Sentences with phrase «social safety nets meant»

Mounting pension costs, declining tax bases, crumbling infrastructure and a growing number of out - of - work citizens relying on social safety nets meant deep budget deficits and tides of red ink.

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I mean, literally not only have they, as a population, been cut to no social safety net, no social security, yet the Syriza government keeps getting supported, elected in referendums, and they seem to be able to maintain power in spite of these austerity measures.

Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change.

Gallo blamed the city's Safety Net woes on a web of circumstances, including the state's 30 - day residency requirement for welfare — which means that even short - termKingstonresidents can end up on the Safety Net rolls — to Kingston's abundance of rental housing, public transportation and social service facilities, which make it an attractive destination for the down and out.

To do that means encouraging tens of millions of Chinese to move to cities to live while creating a social safety net and laws, particularly on land ownership, that will give them the confidence to do so.

Social Security is a safety net for most people, but it was never meant to be a full retirement plan.

Micro-financing and other social safety nets and social welfare grants, as a means to enhance adaptation to current and future shocks and stresses, may be successful in overcoming such constraints if supported by local institutional arrangements on a long - term sustainable basis (Ellis, 2003; Chigwada, 2005).

Or do you mean «risk management» in lowercase, by which you mean gambling and hoping you don't have to resort to the social safety net, leeching off your family, getting government bailouts because you're too big to fail, or going bankrupt and leaving your creditors in the lurch?