Sentences with phrase «squeezed by budget cuts»

If he's worried about both bookstores and libraries like he says, shouldn't he be giving the money to the non-profit, government - funded, community institutions that are being squeezed by budget cuts...?»

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Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

The latest reforms, tot - alling an extra # 7bn by 2014, come on top of the # 11bn chopped from Iain Duncan Smith's department in June's emergency Budget through cuts to the disability living allowance, housing benefit, child benefit and a # 3.2 bn tax credit squeeze.

Many school districts, already squeezed by shrinking state education budgets, say that to fill the hole they anticipate would be left by the Republican push to restructure Medicaid, they would either have to cut those services or downsize general education programs that serve all students.