Sentences with phrase «since austerity cuts»

ATLANTA, GA — This is the first time since austerity cuts began more than a decade ago that the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Formula is fully funded.

ATLANTA, GA - This is the first time since austerity cuts began more than a decade ago that the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Formula is fully...

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The draft legislation is the latest in a series of income cuts, tax hikes and reforms imposed on austerity - weary Greeks since 2010, when the debt crisis exploded that brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy and expulsion from the eurozone — the club of European Union countries that use the euro currency.

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.

Since 2010 mainly northern Labour - led councils have complained bitterly that they have been unfairly squeezed by austerity while southern Conservative - led councils have had nowhere near the same level of cuts imposed on them.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

The austerity cuts across Europe are taking hundreds of billions of euro out of the European economy, pushing the eurozone into its second recession since 2008.

But the impact of austerity measures is evident in key public sector occupations since 2011, with the majority of the real wage cuts experienced by teaching and educational professionals, social workers and nurses has happened in the past three years.

Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board's austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers» poverty — forcing them onto taxpayer - funded social assistance,