Countries experiencing the biggest reductions in expected growth include Brazil and India, whose economies have cooled this year; newly industrialized Asian economies, like Korea and Singapore, hit by a broader global slowdown; and Britain, struck
by austerity budgeting.
Corporate education reformers have blamed teachers for what they call «failing schools», ignoring the devastation brought
by an austerity budget created when corporate tax rates are cut year after year, at both state and federal levels.)
Not exact matches
«We can not just cut our way to growth,» Mills said, referring to the
budget austerity enacted
by Congress following the massive government spending authorized after the financial crisis.
Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of
austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record
budget deficit widened
by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.
He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the
austerity measures put in place
by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion
budget deficit.
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Research conducted
by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Family and Childcare Trust opens a window on to the lives of 11 families, providing a vivid illustration of the delicate balancing act necessary to sustain household
budgets and keep family life on track in
austerity.
The problem is that in the bleak landscape of
austerity, where local councils have had their
budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used
by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.
He is ruffling feathers in Brussels and Berlin
by insisting that he will renegotiate the EU's newly agreed fiscal treaty — enshrining
budget discipline and
austerity into eurozone countries» national laws and constitutions — to put more emphasis on growth and employment.
«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency
Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the
austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy
by the end of the parliament.
I would suggest that a better approach than
austerity budgets is to improve the business climate and reduce government deficits
by enacting the New York Health Act in order to lower health care costs to business and government.
The gambit, unveiled
by George Osborne in today's
Budget statement, will mean Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will have no choice but to reveal their position on future
austerity.
The chancellor, George Osborne, certainly plans more
austerity, hoping to achieve a
budget surplus and a rapidly declining debt - to - GDP ratio
by the end of the decade (four years later than he originally predicted).
But the Office of
Budget Responsibility estimate that
austerity reduced GDP
by 2 % between 2011 and 2013.
It should be noted that the
austerity measures she justifies are not intended to contain
budget deficit (as in Greece) but to reduce the growth of the prices via reduction of the demand, that is,
by making the population poor intentionally.
In Goshen, we cut over $ 250,000 from this year's
budget by eliminating positions through attrition,
austerity measures and competitive bidding.
Contrast that with the latest IMF report which paid tribute to the «substantial progress» towards a sustainable
budget delivered
by the Coalition's
austerity programme.
The Shadow Chancellor will call for a
Budget that deals with the growing emergency faced
by working families and our vital public services, which have been left in crisis after seven years of Tory
austerity.
Some small European states such as Latvia, Estonia and Ireland did manage to re-start their economic growth while imposing
austerity budgets — but only
by ratcheting down their wages and prices, via a big dose of unemployment, until their much - reduced costs sparked an export revival.
Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned
by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused
by unrest over the coalition government's
austerity agenda.
Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish
budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position
by the Westminster Government's imposition of its
austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies
by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»
Cameron and Clegg appeared nervous of being portrayed as advocates of
austerity budgets of the kind that have been rejected
by many voters on mainland Europe.
The governor should put his
austerity budgeting behind him
by scrapping his self - imposed two percent state spending cap.
Expressing anger at what he called
austerity budgets from Cuomo, Hawkins said that the Governor, «Cut taxes for the rich and paid for it
by cutting our schools.»
A second rejection
by voters would result in an
austerity budget taking effect automatically.
At the time of this reporting, CPS has not provided Substance with information on how to contact the «Faith Based Community» that paid for the expensive catering at a time when CPS claims it is facing an
austerity budget which required it to refuse to pay the four percent raise guaranteed
by union contracts to members of the Chicago Teachers Union and other unions representing CPS workers.
Our public schools are systematically de-funded under «
austerity»
budgets made necessary
by this theft of public resources.
The risk is that the cost of borrowing money from bond investors for the highly indebted countries will rise substantially, offsetting any improvements they can make in their
budget outlook
by way of higher taxes or pushing through
austerity plans.