Sentences with phrase «more in government spending»

Yet Scots receive # 507 per person more in government spending.

Not exact matches

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

«GDP growth is now much more reliant on tourism and the government's infrastructure spending,» he wrote in a Nov. 28 report.

Chinese spending on German firms more than quadrupled between 2008 and 2011, cracking the billion - euro mark in 2011, the latest German government figures show.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

The government was taking in more cash than it was spending.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has been taunting the U.K. government over Twitter in recent weeks about how he's getting ready to spend more time in Frankfurt after Brexit, as well as gently nudging the country to have a second referendum in case it wanted to change its mind.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

The $ 89.9 billion awarded to small - business contractors in 2012 is 22.25 percent of more than $ 400 billion spent by the U.S. government that year.

To write «Command and Control,» Schlosser spent more than six years steeped in declassified government materials and interviewed military experts, scientists, and «broken arrow» eyewitnesses.

Classical economist David Ricardo posited that if citizens observed their government issuing more bonds, they'd reduce spending in anticipation of higher subsequent taxes when those bonds had to be repaid.

Though, she cautioned that the threat of a government shutdown and the fiscal restraint imposed by years of the 2013 sequester, which will cut more than $ 1 trillion in government spending through 2021, could be calamitous.

It's a bunch of tax incentives meant to get the private sector to invest in infrastructure, rather than a more traditional program of direct government spending.

In the same way that the Internet spent more than two decades in academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream usIn the same way that the Internet spent more than two decades in academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream usin academic and government settings before its use became commercial, the Media Lab believes that a similar gestation could be important for blockchain, too — so it can become secure and reliable enough for mainstream use.

In the meantime, there are a few signs that the federal government will take action to make corporate political contributions and spending more transparent.

That billion dollars the government is spending is from Medicare Part D, a program for elderly Americans (not infants) that spent more than $ 500 million on the drug in 2015 alone.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.

As you can see, although Alberta was the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between how big the government predicted the deficit was going to be in fiscal 2013 ($ 882 million) and how big it expects it to be now ($ 3.9 billion), it is still the only province without net debt (that is the accumulated total of annual deficits, which, in turn, result from the government spending more than it generates in revenues every year).

Real government spending in New York and New Jersey rose more than 40 percent from 1977 to 1997, the last year for which complete data are available.

The central bank under its previous chairman, Jean - Claude Trichet, had long resisted more aggressive action, unwilling to flood the market with money the way the Fed did in 2008 until governments committed to reining in spending and deregulating their economies.

A lesser - known North Korean cyber-espionage outfit has become more active on the international scene in 2017, after spending the previous five years targeting only South Korean government agencies and North Korean defectors.

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They are definitely not interested in more infrastructure spending, arguing the federal government is already doing enough, despite pleading from the provinces and municipalities that much more is needed.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

If elected Prime Minister, Mr. Harper promised that would be no more inaccurate forecasts, because he would create an independent agency, «Ensuring truth in budgeting with a Parliamentary Budget Authority» to hold the government to account in its budget forecasting and its spending estimates.

Last year it defied skeptics by growing its GDP an estimated 7.3 percent year - over-year, more than China and India, thanks to a surge in household and government spending.

The government, however, notes that more detailed spending plans and data are released later in the budget year, through department reports on plans and priorities, supplementary estimates and the annual public accounts.

The Chicago - style monetary plan described efforts to privatize industry, reign in government spending to lower inflation, and to create a more active stock market financed by labor's own forced savings in order to increase stock prices.

OTTAWA — As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivers the federal budget Thursday in the House of Commons, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer will deliver arguments in court seeking clarity on its mandate and more information on the Conservative government's spending cuts.

Basically, Mr. Flaherty is looking for suggestions on how to «strengthen our economy in the face of global economic threats»; with «cost - neutral or low cost measures», focusing on «more efficient and effective spending» that builds on the «government's belief of respecting taxpayers» dollars» and «encourages private sector growth and leadership».

Although China is still set for sub-8 per cent growth in 2012, its weakest in more than a decade, momentum picked up noticeably in the fourth quarter after the government increased its spending on infrastructure.

In other words, the government was spending more when the economy was booming before the recession.

Together with the stimulative effects of tax cuts and more government spending, the most likely outlook remains a robust one, with growth still reaching 2.8 % for 2018 and 3.0 % in 2019.

While local governments were more important in terms of their spending shares before WWI, their role diminished significantly after WWII.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

Higher taxes and (most likely) less government spending will surely take a bite out the economy and hiring this year, but there are still a few reasons to be optimistic that the economy and job growth will be more robust in 2013 than 2012:

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

In simple terms, government took real revenue, spent it, and then added more debt each year.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Economists and analysts are trying to gauge the costs to the economy and consumers if the United States loses its solid - gold credit rating — a move that appears more likely now that the standoff in Washington over government spending has calcified.

The good news is that even if the payrolls number is a major disappointment, Wall Street — and the Fed — will be far more interested in the average hourly earning number, although here too the risk is for disappointment, as today's Personal Income and Spending report showed, specifically the ongoing slowdown in both private and and government worker wages, both now below last month's 2.5 % Y / Y increase in AHE according to the BLS.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

Aside from the dangerously foolish idea that reining in excessive government spending is a bad thing, Reinhart and Rogoff are saying that even more massive government intervention should be pursued.

Cut government spending and, in general, more people are added to the unemployment line.

An acceleration to four rate increases for 2018, from three last year, would possibly reflect faster economic growth spurred by the $ 1.5 trillion tax cut that took effect this year and $ 300 billion in more government spending.

There should be a general improvement in the outlook for 2013, as the government adopts a more dynamic fiscal policy, accelerating spending on mega projects, Dabdoub says.

His comment on Keynesian economics is in reference to the theory that governments should spend more — even by running deficits — to stimulate the economy during hard times and government should pay off debt and prepare for future recessions during good times.

«Government must be a force for good,» Wynne averred; it must «mak (e) a positive difference in the long and short term»: thus billions in promised infrastructure spending and the jobs that come with it; free tuition for 150,000 students; and 100,000 more daycare spaces — all done «prudent (ly),» mind you, with a balanced budget to come in the spring.