The Shadow Welsh Secretary believes giving Wales the power to raise income tax now would leave the country worse-off.
This has left a dreadful legacy of hostility and ignorance towards the worse-off.
Only 7% think they will be worse-off than their parents, down from 14% last year and the same as in 2011.
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While the Iraqi weapons crisis remains unresolved, American officials have preferred a diplomatic approach to North Korean issues, rather than risk provoking an even worse stand-off with the country's secretive and unpredictable leader, Kim Jong Il.
"Removing the ILF will leave already cash-strapped local authorities even worse off - and they in turn will be looking at ways of cutting back on the support that they provide for disabled people with very high support needs, " he said.
An unexpected spike in oil prices in 2012, due to a stand-off - or worse - with Iran would be a problem for nearly everybody.
You're worse off if your refund--and 2006 contribution--comes up short of what you had calculated.
To be fair to Beckham, though, he was much worse off than the medallion-men of yesteryear.
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The emerging world's hunger for natural resources, on the other hand, has made rich-world consumers palpably worse off by pushing up the prices of oil and other commodities.
Senator CHARLES SCHUMER (Democrat, New York): Their bull in a China shop approach - ignore the Constitution, ignore the rule of law - has made us worse off than we would have been had they gone to Congress originally.
For all the efforts to bolster the IMF, some emerging-market borrowers look even worse off.
Worse, structural reform and a write-off of banks' bad loans may only intensify deflationary pressures.
However, the party's proposals are not without difficulties because some pensioners in receipt of means-tested benefits would be worse off.
If the recession persists and credit ratings deteriorate for once-healthy titans, these backup loans will be taken--and banks will be worse off for it.
If it then threatens to withdraw from its other arms-control treaties with America it could find itself even worse off, since richer America is far better able to look after itself in a rearmament free-for-all.
To make matters worse, the Iridium handset is an off-putting brick 7 inches (18 centimetres) long, weighing 1 pound (450 grams).
Worse still, some entire industries remain closed-off to this type of cross-sector innovation and this, partnered with constrictive supply chains, is stifling technological progress.
It is worse than ironic that in the ensuing stand-off, it will be the poorest countries whom the Meltzer Commission is so keen to help that may lose out.
The North Koreans may not wish to risk a full-scale naval engagement -- its warships came off much worse in the 1999 skirmishes and the technological gap between the two fleets has only widened since.
Among those more likely to say they are better off than worse off: Democrats (55%-11%), 18-29 year olds (53%-12%), Hispanics (51%-18%), African Americans (66%-6%), the Creative Class (42%-26%), the Investor Class (48%-24%), Weekly Wal-Mart Shoppers (41%-30%), and independents (36%-27%).
To make matters worse, Picasa Web-Album syncing had been switched off a week before the information was found.
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Things got worse for Newcastle when scrum-half Hall Charlton went off with a back injury just after half-time.
Jobless school-leavers of all grades find themselves worse off than their parents, without work and apparently without a future.
So even with the assumption that money market rates climb two full percentage points from where they are now, the intermediate-term investments do not leave you worse off.
But McIlroy, who blitzed the Old Course on the first day with a nine-under 63, was 17 shots worse off in his second round with a sorry 80.
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But paying in-work benefits also creates an incentive for firms to cut wages, as the state's wage top-up will ensure their workers are no worse off.
In Britain, according to one estimate published in The Financial Times this week, the typical middle-class working household will be 720 pounds worse off in real terms in 2012 than in 2009.
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For the government, the timing could hardly have been worse: this month, India kicked off a two-month marketing campaign for its biggest sale yet of exploration rights for oil and gas, scheduled for October.
The Premier League said it expected to announce the winners of the auction by the end of the week - adding that it would financially be no worse off because of the Setanta problem.
Yet regulators (such as Consob, which regulates Italy's stockmarket) and sophisticated financial institutions not only failed to spot the trouble, but also let it get worse, overseeing a spiral of debt issuance and off-balance-sheet deals that allowed Parmalat to keep up its pretence.
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