Sentences with phrase «of public service cuts»

The impact of public service cuts made to address austerity have been felt both in London and the North.

On this morning's Today programme, David Blunkett appeared to be invoking the threat not of public service cuts but of Moll Flanders when he asked testily: «Can we trust the Liberal Democrats?

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As would other key players, including former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond (author of a detailed report outlining cost - cutting opportunities in Ontario) and former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who has spent decades uncovering wasteful spending in the public service.

The prime minister also claimed that cuts to public services begun under the leadership of former Labour PM Tony Blair and involved «governments of all colours, councils of all political persuasions».

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

Given the massive give away in tax cuts by Harper, I truly do not see how Canadians can expect to have the level of traditional public goods and services without some form of medium term deficit financing.

Straw Man wants to write budgets with machetes, with «deep cuts to public services,» Finance Minister Joe Ceci says near the start of his address.

A February report, released by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, noted that key experts on a small Transport Canada team overseeing the transportation of dangerous goods were affected by budget cuts prior to the Lac - Megantic accident, leading to some early retirements.

I think that, following all of these huge cost - cutting measures and huge knock on the public service in recent decades, we would do well to lay off the public service a little bit.

Cutting government services — either temporarily in a shutdown, or permanently through spending reductions — can disrupt a broad range of commerce and hit American workers and businesses tied to the public sector.

And if corporations pay a lower share of taxes, that means the rest of us will pay moreâ $» either through relatively higher taxes or cuts in funding for public services.

For its part, the PSAC ran an effective campaign against public service cuts — one of the best I can remember.

When royalty revenues weren't enough to cover the cost of public services the government defaulted to cutting services rather than cutting waste, including patronage appointments to 320 agencies, boards and commissions or sweetheart deals with their friends (the Holy Cross Hospital springs to mind).

The Harper government's budget cuts target crucial public services that ensure the health, safety and well - being of citizens.

Last spring the budget for human services and public education in Massachusetts was threatened with devastating cuts because of a shortfall in revenues.

This change — along with a proposal to end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, cut federal work study in half and largely affect income - based student loan repayment plans — would need to be approved by Congress along with the rest of the proposed budget.

In New Lenox, the Public Library District is seeking voter approval of a 13 - cent increase in its tax rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax rate increase was rejected in November.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union voted to join teachers in England and Wales in Thursday's day of action against government cuts.

It's possible that the cuts will have taken such a toll on public services by then that we'll be hollering for more spending, but I see no sign of it just yet.

At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

Because action now on growth is the best way to mitigate the scale of the cuts the Government says it has to make to public services in 2015 - 16 and beyond.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provisioOf course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provisioof any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

The Department for Work and Pensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Services union.

«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.

But that's far from inevitable and it certainly won't happen with a government that stands by whilst wages and salaries are driven down, industry is hollowed out and public services are cut to the point of breakdown.»

The communities secretary has suggested that although cutbacks are serious, local authorities will still be able to provide a «reasonable level of services», by cutting wasteful spending and allowing them to come up with more innovative ways of providing public services.

The public gets it and the Legislature should start listening to what they want instead of making cuts that will devastate the state's vital services.»

While Trump's federal tax cut is causing headaches for some New Yorkers, Cuomo and regulators at the state Public Service Commission are working to ensure that utility customers in the state are able to reap some of the benefits as soon as possible.

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction».

One interesting illustration of the issue came up when the US Republican presidential candidate last fall, Mitt Romney, opened the first of the three presidential debates by saying that he wanted to cut off funding for PBS, the public - funded broadcasting service in the US.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies have warned that Brexit could cause at least two more years of cuts to public services.

They are bad for a lot of other reasons (damaging public services, widening inequality, threatening growth) but it seems fairly clear to me that the Tories in particular are cutting deeply and quickly for base political expediency.

This means that to pay for it we will either have to impose even greater cuts on public services or introduce alternative, potentially regressive forms of taxation.

We can't shirk the fact that we lost but, for all the slick Clegg / Cameron rhetoric, this will be a socially conservative government, made up of people who won't use the public services they are cutting and are not really concerned with fairness and equality.

Libraries and other public services that may otherwise have closed have been saved because of public pressure, even if cuts need to be made.

A Scottish Labour spokesman said: «This election is all about which party will use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to stop the cuts and invest in our public services.

These are the arguments we need to be using; it has to be about cuts impacting on the delivery of key public services, services that people all too often take for granted and that they don't yet realise they're set to lose unless they're prepared to fight for them.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

Faced with a choice between using the powers of the Parliament to protect the public services that pensioners rely on or carrying on with the SNP's cuts, Labour will use the powers.»

In the context of across - theboard cuts to public services, some of which we know regrettably must be made, arguing against cuts to the arts may not seem the right fight to pick.

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «Today's announcement is part of a crude drive to slash jobs and cut costs which will leave HMRC unable to deliver quality public services.

An ongoing independent poll of 143,000 working people being conducted for Unite, Britain's biggest union, shows that immigration is in fact ranked last as an issue of concern with working people's top worries being money problems, the rising cost of living, cuts to public services, stress, education and housing.

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The new head of New York City's cash - strapped public hospital network has cut $ 16 million in consulting costs since he started two months ago — but the system is losing up to $ 190 million a year for unbilled services to the insured.

However, by the third debate, Nick Clegg had lost his joint equal first place with David Cameron in terms of being seen as most trusted to make any necessary cuts to public services.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

The union yesterday (24) started balloting more than 250,000 of its members in civil and public services for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay: www.pcs.org.uk