Sentences with phrase «on deficit reduction»

Your experiment with austerity economics has failed on living standards, jobs and growth and on deficit reduction too — and the British people are paying the price for this failure.

In my other blog this morning I give the Coalition low marks for its record on deficit reduction.

None of them have succeeded so far, but the issue is likely to come up again as the focus of Congressional negotiations on deficit reduction shifts to tax reform.

He has set out a cruel, but clear, strategy on deficit reduction.

I very much agree with you when you state that the current stance on deficit reduction is damaging.

But the tough decisions we have taken on deficit reduction really are beginning to yield real results.

Want to focus on deficit reduction, tax cuts and seniors?

There is much concern in Washington about the impending «fiscal cliff» of severe cuts to federal programs that will automatically result if Congress and the Obama administration can not agree on a deficit reduction plan by the end of this year.

A letter submitted to the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction from Professor Heckman, outlining why investments in early childhood development increase productivity and reduce deficits.

David Paterson to get mid-year action on a deficit reduction program were unsuccessful.

On the central economic issues, the Conservatives have secured their red - line commitment to cut # 6bn from public spending this year, as well as a greater emphasis on deficit reduction through spending cuts, as opposed to tax rises.

Not one dime of classroom spending was lost as Gov. David Paterson and state legislators on Dec. 2 agreed on a deficit reduction package for the rest of the current state fiscal year that pares down the state government's midyear budget gap by some $ 2.8 billion.

Washington (CNN)-- Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, R - Oklahoma, is pulling out of so - called «Gang of Six» bipartisan negotiations for now — dealing a potentially fatal blow to the group that has been working intensely for some five months to find agreement on a deficit reduction plan.

Not one dime of classroom spending was lost as Gov. David Paterson and state legislators agreed on a deficit reduction package.

The House also expedites an important down payment on deficit reduction by calling for over $ 200 billion in spending cuts from reconciliation.

It won't be easy considering some of the larger events taking place around us: the ever - shifting European debt crisis, Congress» inaction on deficit reduction, and a general government stalemate here at home.

Ontario has taken an opposing approach: projecting high debt financing costs, creating room for the province to under - promise and over-deliver on deficit reduction.

Congress has made substantial progress on deficit reduction, but they have done it in the worst possible way, which is to say, it's been very chaotic and damaging to confidence.

Labour called for the Office of Budget Responsibility to check its manifesto and centred the launch event on deficit reduction.

The gap between Balls and Mili - D on deficit reduction has been exaggerated.

Do I think we are going to be able to somehow defy those laws of gravity at a time when we are taking very difficult decisions on deficit reduction?

Seventy - six per cent backed Labour's pledge on deficit reduction, 71 % backed raising the minimum wage, 65 % backed an energy price freeze and 61 % backed the mansion tax.

It was therefore the first time Osborne directly capitulated on his deficit reduction plan for short - term political gain - to the tune of half a million quid, as it happened.

After all, he is currently running on a deficit reduction timetable suggested by Alistair Darling, which Osborne once attacked in the most poisonous terms, and still the press take his claims of sensible financial management at face value.

«People will look back on the deficit reduction plan and realise it was necessary to get the economy going and they will see a wider picture — a new kind of politics after the expenses scandal; greater fairness in our schools; a more accountable health service and restored civil liberties.»

«You should be very proud of what this government has done on deficit reduction, corporate competitiveness, education reforms and devolution of power.

The chancellor says this is necessary for the UK to move forward but how can it make economic sense to put the drivers of the UK economy at risk due to an ideological and entrenched position on deficit reduction.

The parties agree that a plan for deficit reduction should be set out in an emergency budget within 50 days of the signing of any agreement; the parties note that the credibility of a plan on deficit reduction depends on its long - term deliverability, not just the depth of immediate cuts.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg refused to acknowledge that the riots meant the government had to change course on its deficit reduction agenda, however.

Rumours that Ed Miliband was preparing to adopt a 1:1 ratio of tax rises to spending cuts, as he tries to formulate a distinct narrative on deficit reduction, appear to have been proven unfounded by today's speech.

But Robert Hutton of Bloomberg has done so - namely, Blair's support for Cameron and the Coalition on deficit reduction.

WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork / AP)-- President Barack Obama says he'll keep calling meetings on deficit reduction and the government borrowing limit until there's a deal, even though he and Republican lawmakers remain far apart.

Where appropriate, we should resist the micro consequences of the deficit reduction — say, closures of Sure Start centres; the scrapping of the Child Trust Fund, and so on — but we shouldn't lose sight of the macro picture: that we need to speak credibly on deficit reduction.

Tories will have approved of Nick Clegg's tough line on the deficit reduction plan — he even praised the coalition schools policy that his conference rejected this morning, even if he was riding to the rescue a little after the event.

Draft of speech shows divisions with Ed Miliband on deficit reduction and support for Office of Budgetary Responsibility

«President Obama's lack of seriousness on deficit reduction is crystal clear when you look at the budget deal he insisted on to avoid a government shutdown,» he said in a statement.

The chancellor, George Osborne, also set out his defence ahead of an expected political battering by claiming he had «turned Britain into a safe harbour in a storm» by focusing so rigidly on deficit reduction.

At home, the Coalition is at its most blue on deficit reduction, public service reform and localism - and at its least on law and order, the EU, human rights, and the constitution

June 30, 2011 • During President Obama news conference Wednesday, he urged lawmakers to act quickly on a deficit reduction plan, and to approve an increase in the federal debt ceiling.

Less certain is when this debate will occur in light of competing priorities on the Senate floor, including the president's jobs bill, fiscal 2012 spending, and a possible proposal from the supercommittee on deficit reduction.

In a move that many of us in the life insurance business have been warning about for years, the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (nicknamed the Deficit Reduction Commission, or DRC), completed its work without a formal vote on the deficit reduction plan coauthored by the Commission's two co-chairs.

In late October, nearly 20 industry trade groups sent a joint letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction regarding carried interest.

As you're no doubt aware, tax incentives for home ownership were among the targets of the federal Commission on Deficit Reduction and Reform.

In the published extracts, Laws refers to a «policy paper» that Labour's negotiating team brought to the talks that «seemed to indicate tougher action on the deficit reduction than the party had previously planned».

Hensarling, the chairman of the House Republican Congress, was a co-chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the «Super Committee.»

Osborne had always thought that the divisions in the Labour party, in which Blairites felt that Balls was failing to place enough emphasis on deficit reduction, was a great strength for the coalition.

about U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Statement on the Failure of the Joint Select Committee to Reach Agreement on Deficit Reduction

It is happening because the Chancellor's economic policies have failed catastrophically — on living standards, economic growth and on deficit reduction too.