As explained earlier, social expenditures include the fiscal items of education; science and technology; culture, sports, and media development; social security and employment; healthcare; and environmental protection.
Since fiscal items adopted by the fiscal authorities from 2007 on are not comparable to those from earlier, and the Fiscal Statistics of Prefectures, Cities and Counties can only provide detailed data for 2007 (not available in 2008 and 2009), this study employs a cross-sectional dataset comprised of 96 counties and county-level cities in 2007.
But having something that's a non-fiscal item -- a separate part of the statute put into the emergency bill, with hardly any review and it's very complex -- we're the first state in the nation to have it -- the bill will pass.
Yes, Congress on occasion in recent decades has attached both fiscal and non-fiscal items to debt limit legislation.
Word started to trickle out within the government after the Senate convened a special session at 4 03 p.m. "The Senate is coming in tonight to pass the non-fiscal items in the bill and the Assembly is tentatively scheduled for 10 00 tomorrow.
The total of fiscal stimulus items was bigger than expected, but it's not clear how much of it will be enacted, Floyd Norris says in the new Weekend Business podcast.
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Given the deepening fiscal problems, luxury items like a pay raise for lawmakers, which seemed possible a couple months ago, have become unlikely, people involved in the negotiations said.
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