Bloated state pension systems need to be re-worked and state governments need to balance budgets.
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The pressure on Amazon has been growing as states struggle to balance budgets and local retailers suffer.
You will have to balance budgets but make sure that your residents are educated, policed and kept healthy.
Governments also cut jobs last month as they struggled to balance budgets amid weak revenue and declining stimulus dollars.
States and local governments avoided efforts to balance budgets earlier on in the year shunning the opportunity to issue more debt.
European nations, for instance, have been raising taxes for decades, almost always saying that higher taxes were necessary to balance budgets and control red ink.
There are better ways to balance budgets and work toward reform.
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Not only must governments heal financial systems, they also have to balance budgets or at least get them back to something that looks like sane economics.
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In Europe these exactions are supposed to balance budgets, which in turn will save the euro, which in turn will lead to a new round of prosperity.
Job cuts are being dominated by the public sector, where 19, 000 jobs were cut in March, a 17% increase from February, as state governments struggle to balance budgets.
But many worry that, at a time of widespread crisis, such pro-cyclical rules risk imposing too much austerity too widely, thus darkening the spectre of recession and making it even harder to balance budgets.
If they can persuade the German Chancellor that it makes sense, even from the standpoint of the public finances, to balance budgets over a longer time frame, they might actually be able to reach a deal.
With the budget and the powers he's got, rather than those he would prefer to have, and with the election successfully behind him, he has to balance budgets over three years that are continuing this current year's severe squeeze.
As states work to balance budgets and Midwestern states host political battles that hold the fates of union benefits for manufacturing and state employees, labor is seeing a troubled push and pull between workers who are struggling to match their wages with what the economy needs from them in terms of consumption.
For example, it tells countries to balance their budgets -- a fine sentiment, but how you balance a budget is critical.
Thanks to the requirement that they balance their budgets, states are furiously cutting spending.
The country's provincial governors have been given the freedom to choose how they balance their budgets.
Medicaid's rising cost has become one of the biggest problems for states struggling to balance their budgets.
Their efforts to balance their budgets are commendable, but in most cases they do not go far enough.
There is a proposal led by France and Germany that eurozone countries should be required to balance their budgets.
While Washington can wallow in red ink, states have to balance their budgets.
States can balance their budgets, therefore, without reducing services, by cutting public sector salaries and shifting away from unionized labor.
States are supposed to balance their budgets and absorbing state budget deficits on the federal level should be considered illegal.
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Most states must balance their budgets on a year-by-year basis, so they face higher taxes or reduced spending in the coming year.
Instead, Ms Merkel proposed that a requirement for eurozone members to balance their budgets should be enshrined in each of their constitutions.
American families have to balance their budgets, and so should their Government.
But managers say they remain focused on trying to balance their budgets.
So far, it seems that these countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are using their windfalls to reduce their debts and balance their budgets.
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Unlike the federal government, which can borrow money to plug its budgetary gap, almost all the states are required to balance their budgets.
One-shots are traditionally used to balance state budgets during tough economic times, and they have been used in New Jersey for at least two decades.
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