Sentences with phrase «american public faces»

The American public faces significant, unmet legal needs that require considerably more innovation and other efforts to bolster access to affordable legal services, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in a report.
The American public faces significant, unmet legal needs that require considerably more innovation and other...
Back in 1970, Robert Altman unleashed M * A * S * H on an American public facing a daily bombardment of news images from Vietnam.

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Despite the fact that there are an estimated 10 million LGBTQ - identified Americans and 62 % of Americans are in favor of marriage equality, LGBTQ people are not protected from workplace discrimination, face growing numbers of violent hate crimes, including harassment on public transportation, and have been called the cause for «societal collapse» by the sitting Vice President.
The Media Insight Project is a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the AP ‑ NORC Center for Public Affairs Research with the objective of conducting high ‑ quality, innovative research meant to inform the news industry and the public about various important issues facing journalism and the news busPublic Affairs Research with the objective of conducting high ‑ quality, innovative research meant to inform the news industry and the public about various important issues facing journalism and the news buspublic about various important issues facing journalism and the news business.
J&J spokesman Ernie Knewitz told CNBC, «As we have learned through the 2016 election campaign, personal attacks do not serve the interests of the American public or foster a balanced discussion on the substantive issues facing the nation.»
As Forbes editor Randall Lane said, «at a time when corporate America, as a whole, faces low public approval, the companies in the JUST 100 provide an example for their peers on how to win back the trust of the American people.»
In addition, according to Public Citizen, Kellyane Conway, the media face for Trump, formerly consulted for Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners.
The test of vigilance which faces the American public comes in the year of our bicentennial when most of all we should, in the words of Tom Paine, «refresh our patriotism by reference to first principles.»
In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in polling.
An American missionary facing deportation from Turkey for being a «danger to public order» has been released.
Oh, I forgot, probably what to teach them how to lie through with a sincere face after you get caught on tape expressing your true belief that 47 % of the American public are a bunch of nobodies that are just lookinjg for a handout and how his job as President is not wo worry about them.
Secondly, Americans also have a major issue about the SIZE of these MEGA MOSQUES when the local Muslim community is TINY, and thirdly the SOURCE OF FUNDS which most Americans rightfully fear is often times from Saudi & other questionable sources (with a soft public face to decieve Americans).
Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.
After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....
The Planned Parenthood videos and, just as important, the reaction of liberal elites to the Planned Parenthood videos demonstrate the enormous obstacles and the equally enormous opportunities that conservatives face in reaching a large fraction of the American public.
This smile still exists in many places, both inside and outside the mainline churches, but is much less evident on the public face of American Protestantism.
American's have been brainwashed to think public sector unions are a problem... in reality — facing greater income inequality it is time for private sector employees to fully understand the benefits of collective bargaining!
William J. Bratton, the commissioner of the New York Police Department and the most widely recognized face in American policing, will step down next month to take a job with a private advisory firm, ending a 45 - year career in public life that spanned the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, and that reshaped the image of what a police commander could be.
When GOP frontrunner Donald Trump takes the stage tomorrow at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential lobbying group known as Aipac, he will be facing a wary crowd.
At 10:30 a.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G. K. Butterfield, hold a public forum on the impact of economic challenges and persistent inequities facing African Americans across the country, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.
Public sector staff now face acutely declining living standards, and the UK's tax base is eroding as the two main parties combine to maintain the con that you can have European - standard public services on American - level Public sector staff now face acutely declining living standards, and the UK's tax base is eroding as the two main parties combine to maintain the con that you can have European - standard public services on American - level public services on American - level taxes.
Reviewing multiple challenges now facing science, Holdren used his speech to a standing - room - only crowd at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Washington headquarters to focus on the obligations of scientists and engineers to explain their research and its implications and share their knowledge with policymakers and the public.
«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.
Overall, the capacity of the American public health and health care delivery systems faces many challenges.281 The cost of dealing with current health problems is diverting resources from preventing them in the first place.
At the outset, however, the biggest issue facing Graham is that of a public offering, which will put her company in the Fortune 500 and make her the first female in that august group of American business owners.
Television Distribution / HBO Documentary Films, Vermilion Films) Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — Directors: Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens (HBO / Bloomfish Pictures, HBO Documentary Films, Insurgent Docs, RatPac Documentary Films) California Typewriter — Director: Doug Nichol (Gravitas Ventures / American Buffalo Pictures) Chasing Coral — Director: Jeff Orlowski (Netflix / Exposure Labs) City of Ghosts — Director: Matthew Heineman (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects) Cries From Syria — Director: Evgeny Afineevsky (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Dawson City: Frozen Time — Director: Bill Morrison (Kino Lorber / Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures) Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis — Director: Colin Hanks (HBO / Live Nation Productions, Company Name) Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — Director: Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah Films) Faces Places — Directors: Agnès Varda & JR (Cohen Media Group / Ciné Tamaris, Social Animals, Rouge International, Arte France Cinéma, Arches Films) Jane — Director: Brett Morgen (National Geographic Documentary Films / National Geographic Studios, Public Road Productions) Kedi — Director: Ceyda Torun (Oscilloscope Laboratories, YouTube Red / Termite Films) One of Us — Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady (Netflix / Loki Films) Spettacolo — Directors: Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen (Grasshopper Film / Open Face) Strong Island — Director: Yance Ford (Netflix / Yanceville Films, Louverture Films)
Academy Award - winner Daniel Junge (Saving Face) and actor / producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert «Evel» Knievel while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle.
It's the early»70s and Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys, «The Americans») is a U.S. military analyst who has grown angry over what he sees as the discrepancy between the grim, deadly reality of a failing Vietnam War effort and the government's public face of inevitable victory.
It does provide some insight on why the idea of a «Great Wall of Trump» has gained traction in segments of the American public while it is equally regarded as impotent farce in the face of the entrenched underworld, both crime and law enforcement and their symbiosis, essayed herein.
Her world premieres include Party People by Universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Man — A Complex Declaration of Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival / Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Angela's Mixtape by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), Bus and Family Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!
In 1959, six years before he authored the study that would remake America's segregated public schools, James S. Coleman found himself face to face with a very different foe: the inscrutable desires, evolving tastes, and secret motivations of the post — World War II American teenager.
Facing the most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression, most Americans continue to support increased spending on their local public schools.
On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.
Now the district faces a deficit of $ 259 million and is contemplating filing for bankruptcy protection, a rare occurrence in the history of American public education.
In a recent interview, New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said that the American Federation of Teachers deserved a «punch in the face,» calling it the «single most destructive force in public education in America.»
Most recently, Dr. Ladner authored the groundbreaking, original research Turn and Face the Strain: Age Demographic Change and the Near Future of American Education, outlining the future funding crisis facing America's K - 12 public education funding.
As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.
American public education faces an immense human capital problem that we have not been able to resolve since «A Nation at Risk» sounded the alarm in 1983.
These schools do not face the same public accountability standards as public schools, including those in Titles VI and IX of the Civil Rights Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Every Student Succeeds Act.
This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from public charter schools and the millions of African American parents struggling to give their children a quality education.
Conclusion The American public is of two minds: state and local control is preferable to federal control, and yet most of the major problems facing the schools result from state and local decisions.
The events transpiring in Washington D.C. have heightened public awareness of the intense scrutiny and criticism educators face, while what is right in American education is largely ignored.
It is good that the American public is concerned about education, because the teaching of our children faces many issues.
The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.
Her comments, which drew repeated applause throughout, clearly outlined her concerns about the angry assault public education is facing but did not provide suggestions for any middle ground between critics and defenders of American public schools and teachers.
As Americans face $ 1.2 trillion in student loan debt, Pell Grants need to be increased for low - income students and states need to restore much - needed funding to public higher education.
35 percent of Americans believe lack of financial support is the biggest problem public schools in their community must face; lack of discipline came in second with 8 percent.
In an open - ended question, Americans for the 15th consecutive year designated «lack of money / financial support» the biggest problem facing public schools.
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