But health spending has rocketed over the past generation to about seventeen percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Consumer spending has increased eight months in a row.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

The crisis in Greece has threatened to spread to other countries and has led to protests and violence over spending cuts.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for independent spending by businesses and labor unions in political campaigns.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Spending on weddings has reportedly dropped about ten percent in recent years because of the economic recession.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The state has had to make severe cuts in school spending because of deep financial problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The weak job market has not only hurt spending, the lifeblood of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

And World Bank President Robert Zoellick has called on rich nations to put some of their economic recovery spending into a crisis fund to help poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

To jump-start its recovery plan, Fujii says,the government has identified $98 billion worth of wasteful spending to cut.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

But now that revenue is not enough for the government, which has boosted domestic spending by subsidizing food and taking over private enterprises."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

He has proposed a freeze on some domestic spending, and sought a bipartisan commission to craft a plan to tackle America's long-term fiscal imbalances.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

has a $13 trillion debt. "We have to make tough decisions about spending beyond our means."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

He says the U.S.consumer has cut spending. That may mean exporters will have to boost demand in their own nations to keep their economies growing.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

At home,Mr.Obama has focused on government spending to jump-start the economy and he was expected to urge other nations to take similar steps at the economic summit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

U.S.President Barack Obama has proposed a freeze on non-entitlement domestic spending, while awaiting recommendations from a bipartisan commission tasked with charting a course to a balanced federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

While the loudest complaints about President Obama's budget come from Republicans, he has also heard concerns about deficit spending from Democrats, including Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

That has led to charges by Republicans the economic recovery is an illusion, funded by inefficient government spending that has weakened America's long-term economic position by vastly expanding the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The new government has promised an emergency budget within 50 days and has already said it will cut spending by nearly New Prime Minister David Cameron says savings can be achieved by getting rid of inefficiencies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13