Sentences with phrase «policy group for»

After that, he went to work as president and chief executive officer of the Financial Services Forum, a non-profit policy group for chief executive officers, and as a member of the executive committee of J.P. Morgan Chase.

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Breitbart is known for supporting what some refer to as the «alt right» movement in the United States, a loose affiliation of politically conservative groups that include overtly racist organizations such as Richard Spencer's National Policy Institute, which advocates for something it calls «white nationalism.»

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

In June 2008, an eminent group of Canadian business leaders released a blueprint for sweeping changes to Canada's suite of competition policies.

The price effect for the division was a negative 0.4 % but is up around 2.5 % excluding molecular sieves, reflecting the Group's policy to pass on the increase in raw materials costs in its sales prices.

According to a report from Toronto - based social policy group the Wellesley Institute, «rooming houses are one of the most affordable private - market housing options for low - income tenants....

Thus, it might have at least a little hope of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.

Group policy templates let you modify these features for several people at once.

In an internal memo obtained by CNBC, IBM's Rometty condemned the «hate groups in Charlottesville» and said the policy forum «can no longer serve the purpose for which it was formed.»

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

«It is going to be somewhat easier for Governor Poloz to normalize monetary policy» relative to the U.S. and the UK, acknowledged Craig Alexander, chief economist at TD Bank Group.

For example, if you have different business units, such as a manufacturing facility and a sales and research facility, you may want to have the core handbook be the same for each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper saFor example, if you have different business units, such as a manufacturing facility and a sales and research facility, you may want to have the core handbook be the same for each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper safor each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper safor specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper says.

WHAT THEY DID: While the Senate bill would cut tax rates for all income groups, on average, higher earners would receive the largest benefits, according to the Tax Policy Center, an independent Washington Policy group.

Other countries have argued that discussions and decisions on this issue should be tackled at a global level and with the help of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group that advises its 35 members on tax policy.

As well, if we truly believed that minimum wage policy is an effective tool for moderating the business cycle, groups like CUPE and CCPA would advocate reducing the minimum wage during booms.

The SBA invested $ 6 million a year into 10 groups of businesses for two years starting in 2010 and commissioned economic policy analysis research - and - consulting firm Optimal Solutions Group to perform an independent review.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

The group argues that middle market companies will disproportionately feel the minimum wage increase, because most policy changes include a carve out for the smallest businesses.

While this is a blow to the idea that nationwide calorie menu requirements will dramatically alter the way America eats, it doesn't necessarily mean the policy is useless: perhaps, as the authors speculate, it may be more effective in sit - down restaurants where dining expectations are different, or for specific groups of particularly health - concious diners.

One common mistake entrepreneurs make in their business plans is to project that they will capture a certain percentage of the overall market for their product without fully explaining how they intend to do that, says Mark Steranka, director of planning and policy for Moss Adams» Consulting Group in Seattle.

Trump has not yet set out a clear policy on Syria but has indicated he could cut U.S. support for insurgent groups and has said he wants to mend ties with Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin is Assad's strongest international ally.

Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, said a large package could be difficult since the parties have a slew of policy differences on infrastructure — such as how to pay for it.

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang Group, which states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor lFor their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor lfor franchisees» violations of labor law.

Some conservative groups, including the Family Research Council and the Center for Military Readiness, have suggested a reversal of the policy.

The Federal Open Markets Committee said Wednesday that it will be «patient» in deciding when to adjust monetary policy, switching from its previous language that the group would maintain low rates for a «considerable time.»

Driving the other camp are the tech companies and industry groups for whom the partisan deadlock on net neutrality risks stalling business plans and distracts from other policy debates they'd prefer to be having.

Public health and consumer groups applauded the move, which does not go as far as the company's policy for the United States, where already for a year suppliers have provided the chain with chickens raised without antibiotics deemed important to human health.

Brad Herald, vice president Western Canada operations for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said individual cases before tribunals or the courts will become the testing group for workplace - related cannabis policies, absent government leadership.

Sessions convened a task force to study pot policy, but the group made no recommendations for upending the legal industry.

«What we thought and we had envisioned is the cost of the newly enrolled would end up approaching that of the [employer - insured] group market, but we're seeing in the data we have today it is actually about 20 percent higher than in the group market,» said Alissa Fox, senior vice president for policy and representation at BCBSA, in an interview with Morning Consult.

About one - fourth of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a research group that advocates for entrepreneurial policy.

While attending Princeton, where he majored in public policy and international affairs, he founded the National Youth Association, an advocacy group for Millennials that now has 750,000 members.

High - profile donors from tech and Hollywood are funding a law group at Georgetown to fight for the Constitution, especially when it involves directly undermining President Trump's policies.

NELP combines deep policy chops with tangible action — via partnerships with grassroots groups and leadership on advocacy campaigns around the nation — to fight for real reforms that change lives.

From supporting projects that I'm passionate about, such as being an advocate for gay rights, to drug policy reform, to using my voice and that of the Virgin Group to shine a spotlight on issues that I believe are unacceptable, such as poaching and the death penalty.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

The «lawyerlike» group identified above includes, for example, federal government policy and program officers, who are much more likely than the typical Canadian to have a bilingual workplace.

We adopted comprehensive written policies and procedures governing the variable compensation process for our NEOs as well as certain other employees, including all of our PMDs, who, either individually or as part of a group, have the ability to expose us to material amounts of risk (Compensation Framework).

Join us for a tax reform Q&A with economist Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, on September 29 at 2 PM in The Weeds Facebook group.

The boss of Steadfast Group says Australia's largest insurance companies are getting antsy about the success of its inhouse broker trading platform, which forces them to bid for policies against competitors.

The group points out that the good times could easily come to an end if world governments don't make efforts to balance monetary and fiscal policies, something I've been urging for years now.

Although the Company's performance for 2007 was in the top quartile compared to its Peer Group and met one of the alternative goals under the Performance Policy, the HRC considered in making its incentive award decisions the fact that the Company did not meet its EPS goal of $ 2.49 (2006 EPS, as originally reported) under the Performance Policy and therefore did not improve upon the EPS results of the prior year.

«The more likely someone is to use Uber and Lyft, the more likely they are to take public transportation, and for our industry that is very heartening,» said Darnell Grisby, the group's director of policy development and research.

«It's not clear what Facebook is doing with that information,» said Chris Calabrese, vice president for policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington advocacy group.

At Zillow Group we have worked hard toward a more equitable workplace for all, which is why I am extremely proud to say that we have been selected to the inaugural 2018 Bloomberg Gender - Equality Index (GEI), an index that measures gender equality across internal company statistics, employee policies, and external community support and engagement, among -LSB-...]

Your new business tax credit for small businesses is, however, consistent with the government's previous policy of selective tax cuts for certain groups.