

Under the burden of the financial collapse and the imposition of severe austerity on certain EURO countries the EURO area has never recovered and is not expected to in the near term.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

Shockingly, the UK political establishment looks poised to loosen further what already looks like a very lax fiscal regime, at a time not only of straitened public finances and austerity (and a high burden of personal taxation), but also of extraordinarily high petroleum prices (2011 was the first year in history when the international price of crude averaged over 100 dollars per barrel, 2012 was the second, 2013 the third, and 2014 looks dead set to be the fourth).

«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.

I don't think anyone ought to stand up anywhere in politics and say there is a group that are so wealthy that they should be given a free ride and should be excluded from having to carry the kind of burdens that other people have, particularly in a time of austerity like this.

Due to global recession and European austerity, the international cooperation and solidarity in the form of financial and material support to lighten the burden on a hosting state has significantly diminished.47 With this in mind, South Africa does not provide human and social security; it provides rather physical security.

By adopting these practices, districts and states may be able to ease the burden of the transition to the coming period of fiscal austerity and increase long - term efficiency in schooling.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Savage has told the Provincial Court Judges» Association of British Columbia its members must «share the burden» of economic austerity.