Sentences with phrase «decade of austerity»

It is now working to update that project to cover the years of the crash and a decade of austerity.

Fred Floss, director of the union backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than 2 % a year, would result in what his group calls a «decade of austerity,» that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

And yet their punishment is a decade of austerity, the very real prospect of people starving.

Fred Floss, director of the union - backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than two percent a year, would result in what his group calls a decade of austerity that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

Oliver Huitson listens to Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, talk about the Autumn statement, tax avoidance, Union strategy and the Conservative vision for the nation — where are we headed, decades of austerity, or is Britain «de-developing»?

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However, what is clear from the IMF analysis is that without some form of debt relief, the reforms agreed this week, and even decades more of austerity, could prove meaningless, and costly for both creditors and the Greek economy.

Specifically, this suggests that after several years of fiscal austerity and several decades of declining inflation, these trends are on the cusp of reversing.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.

As someone who — like many others — has spent this decade covering the impact of electorally - popular austerity, I'm not one to instinctively put the public on an unimpeachable pedestal.

He won the Labour leadership last year because he offered an alternative to austerity and the stale old politics of the last three decades.

Change comes to those with the courage to will it; 20 years from now let people say this great generation created a decade not of austerity, but shared prosperity, not of conflict, but of peace, not of inequality and climate chaos, but of sustainable development in the interests of all.

After decades of moving to the Right, and in the context of ever more brutal austerity, it looked like Labour would respond by shifting to the Right yet again.

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).

On the heels of six years of austerity budgets dating to 2008, the Executive Budget proposes another year of spending cuts in a host of areas, and lays out a multi-year plan of steep spending cuts that will extend the austerity measures for three more years, thus completing an «austerity decade» for New York.

In today's environment of austerity, the rate of increase in federal support needed to make up for a decade of neglect, and to keep pace with the recovering economy, will be a very tough sell.

Smith's joyful embrace of glamour and prismatic colour after the grey decade and a half of postwar austerity, brought him within the orbit of Pop Art at its very inception and assured him an important place in its early history.»

Conversely, the largest work dates from a decade of boom and austerity.

In the current decade of museum budget austerity, none of these shows has traveled, or will.

«And the wages of those managers have all been paid for, for close to a decade, by austerity, layoffs, and real wage cuts for frontline workers.

Investors quickly lost confidence, and local governments rushed to impose a set of strict monetary policies («austerity») to placate investors, only deepening the recession.This period, known in Japan as the «Lost Decade» (Ushinawareta Jūnen), was hardest on the young people attempting to start careers and «adult» lives.