Sentences with phrase «drained public coffers»

In his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayed.

Finally, transition costs from a defined benefit pension to a cash balance plan would quickly drain public coffers.

Not exact matches

Conservative politicians are seeking to drain union coffers even as they make frontal assaults on the institution of public employee unionism and seek the diminution of the stature of teachers.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

Pennsylvania's politicians, like those in so many states, have neither the stomach nor the will to curb the abuses of charter schools as they drain the public school coffers.