Sentences with phrase «spending during the recession»

First, women made big concessions in spending during the recession, and women make 70 percent of the purchases.

David Cameron has defended his plans to increase international development spending during the recession.

The Tories opposed intervention to prop up the banking system, rejected support for home owners, jobs and consumer spending during this recession.

Not exact matches

The recession hit during their formative years, making them especially circumspect about spending.

They slashed training budgets during the recession, and though that spending is coming back — up 15 % in 2013, according to a Deloitte survey — corporate talent development is thought to be a dying art.

As Business Insider has previously reported, these 18 to 35 - year - olds grew up during a recession, which has impacted their spending habits.

Worse, PBO head Kevin Page claimed that the bulk of this deficit was «structural» — that is, not a consequence of the stimulus spending and automatic stabilizers that kicked in during the recession.

CEO security spending reached its peak in 2010, when the median totaled $ 85,425 — a figure Boyd says may be attributed to companies updating or reviving security protocols after cutting back during the recession.

The country is also second only to the U.S. in share of GDP spent on post-secondary education and closely trailed Taiwan in increased manufacturing hours during the recession recovery in 2009 and 2010.

During the recession that followed, the company's primary clients — banks and other financial institutions — were shedding workers and curtailing spending.

During recessions, of course, consumers set stricter priorities and reduce their spending.

Given the maturity of this medium, spending on email remained flat for years, though its efficiency did draw some B2B dollars during the economic recession, according to a new eMarketer report, «B2B Email Marketing: Benchmarks and Best Practices for 2014.»

During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C., in private jets to seek federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.

But they said automakers» incentive spending in the United States in the first half of March had hit a record for the month, breaking the previously set mark in March 2009 during the height of the Great Recession.

The government is also aware that during the 2009 - 10 recession the deficit reached an historical high although much of that was due to the temporary stimulus spending.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Just like any other business, the demand for cleaning services usually declined during recession period / economic downturn and this is due to declining corporate spending on cleaning services and reduced demand from business clients.

The first is that while STORE's tenant base is largely immune from current industry challenges (the decline of brick - and - mortar retail), that doesn't mean its heavy focus on services isn't exposed to economic weakness, such as when consumer spending falls during a recession.

His comment on Keynesian economics is in reference to the theory that governments should spend more — even by running deficits — to stimulate the economy during hard times and government should pay off debt and prepare for future recessions during good times.

A cut in consumers» paychecks — with the expiration on Jan. 1 of the payroll tax break established during the recession — might mean less traffic for many restaurants, or a reduction in the amount of money people are willing to spend on casual food.

McAleese says the company also provides convenient, low - cost products that have proven popular during the recession as people eat out less frequently and spend more time at home.

Obviously there's volatility with income taxes during a recession, but I would think the tendency of people to slow spending on unnecessary goods during a recession would be particularly damaging to a consumption tax.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

Adding back temporary federal stimulus funds used to supplement state funds in each of the last three years, state operating spending under the new budget is up a whopping 8.4 percent over 2007 - 08, although both personal income and private - sector economic activity in New York has dropped sharply during the Great Recession.

Stiglitz and Orszag conclude that the least damaging type of temporary gap closing action during a recession is a tax on the portions of income that are least likely to be spent.

During the 2010 - 11 school year, the adjustment was a $ 2.7 billion cut to state education spending to balance the budget as the state emerged from a recession.

Instead Brown may play a longer game and gamble that a Tory minority administration making unpopular spending cuts during a double - dip recession will rapidly lose support, raising the prospect of fighting an autumn election with his record for economic competence intact.

The governor queried the economic sense in taking over N12 trillion loan so as to be able to spend more money during economic recession.

Global poverty: During the last recession Ken Clarke, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, cut international aid spending.

State spending can be particularly vulnerable during recessions, because states have balanced - budget rules, which prevent them from running temporary deficits during downturns to compensate for revenue shortfalls.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Surprisingly people continue to spend as much money on many leisure activities during a recession as they do in times of prosperity.

For example, the risk of property crime increases during a recession, and if budget cuts means that this is combined with reduced spending on physical security measures, it is easy to see how schools could face increasing burglary problems.

To isolate the effect of the recessionary spending cuts from that of the general ill - effects of the recession, Cora Wigger, Heyu Xiong and I rely on the fact that states that relied heavily on state taxes to fund public schools experienced the deepest education revenue cuts during the recession, on average.

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

Utah's last - in - nation spending on students fell even further Education» Analysis shows state's schools took bigger hit than most during recession.

Almost every state is now spending more on education than during the recession, according to Mike Griffith, a senior policy analyst with the Education Commission of the States.

Utah emerged from the downturn spending nearly 9 percent less per student than during the recession and sluggish recovery, according to the analysis by Ben Casselman at the FiveThirtyEight blog.

Their average education spending per child jumped 35 percent to $ 5,210 a year during the recession compared with the two preceding years — and they sustained that faster pace through the recovery.

Months ago the members directed Superintendent John Deasy to devise a spending plan that included a laundry list of wants, needs and programs, including rehiring employees laid off during the recession and bringing back student - to - teacher and student - to - counselor ratios to 2007 levels.

Much of the state of Pennsylvania's $ 440 million increase in education spending was also allocated to teacher pensions, catching up on missed contributions during the recession.

This influx of funds, together with declines in state and local spending during the Great Recession, drove an increase in the federal share to around 13 percent through 2011 - 12.

When the economy is in bad shape, as it was during the Great Recession that began in late 2007, the Fed can cut interest rates to spur more borrowing and, thus, more spending.

Even though Providence's full - service / fast food differential and per capita restaurant spending are a bit below the national averages, it gets the number five spot because of its impressive growth in restaurants during the recession, as well as a very low people - to - restaurant ratio.

Consumer spending slowed during the first quarter, to just 0.1 per cent growth, leading some observers to believe they were focused on consolidating debt after borrowing heavily during the recession.

While coming of age during a recession undoubtedly affects your spending habits, we have seen enough evidence on both sides to suggest that millennials are financially responsible and yet still encumbered by significant debt.

At this point, I think it's irrelevant in terms of day - to - day forecourt spending habits, and considering Applegreen's growth record during a savage Irish recession, I don't expect it poses any serious threat to its long - term growth plans].

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«During the recession, we noticed that it wasn't just that people weren't spending as much, there weren't as many new people coming into the hobby,» he adds.

During the recession, consumers» spending habits reflected their economic concerns, and the demand for inexpensive toys increased, says Ellen Lawson, owner and president of Fluff & Tuff, a Troy, Mich. - based designer of ultra-plush, durable dog toys.