Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led to measurable improvements in learning.

各种研究表明，教育支出的增加并没有给学习成果带来明显的改善。

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He has made a cast-iron pledge that he will not sign a health bill that increases the deficit, and has promised automatic spending cuts if savings do not materialise.

他发誓不会制定一个增加国家财政赤字的医疗法案，并且保证如果储蓄并不能提取成现金，他将自动减少花费。

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If households are not saving more, why has consumer spending declined as a share of GDP?

如果家庭并没有更多地储蓄，为什么在GDP中的消费支出份额下降了呢？

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

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

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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.

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For its part, China has not increased spending, at least not by much, and has refrained from stimulus.

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This is like indexing your transportation spending to gasoline prices and then saying a gas price spike has not caused your gasoline spending to rise in real terms.

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And his spending has not gone up as much as the fundraising, so he's stockpiling cash.

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