Sentence examples similar to poor austerity from inspiring English sources

But when a private firm has been entrusted with cutting benefits costs as part of the government's blame-the-poor austerity drive nothing, it seems, is deemed too harsh.

His critics (including many Lib Dems) take fairness to mean exempting the poor from austerity measures as far as possible.

It was about national identity, about the north-south divide, about the gulf between the well-off and the poor, about austerity cuts and welfare policies that destroy hope and break families, about a long history of societal disintegration and decay.

It bears repeating that the European Union is wildly maybe irrevocably dysfunctional. It's a neoliberal nightmare more suited to letting Belgian bureaucrats play out petty Napoleon complexes and whipping the poor with austerity measures than it is to building a genuinely democratic multinational community.

In Cork's poorest neighborhoods, austerity has meant layoffs, economic uncertainty and often little support.

Life for the poorest in austerity Britain to get harder; life for the richest to be made easier: surely even the most tin-eared of politicians wouldn't get caught out like that, unless their war chest depended on it.

Poor growth, widespread austerity programmes and the winding up of job-creating stimulus measures threaten further unemployment overall.

Cutting back is for the poor, just as "austerity" meant slashing social programs, not CEO salaries.

"We think the time has come where we cannot allow the headwinds of voter suppression, an assault on the poor through fiscal austerity and the staggering black unemployment numbers to mute the progress of our people," Morial said.

Years of government austerity, poor housing policy and a House of Commons full of private landlords mean that the problems facing the ill, the elderly and the vulnerable in housing estates like Sky City – even if they don't have the novelty of living three storeys up in the sky – are likely to get very much worse before they get better.

In other words, don't hit the poor too hard with austerity.