#Austerity
Events indexed under #Austerity — 22 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Into Law: $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts, 11.8 Million Projected to Lose Coverage Donald Trump · JD Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-18 | Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action Puerto Rican Workers' Union · Central Workers' Federation · United Auto Workers · Electrical Workers' Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-03 | Ecuador Indigenous Uprising Forces Moreno to Withdraw IMF-Backed Fuel Subsidy Cuts Lenín Moreno · CONAIE · International Monetary Fund · Rafael Correa | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-20 | Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Exposing Infrastructure Collapse While McKinsey Continues Advising on Privatization and Austerity McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority · Naomi Klein | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-13 | McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government · Rafael Torregrosa | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Puerto Rico Defaults on $422 Million Bond Payment, Triggering Largest Municipal Debt Crisis in U.S. History Alejandro García Padilla · Puerto Rico Government Development Bank · Puerto Rico Government · Hedge Fund Creditors | confirmed | |
| 2015-08-19 | Greece Accepts Third Bailout of €86 Billion Despite 61% Referendum Rejection Six Weeks Earlier Alexis Tsipras · European Stability Mechanism · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-05 | Greeks Vote 61% 'Oxi' (No) to Reject Troika Austerity in Historic Referendum Alexis Tsipras · Yanis Varoufakis · Syriza · European Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics Sam Brownback · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kansas Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-09 | Greece Accepts Second Troika Bailout of €130 Billion with 53.5% Private Debt Haircut European Financial Stability Facility · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · Greek private creditors | confirmed | |
| 2010-05-02 | European Commission, ECB, and IMF Form 'Troika' and Impose First Greek Bailout with Harsh Austerity European Commission · European Central Bank · International Monetary Fund · George Papandreou · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-22 | Argentina Declares Largest Sovereign Default in History on $100+ Billion Debt After IMF Austerity Collapse Adolfo Rodriguez Saá · International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Argentine creditors | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-01 | Argentina Imposes 'Corralito' Bank Account Freeze Under IMF Austerity, Triggering Mass Protests International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Domingo Cavallo · Argentine Central Bank | confirmed | |
| 2001-07-13 | Argentina Passes 'Zero Deficit Law' Under IMF Pressure, Cutting Salaries and Pensions 13% International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Domingo Cavallo · Argentine Congress | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis American Legislative Exchange Council · Colorado General Assembly · Corporate funders | confirmed | |
| 1980-11-05 | Edward Seaga Defeats Michael Manley in Jamaica Election, Immediately Re-Engages IMF Structural Adjustment Edward Seaga · Michael Manley · International Monetary Fund · Jamaica Labour Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau Jr. · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed |