Sentences with phrase «u.s. interest public»

According to a study by the U.S. Interest Public Research Group, 70 percent of all credit reports contain errors and therefore, you need to utilize all promising ways that help improve your credit score.

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Evan Spiegel reveals his interest to take his app company public, Yelp enters e-commerce and U.S. entrepreneurship makes a comeback.

It's a different story in the U.S., where, after a five - year delay, transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee meetings — where U.S. interest rates are set — are released to the public.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

A 2004 study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that one in four reports contains an error serious enough to deny you credit or employment.

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.

McLaughlin, the former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and former public policy director for Google, said that platforms like Facebook have a single interest: They want to do whatever will maximize their market value.

Putin responded with a public statement warning that sanctions «generally have a boomerang effect,» and added, «I am certain that this is harmful to the U.S. Administration and American people's long - term strategic national interests.»

Ridlington, along with Michelle Surka of U.S. PIRG, the public - interest research group, authored «Following the Money,» an annual report ranking state transparency websites.

Mike Litt, consumer campaign director at U.S. PIRG, a public interest group, said Congress instead is considering legislation that would exempt credit bureaus from data break notifications and make it harder for states to hold them accountable.

«If you're going to have free markets, they've got to be fair,» said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Fundamentalist broadcasters have greatly leverage their cultural and political power in the U.S. due to the failure of the FCC to require their radio and television stations to meet the public interest standard.

This bring us to the second major point: in the U.S. broadcasting must once again be regulated in the public interest; in Canada it must continue to be regulated.

Nevertheless, the press either chose not to understand what the UNESCO debate was really all about or purposefully misled the public about the matter; either way, the U.S. news industry adopted a less than «balanced» approach to the issue in order to protect its own self - interest.

In response to a petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration led by the Center for Science in the Public Interest regarding caloric sweeteners in beverages, the American Beverage Association issued the following statement:

The film will be offered to schools, clubs and public theaters all over Africa and anywhere else (except the U.S.) where there may be an interest in it.

The Park District and the city also disregarded long - standing rulings by the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts that public property can not be used for a private interest, said Herbert Caplan, one of the attorneys for the residents committee.

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While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

At 11:45 a.m., U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivers the 2018 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture at New York Law School, 185 Broadway, Manhattan.

«I'm not interested in doing the labels,» says Katko, 51, of Camillus, who resigned as an assistant U.S. attorney to make his first bid for public office.

But some legal analysts said there was no need to make such request public, adding that the NDLEA's move to arrest him and send him to the U.S. was enough grounds to conclude that the U.S. was interested in the matter.

«Our hats are off to the U.S. Attorney's office for making this happen — Preet Bharara,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer - focused nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., released its annual report on state transparency websites in March 2015.

Long Island is so awash in conflicts of interest and outright stealing that it's keeping the public corruption divisions of two of the largest U.S. attorney's offices in the nation working overtime.

Silver's conviction for doing legislative favors in return for legal referral fees and 12 - year prison sentence was reversed because of incorrect jury instructions, but prosecutors from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim told the judge it is in the «public interest» to retry him quickly.

«The U.S. attorney in Manhattan generally believes Albany is corrupt and that the politicians are not acting in the public interest, so that's the area where he is going to focus,» said lawyer Bradley Simon, a former federal prosecutor who represented ex-state Controller Alan Hevesi on corruption charges.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni ordered Thursday that sealed documents related to the conviction of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver be released, citing the public's interest in knowing how Silver misused his office.

In the case of the Ebola outbreak in the U.S., the team was confident that the Ebola - related social media data were due only to public concern or interest in the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to study how news media may sow panic in a population.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

The U.S. government should maintain its leadership position in global health as a matter of urgent national interest and as a global public benefit that enhances America's international standing.»

«Actions speak louder than words, and the most action we've seen on antibiotics has come from food companies,» said Matthew Wellington, Antibiotics Program Director of public interest campaigning group U.S. PIRG.

Lynnea Smith and John Fogarty represented the group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energy Bill.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Created in 1958, this U.S. agency has become a leader in space research and in stimulating public interest in space exploration.

NASA (short for National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Created in 1958, this U.S. agency has become a leader in space research and in stimulating public interest in space exploration.

In an article co-authored with a group of U.S. and international colleagues, Bailey argues that the science of sexual orientation is in the public interest because, «such science is frequently — if not always correctly — used to support political, social, and moral conclusions regarding homosexuality.»

Groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add safety warnings to energy drinks, and American Academy of Pediatrics researchers have argued the stimulants in energy drinks have «no place in the diet of children and adolescents.»

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

says Michael F. Jacobson, PhD, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban all food dyes because of hyperactivity concerns.

I have had an interesting life so far - I worked for a professional baseball team, was a candidate for public office, worked at a sheriff's office, served in the U.S. Army, and worked at the...

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

Auditors from the U.S. Education Department have accused Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig of California of violating conflict - of - interest prohibitions by using his position to financially benefit his wife's educational - consulting firm.

In addition to hearing a major case involving public - employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court may face a wide range of disputes of keen interest to the education community.

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

If state and local pensions were paying mind to interest rates — as they should, and as corporate and overseas public employee plans are required to do — contributions would have risen significantly as the yield on 20 - year U.S. Treasuries dropped 3.7 percentage points between 2000 and 2016.

Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court held that education was not a «fundamental interest» under the federal constitution, education advocates, frustrated by continuing inequities in the funding of public education, have turned to the state courts.

«Over the past several years, largely because of the challenges facing Rhode Island, I have become increasingly interested in the central role played by community colleges in the U.S. public education system,» she says.

By contrast, when the interests of children are connected with the interests of teachers, as they are on the question of public education spending, the U.S. ranks close to the top one - third.