Sentences with phrase «public spending cuts hit»

The period since the election has highlighted the point that public spending cuts hit growth.

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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.

Ninety four per cent of public spending cuts are yet to hit the UK, and the public sector is due to come under more pressure in the next few years.

Spending cuts are likely to hit Wales especially hard given the disproportionate size of the public sector compared to other parts of the country.

But it is increasingly clear that these traditions are being abandoned by Clegg as he goes along with damaging cuts in public spending undermining economic growth, tax rises hitting the poorest hardest, and a clear threat to the universal welfare state.

Public sector austerity and government spending cuts have hit women harder than men and increased relative disadvantage in ways that reduce incomes and childcare support, and may cut back women's employment and opportunities more broadly.

Cuts to public spending along with the welfare reforms (such as the bedroom tax) are severely hitting some of the poorest people in our society.

Labour will reverse benefit cuts in other areas, but offers little defence against these three big hits - choosing to focus on other areas of public spending.