The Labour-run city council said it was facing "significant financial pressures" as a result of national budget reductions.
This lesson is important as our political leaders debate the national budget.
Thailand now spends about 20% of the national budget on education, more than it devotes to any other sector.
Republicans did propose block funding for Medicaid to begin stabilizing the national budget.
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But in his own policy address on September 21st Mr Ozawa aimed squarely at a rotten target: the murky national budget.
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In fact, the Republic of Korea spends 5.5 percent of its GNP and one-third of its national budget to defend itself.
As a whole this system will consume 29 percent of the total national budget of JPY 220 trillion in fiscal 2011.
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Since interest payments now absorb about one-third of the national budget, this should eventually liberate lots of money to increase social spending.
If gasoline subsidies are 40% of the national budget now, what will they be in seven years at a growth of 10% a year?
"The best way of clarifying responsibility is to obtain the people's judgment, " Hashimoto told an upper house budget committee while debating the national budget.
But our current discussions largely revolve around the size and persistence of the national budget deficit, the excess of government spending above tax revenue.
Currently two thirds of the national budget is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and national security, leaving 12% for everything else after interest payments.
To keep the price of subsidised bread low for Egypt's 80 million people, the national budget has had to take a big hit this year.
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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and aid has been used to make up a large proportion of the national budget.
The Director-General commended Senegal's commitment to education, to which a significant portion of the national budget is dedicated, placing the country above the continental average.
President Sarkozy made it very clear in his speech in Toulon that he doesn't want Brussels to have control over the French national budget.
The stability and growth pact limits national budget deficits to 3%.
Congress and the President can either work progressively to solve these problems, or sit back and react to the dwindling dollars of our shrinking national budget.
Years of sectarian warfare have given Iraqis enough of a hangover to make them at least try to share revenues, as the 2010 national budget shows.
The idea that the German government may lose control of its national budget and be put under supervision by Brussels is, it seems, too humiliating to contemplate.
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Between them, the fiscal investment and loan programme and the 30-odd special budgets for specific undertakings (eg, road building) add up to more than the national budget.
The flip side of this is that social costs of GLBs -- Guys Left Behind -- will become an increasing drag on society and on the national budget.
Foreign aid comprises more than half of Cambodia's national budget.
India's auto makers were expecting growth measures for the industry in India's latest national budget, but the government instead increased taxes on sport utility vehicles, imported cars and motorcycles.
The Institute of National Remembrance, a state body created in 1998 to preserve memories of Poles' struggles against Nazism and communism, gets money to produce Queue from the national budget.
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In the wake of the events in Egypt, the government raised heating oil allowances for public sector workers after an earlier plan to withdraw subsidies that drain the national budget.
Last night, after weeks of long and difficult negotiations over our national budget, leaders of both parties came together to avert a government shutdown, cut spending, and invest in our future.
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