Sentences with phrase «imposing austerity budgets»

Some small European states such as Latvia, Estonia and Ireland did manage to re-start their economic growth while imposing austerity budgets — but only by ratcheting down their wages and prices, via a big dose of unemployment, until their much - reduced costs sparked an export revival.

The NYT asks: «Why impose an austerity budget that punishes (NYC) when the state has ample budget surpluses?»

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Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

This self - imposed and unnecessary austerity leaves New York unable to invest enough in education and poverty reduction, as FPI discusses in its budget briefing book.

The governor should put his austerity budgeting behind him by scrapping his self - imposed two percent state spending cap.