Updated Budget Projections: 2016 to 2026 March 24, 2016. CBO projects a $534 billion deficit in fiscal year 2016, about $100 billion more than in 2015. If current laws generally remained unchanged, the deficit would increase from 2.9 percent to 4.9 percent of GDP over the next decade.
A Letter on the Abolition of the slave trade, Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, by William Wilberforce. London, 1807. Edited and introduced for the web by Dan Graves. William Wilberforce was a parliamentarian and man-about-town when he became convinced of the truth of Christianity. Upon his conversion, he thought he should withdraw from parliament, but pastor John Newton, author of the beloved hymn âAmazing Graceâ convinced him otherwise.
While members of the NUWSS feared that the direct action of the WSPU would alienate potential supporters for women's suffrage, its leaders, Millicent Fawcett among them, did not always condemn the violent tactics of the sister campaign. This source outlines fourteen reasons why the NUWSS campaigned for the vote. It was hoped that, by clearly setting out the reasons why women were entitled to the vote, support and sympathy could be gained for the cause. Logical argument and peaceful debate were the hallmarks of the NUWSS campaign.