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But most state and local governments that have experienced a collapse in tax revenues must sharply retrench spending by firing policemen, teachers, and firefighters while also cutting welfare benefits and social services for the poor.
It has few training programs, but high benefits for the unemployed and strong restrictions against firing workers.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.
By firing missiles on Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, a boundary has been crossed.
In the firing line are 120,000 civil service jobs.
Or should Israel respond “proportionally,” by firing 10 to 80 rockets, indiscriminately aimed against Gazan homes and schools, every day for the next few years?
Even structural reform reduces output in the short run, because it requires firing workers, shutting down money-losing firms, and gradually reallocating labor and capital to emerging new industries.
Complicating matters further, Trump has continued to direct abusive early morning tweets at members of Congress, the media, and others, while losing or firing top advisers.
Sometimes they even manage to fit these contradictory criticisms in the same sentence, as though they were accusing someone of firing blanks, but somehow leaving people dead and wounded.
Perhaps, before firing any more salvos at a fellow historian, its author should re-read his own book.
Simply put, China’s problem is that its economic growth has been so spectacular that it risks firing people’s imaginations a bit too intensely.
The opposition is firing back, organizing via the National Assembly an official referendum, on the basis of articles 333 and 350 of the constitution.
In firing rockets at Israel, Hamas invited a military response.
The whole point of firing rockets at Israeli cities is to inflict civilian casualties, and the fact that the rockets have largely failed to do so is due to their inaccuracy, Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile-defense system, and perhaps some good luck.
If the costs of firing workers are prohibitively high, firms may not hire additional workers in a market upturn, for fear that they will be unable to reduce their labor costs in a future downturn.
Firing costs are hiring costs, as economists like to say.
Reduce firing costs, and you reduce hiring costs, too.
Whether a reduction in firing costs does boost employment depends on the balance of those two offsetting factors.
The outcome turns on whether firms are more constrained by the hiring costs or by the firing costs.
In more pessimistic times, reducing firing costs will simply lead to more dismissals.
Even Ayatollah Khamenei, who as Supreme Leader is also commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has taken steps to demonstrate his authority, recently firing the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij militia.
Argentina’s Senate recently reacted to very high unemployment by passing a labor market reform bill that cuts union power and gives employers flexibility in hiring and firing.
Policymakers must use stronger metrics to assess human capital and reexamine investment in education, curriculum design, hiring and firing practices, women’s integration into the workforce, retirement policies, immigration legislation, and welfare policies.
Thus, the Mutawa’ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.
Fortunately, in his second term, with Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes at the State Department and Rumsfeld’s reputation dented by failures that in the private sector would have led to his firing or resignation, Bush has shown an increased concern about America’s soft power.
His recent firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was conducting an investigation into his campaign’s ties with Russia, and the Justice Department’s subsequent appointment of a special counsel to continue that investigation, has invited comparisons to the scandal-ridden final years of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
First and foremost, the world economy is firing on all cylinders, with the United States, Europe, and China simultaneously experiencing robust economic growth for the first time since 2008.
It is difficult today to imagine tanks firing on a legally elected parliament or privatization of state assets – as well as delegation of the actual running of the country – to the head of state’s family and business cronies.
Firing workers or even printing money can be easy; changing dysfunctional behaviors is not.
And, finally, there is the gross obstruction of justice represented by the firing of FBI director James Comey, whose main offense seems to have been his refusal to exclude Trump from his investigation of the Kremlin’s criminal interference in the 2016 campaign.
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