Sentences with phrase «debt burden continues»

The U.S. debt burden continues to grow, while the median debt / GDP ratio for its peer group of countries has declined since 2013.

Not exact matches

The Eurozone crisis could be ended tomorrow if the European Central Bank (ECB) announced it was going to launch a mammoth campaign to continue buying the bonds of troubled members of the European Community (EC) until growth in EC output and employment bailed them out of their debt burdens.
The Fed is expected to continue to increase rates in 2018 and 2019, so these numbers could continue to creep up and add to consumers» debt burdens.
Second, the debt burden of the government will continue to decline over the coming decade, barring any unforeseen economic disruptions.
You will be criticized, (not by debt rating agencies), but even if the deficit were to rise to one per cent of GDP (about $ 20 billion) the debt burden would still continue to decline.
In the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the U.S. and UK both reduced their debt burden by about 30 % to 40 % of GDP per decade by taking advantage of negative real interest rates, but there is no guarantee that government debt rates will continue to stay so low.
And in low income countries, if recent trends continue, many, not all, will face unsustainable debt burdens.
The Harper Government inherits a $ 14 billion surplus and a sustainable fiscal situation in which the debt burden has been cut in half and is continuing to decline.
These deficits are not large (as a share of GDP) and the projected debt burden still continues to fall.
Economists and financial experts warned that the government's fiscal situation was out of control and that without major fiscal action the deficit would continue to rise, as would debt and the debt burden.
The rising U.S. federal debt burden now ranks the U.S. among the most leveraged developed - market countries, and puts the U.S. at increased risk of a sovereign - debt credit rating downgrade if the current trend continues.
«What I'm hoping this report will do is to document what piece of that over $ 1 trillion debt burden nationally is born in New York and suggest that this does need to continue to be a priority.»
«It is quite another to continue cutting hard from a position where the debt burden is falling and when spending has been under pressure for half a decade.»
As the Speaker told Mills during her visit to the Seaport, «To add debt in order for them to continue to operate and to make up for some of the renovations that they have to do... is an extreme burden that will not allow some of them to [re --RSB- open.»
Yet the continuing limits on discretionary spending, (which are intended, paradoxically, to serve the very worthwhile purpose of protecting future generations against the burden of a growing national debt) may well have the unintended effect of weakening U.S. science and technology and thus diminishing the prospects for those generations.
Angela Rayner, Labour's Shadow Educations Secretary, said: «Today's commitment to restoring both EMA and student maintenance grants shows that while the Tories continue to burden our young people with debt, the Labour Party is committed to investing in our young people.
[1] While the election results dashed those specific proposals, the idea continues to appeal to many policymakers as a way of addressing rising college prices, growing student debt burdens, and unequal access to higher education institutions.
The Education Trust and 34 other organizations — including the NAACP and the National Association for College Admission Counseling — wrote a letter to several members of Congress in which they said the proposed act «exacerbates the increasing burden of student debt and continued inequity in higher education access and outcomes.
As the burden grow worse, student debt is an emerging political issue, but so far debt relief remains elusive and college costs continue to climb.
Policymakers continue to work on plans to make college more affordable while the White House has worked to provide reduced payment plans that will ease the burden of student loan debt.
Despite continued proof that it fails to build up wealth for the most disadvantaged Americans, and that mortgage debt should not be a burden as homeowners approach their 50s and 60s, misguided advocates maintain that the 30 - year fixed rate mortgage should be at the core of the U.S. housing finance system.
The Student Aid Bill of Rights builds on the efforts our Administration has been taking over the last several years to make college more affordable and continues to chip away at the burden of student debt — so no one should feel overwhelmed by their student loans.
At the very least, as student loan debt becomes a greater and greater burden on consumers in America we will see it erode the money people spent on other items and see a continued decrease in unsecured consumer debt levels.
If you're already worried about having enough money to continue living comfortably and staying independent for as long as possible, debt from credit cards, medical bills, and unsecured loans may feel like a burden you just can't afford to face.
And in reality, Japan's (dire) fiscal situation will continue to defy economic logic — because at this point, Japan's debt burden isn't just its own problem any longer, it's fast becoming everybody's problem...
However, Feehely noted that Canadians» debt - burden haven't shown up yet in the latest monthly indicators, pointing to credit card losses that continue to be low and stable.
One51 has essentially eliminated its (net) debt burden, it has a OnePlastics division that's marching along nicely, and its ClearCircle division is pro-cyclical & perfectly placed to now benefit from continued growth in the UK & an accelerating Irish recovery.
While we both earned our MBAs, our student loan interest continued to accrue and our total burden of debt peaked in May 2013 to almost $ 150,000 — essentially the average American mortgage loan, without the house!
Comments: One commenter expressed concern that independent, nonprofit, and for - profit institutions that do not charge interest as part of a student's payment plan, either during the time the student is attending the institution or later after the student completes the program, would be discouraged from continuing this practice because the debt burden used to calculate the D / E rates would be overestimated.
As student loan debt continues to be a burden on millions of Americans, the Senate introduced the latest version of a bipartisan bill that would provide tax relief to employers helping their employees pay down their student debt in the form of monthly contributions.
The effect of the provincial legislation was to continue burdening the discharged bankrupt until full payment of the debt, as if the discharge in bankruptcy had never occurred.
Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will continue to be affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff salaries and benefits; (b) higher automation costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.
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