Sentences with phrase «addresses public policy issues»

This means adding their distinctive perspective to the budding marriage movement, as well as addressing public policy issues related to marriage, divorce and unwed parenting.

Another broad swath of bills don't actually address public policy issues directly but rather stipulate the formation of a task force to come up with recommendations that lawmakers can consider in the future.

The 2017 legislative session proved once again that the practice of veterinary medicine in Colorado would be vastly different if CVMA didn't exist to monitor and affect legislation and address public policy issues on behalf of the profession.

This is the home page of Alan Carlin's personal Website, featuring his applications of environmental economics and science by public policy issue, climate science, transportation economics, and economic development to address public policy issues.

By working with a firm that has the necessary relationships and expertise to approach attorneys general early, and proactively, companies can address public policy issues of concern before those concerns result in investigations or litigation.

This entire issue is devoted to issues advocacy and political action — from effectively addressing the public policy issues that affect our members to getting the right people elected to help us with those issues.

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Nearly half of leaders (46 %) associated with the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) selected «immigration / refugees» as the top public policy issue that evangelicals need to address in 2017, according to the NAE's recent monthly Evangelical Leaders Survey.

Here are the major speakers and the public policy issue each will address.

We therefore, support the proposal presented in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Policy Statement, «School Start Times for Adolescents», to delay school start times in an effort to address this public health issue.

If not, are there other public policy solutions that have been proposed or implemented to address this issue?

The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.

«This contortion of the Governor's long - recognized constitutional authority lacks a basis in law and must be recognized for what it truly is — a political maneuver to frustrate the Governor's efforts in convening the Legislature to address politically unpopular, yet critically important issues of public policy.»

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

According to the party, the policy, which is aimed at making Senior High School education in public schools free will not address the key issues on education.

This collection of essays addresses several issues and challenges for archivists and records managers, including some practical ones and more difficult ones related to recordkeeping and public policy.

«This study clearly illustrates the power of prevention policy in addressing one of our most pressing public health issues,» Brownson said.

Dr Sorichetta comments: «It's crucial we understand human mobility, so we can quantify the effect it has on our societies and the environment and provide strong evidence to support the development of policies to address issues, such as public health problems.»

Developing strategies to address these issues would require broad shifts in public policy.

«This new information will assist the public and policy makers as we work to address this significant issue.»

«This program will harness the intellectual resources of the entire university to address the most important public policy issue of the 21st century.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

For instance, earlier this year I asked my students to identify a public policy issue they felt needed addressing, and, using the text of the Constitution or Bill of Rights as a guide, argue for how and why it could be solved.

In these roles, she leads and grows a national network of charter school attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environments.

Hard hitting words from historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, who addressed hundreds of educators, policy makers and advocates today at the 2014 Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh.

Our Chavez seniors made us proud once again with their thesis projects, sharing insights on some of our nation's most pressing public policy issues and proposing solutions to address them.

Public education reform was the first policy initiative Walker called for in his State of the State address and the first issue the state Legislature took up after inauguration.

The political effort necessary to address these critical governance issues would rival anything Texas has attempted in public policy at least since World War II, but we need to begin.

Before Connecticut policy makers shift additional resources from Connecticut's public schools to the charter schools they have an obligation to address these fundamental issues.

The following column is the third in a series of some of the key public policy issues that our elected officials must address as they grapple with the allocation of scarce resources.

The President's decision to launch TTIP negotiations with the EU followed a detailed exploratory process by the Administration that included public and private sector stakeholders, as well as Congress, and determined that an agreement that addresses a broad range of US - EU bilateral trade and investment policies, as well as global issues of common interest, could generate substantial economic benefits on both sides of the Atlantic.

We work to address the critical issues facing animals on the national level including legislation, policy and public education.

According to the March 2000 issue of The Animal Policy Report [3] from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Animals and Public Policy, «In the Northeastern US, animal shelters are finding unique ways to address a problem they thought they would never see - a shortage of mixed breed, adoptable puppies and small adult dogs!.

The tie - up with the Electric Power Research Institute will address three issues: guaranteeing safe and convenient vehicle charging, consumer outreach and advocating public policies that support plug - in vehicle technologies, GM said.

No politician has ever regarded global warming so essential as to warrant campaigning on the issue, and place matter to the public in order to gain the political power to enact policy to would address the problem.

The Right Climate Stuff team explicitly addresses the issues of requirements of models for public policy vs scientific exploration.

One might expect that the president and Pruitt would address these issues head - on when dismantling a major pillar of US climate change policy in order to convince the public that they are doing the right thing.

This issue of Canadian Public Policy contains an article called «Intensity - based climate policy in Canada» that addresses the issue that you ask about: http://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&article=v36nPolicy contains an article called «Intensity - based climate policy in Canada» that addresses the issue that you ask about: http://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&article=v36npolicy in Canada» that addresses the issue that you ask about: http://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&article=v36n4p0409

With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with — and what could happen if we don't do so — tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.

Publications: Heartland sends four monthly public policy newspapers addressing the major domestic public policy issues to every national and state elected official in the U.S. and thousands of civic and business leaders.

(Sec. 237) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Idaho National Laboratory, to participate in the Intermountain West Geothermal Consortium to address science and science policy issues surrounding the expanded discovery and use of geothermal energy, including from geothermal resources on public lands.

FoS lists their goal as «To educate the public about climate science and through them bring pressure to bear on governments to engage in public debates on the scientific merits of the hypothesis of human induced global warming and the various policies that intend to address the issue.»

Whatever the ultimate scientific explanation for the pause and its implications for the apparent discrepancy between models and observations, policy - makers must be feeling very letdown by the failure of IPCC and its contributing academic community to adequately address an issue that is critical to them and to the public.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

The study's author, Robert Brulle, refers to these organizations as the climate change counter-movement, and concludes that their outsized influence «has not only played a major role in confounding public understanding of climate science, but also successfully delayed meaningful government policy actions to address the issue.»

A Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program in October 2017 will convene U.S. and international policymakers and corporate leaders to address the policy solutions and implications of one of the most critical global public policy issues of our time.

Gonzalez's panel, entitled «The Contribution of Latin America to International Law,» will address how investor - state arbitration awards involving Latin American countries have contributed to the formulation or evolution of international law, and how such evolution may impact public policy issues in Latin America.

The rule also provides that in selecting a Council decision as precedential, the DAB Chair may consider decisions that address, resolve, or clarify recurring legal issues, rules or policies, or that may have broad application or impact, or involve issues of public interest.

ICRL's Target Audience The quarterly journal addresses everyone who is concerned with chemical law and policy issues such as academics (in the field of (law, biologists, biochemists, chemists and pharmacists and other relevant research fields), legal practitioners in national and international law firms offering their services to businesses in the EU and globally, government officials working in public administrations and other relevant policy - making and enforcement bodies, Legal experts and judges in domestic, European and international courts as well as consultancies and business professionals.

In his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on «Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017», ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage is to avoid harming injured workers.

While the arbitrator didn't directly address the privacy issue, the ONA argued the policy violated employee privacy rights because a hospital - wide posting explained to the public that masks were required to be worn by unvaccinated employees.