Sentence examples for popular spending from inspiring English sources
They contend their stance could have special resonance with conservatives unhappy with the recent Republican reluctance to resist popular spending programs.
Both Mr. Kohn and Mr. Bernanke seemed to be warning lawmakers that they could not focus exclusively on comparatively popular spending and tax-cut programs.
In 2008, after winning election as governor of the region that includes Osaka, he surprised many by fulfilling campaign pledges to balance the budget with drastic but ultimately popular spending cuts on items from welfare to children's libraries.
Along the way, he could highlight women's issues, social mobility issues (student loans, community college funding) and pick fights on compassion issues, (hurricane relief) — promoting any small, popular spending programs that Republicans will oppose.
As a ComRes/ITV News poll published in February showed, health and education are the two most popular spending areas, with defence trailing in sixth place (behind police and law enforcement, welfare and transport).
House and Senate negotiators finally worked out a compromise this week on the size and scope of the package and tacked it on to a popular spending bill for military construction projects.
Galárraga et al. (2010) observe that households insured with Seguro Popular spent 171 pesos less on outpatient services and 360 pesos less on medicines per year relative to non-enrolled households.
That won't be nearly as popular as spending money now, but it's an opportunity to show some real leadership.
It is hard to say which is the more ambitious aim this or transforming America's largest and most popular domestic spending programme.
Americans consider the widening deficit and debt a big deal; they also reject most of the measures necessary to deal with the threat by warning against touching entitlements like Medicare and Social Security or popular discretionary spending programs.
Many families look set to spend the festive season feasting on smoked salmon and gin while they play with a toy train set, judging by the latest official figures on popular winter spending.
