Sentences with phrase «waste in public spending»

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With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

The quickest way to bring down the deficit would be to wage a war on waste in the public sector so that public spending is brought back under control once again.

For instance, if you're a reporter and you're spending minutes a day tweeting about your morning coffee - and - a-bagel, you're probably just wasting time — yours and others» — unless it's within the context of a cunning plan to humanize you in the eyes of an adoring public.

«This has led to gross public financial failure and reckless spending by the government, as we have it on record that Governor Bello has wasted and lavished over N230bn in one year.

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 Powell, who was chief - of - staff to Tony Blair, throughout his 10 years in Downing Street, explains that in the final year of the Blair government they tried to conduct a Fundamental Savings Review (FSR), to cut out some of the extra waste which he says had «inevitably built up in the years of increased public spending».

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

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

If not, then Labour may have to come to terms with the public perception that they spent too much and wasted too much money in office.

For decades, public sentiment, expressed in hearings, protests, public opinion polls, and other means, has strongly opposed spent nuclear fuel and high level waste storage or disposal in New Mexico.

He said: «If, in the autumn, the public finances continue to reflect the improvements that today's report hints at, then, in accordance with our balanced approach — and using the flexibility provided by the fiscal rules — I would have the capacity to enable further increases in public spending and investment in the years ahead while continuing to drive value for money to ensure that not a single penny of precious taxpayers» money is wasted.»

The article may very well be the most powerful take - down yet of the Common Core and, in this case, the Malloy administration's plan to spend up to $ 1 million in public funds on an absolutely absurd waste of $ 1 million to advertise and promote he warped Common Core standards.

Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce resources competing for students.

The Atlanta public schools, like many districts across the country, have eliminated recess in elementary schools as a waste of time that would be better spent on -LSB-...]