Sentences with phrase «policy interest group»

The Advocacy and Public Policy Interest Group is a space for promoting and supporting the local, state, and national advocacy efforts of school psychologists.

He is Vice-Chair of the Basic Income Canada Network, and a member of the Social Policy Interest Group of the Canadian Association of Social Workers.

Not exact matches

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

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.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

All 50 states have transparency websites, but they vary, according to Elizabeth Ridlington, a policy analyst with the Frontier Group, a public - interest organization.

In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

While it's no secret that US officials are interested in closer oversight of cryptocurrency activities - a group of influential senators pushed for this kind of policy shift in late May - the IRS contract is notable given the tax agency's investigation of potential tax avoiders and its ongoing lawsuit against exchange startup Coinbase.

What secularism does is ensure that government policies are not influenced by religious special interest groups.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

His main point: it looks like interest - group politics, and thus gives license for bad liberal and statist - Republican tax policy incentives when the political winds shift.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

It is the responsibility not of government to formulate and perpetuate public policy but of the citizenry, who can do so wisely, creatively and effectively only by organizing themselves in voluntary groups around their various shared interests and concerns.

«Muslims can not be just another ethnic group [i.e., Muslim Americans] with special interests particularly in foreign policy,» he writes.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, it is in our interest to farm responsibly with the best science available,» said John De Luca, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 600 California wineries.

This policy will guide our approach to political contributions to U.S. candidates for political office who share and support Dr Pepper Snapple Group («DPS») values and interests.

This The National Interest on ABC Radio National and indeed listening in to that conversation is Jane Martin, the senior policy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisapolicy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisaPolicy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisations.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

The Conflicts of Interest Coalition / Network is an international campaign by hundreds of groups and networks calling for policy making to be free from commercial influence.

Just change what's in them,» said Margo Wootan, head of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group.

«Yes, it's interesting to have beavers around, but it's not interesting to have them taking out the trees that are vital» to the park, said Nancy Hays, president of the Jackson Park advisory council, a citizens group that helps the Park District set policy.

«A la carte is a huge problem,» said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington consumer group.

For that, you must go elsewhere, for example, to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Berkeley Media Studies Group, or the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, agrees.

So I was particularly interested to read this critique of the Vermont study from Hunger Free Vermont, the state's leading anti-hunger authority and nutrition policy advocacy group.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

This shift is occurring essentially in response to NATO's military exit from Afghanistan, and entails an unavoidable compromise in its past policy of realizing India - specific security interests in Afghanistan through sponsorship of religiously radicalized Afghan groups, the Mujahideen in the 80s and the Taliban afterwards.

If a nation decided to control its public policy over web services other nations would have great incentive to hack that system to promote their agenda, let alone special interest groups.

Labour aren't losing votes because of individuals they are losing because of policies and the interest groups they have been appealing to.

«As many of you know, I ran a public interest group that worked for many of the Giuliani policies that turned this city around — like the crackdown on porn shops and squeegee men — and I don't want to turn back the clock.»

Hence such policies are typically misunderstood and ignored by citizens but defended tenaciously by the private lobbying groups whose interests they serve.

We exchange information and advocate for evidence - based alcohol policy as active members of alliances and forums for public interest groups

Lobbyists who want to influence legislation and policy to benefit their clients are primarily the ones paying $ 100 to $ 5,000 per person to attend each fundraiser, said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But there is a downside to leaving the seat vacant for six months while facing threats from President Donald Trump's administration, according to Blair Horner of New York Public Interest Group, who noted that public policy is a significant component of the job.

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

Before an election, all interest groups, both in the private and public sector, want to understand the policies and the key figures of the party likely to form the government.

Sen. Daniel Squadron is resigning his seat in the state Senate effective Friday to join a national policy group organizing in opposition to the influence of the Koch brothers and other monied interests in politics on the state and local level.

The Senate has for the last decade been an unpredictable force in state politics and the source of heavy spending by deep - pocketed benefactors and labor groups interested in seeing which party controls the chamber — underscoring the chamber's role in determining the outcome of everything from charter schools, to tax policy and the agenda of the mayor of the city of New York.

«If you're getting paid to influence public policy, you should have to report,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in supporting JCOPE's new measure.

After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish «a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour.»

There are seven «juice» committees, which, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting, are the «policy committees that control bills that affect the financial bottom line for the Capitol's wealthiest interest groups.»

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

The group, along with CitizenLink and its coalition of state - based family policy councils, questioned Trump's stances on issues such as abortion and same - sex marriage (which tended in the past to be liberal) as well his gambling and casino interests.