Sentences with phrase «rise in government spending»

Despite a significant rise in government spending on school and higher education over the past decade, spending on Vocational Education and Training (VET) has declined comparatively, a new study shows.

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Rising demand in Canada meant increased employment in service industries and certain manufacturing industries, higher government revenues and spending.

High rates of unemployment have a budgetary cost to governments, from direct spending on employment insurance to a rise in health care costs as chronic unemployment diminishes mental and physical health.

Rising fuel prices are causing government coffers to swell, and in a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., 126 leaders of Canadian companies offered their opinions on how that money should be spent.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese economic activity rebounded in August, driven by government spending on infrastructure and rising property taxes.

Real government spending in New York and New Jersey rose more than 40 percent from 1977 to 1997, the last year for which complete data are available.

The government's need for new financing, rising, in part, from tax cuts and increased spending... Read more

These forces include the government's need to rein in health spending, the rising lapse rates among insurance policyholders and the rising intensity of competition.

When planning for the future, it's worth considering the following possible public policy risks that could affect your clients» ability to save for retirement and the money they have available to spend in retirement: Will income tax rates rise with current government deficit spending?

The government is having another, less direct impact on defense spending, namely an increase in demand for weaponry and tech as geopolitical tensions rise.

So we support the IMF's call, consistent with medium - term fiscal consolidation, for the Government to act to boost capital spending over the next two years — financed by a temporary rise in borrowing as Labour has also urged - to build our way to a stronger recovery.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

He was warned that a tough medium term plan to cut the deficit — tax rises, spending cuts, pay restraint, that every country had to put in place — could only work if the Government first put in place a plan for jobs and growth.

The coalition government is conscious of the fact that such an unpopular tax rise would be highly damaging to public support in an environment where public spending is being drastically cut back.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

With the figures on economic growth and employment on the rise, they will spend the next five weeks hammering out the simplistic but powerful message that the economy is safe in their hands and that a Labour government would bring chaos.

In recent months we have seen Harriet Harman try to secure the right for MPs to spend our money on what they like and not tell us about it and government MPs continue to ask for over infl ation pay rises and huge increases in allowances, while at the same time tightening the screw on low paid public servants and jobless people on benefitIn recent months we have seen Harriet Harman try to secure the right for MPs to spend our money on what they like and not tell us about it and government MPs continue to ask for over infl ation pay rises and huge increases in allowances, while at the same time tightening the screw on low paid public servants and jobless people on benefitin allowances, while at the same time tightening the screw on low paid public servants and jobless people on benefits.

Accordingly, they decisively favour a description of Plan A: «borrowing more will make matters worse... we have to bring the debt and the deficit under control even if it has some painful effects for the economy in the short term» over Plan B: «the government's spending cuts and tax rises are hurting the economy.

After Russia economy rise up, USA government has spend great effort to enact policies to bring down the oil price in the long term.

Government's own figures show current expenditure rising from # 632bn this year to # 694bn in 2014/15, whilst capital spending is being cut from # 61bn to # 42bn over the same period.

But the tax burden would remain the same, and the 62 - year - old ruled out any major rises in public spending, saying: «I am quite clear that we are in a new political environment in which the era of big increases in central government spending is over.

The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any point under the last government.»

Continue reading «David Leighton and John Stevenson: We must challenge Labour's spurious narrative that public spending cuts always lead to worse public services - because that has been central to the rise in government waste»»

Mr. Grimm faulted Mr. de Blasio for a rising homeless rate in the city, fuming that «tax - and - spend» liberals mistakenly believe government programs can solve social ills.

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

While the Department of Health (DoH) has been spared many of the cuts being implemented in other government departments, the rising costs of the NHS mean that a cap on income amounts to a real - terms spending reduction.

Despite the upturn in growth that is now finally forecast government figures published alongside last month's Autumn Statement show: - spending on Housing Benefit for people in work set to rise by over # 1bn over the next three years; - and downgraded projections for wage growth between 2015 and 2018 adding # 500m to the tax credit bill.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

David Leighton and John Stevenson: We must challenge Labour's spurious narrative that public spending cuts always lead to worse public services - because that has been central to the rise in government waste

Spending on education as a proportion of GDP rose steadily in the period 1997 - 2009, reaching its highest point of 6.2 % of GDP in the period 2009 - 10 during Gordon Brown's New Labour government, according to the IFS.

In the 2016 elections, America Rising spent about $ 1.4 million, according to a government watchdog group.

The shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson, urges an 11th hour rethink of Tuesday's planned VAT rise in a letter to the government today, as theConfederation of British Industry (CBI) warned public spending cuts could lead to a dramatic slowdown in the pace of economic recovery.

The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.

Spending in these areas will rise by 0.4 per cent in real terms, far smaller increases than they enjoyed under the last government.

The government believes the bulk of debt reduction must come from cuts in spending rather than taxation rises.

Government figures show that spending on Housing Benefit rose in real terms by 34.7 per cent between 2007 - 08 and 2013 - 14.

Science spending in India is slated to rise 11 % in the 2016 — 17 fiscal year to $ 1.19 billion, according to the budget proposal presented yesterday by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

According to the research, every one per cent fall in government spending in Greece leads to a 0.43 per cent rise in suicides among men.

► «Science spending in India is slated to rise 11 % in the 2016 — 17 fiscal year to $ 1.19 billion, according to the budget proposal presented [Monday] by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,» but some scientists are worried that «inflation... will consume much of the increase,» Sanjay Kumar reported on Tuesday.

It will spend an extra # 4.7 billion on applied research, to be delivered in rising sums over the next 4 years, which amounts to a 23 % increase in government R&D spending — the biggest since 1979.

May 21, 2018 • Sea - level rise is so acute in South Florida that local governments are eyeing hundreds of millions in spending to mitigate floodwaters.

In 2012, the National Audit Office (NAO) was commissioned to investigate the impact that central government funding had on meeting increased demand as the rise in the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011 was the largest ten - year increase since the 1950s and the legacy of previous Comprehensive Spending Reviews was impacting on available fundinIn 2012, the National Audit Office (NAO) was commissioned to investigate the impact that central government funding had on meeting increased demand as the rise in the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011 was the largest ten - year increase since the 1950s and the legacy of previous Comprehensive Spending Reviews was impacting on available fundinin the number of children born in England between 2001 and 2011 was the largest ten - year increase since the 1950s and the legacy of previous Comprehensive Spending Reviews was impacting on available fundinin England between 2001 and 2011 was the largest ten - year increase since the 1950s and the legacy of previous Comprehensive Spending Reviews was impacting on available funding.

The government says it put # 5bn into creating new places in the last parliament and would spend another # 7bn over the next six years in response to the steep rise in pupil numbers now affecting both primary and secondary school.

University of Canberra professorial fellow Michelle Grattan and senior lecturer in political science Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics, including Nationals MP George Christensen going solo, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's announcement of a rise in Australia's humanitarian refugee intake, Education Minister Simon Birmingham foreshadowing changes to the Gonski schools funding model, and how the government is approaching welfare spending.

Although the amount schools receive per - pupil has been protected in real terms by the government, rising payroll costs and other pressures are forcing leaders across England to cut their spending.

And when lawmakers in the 113th Congress take office in early January, they also will confront a yawning shortfall in the Pell Grant program, which helps low - income students attend college; grapple with a planned rise in student - loan interest rates; and pass a spending bill financing the federal government for the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year.

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