Sentence examples for devastating state from inspiring English sources

"Sharp increases in pension costs are unsustainable and are devastating state and local governments," Robert Megna, Governor Cuomo's budget director, said in a statement.

Like all states, they see healthcare's hyperinflation is devastating state budgets and education budgets, in particular (see Bill Gates TED Talk for more).

The school district has made $100 million in cuts in recent years due to devastating state education cuts.

Fatigue is a devastating state of body and mind associated with distress at the end of life.

Not only does this cost the taxpayer money through court costs and ever-increasing backlogs, but it leaves asylum seekers in a devastating state of limbo.

The Pine Ridge Reservation is experiencing a devastating state of emergency thanks in part to decades of federal neglect of and divestment from indigenous communities.

The slowly improving economy is returning some bargaining power to workers, while the high-profile strikes of 2013 have served as a shot in the arm after devastating state-level setbacks in places like Michigan and Wisconsin.

To address a general budget shortfall of four hundred million dollars, a record-length legislative session dragged into June; that funding impasse was resolved with a bill that raises sales and cigarette taxes (by a hefty fifty cents per pack) while mostly preserving the business income-tax exclusion that has devastated state revenues.

When the recession of the late aughts devastated state budgets, liberal and conservative concerns converged: this time, liberals sought to lower imprisonment rates in service of social justice and in order to free up resources for education and health programs, while conservatives sought the same in service of reduced spending.

The global recession absolutely devastated state revenues.

Few of these patients ever left the hospital; those who did were in vegetative or otherwise neurologically devastated states.