Sentences with phrase «cuts in government services»

He adds that cuts in government services and economic development programs, along with the rescinding of tax cuts for individuals in a few years and the impact of tax reform - induced deficit on inflation, will weaken the impact of the after - tax income boost on homeownership.

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In 2015, on the one - year anniversary of its report, Bragg delivered a harsh message to fans of big government: The province needs to cut its civil service, he said in a keynote address, and use the savings to dig Nova Scotia out of debIn 2015, on the one - year anniversary of its report, Bragg delivered a harsh message to fans of big government: The province needs to cut its civil service, he said in a keynote address, and use the savings to dig Nova Scotia out of debin a keynote address, and use the savings to dig Nova Scotia out of debt.

In various forms, governments across the world, including those in Singapore, Japan, and India, are trying to determine how dramatically they can transform themselves into digital entities in order to cut budgets and streamline services (and for some, keep closer tabs on citizensIn various forms, governments across the world, including those in Singapore, Japan, and India, are trying to determine how dramatically they can transform themselves into digital entities in order to cut budgets and streamline services (and for some, keep closer tabs on citizensin Singapore, Japan, and India, are trying to determine how dramatically they can transform themselves into digital entities in order to cut budgets and streamline services (and for some, keep closer tabs on citizensin order to cut budgets and streamline services (and for some, keep closer tabs on citizens).

The basic problem is that during each recession, governments increase their debt load to stimulate the economy and maintain (or even increase) services, but rarely cut back on their debt loads or services during the prosperous times — creating a long - term upward trend in indebtedness that Tony Boeckh of The Boeckh Investment Letter calls the «debt supercycle.»

The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday that the government has withdrawn about $ 5 million in ads as part of an effort to cut costs.

The cost of borrowing in China has been cut aggressively since the autumn of 2014 in response to the slowdown in the economy and the distress caused to property owners, local government and corporations by high debt - servicing costs.

They quickly pointed out the faults in Clark's boasts about her gender equitable government, which cut essential services women need: child care, family and poverty legal services, education, healthcare, the list goes on.

«While the recovery was gaining traction before sequestration took effect, these arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness,» Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

She called on the government to clearly outline the impacts on jobs and services of any potential cuts in Thursday's budget, as the Conservatives chip away at an estimated $ 26 - billion deficit.

There is also no doubt that without these tax cuts the government would have been in a much better fiscal position to deal with the 2009 - 2010 recession; that any resulting deficit, would have been eliminated much earlier than 2015 - 16, and without the need for draconian cuts in federal programs and services.

The government, it said, remained on course for a # 10 billion surplus in 2019 - 20, but only by delaying capital investment, promising further cuts in spending on public services, and bringing forward a one - off boost to corporation tax receipts into 2019 - 20.

Cutting government services — either temporarily in a shutdown, or permanently through spending reductions — can disrupt a broad range of commerce and hit American workers and businesses tied to the public sector.

«Families in B.C. are struggling to make ends meet, and yet the Liberal government is rolling out one fee increase after another while making reckless cuts to services British Columbians depend on.»

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

The delegation heard that the Liberal government's cuts to the territorial transfer payments will have serious consequences to health, and social services in Yukon.

Anyone who says the government is in such dire financial straits today that it must cut services and must fire employees does not understand economics and does not know history.

Yet in the postwar years, far from cutting back, the government built infrastructure, welcomed immigrants and introduced many new social service programs.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Friday cut its credit rating on Saudi Arabia, saying the tumble in oil prices is driving a wider government deficit.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

He sharply cut spending in his first term as governor of Indiana while maintaining and even improving key government services.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

In order to meet the mandates set by the SAP, a country spends less by cutting back government expenditures, social services, and economic investments so that resources can be placed elsewhere.

The topic «Making Government Work Better for You» (p. 47) emphasizes cost - cutting, online services and transparency, but then slips in the party's plan to reduce the number of MPs to 600, the implementation of boundary reforms and EVEL.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union voted to join teachers in England and Wales in Thursday's day of action against government cuts.

In any case, the investigation will trouble government ministers keen to argue that council budgets may be cut without deleterious consequences for public services.

With the government front - loading cuts in local government and services like the police in the hope that people will forget them before the next election, there will be few people who do not notice their impact.

Health spending may be ringfenced, but the huge costs of the government's reorganisation and a shortfall in funding could lead to cuts in frontline services.

But beware, your government might just cut off cell phone service to put a cramp in...

At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

Because action now on growth is the best way to mitigate the scale of the cuts the Government says it has to make to public services in 2015 - 16 and beyond.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

But opponents argue that all council services will suffer as a result of deep cuts in the central government grant.

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

Radical cuts in local government spending need not damage frontline services if councils cull unnecessary jobs, according to the Taxpayers» Alliance.

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction»In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction»in the wrong direction».

Both the government and parliament have failed to find the political will to cut back subsidies, and efforts to promote the hiring of nationals in the private sector and to downsize the civil service do not appear to have borne fruit.

Would $ 2 trillion in cuts to basic government services somehow restore America to the greatness of our national myths?

Sir Merrick Cockell, the Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, said in July spending cuts and increased demand for services would lead to a funding shortfall of # 14.4 billion by 2020.

The widely reported promise on which Cameron sought a mandate was very helpfully captured and summarised in a report from Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome, to which we are indebted for our headline: «There'll be no cuts to frontline services under a Tory government, says Cameron ``.

By restoring state revenue sharing to former levels to pay for unfunded state mandates, which are driving many cities, towns, and counties toward bankruptcy, New York's local governments could fully fund their services and still cut their highest - in - the - nation property taxes.

The heated debate over how government cuts have affected local councils, and campaigns to save local public services such as libraries has demonstrated how people are deeply engaged with what happens in their communities.

«Years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth have led local governments to cut vital services and tap their rainy day funds to balance budgets, a practice that is not sustainable in the long term,» the comptroller said.

Yet, they impose upper limits on expenditure, which implies significant welfare retrenchment measures and cuts in social services by governments.

Cost of Government Administration: It is often said that NPM reforms associated with Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and publicGovernment Administration: It is often said that NPM reforms associated with Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and publicgovernment in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and public services.

Yet again public services are under attack and will bear the brunt of the brutal cost cutting measures this Government wants to see put in place.

Once rediustricting takes place, we in New York City will be more than happy to give Republican upstate New York the cut in services that will guarantee it the small government that thgey crave.

Pearce urges Labour to reject a business as usual path in which the government «would tax a little more and cut a little less, leaving the architecture of the state untouched and the current framework of services and social security in place».

In their recent party political broadcast Nick Clegg argued that «Liberal Democrats are campaigning to make your lives better» by working in local communities to «fix your roads, or protect your local health services», or in government to fix the economy, cut taxes and create more apprenticeshipIn their recent party political broadcast Nick Clegg argued that «Liberal Democrats are campaigning to make your lives better» by working in local communities to «fix your roads, or protect your local health services», or in government to fix the economy, cut taxes and create more apprenticeshipin local communities to «fix your roads, or protect your local health services», or in government to fix the economy, cut taxes and create more apprenticeshipin government to fix the economy, cut taxes and create more apprenticeships.