Sentences with phrase «american public support»

Given the controversy surrounding all proposals to establish a uniform national standard, it is noteworthy that nearly three - quarters of the American public support the concept (Q. 2).

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

Will the American public support this kind of expenditure?

There is clearly overwhelming American public support for policies that support the increased use of residential solar.

«It is hard for me to believe that we need a piece of legislation on compromise when 92 % of the American public supports universal background checks,» Crebbin said.

While 45 percent of the American public supported vouchers in 2007, only 31 percent did so in 2010.

It is clear that the American public supports our business model.»

No matter what kind of spin you put on this most of the American public supports the EPA's action on this.

Not exact matches

Session's stance on this issue also diverges from public opinion: More Americans than ever support the legalization of marijuana.

And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.

And Haley says the boat - captain incident has further diffused local opposition to American forces on Okinawa, and has strengthened Japanese public support for stronger ties to the U.S. «Japan has enormous problems with its aging economy and aging population,» she notes.

In keeping with the American public, I'm supporting Engine Advocacy's Keep Us Here campaign.

With public support blossoming — the latest Gallup poll shows 58 % of Americans back legalization — it's not difficult to envision another six states opening their arms and their treasuries.

She continued: «They just up and announced that I was prohibited from speaking anyway... I feel like the Constitution is important and that taxpayer - supported universities should not be using public funds to violate American citizens» Constitutional rights.»

Chapin has won numerous awards to support her work, including the John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History and a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship.

After all, the Federal Liberals had already stepped on the scale to try to support Clark, when, in mid-campaign, they sent out a public letter suggesting they would consider her suggestion of retaliating against the U.S. by slapping counter tariff on American thermal coal.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

Such an agreement would help support oil prices — Saudi Arabia, in particular, seeks higher prices to take Saudi Aramco, the world's largest energy company, public — but it's likely American shale producers would ramp up production to fill the void.

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

The American public should not support this heinous hate act if they care about their loved ones who serve their country in Muslim lands.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

The public did not support President Bill Clinton's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, but American casualties were few, the war ended in victory, and the conflict did Clinton no harm.

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 % of the American public and President Obama — we've decided to rerun an article published in January on the complex issue of guns, the regulation of them and how Christians should wrestle with this issue.

70 % of Americans support public prayer in schools... that alone makes people laugh in the developed world.

What I would like to see from the Mosque's Imam is a public, unequivocal statement that he does not tolerate violent teachings or attacks against Americans and issues a Fatwa forbidding any moral, monetary or logistical support for people planning or contemplating jihadist violence.

Vale nicely points out that insofar as the American state has sponsored an uncontested, well - funded program for housing the American public, it has resided in its extraordinary support of this ideal.

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

All this for a combination of immigration policies that are supported by perhaps one - third of the American public.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

In the late»70s 55 percent of Americans would allow books by homosexual authors in public libraries, 62 percent supported gays» right to lecture in the community and 49 percent supported their right to teach in a college.

We support citizen action to expand television viewing options for the American public, particularly for children.

This kind of reasoned, argued, exemplified and Bible - supported moral illumination — not electioneering and lobbying — is what American public life needs from religion.

The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported maintaining the ban on religious clothing in public schools, arguing that it protected students from improper religious influence.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

The American Public Health Association, the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Center for Science in the Public Interest have given their support to the bill.

The pair have become a lot more public in recent times, with American model Frumes in particular taking to Instagram to show her support for her partner as well as posting images together.

Dr. Lyerly has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Greenwall Foundation's Faculty Scholars Program, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Science, the Hastings Center Report, and The American Journal of Public Health, as well as the New York Times and Huffington Post.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

This evidence supports the American Public Health Association's recommendation8 to increase access to out of hospital maternity care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

While people from other cultures often find this controversy inexplicable, the reasons for the controversy are obvious to Americans — even those of us who fully support breastfeeding in public.

The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding notes that several health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse - Midwives, American Dietetic Association and American Public Health Association all recommend that most infants be breastfed for a minimum of one year, with the first six months exclusively breast milk.

Your membership also provides the Village with the support necessary to care for our historic buildings, priceless collection of early American artifacts, heritage breed animals and heirloom gardens as well as our expert costumed interpreters and outstanding educational programming for both the general public and school children alike.

Here's the list of organizations that support the new standards, compiled by the American Public Health Association.

We therefore, support the proposal presented in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statement, «School Start Times for Adolescents», to delay school start times in an effort to address this public health issue.

The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.

Which is why the American Public Health Association and the American College of Nurse Midwives support women choosing home birth.