Sentences with phrase «many years of austerity»

Speaking exclusively to CNBC in Lisbon, Centeno promised to bring a fresh approach to policymaking after years of austerity.

The chancellor recognised that seven years of austerity had left the British public feeling «weary» but said increasing tax to pump more money into the public sector was not the answer.

But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

«There's no way Ireland is going to sit through 10 years of austerity,» says Mark Blyth, an international political economist at Brown University.

The Conservatives also earned the ire of public sector workers, fatigued after seven years of austerity.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

«On his own chosen measure, we will probably find out today that the chancellor has literally nothing to show for nearly three years of austerity.»

Today he will probably say it starts now, so in reality he's announcing eight years of austerity.

«It will be paid for by further years of austerity, public services brought to near collapse, public sector pay cuts and a welfare cap that bites into the safety net that any of us might need.

The risk of inflicting several more years of austerity on the British people is a price worth paying for leaving the EU, Iain Duncan Smith suggested last night.

He persuaded the public that the years of austerity were worth the pain and that there genuinely is light at the end of the tunnel.

Actually it does because the Tory manifesto will be used during the crucial last three weeks of the campaign to do the one thing that had to be done - to show the public who have had a tough time that five years of austerity were worth the pain as well as revealing that the light at the end of the tunnel is the Good Life.

Another six years of austerity is likely to have an enormous knock - on effect as companies lack conditions favourable for growth.

He points out the «deal» Osborne offered voters in 2010 was four years of austerity.

Years of austerity, cuts and scrounger rhetoric have devastated provision.

He made clear that after five years of austerity, the squeeze on the public sector will have to continue beyond the general election and into the next parliament to rebuild the public finances.

«The Tories are hoping that the British people can be kept in the dark about what the tax increases they are planning will mean for those on middle and low incomes, who have had to bear the brunt of seven years of austerity.

At least with Corbyn as leader we can offer a genuine alternative and appeal to voters fed up with ten years of an austerity which owes everything to Tory ideology and nothing to good economic sense.

The consensus is that not only is Cuomo returning to his liberal roots after two years of austerity proposals, but he's positioning himself as a true - blue Democrat should he run for president in 2016.

With five more years of austerity to go, let's watch the polls for green shoots in public confidence in the economy, as well as movements in ratings of the competence Osborne and the government.

«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.

After five years of austerity and weeks of negative campaigning, the Conservative leader made a clear effort to reframe the Tory election drive in his speech in Swindon this morning.

I would like them to talk to the nurses, the junior doctors and the firefighters — come and tell them that years of austerity have improved their practice or their profession.»

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.

Following 1929, Britain had two years of austerity before another election in 1931.

Six years of austerity have left low earners struggling, state institutions crumbling, and society divided.

David Cameron finally offered the electorate a prize for years of austerity: tax - cuts, across the board, for 30 million people.

Johnson said adding together the budget cuts covering the eight years of austerity from 2010 to 2018, some departments could be forced to provide services based on a cut of 40 % or more in their budgets.

Q: After two and a half years, we still have another five years of austerity to go.

But the Comptroller warns that if there's too many more years of austerity, public services will suffer.

«The past five years of austerity have led to desperate poverty,» he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the «mood is turning against Tories» and the country can not afford another five years of austerity.

Another two years of austerity.

If Gov. Cuomo's signature tax cut stands, a family making $ 40,000 this year will pay the same tax rate as one that makes $ 40 million a year, forcing more and more service cuts on top of those that have already been leveled over the last three years of austerity.

She told the Guardian: «This referendum has revealed that there are a lot of people [who] feel they don't have a voice, that this country is not working for them and they have faced a combination of years of austerity and a rapid pace of change in their community they didn't vote for.

In 2012 Reeves urged the Liberal Democrats to choose to become a radical centrist political party, «a hard - driving radical liberal party of the political centre», continuing his campaign for centre left Liberal Democrats to leave, «Any attempt to position the Liberal Democrats as a party of the centre left after five years of austerity government in partnership with the Conservatives will be laughed out of court by the voters — and rightly so.

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Strapped for cash after 3 years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing for an even harsher year ahead.

That's been the experience of 25 years of privatizing: It helps very few, and many students now go to schools that have faced years of austerity and disinvestment.

What possible good can come of fragmenting a system to breaking point, especially with years of austerity behind us, and probably years to come?

Teachers» unions, getting ready for the fire and brimstone of their annual conferences, are likely to see it as an attempt to put gift - wrapping around another year of austerity.

Deal added close to $ 167 million to the state budget, a restoration after years of austerity cuts.

The Greek government, elected early this year on a platform of ending years of austerity imposed by Germany and other lenders, is pushing back against further pension cuts and higher taxes, saying they would further weaken an already crippled economy.

To put $ 250 billion in perspective, it is about the current size of Greek GDP, after 3 and a half years of austerity.

In such case, it could lead to some strengthening of the EU social dimension, a welcome development after the years of austerity and social impasse.

MANITOULIN — A decision by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to reduce employer premiums is an insult to injured workers who have already suffered through years of austerity, says the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).

Not exact matches

Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.

The staggering growth rates of this year's Fast 50 — the average of the top five was a record - smashing 43,000 % — reflects how high - tech startups have evolved in the face of austerity.

Austerity measures imposed earlier this year include $ 65 billion ($ 80 billion) in spending cuts and tax increases by the end of 2014.

Lower oil prices should put more money in the pockets of consumers already emerging from years of self - imposed austerity, says Richardson.