Sentences with phrase «when public spending cuts»

Analysts expect unemployment to rise significantly when public spending cuts begin later in the year.

Not exact matches

Seemingly without irony, Clegg told the conference floor: «To those who ask, incredulously, what we — the Liberal Democrats — are doing cutting public spending, I simply say this: Who suffers most when governments go bust?

This is despite the catch - all language of «cuts» used by political opponents, as well as by governments themselves when it suited to portray themselves as bearing down hard on public spending.

But I bet you that, when all those people are deciding which name to put a cross by on 2 May, ultimately they'll be asking themselves the same question: «While cuts are being made to public spending, who can I rely on to spend the money that is available on the right things?»

As a result we are set to spend # 97 billion on new nuclear weapons at a time when public spending faces deep cuts.

When it comes to giving the public reassurance on spending cuts, Nick Clegg manages to raise more questions than he answers.

When the Labour governments elected in those years squandered their political support by wave after wave of pay restraint and finally IMF - inspired cuts in public spending, Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 and made a last ditch attempt to stem the Tory decline.

In 2001 when a shadow Treasury minister he had to go into hiding during that year's election campaign after claiming the Tories wanted to cut public spending by # 20 billion rather than the # 8 billion they had publicly stated.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

Labour, trade unions and some economists argue that by drastically cutting spending in the public sector the government is preventing demand in the economy, just when international markets become more and more volatile.

Bloomberg will likely issue a plea for lawmakers to restore some of NYC's $ 300 million in aid to localities Gov. Andrew Cuomo axed in his 2011 - 2012 spending plan and also ask for the repeal of «last in, first out» rule when it comes to laying off public school teachers, which he says the governor's cuts will force him to do if they're allowed to stand.

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

There are also disagreements on Europe and when to start cutting public spending.

«When to cut public spending?»

That's when the voting public elect Dems to fix the deficit spending and bring down the debt with the only tool available being raising taxes or cutting the few services available to the residents.

And when we're done with these cuts, spending on public services will actually still be at the same level as it was in 2006.

Conservatives should not be pledging to continue the biggest ever peacetime increase in public spending when ordinary Britons are having to cut their own budgets.

This, The Sunday Times tells us, «is higher than the 49.7 % peak reached when Denis Healey had to turn to the IMF for help in 1976, and underlines the scale of the crisis in the public finances and the even deeper cuts in spending that will be needed after the election.»

In his budget last month, Chancellor George Osborne said departments would face average cuts of 25 % when the government's public spending review is completed in October - potentially bigger than anything attempted by a previous UK government.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

What the government has promised to do is cut the nation's structural deficit - the public sector spending deficit that exists even when the economy is operating at its full potential.

At a time when public spending is to be cut, how vital is it to retain universal welfare benefits, such as child benefit, winter fuel allowances and free bus passes for the over 60s?

At a time when the public are warming towards spending increases - DC lauds the fact he has asked every shadow minister to find cuts!

«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.

At a time when pressure on school places and buildings is increasing, and the public sector is being asked to make more cuts on spending, it is critical that school providers understand current issues on planning if they are to make best use of their built assets, according to Karen Cooksley and Lindsay Garratt from law firm Winckworth Sherwood

When it comes to traditional public schools, more than three out of every four parents surveyed said they were opposed to reducing compensation for teachers or cutting resources for the classroom while increasing spending on charter schools.

It argues that by improving their finances when economic performance is strong, governments will have more scope to use tax cuts or increases in public spending to combat a future downturn.