Sentences with phrase «many social service»

This topic came up recently at a meeting where everyone was bemoaning the funding cutbacks in social services in many cities and the fact that outreach efforts, awareness campaigns and other marketing initiatives were among the first things to be dropped.

Last week, Kozlowski, 69, was officially named chairman of the Fortune Society, a nonprofit social service and advocacy organization that helps ex-felons like Kozlowski re-enter society as productive members and works to promote alternatives to prison.

In resource - rich countries such as Botswana, Chile and Malaysia, natural resource revenues paid to governments can be invested in roads, health care and education, as well as business development and social services.

Shareholders designated a wide range of recipients, from Catholic Social Services to Planned Parenthood, and the company distributed $ 200 million to causes of every stripe.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

Healthcare is perceived as an industry today - it's no longer a social service, says this veteran doctor

«But with all the issues that are tied up here — taxes and the structure of our economy, healthcare, social services, our democracy, whether it's transparent, whether it responds to people or just money — nobody needs convincing,» he said.

Stephens serves on an advisory board to the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, is on the boards of the United Way of Dallas and Catholic Charities of Dallas and has also served on the boards of numerous educational and social service organizations.

In peer countries like Canada, some citizens are taxed at higher rates throughout the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development notes, but they get a lot more from their government in terms of social services, including health care.

Whenever questions about its status as a media outlet come up, Facebook typically argues that it isn't a media outlet at all, it's merely a social service that uses algorithms to show people content that they might enjoy or want to see.

U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada's refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.

«If we end up with the social services tax of 1949 [the original name of the PST] again, no, we will not have come away with good policy,» Thomas says.

At 1871, we have companies (in addition to Peanut Butter) dealing with similar issues in education (Learnmetrics), funds transfers (Pangea), social services (mRelief), etc..

In Michigan, the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of health.

«Through a combination of paid work, social services, education, and career training, the men of Ready, Willing & Able forge a path to self sufficiency,» Alanna O'Donnell, media affairs manager for the Doe Fund, told Business Insider.

«Because they arrange a lot of these essential social services that everybody really needs to grow up to be a productive individual,» Partanen said, «Nordic countries perceive them more as [under] a big umbrella, and they all work together.»

Oracle's state government clientele typically includes social services agencies, motor vehicle departments, and tax agencies.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

A family friend who works as a concert photographer saw the photo and put her in touch with board members of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, an organization that provides food, housing, and social services for those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

For as much as Americans talk about valuing freedom, Partnanen said, the effect of having so many social services is that people feel far freer.

To compile the proposals, Wu partnered with professors from Harvard, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the social services agency Digital Sisters, which she calls «a pow - wow of high - level feminists.»

Money: Salaries for those in managerial roles for community and social services vary across the country, often even amongst regions in provinces.

A wide range of jobs are covered by this category, as social services can include work in everything from employment support to recreational facilities, while managerial work in correctional services is carried out primarily in the Canadian prison system.

Most of the evidence suggests that migrants will work hard and contribute more in taxes than they consume in social services,» he added.

Unless the residents are working for the band office or a government - run social service, they're almost certainly unemployed — and more often than not, addicted to prescription painkillers at the expense of putting food on the table for their families.

It's designed for profit and we see the pain that it offers,» Darryl Dahlheimer, program director at Lutheran Social Service Financial Counseling, told Minnesota Public Radio last week.

They will then distribute the funds among local nonprofits to pay for food, medical supplies, clothing, social services, and other resources.

The answer is not straight forward, but as one of New York's largest social services nonprofits with nearly 2,000 employees and constant hiring needs, at The New York Foundling, we know that merely posting on job boards and culling for pedigreed resumes isn't working.

Unless it can get similar data through a social service of its own, Google is left with a formula that sorts through the pattern of Web links and other computer data to determine where a site should rank in its recommendation.

In China's case, the principal function of the state will need to shift from making investments or running businesses to providing social services (such as health care, education, social security, and environmental protection).

Governments, both national and local, may face rising demands for social services and income support from poorer retirees at a time when public finances are stretched,» McKinsey noted.

On the subject of religion, Porter points out that the time, effort and currency invested in the practice of faith is simply the price of receiving «a mixture of insurance and social services.»

For example, a social media consultant could partner with a freelance graphic designer to create a special year - end package of social services plus weekly infographics.

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

I've started to use your ideas, themes and language within professional development sessions for leaders in schools and social services in our quiet corner of very rural England.

Possibly needs partly government funded as it is a type of social service, is it not?

High scorers were fast - tracked for job promotions and gained access to top schools, while those at the bottom were restricted from some permits and social services.

To be honest I wouldn't even want to make a profit because I think it would be so great if this social service existed in every civilised society.

«Canada appears content to become a second - tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second - rate status, led by a second - world strongman appropriately suited for the task.»

There has to be a halt to the obsession of lowering taxes, which reduces the quality of our social services.

It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and livable cities.

In Canada, more than 170,000 organizations work in areas ranging from healthcare to sports, the arts, social services, education, international development and the environment.

And housing is arguably easier to post progress on than, say, education and social services.

But we need a major cultural shift because the problem is the expectation that all of these public social services are free — and they are free.

In the public sector, accounting methods used by governments in education, health and social services impact on how these services are provided, who receives the services and the costs of these services.

The attitudes of local authorities may be changing now as the economy slows and officials become more concerned about unemployment and tensions over access to schools and other social services.

Many municipal golf courses have closed, because governments are unable to justify support for golf when they have cut spending on education and social services.

«Had another government been in place, they would have drastically and extremely slashed the necessary supports Albertans need in health care and education and social services, and we would have all been a lot worse off,» Ceci told reporters Thursday.

The MIT study found that taxing carbon at $ 20 a ton in the U.S. would generate $ 1.5 - trillion in revenue in a 10 - year period, which would reduce corporate and personal income taxes, maintain social services spending and reduce the deficit.

We heard voices saying that Canada and the world economy need increased social services, expanded public infrastructure investments and restored regimes of strict regulation for banks and investment houses.