Sentences with phrase «of austerity plans»

But the recommendations, released today, come as the Australian government is reportedly considering a freeze on research grants as part of austerity plans.

This is Britain's version of groundhog day: every time George Osborne updates us on the state of his austerity plans, we're told there are five years to go until the misery is over.

«But step one is: get rid of the debt, and get rid of the austerity plan.»

The government's only possible rationale for this is to reduce the overall teachers» pay bill as part of its austerity plan.

Not exact matches

To try and secure the deal, the government announced an austerity plan to raise taxes and slash US$ 20 billion in public spending — including cuts to social welfare and public jobs, and a lowering of the minimum wage.

Companies that actually use raw materials and consumers that buy products are being squeezed, by a combination of debt service and a financial austerity plan — while Wall Street and speculators are being enabled to make a killing.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's parliament has approved plans to lower the voting age by a year to 17 and adopt a proportional representation system, after years of economic austerity have hammered popular support for traditionally dominant political...

«If they went along with the existing austerity plan, it will take a hell of a lot longer for them to recover, if not making it impossible.»

Global brewer Heineken has produced a strong first half performance but remains cautious on the development of beer consumption in Europe and the US due to continued weak consumer spending and planned austerity measures across many countries.

«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

The troika (of the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank) overseeing the conditions for, and implementation of, Greece's bail - out programme expect ongoing austerity plans to be observed.

But the failure of the Government's austerity plan means that the next Labour government is likely to inherit a deficit that still needs to be reduced.

The plan means a two - year freeze on benefits and tax credits for about 10m households, many of whom have already borne the brunt of austerity.

The chancellor, George Osborne, certainly plans more austerity, hoping to achieve a budget surplus and a rapidly declining debt - to - GDP ratio by the end of the decade (four years later than he originally predicted).

That was the Irish Minister of Finance last December, telling the Irish Parliament that his austerity plan was working, just four months before they slid back into recession.

So our plans for school reform, welfare reform and strengthening families plans which might once have been seen as just socially desirable in the age of austerity become economically essential.

I think the main task for labour is to convince people of the economic case for their plans to increase spending and why austerity measures need to be less and how this relates to the national debt.

Fred Floss, director of the union - backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than two percent a year, would result in what his group calls a decade of austerity that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

«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.

«Ahead of next week's Budget, today's unemployment figures serve as yet another reminder that the UK government's austerity plans are simply not working.

Indeed such is the need for austerity that public spending plans will mean the smallest government spending relative to the rest of the economy since the 1930s.

But as Britain slips back into recession, and as voters in Europe tire of austerity, Labour is uniting around a message that the coalition's deficit reduction plan is fast becoming a liability.

Corbyn, who said that he would seek an inclusive shadow cabinet if he won by reviving the tradition of elections to the shadow cabinet, intends to focus the remaining weeks of the campaign on his plan to end what he has called «variations of austerity» from the main parties.

The coalition should snap out of their austerity mindset and switch to Plan B before resurgent Labour does, says Philip Collins in The Times (#)

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.

The City Hall Plaza press conference, hosted by the Hispanic Federation, called for a laundry list of federal actions, including implementing «a federal investment plan», eliminating Jones Act requirements that goods shipped between Puerto Rico and other places in America be transported on U.S. ships with U.S. crews, changing the U.S. bankruptcy code to allow Puerto Rico and its government related enterprises to file bankruptcy petitions and urging President Obama to «explore a Federal Reserve loan» and «oppose severe austerity.»

to Gov. Cuomo's plan to give billions of dollars in tax cut giveaways to banks and the wealthiest New Yorkers while schools and communities suffer under austerity budgets and continuing layoffs.

IMAGINATION The minister will warn that the country needed to wake up to the «hideous reality of austerity Conservatism» in which Mr Cameron's party planned to hack billions of pounds from vital public services.

Writing in the New Statesman within days of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government taking office, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress dismissed the coalition's plans as «madness» and complained of «needless austerity».

The Labour Party, its members and affiliates are committed to making sure that we get through this recession fairly, that we secure the recovery and we as a party go on to present the choice at the next election between our plans for an age of aspiration or the Tories» plans for an age of austerity, a choice between securing growth or choking off the recovery.

A curiously political and surprisingly honest criticism of the Labour plan to halve the deficit in four years rather than to eliminate the structural deficit altogether — that it would mean going into the next election with more pain and austerity ahead.

Fred Floss, director of the union backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than 2 % a year, would result in what his group calls a «decade of austerity,» that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

Next week Ed Miliband marks his first year as Labour's leader as supporters of the party look to him and Ed Balls to articulate an alternative to the government's austerity plans.

Referred to as «Austerity Schools» by some, the plans aim to reduce the cost of new school buildings by 30 per cent and will help local authorities cut capital spending.

You may need to make a few adjustments to your plans to prepare for this new age of austerity, but for most people, they needn't be drastic.

The reason utilities have traditionally been viewed as a safe haven for risk averse investors is that while people may buy fewer iPhones or designer jeans in a downturn, they still need the lights on, even with the prospect of a US Austerity Plan perhaps akin to what Europe is seeing now.

The risk is that the cost of borrowing money from bond investors for the highly indebted countries will rise substantially, offsetting any improvements they can make in their budget outlook by way of higher taxes or pushing through austerity plans.

«The key is to prioritize your expenses and remember this austerity plan is just temporary,» says Sheila Walkington, co-founder of Money Coaches Canada in Vancouver.

This is the stark conclusion drawn by Anderson and Bows: «The logic of such studies suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within Annex 1 nations and a rapid transition away from fossil - fuelled development within non-Annex 1 nations.»

Roberts, quoting climate scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows, argues, that the «brutal logic» of climate change «suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity» in the world's developed nations.

... the logic of such studies suggest (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within [rich] nations...

Katia R. Avilés Vázquez of Organización Boricuá, representing the It Takes Roots delegation said, «Puerto Rico has been the victim of a perfect storm of natural weather extremes, fiscal austerity measures, bad management and planning, combined with a colonial situation that prevents us from trading and learning from our sister islands in the Caribbean region.

Period», massive tax increases as «austerity» — the list is endless of the number of central planning's failures due to «unintended consequences.»

The austerity plan from 1 April 2012 is to restrict the opening of public counters at all county courts and Family Proceedings Centres...

Austerity measures defy Keynesian economics — unless of course the restrictions are placed on generating revenue from future professionals who plan on servicing the under - serviced.

Bank economists praised the budget plan as feasible, but said if the economy worsened the government should be wary of more extreme austerity measures like those that have hammered growth in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

But it is LSIA 1854 that is now under the spotlight, as a result of present day austerity measures and the plans of many local authorities to sell off long established museums and libraries to make ends meet (see the Financial Times 29 March 2011 «Councils in a bind as library sell - off falls foul of Victorian law»).