social safety net

The government is trying to impose new real-estate taxes, create a better social-safety net and encourage better worker pay, he said.

A better social safety net, however, might have prevented some of the discontent with trade that began to spread through Congress.

Some sort of social safety net is going to be essential, too, if any of that is to work.

In a society with a minimal social safety net for the elderly, this has led to a strong preference for sons in more traditional areas.

The lack of a social safety net is often blamed for the high Chinese saving rate.

And China doesn't have the kind of social safety net that we do, to catch the unemployed before they reach the bottom.

It is a sort of purification of the soul on the individual level, a cure against miserliness, and a social safety net.

The manufacturing revival isn't going to make health reform unnecessary or obviate the need for a strong social safety net.

Some attribute it to a lack of a social safety net on health care, pensions, etc. as well as anxiety over future inflation.

F. D. R. was able to enact Social Security in part because the Great Depression highlighted the need for a stronger social safety net.

Within that social safety net, the role of women [in particular] is usually very important.

In the absence of a social safety net Chinese workers save a huge proportion of their income in case of sickness.

Without that social safety net, it's hard to see how Chinese don't end up saving most of their stimulus.

The aftermath of the breakup of the USSR also brought widespread industrial closures, and a nearly total collapse of the social safety net.

Social Security is a vital part of the social safety net and should be properly funded and protected at all times.

That will require tough structural changes, from forcing state-owned firms to pay fatter dividends to a stronger social safety net.

Also needed is a grand bargain to tackle the informal economy, in which labour-market reform is linked to a stronger social safety-net.

It doesn't have the kind of social safety net one sees in the developed world, so it needs to keep its economy going at any cost.

Like much of the social safety net, the current UI system was a product of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Good for China: it was clear that much Chinese saving reflected the absence of a social safety net.

This may have been due to new immigrants' need for an enhanced social safety net.

Medicare I think is one of the cornerstones of our social safety net.

It also requires a stronger social safety net that reduces the need for Chinese households to over-save for a rainy day or old age.

Voters set priorities, among them defence, infrastructure and a social safety net.

When the housing bubble popped, consumers defaulted en masse, and the crash caught the country with its social safety net down.

The social safety net for the growing ranks of poor Americans would be further strained.

China, after all, has pressing needs to spend on education, health and a social safety net.

One reason personal savings are high is the lack of an adequate social safety net and the need to pay for education and healthcare.

All this increases demand on the saddest social safety net of all.

Some poor countries, particularly those with excess household saving, could do with a better social safety net.

The new policies mostly worked eventually, once they were backed by a social safety-net.

Corporate welfare should be eliminated for big business, but the social safety net for individuals should be retained.

Lavish redistribution of wealth in turn entails barriers to immigration, lest the social safety net become an immigration magnet.

'Boosting government spending on the social safety net may effectively reduce China's current account surplus, ' Wang wrote.

Without much of a social safety net, the Chinese are unlikely to stop saving and spend.

Slow growth is inevitable, although most west European economies have the reserves and the social safety net to cope with the recession.

Obviously the republicans are in the pockets of lobbyists and don't care about destroying the social safety net - but where's the response?

"But that's why the government is developing infrastructure, education and a nascent social safety net, " he says.

Social safety net programs help protect those hardest hit by the food, fuel and financial crises.

The social safety net of pensions, health care and education barely exists, so Chinese families save heavily.

The country has important political and economic reasons to plug holes in its social safety net.

Yes, China needs to strengthen its social safety net and to deepen domestic capital markets before consumption can take off.

It is also building up the social safety net to stimulate more discretionary spending.

Efforts were intensified to increase employment and improve the social safety net.

The older generation still saves, with lingering memories of privation and the country's flimsy social safety net.

Fifth, substantially raise the level of social security. We have accelerated the improvement of social safety net.

The expansion of the social safety net into rural areas has changed the value of girls and boys, too.

Companies like Walmart, Target, and other major employers using the social safety net as a slush fund to increase profits.

One reason for high savings, Lardy says, is the shredding of the social safety net.

China needs to cut back its investment binge, create a better social-safety net and let its undervalued currency appreciate further.

The Democrats want a stronger social safety net for Japan's fast-ageing society and want to issue a monthly allowance for each child.

The government has raised the minimum wage and moved toward establishing a more effective social safety net.

Alternatively, we can preserve the current social safety net and raise taxes substantially to pay for it.

Building a stronger social safety net and allowing wages to rise would make a big difference.

The fourth is the improvement of social safety net. The $4 trillion RMB Yuan investment does not all come from the government.

And that the social safety net needs to adapt to the 21st century.

We will accelerate improvement of the social safety net for urban and rural residents.

Social safety net programs are virtually non-existent.

Reforms to improve health care and the social safety net will take many years to encourage people to save less.

The Chinese government has also sought to strengthen the social safety net to encourage domestic consumers to spend more.

To give migrants the same housing and other benefits as urban hukou holders, and to build a proper social safety-net will be expensive.

When you elected me, I promised to preserve the social safety net.

The fourth is the improvement of social safety net.

But Mr. Wang says Chinese consumers aren't waiting for the government to build a new social safety net before they spend more.

In addition to coping with grief, they may find themselves for the first time since marriage without any social safety net.

But as the Chinese government implements a social safety net, they will.

We will move faster to build a better social safety net to provide basic security to people and free them from worries.

The most significant risk is getting sick because there is no social safety net in China.

We will strengthen employment work and the social safety net.

Some are well known, and based on legislated promises, such as the underfunded social safety net.

The burden is on the government to create a working social safety net for its citizens.

Second, the Chinese have a high savings rate because the old social safety net has disintegrated.

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