Sentences with phrase «expansion in public spending»

The expansion in public spending resulted in an economy distorted towards sectors driven by debt or by public expenditure.

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Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

Jeff Gural, the owner of the Tioga Downs facility, had in particular been deeply upset at losing his bid, going as far as to point out how much he spent backing the public campaign to pass an amendment to the state's constitution for the casino expansion.

My time spent in public service provided an opportunity to work on a variety of projects, from the expansion of business opportunities and job creation to development of workforce housing and revitalization of aging infrastructure.

This contributes to policy discussion on Medicaid expansion by providing evidence that public outlays on Medicaid are well spent,» said Kimberly Johnson, associate professor at the Brown School and co-author of the study, «The Effect of Health Insurance on Childhood Cancer Survival in the United States,» published Sept. 11 in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

Sarah Wollaston, a former GP who chairs the health select committee, called for the remaining revenue from the levy that is not spent in schools to be ring - fenced for children's public health programmes, rather than funding the expansion of academies as part of the Department for Education's general budget.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

This attack on the EITC is befuddling, given that the expansion of educational tax credits, a $ 75 million increase, is less than public schools across Pennsylvania spend in one day.

Both groups have been strong proponents of the rapid and in many cases unaccountable expansion of charter schools and have both have been silent about Mitchell's web of conflicts of interest and his refusal to release his financial information about how he spends public dollars.

When coupled with the fact that there is no transparency or accountability in terms of how charters spend taxpayer dollars are the very reasons why we need to put the brakes on charter expansion and require them to serve the same student populations and be just as accountable as traditional public schools.

-- Public & private healthcare spending have increased from 1/10 of the economy in the mid-80s to 1/6 of the economy in 2009, with a forecast expansion to 1/4 of the economy by the 2030s