Sentences with phrase «decline in government spending»

And these research results are coming in despite a decade of decline in government spending on research.

Due to declines in government spending and business inventories, the initial estimate for economic growth for the last three months of 2012 turned down at -0.1 %.

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Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

A weaker picture emerged for construction spending, which the government said recorded its biggest decline in a year in August.

Yes, there will be some amount of government spending ahead, but this spending will be only a small and partial offset compared to further declines in capital spending, exports, residential investment, and consumer spending.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

The decline in «voted» spending — the spending over which the government has the most discretion — declines by only $ 4.4 billion.

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

While Budget 2018 - 19 does forecast a decline in the debt - to - GDP ratio over the next five years, the decline is entirely the result of economic growth, as government debt will continue to grow for the next five years due to deficit spending though at least 2022 - 23.

According to the Main Estimates, tabled by the President of the Treasury Board, on June 3rd, along with Supplementary Estimates A, spending by the federal government for 2011 - 12 is forecast to be $ 252.8 billion representing a DECLINE of $ 14.1 billion from spending in 2010 - 11.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

And on the local level, where municipal governments in New York are gearing up to make spending plans with a 2 percent cap on increasing property taxes, the fiscal outlook is worsening.Year - over-year local tax revenue declined an average 1.7 percent over the last four fiscal quarters.

The Trump administration escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release a comprehensive list of individuals visiting with the president at Mar - a-Lago during the two dozen days he spent there this year.

It is true that defence spending declined under John Major's government which drew up the plan to close all the Service hospitals and then proceeded to do so; this continued under New Labour until the last one was shut about a year ago with the consequence that wounded servicemen returning from combat are now sent to NHS hospitals, usually in Birmingham where some have been abused by disaffected Muslims.

Two government surveys have shown that spending on industrial research is in serious decline.

Despite a significant rise in government spending on school and higher education over the past decade, spending on Vocational Education and Training (VET) has declined comparatively, a new study shows.

A dissenter whose tax dollars are «extracted and spent» knows that he has in some small measure been made to contribute to an establishment in violation of conscience... When the government declines to impose a tax, by contrast, there is no such connection between dissenting taxpayer and alleged establishment.

Critics have noticed for several years that the theory of manmade global warming is dying a slow death, but the institutional delay that is attendant in any government program has immunized the rush to alternative energy from some measure of public backlash and the realities of governmental budgets in an era of declining economies and deficit spending.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

Despite the government's long professed love for mediation as a way to divert family disputes away from the courts, there has been a steep decline in public spending on mediation.

The first quarter moderation in economic activity came mostly from a pullback in consumer spending and, to a smaller extent, a decline in government expenditures.

Under present law, in 2013 the 2001/2003 tax cuts expire, the payroll tax cut expires, extended unemployment benefits end, and federal government spending levels decline due to last summer's Budget Control Act.

In addition, federal government spending also recorded a significant (5.6 %) decline.