Sentences with phrase «recent austerity budget»

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The gloomy headlines about life in austerity have become all too familiar reading over recent years, but what have the pressures on household budgets really meant for family life, and could some of the long - term impacts have been hidden from view behind the front door?

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).