Sentences with phrase «on social safety nets»

Mounting pension costs, declining tax bases, crumbling infrastructure and a growing number of out - of - work citizens relying on social safety nets meant deep budget deficits and tides of red ink.

And throughout his career, Stewart McKinney spoke out for the homeless, the poor and those who rely on the social safety net, causes that are not generally at the top of the Republican agenda.

The consequences are a reduction in America's labor force productivity, future increases in spending on the social safety net, and a loss of tax revenue.

Not exact matches

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

The heavy spending on social programs succeeded in providing a safety net to keep many people out of poverty, but it has done nothing to spur job creation.

As my colleague Jason Kirby detailed in his cover story in March, the Chinese save so much because they don't have a social safety net as we know it to fall back on.

Young people also can no longer rely on the luxury of a social safety net — so it's no wonder they stay unemployed for shorter amounts of time or stay in their jobs for longer periods.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

President Donald Trump unveiled a $ 4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.

I'll agree, there is corruption on both sides, but if I had to pick one over the other I would have to choose the one that supports some sort of social safety net for middle and low income workers in America.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

«But you can turn that fallacy on its head — you're creating a whole different set of social - safety - net problems when you have kids.

Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change.

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty said it's examining ways it can partner with other nonprofits as a way to «stabilize» the agency and create a «social - service safety net.»

Each time I move round Ekiti, I see the pains on the faces of the 25,000 elderly persons who benefited from our social security scheme; 600 people who were employed into the peace corps; 10,000 volunteers who took N10, 000 per month, among others but have been cut off from these safety nets by Fayose.

Mike Bloomberg's solution is built on our core values: a balanced budget that holds the line on taxes while protecting our social safety net, fights crime and keeps vital job creation projects on track,» a voice says in the ad.

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty said it's examining ways it can partner with other nonprofits as a way to «stabilize» the agency and create a «social - service safety net,» a spokesperson said in a statement.

It would put the onus on companies to provide basic safety net standards of rights and benefits to their workers, and make the requisite contributions to the social safety net.

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

At that point I said if she more concerned with spending more on defense and cutting the food stamp program I'll call in and ask her the following: «Mrs. Long, are you for a social safety net?»

I might fall on hard times for many reasons, and also understand in the case of every unfortunate citizen «There but for the grace of God go I.» Accordingly I support our social security safety net, while wholeheartedly backing Iain Duncan Smith's improvements to the system.

«Many of these workers face delayed retirements and reduced standards of living, and will be forced to rely on the state's taxpayer - funded social safety net.»

KINGSTON — Ulster County Executive Michael Hein signed legislation on Monday approved by the county legislature that codifies the county's intention to absorb the cost of the state - mandated Safety Net social services program over a three - year period.

While county lawmakers appear unlikely to scrap the current system entirely, the legislature's Social Services Committee is working on a deal that, supporters say, would protect Kingston and other municipalities from escalating Safety Net costs.

The priorities enumerated in the document are a clear indication of the type of independence that Johnson has promised since taking office, with a focus on «strengthening the social safety net, fighting for the middle class and handling taxpayers» money responsibly,» as Johnson put it at a news conference at City Hall.

Gallo blamed the city's Safety Net woes on a web of circumstances, including the state's 30 - day residency requirement for welfare — which means that even short - termKingstonresidents can end up on the Safety Net rolls — to Kingston's abundance of rental housing, public transportation and social service facilities, which make it an attractive destination for the down and out.

• Short - term savings from cutting the middle class out of state benefits as Nick Clegg suggests on child benefit (Britain needs «savage» cuts, says Clegg, 19 September) would weaken public support for the social safety net on which the poorest depend and ultimately endanger the future of the welfare state itself.

This is what Labour has always done - we founded the NHS, we created the social security safety net, we created the Open University, we developed the minimum wage, we've done so much on human rights and equality.

To do that means encouraging tens of millions of Chinese to move to cities to live while creating a social safety net and laws, particularly on land ownership, that will give them the confidence to do so.

Washington — The Reagan Administration's promise to keep the Head Start program in its «social safety net» was nothing more than a «charade,» according to one Democratic congressman, who joined other members of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources in sharply attacking proposed policy changes for the program during a routine «oversight» hearing last week.

In the absence of federal oversight and a strong social safety net, we must form partnerships with health and human services directors, departments of recreation, volunteer programs, and on and on.

With repeal of Obamacare likely dead for now, we — parents, educators, clergy and community members — urge our elected leaders to fight forward for a budget that will preserve access to health care, adequately fund our nation's public schools and do what's right for the working poor and those that depend on America's social safety net.

Now that person loses her job or his job after a few absences at work and becomes wholly reliant on a burdensome (on all of us) social structure / safety net.

In the long - running debate about when to take Social Security — as early as age 62 or as late as age 70 — the focus has been on timing your claim to get the most money, in total, out of the social safetSocial Security — as early as age 62 or as late as age 70 — the focus has been on timing your claim to get the most money, in total, out of the social safetsocial safety net.

I am planning on a variety of safety nets (part time employment, social security, pensions, dividends from contributed accounts, general savings, passive income from real estate, as well as cash from sales).

Beijing should be building social safety nets and recapitalizing its banks, not betting the house on a stock market bubble.»

To clarify, the context of the above snip had to do with state spending on education and social safety net programs, but that «you and me» reference covers far more ground than that, considering the Koch brothers» all - in approach to their fossil fuel holdings.

Micro-financing and other social safety nets and social welfare grants, as a means to enhance adaptation to current and future shocks and stresses, may be successful in overcoming such constraints if supported by local institutional arrangements on a long - term sustainable basis (Ellis, 2003; Chigwada, 2005).

The people I know of that age are pro-gun-owning, but not hawkish; anti-union, but pro-labor; willing to give over private data on condition that it be well used; strongly libertarian, but think the social safety net is the basis of liberty, not its cancer.

Despite the 50 - year War on Poverty, the social safety net, and the War on Drugs, poverty and social dysfunction of various sorts appear undented.

More research on the effects of welfare policies on children across their developmental stages would help inform policy - makers as they grapple with how to balance budgets and provide a cohesive and comprehensive social safety net for low - income families.

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For each country, the extent and character of the crisis's impact on children has been shaped by the depth of the recession, pre-existing economic conditions, the strength of the social safety net and, most importantly, policy responses.

«Happiness has been appropriately cited as a goal in political debates on issues from taxation to the social safety net to marriage equality, but the debate is often confused,» says Wallace, whose book topped Amazon's Self - Help Best Seller list.