Sentences with phrase «weak state economy»

And one of the rare progressive tax proposals to outline an actual tax structure in Illinois would hike income taxes on residents earning as little as $ 17,300, inflicting serious damage on an already - weak state economy.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

Given the weak state of the economy, a budgetary deficit should be embraced, not feared.

The economy is really being supported — this isn't just in the United States, it's in Japan, the ECB and Britain — the economy is being supported by quantitative easing that is allowing for a massive budget deficit and money printing exercises to go on... As you address the fiscal problems, you are going to have weak economic growth.

The affluent city - state's economy has been hobbled by dwindling exports amid stubbornly weak global demand, while domestic consumption has also remained anemic with entire floors at some central shopping malls empty.

The global economy is ending the year in a fragile state with factory activity shrinking in China, euro zone business growth remaining weak, and emerging market giant Russia in a spiraling currency crisis.

In the United States, the economy struggles under the continuing burdens of balance sheet restructuring and extremely weak employment growth.

With a weak economy, Russia has little leverage to pressure China to meet its commitments, other than seeking investments from other Asian neighbors; Japan and South Korea, however, are even more reluctant investors than China, given their desire to maintain a united front with the United States on sanctions.

But Japan is almost the opposite to the United States — weak economy, barely positive interest rates, massive fiscal deficit, trade surplus and an economic culture based on conventional manufacturing.

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

One way or another, in economies like the United States that do not suffer from weak access to capital, a reduction in foreign capital inflows automatically increases domestic savings.

In today's environment of weak global demand, there has been little appetite among any major economies for the excess production and savings of these major surplus nations, but the absence of capital controls has made the United States the default adjustment for global capital imbalances.

In the United States, there is growing concern that the recovery may not be taking hold, as the economy struggles under the continuing burdens of balance sheet restructuring and extremely weak employment growth.

Instead, he sees parallels between the weak global economy in the years immediately after World War II and the state of things today.

Addressing the press conference, dubbed `' The true state of the economy and a government in a state of denial: The NPP's response to the Senchi Consensus, and connected matters» Minority leader of the NPP, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu said, `' assessment of the Ghanaian economy so far point to an economy with weak and deteriorating fundamentals.»

The governor says he had to cope with a $ 10 billion state budget deficit, and an ongoing weak economy.

They would never opt to endorse a BUSINESSMAN from the place with the weakest economy in the state.

Cuomo says he had to cope with a $ 10 billion dollar state budget deficit, and an ongoing weak economy.

Niagara County lawmakers received the first segment of a two - part annual briefing on the state of the county's economy and economic development efforts from the men tasked with leading the herculean effort to keep Niagara County's economy growing against the backdrop of a weak national economy Tuesday night.

Nelson's Republican opponents insist he is hobbled by his ties to President Obama and is deeply exposed in a state where the economy has been especially weak.

Over the summer President Obama sketched a concept for a cap - and - trade bill that would legislate significant cuts in the United States» carbon emissions, but widespread skepticism — along with a weak economy — forced Senate majority leader Harry Reid to concede last July that such a bill would not pass.

Critics of the current system argue that if Europeans get this right, Europe could become a more attractive research environment than the United States, which is suffering from a weak economy and deep cuts in federally funded research.

Because states must maintain balanced budgets, state appropriations for higher education tend to fall when the economy (and therefore tax revenues) are weak.

Other low - spending states, such as Mississippi and New Mexico, don't have the capacity to spend more because their regional economies are too weak, he said.

The state economies are weak at present.

As noted above, about two thirds of the US is critical, if not hostile, to the stated objectives of those who promote Anthropogenic Climate Change; which, on the surface, seem designed mainly to hobble our already - weak economy with draconian emissions regulation, while looting it to pay for dubious pre-facto «restitution» to more impoverished regimes around the world.

Cap and trade is long dead in the United States, a victim of shifting political winds, fierce oil industry opposition and a weak economy.

The Court once again displayed its distaste for class - actions, with Kennedy stating that expanding causes of action in securities litigation would damage the economy and «would allow plaintiffs with weak claims to extort settlements from innocent companies.»

In the recent January edition of «On the Markets,» from the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Investment Committee, the accommodative fiscal policy of both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank will bolster financial markets and support weak and slow - growing economies in Europe and the United States.