Sentences with phrase «over austerity cuts»

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Thousands of Puerto Ricans are marching to protest pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts as anger grows across the U.S. territory over looming austerity measures.

Departments not protected by ringfencing will face total cuts of over 30 % since 2010 by the end of the coalition's eight - year austerity programme, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

The public sector in the United Kingdom is undergoing the largest budgetary cuts since the Second World War, while all over Europe governments are imposing harsh austerity measures which may radically curtail the activities of the state.

In Goshen, we cut over $ 250,000 from this year's budget by eliminating positions through attrition, austerity measures and competitive bidding.

The Conservatives have a chancellor who has epitomised the austerity agenda; the Liberal Democrats have hesitated to say boo to a Tory mouse over it; and UKIP's enthusiasm for cutting taxes must translate to cutting the public budget.

Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused by unrest over the coalition government's austerity agenda.

If Gov. Cuomo's signature tax cut stands, a family making $ 40,000 this year will pay the same tax rate as one that makes $ 40 million a year, forcing more and more service cuts on top of those that have already been leveled over the last three years of austerity.

After one austerity - related announcement in 2011, when the government announced steep spending cuts, suicides surged by over 35 percent, an increase that was then sustained through to the end of the study in 2012.

«And the difference between a bonus and a raise is the raise has to be sustainable year over year, and we would not have been able to sustain a raise without the restoration of those austerity cuts.»