Sentences with phrase «public spending taken»

Of that total he wants roughly # 12 billion to be made up of welfare cuts, in an effort to halt the ever - increasing proportion of public spending taken up with benefits.

Not exact matches

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

Born in Denmark, he spent time at Unilever and Novartis — not two companies associated with the high - tech boom — before founding SuccessFactors in 2001 and taking it public in 2007.

But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legally hide their political spending.

And I've spent over 300 hours with Motif Investing, who during this time raised a Series E round led by Renren of China, a company I ironically helped take public years ago.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

We want the time people spend on Facebook to encourage meaningful social interactions... when people are spending so much time passively consuming public content that it starts taking away from the time people are connecting with each other, that's not good.»

The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Part entrepreneur and part start - up investor, he spent more than a decade at the Chinese software company Kingsoft and took it public in 2007.

This is made clear by data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which show that noninvestment spending in the private and public sector has taken up an increasing share of Illinois» economy.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

The Mail add that Mourinho has been taking public digs at the club's board over a lack of transfer spending, with that and his apparent reluctance to fully move himself and his family from London to Manchester a cause for concern among those inside Old Trafford.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

We've done field trips to the airport, taking public transport (we live in LA so yeah that was something we had to introduce them to), going to restaurants that serve different food, teaching them about hikers etiquette, and spending weekends away from home in hotels.

My partner who was the co-chair with me of the committee we worked on continued as she had children still in the public school system and I took my son out for a year to homeschool (we had already spent several years homeschooling before his 2nd grade year spent in the public system).

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Photographer and mom of three Megan Soto has spent three years taking pictures of nursing moms for the Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project.

Drastic public spending consolidations like that taking place in Britain could hurt the global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde has said.

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.

When the public service spending, tax, tax credit and benefit changes are taken into account (ie, everything), the effect on households in 2015/16 is bad news - an average drop of 2.5 %.

The deficit reduction programme takes precedence over any of the other measures in this agreement, and the speed of implementation of any measures that have a cost to the public finances will depend on decisions to be made in the Comprehensive Spending Review.

The future strategic tanker aircraft has seen a # 336 million increase in cost because of fuel price inflation, but a failure to take advantage of opportunities to cut the overall bill on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was criticised by the public spending watchdog.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.

Changes could be on the way for the traveling public both in the air and on the ground if the $ 85 billion worth of spending cuts take effect as planned.

Take the issue of public spending cuts to reduce the Budget deficit.

The White House said it was disappointed that the temporary funding bill continued a provision barring the Securities and Exchange Commission from taking action to increase transparency in public companies» political spending.

The fact that all the major political parties have already made extensive and frequently conflicting promises on public spending, taxes and benefits means that such negotiations are likely to be more complex and take much longer than the 22 days of May 2010.

As soon as the state spending plan was passed, Governor Andrew Cuomo made the most of two items that have received the greatest public attention: a graduated increase in the state's minimum wage, and a future paid family leave program, to take full effect in several years.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

Others took their kids out of school and didn't spend money, use public transport or shop.

«Through the Budget and the Spending Review we've taken some really tough decisions to rescue our public finances and fundamentally change the direction of our economy.

And people can call that spin if they like but the reality is that I think the public would spend a lot of time quite bewildered about why the government takes certain decisions on certain issues unless you have someone out there saying «this is why we're doing this» on issues as complicated as whether to bomb Syria or not.»

The greatest falls were seen in public non-housing such as education and health and with the public sector spending cuts already taking effect this will only exacerbate the situation.

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

Also last week, the governor and state legislators essentially neutered the «M.T.A. lock box» bill, which would have required policymakers to issue a public impact statement before taking money intended for the M.T.A. and spending it elsewhere.

Admitting the conference took place at a difficult moment, he said: «Public anxiety about the Comprehensive Spending Review is now at its height.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut spending.

Much of Johnson's spending, $ 126,300 to be exact, took the form of political contributions, and he spent only about $ 22,750 with campaign consulting firm Metropolitan Public Strategies.

ALBANY — A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.

A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of.

It was a vision far removed from the massive cuts Osborne once proposed for after the election, all of which were due to take place without any tax rises to offset the impact on public spending.

We are taking 2.2 million people out of tax and getting public spending under control, in a way that helps the poorest into work.

«Having spent a number of years in public service I know what it takes to make a great elected official,» Ferrer said.

«We spend most of our time in buildings and they are central to our quality of life, yet few of us take the time to really look at our homes, offices and public buildings and consider the amazing diversity of architectural styles, as well as how practical and fundamental buildings are for society and what they say about our cultures.»

The government seeks to take money out of the economy by public spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit.

This public employee union is nothing more than a sham democratic party run leadership operation who coercively takes money from its members and spends it on their own personal politics.