Sentences with phrase «year of austerity»

Services for all survivors of sexual violence, whether gender - specific or gender - inclusive, had already been stretched close to breaking point by years of austerity policies.

«After years of austerity which have increased pressures on schools, the funding reforms must be managed in a way that does not add to the existing pressures on schools or result in «knee - jerk» responses that increase the burdens placed on teachers.

The risk of inflicting several more years of austerity on the British people is a price worth paying for leaving the EU, Iain Duncan Smith suggested last night.

«After two and a half years of austerity, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is likely to say that the fiscal hole that Mr Osborne promised to eliminate in five years, back in May 2010, is actually bigger now than it was then,» she writes.

At least with Corbyn as leader we can offer a genuine alternative and appeal to voters fed up with ten years of an austerity which owes everything to Tory ideology and nothing to good economic sense.

On the heels of six years of austerity budgets dating to 2008, the Executive Budget proposes another year of spending cuts in a host of areas, and lays out a multi-year plan of steep spending cuts that will extend the austerity measures for three more years, thus completing an «austerity decade» for New York.

That's been the experience of 25 years of privatizing: It helps very few, and many students now go to schools that have faced years of austerity and disinvestment.

In a recent talk at Oxford's Saïd Business School, Martin Wolf predicted at least ten years of austerity in Europe.

These measures are «imposed on a system that has already been weakened by several years of austerity,» says Amaya Moro - Martín, a spokesperson of the researchers» organization Investigación Digna.

Lawmakers and the governor agreed that education spending should rise after many years of austerity, passing a tax increase to help cover a salary hike of about $ 6,100 a year.

She told the Guardian: «This referendum has revealed that there are a lot of people [who] feel they don't have a voice, that this country is not working for them and they have faced a combination of years of austerity and a rapid pace of change in their community they didn't vote for.

But to the government's credit, it has hit most of its spending targets in the first few years of the austerity program Flaherty.

we are playing catch up after years of austerity havjng to pay off the stadium... laat 3 years have seen us spend between 30 and 50mn which would and should be seen as big fees yet now Pogba goes for 80mn plus and Mbappe now being pitched at 150mn plus and Neymar 200mn!!

«It will be paid for by further years of austerity, public services brought to near collapse, public sector pay cuts and a welfare cap that bites into the safety net that any of us might need.

The consensus is that not only is Cuomo returning to his liberal roots after two years of austerity proposals, but he's positioning himself as a true - blue Democrat should he run for president in 2016.

Following 1929, Britain had two years of austerity before another election in 1931.

David Cameron finally offered the electorate a prize for years of austerity: tax - cuts, across the board, for 30 million people.

Johnson said adding together the budget cuts covering the eight years of austerity from 2010 to 2018, some departments could be forced to provide services based on a cut of 40 % or more in their budgets.

In 2012 Reeves urged the Liberal Democrats to choose to become a radical centrist political party, «a hard - driving radical liberal party of the political centre», continuing his campaign for centre left Liberal Democrats to leave, «Any attempt to position the Liberal Democrats as a party of the centre left after five years of austerity government in partnership with the Conservatives will be laughed out of court by the voters — and rightly so.

But the demos do symbolise something that should worry all political leaders: that we are entering three or four years of austerity at a time when politicians, post-expenses-row and grappling with the harsh politics of defeat (in Labour's case) and coalition (in the case of the Tories and Lib Dems) mean that the very people who have to prescribe year after year of harsh medicine are less trusted and less respected than at any time in living memory.

What possible good can come of fragmenting a system to breaking point, especially with years of austerity behind us, and probably years to come?

«As well as addressing this acute problem, the Government has to be prepared to raise pay as the economy improves — the British public expect this as part of the deal following years of austerity and pay restraint.

Deal added close to $ 167 million to the state budget, a restoration after years of austerity cuts.

The Greek government, elected early this year on a platform of ending years of austerity imposed by Germany and other lenders, is pushing back against further pension cuts and higher taxes, saying they would further weaken an already crippled economy.

MANITOULIN — A decision by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to reduce employer premiums is an insult to injured workers who have already suffered through years of austerity, says the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).

But the Comptroller warns that if there's too many more years of austerity, public services will suffer.

To put $ 250 billion in perspective, it is about the current size of Greek GDP, after 3 and a half years of austerity.

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Strapped for cash after 3 years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing for an even harsher year ahead.

That's been the experience of 25 years of privatizing - it helps very few, and many others now go to schools that have faced years of austerity and disinvestment.

Speaking exclusively to CNBC in Lisbon, Centeno promised to bring a fresh approach to policymaking after years of austerity.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

The chancellor recognised that seven years of austerity had left the British public feeling «weary» but said increasing tax to pump more money into the public sector was not the answer.

«There's no way Ireland is going to sit through 10 years of austerity,» says Mark Blyth, an international political economist at Brown University.

Reforms will have to be meticulous and excruciating for Greece to stand any chance of eventually paying its own way, but it is by no means certain that after five years of austerity and a 25 % drop in the size of the economy, another severe dose of the same will solve Greece's long - term problems.

The Conservatives also earned the ire of public sector workers, fatigued after seven years of austerity.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

After four years of austerity that had come down particularly hard on teachers, nurses and doctors, police officers, firefighters and so on, he suggested that my question ought to be: «How is it you are doing so well?»

The stigmatisation of poverty and the notion of the deserving versus undeserving poor has become more and more prevalent over the last seven years of austerity.

«I think we have to have a serious analysis of where we go on economic policy, because if all we're offering is another five years of austerity - light rather than austerity - heavy it's not much of a choice.»

«On his own chosen measure, we will probably find out today that the chancellor has literally nothing to show for nearly three years of austerity.»

Today he will probably say it starts now, so in reality he's announcing eight years of austerity.

Even this government, after years of austerity and savage cuts to investment is starting to change its tune.

He persuaded the public that the years of austerity were worth the pain and that there genuinely is light at the end of the tunnel.

Actually it does because the Tory manifesto will be used during the crucial last three weeks of the campaign to do the one thing that had to be done - to show the public who have had a tough time that five years of austerity were worth the pain as well as revealing that the light at the end of the tunnel is the Good Life.

Another six years of austerity is likely to have an enormous knock - on effect as companies lack conditions favourable for growth.

The 2015 intake of Tory MPs is also thought to be closer to Poulter on social issues and keen to soften the image of the Conservatives after eight years of austerity.

Fundamentally, the chickens of seven years of austerity are firmly home to roost.

He points out the «deal» Osborne offered voters in 2010 was four years of austerity.

Years of austerity, cuts and scrounger rhetoric have devastated provision.