People are feeling for their jobs while MPs are spending public money on cleaning moats and tennis courts.
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Saving measures include reducing street cleaning, public toilets and the number of children's centres.
Then the best punishment I can mete out is for them to go and spend several weeks cleaning out public toilets and sewers.
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Asset sales are an attractive way of cleaning up the public balance-sheet without doing anything that further chokes demand.
Congress is suffering from historically low approval ratings, prompting frank admissions that the bill is aimed at cleaning up its public image.
It says its members' alternative suggestions for saving money include scrapping the internal market in the NHS and bringing outsourced services such as bin collection and street cleaning back under public control.
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Aware of the potential of her project but unable to finance it she applied to a government tender scheme that allows small businesses or individuals to bid for one-off jobs with public bodies, such as cleaning or construction contracts.
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Under heavy pressure from unions to rule as it did, the administration made its decision following a Labor Department assessment that public sector work, from cleaning streets to processing government forms, qualified as work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Each year, 50 residents of Red Hook and the surrounding area perform community-based public service, including repairing broken locks on people's homes and cleaning up graffiti.
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Mr Curtis said the money the council spent on street cleaning "could be better spent repairing our roads or repairing our schools or even refurbishing our public toilets".
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