Sentences with phrase «policy points also»

Policy Points also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

Not exact matches

Ayyadurai also claimed that GMO foods are not regulated enough to be considered safe, pointing to the FDA's policy of «substantial equivalence,» which says that GMOs are equivalent to non-GMO foods that have been conventionally bred over longer time scales.

Ross also pointed out that the trade deficit with China — at a record $ 276 billion last year — is a result primarily of economic factors instead of policy issues.

In contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouses.

And so, it's very similar to that and we're also at the point where 1937 was when the fed said we could tighten monetary policy and they put a slight tightness in monetary policy.

«But the source also pointed out that China's economic growth will not drop abruptly given its potential, resilience and the room for policy action to support it.

In prepared remarks for a Boston Fed conference, Rosengren also pointed to economic trends that suggest an even more accommodative policy stance might have been needed since the Great Recession.

For example, if the economy is running above potential, creating inflationary pressures, while financial vulnerabilities are also building, then both considerations point to tighter monetary policy.

Monetary policy was also able to respond rapidly when the outlook turned for the worse, with the cash rate being reduced by 4 1/4 percentage points over a seven month period.

Separately, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which also will be meeting the same days as the Fed (Sept. 20 — 21), may be on the verge of abandoning its negative interest rate policy at some point — but likely not soon.

The background report from the Bank of Canada is pretty self - congratulatory, though it does somewhat revise the current regime to underline the point that monetary policy also -LSB-...]

our budget not only tracks financial inflows and outflows, but can also be used as a starting point to create policies that you can fall back on when making financial decisions.

CGCC members will also spend the day on Parliament Hill to meet with federal ministers and share their point of view on Canada's International Airports Policy.

Also, California PMI policies can usually be cancelled once the homeowner pays down the mortgage balance to the point that the LTV reaches 80 % or below.

They also warn that because of extended zero - interest policy by the Fed, security valuations have advanced to the point where prospective nominal total returns on a conventional portfolio mix are likely to average well below 2 % annually, with negative real returns, over the coming 12 - year period.

Policy rates were also lowered by 300 basis points in Turkey as inflation in that country continues to decline from high levels.

We're getting closer to a genuine tightening of monetary policy — and with every passing day we're also getting closer to the point where the «easy» trade suddenly becomes hard.

David agrees that low interest rates push investors to riskier assets but also insists that it is one of the points of having an expansionary monetary policy.

In the case that you pass, the policy beneficiaries should file a claim with the insurer, after which point the circumstances of your death will be reviewed and receive the payout (also called a death benefit or the face value of the policy) so long as everything is in order.

Having an insurance policy is also a huge selling point for your business because it would give clients the confidence to hire you.

In Europe, the European Central Bank reduced its official interest rate in June by 50 basis points to 2 per cent; the Bank of England also lowered its policy rate in July by 25 basis points to 3 1/2 per cent; and official interest rates in Sweden declined by 75 basis points to 2 3/4 per cent in moves of 50 and 25 basis points in June and July.

Draghi offered a handful of reasons, but also noted that while monetary policy can build the foundation for growth, it's up to government policy to implement vital structural reforms, a point he has stressed on many occasions.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

McGovern also points out how U.S. economic interests regularly influence U.S. policy in favor of maintaining the political status quo, whether or not that policy serves the common good of Latin American peoples.

«33 Bushman also pointed out that Samuel Johnson, the great Episcopalian leader in Connecticut, lumped together Revivalism and democracy in their disrespect for proper authority: «The prevalency of rigid enthusiastical conceited notions and practices in religion and republican mobbish principles and practices and policy, being most on a level and each thinking himself an able divine and statesman: hence perpetual feuds and factions in both.34

Defra is also the focal point for rural policy, supporting strong rural communities and ensuring that dispersed rural needs are reflected in social and place - based policies across Government.

He wrote to both the FA and the Premier League pointing out that Scudamore appeared to be in breach of several FA rules and also the Premier League's own Anti-Discrimination Policy.

I think GoonerG1 made a good point on the insurance policy as i have an inkling also that Bellerin will bolt one day..

Guidance Materials: Healthier Schools: A Brighter Tomorrow which not only acts as a guide for the development of wellness policies but also points to examples of best practices in other states.

We have a no thank you policy and we also have a point system for trying a new food.

Nevertheless, as the authors point out, a national food policy would shine a brighter spotlight on these conflicts and would also likely raise public awareness about and support for meaningful improvements to our food system — a much needed first step toward change.

Wilma (TLT's resident, anonymous school food professional) contacted me by email to politely point out the many ways in which the rule would also strengthen wellness policies and their oversight (more on that below).

You can read their policy platform there, get talking points, send emails to your legislators from their site and also donate money to their lobbying efforts.

Anyone working for a health facility can also alert the management so they can remind staff of their policies on meeting with company reps.. The UNICEF Baby Friendly guidelines are useful on this point — click here.

He also pointed to the fall in household emissions as proof that government policies were beginning to have an effect.

Also this is a ridiculous answer to paint is as partisan... unless your point is that, in general, republican policies are racist to begin with — which is probably not your intent.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

He also partially distanced himself from the policy of Alistair Darling, the previous Labour Chancellor, to make public spending cuts sufficient to halve the government deficit in four years, by calling it a starting point.

Indeed most people are aware that my major critique of economic policy since May 2015 was a «body language» that appeared to disdain private and foreign capital, a point ironically that I also made on May 6, 2017.

Sheehan and Quinn also pointed to a Pataki - era policy governing HMOs affiliated with religious institutions and contraceptives.

I also pointed out that Nigerian manufacturing was already in recession by then and noted that «all major macroeconomic indices are trending negative» including inflation, FX and capital markets, and jobs and warned that «the Nigerian economy exhibits recessionary conditions with Q2 growth approaching one - third of the level just one year earlier» and counselled that «the slide to an actual recession may still be averted with a strong economic team and sound policy».

I'm also told that Downing Street's original plan was to have junior Ministers taking the lead on policy developments in policy areas for which they are responsible - until senior figures on the»22 pointed out that Ministers, as members of the executive branch of government, are not well placed to represent opinion on the backbenches.

It is also true, as many Corbyn supporters point out, that political journalists are obsessed with process and personalities over principles and policy.

De Blasio's speech also transformed several of Fariña's central talking points over last year into official policy.

Stavisky also pointed out that Braunstein no longer worked for Silver and, during his tenure at the Assembly speaker's office, he worked in constituent services, not policy making.

While fiscal responsibility is not solely the realm of Democrats, the city's fiscal health has become the focal point of heated policy exchanges between Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Ward 15 Common Councilman Frank Commisso Jr., who also works as Director of Municipal Affairs at the Albany County Department of Audit and Control.

The governor also dismissed the notion that he could have fought harder for that issue and defended the five - point package he announced on Friday, including an agreement with the Legislature to strip pensions from policy makers and lawmakers convicted of crimes related to their public office.

Around the same point he also founded Policy Exchange.

As recent surveys have pointed out, most Conservatives would disagree with Clarke on Europe (as you personally do also on family and welfare policy), but most are prepared to admit the shadpw cabinet would be much stronger for his presence.