Sentences with phrase «around public policy issues»

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Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.

I also made clear that while I won't be participating in the Forum, BlackRock will continue to engage on issues of public policy with governments at all levels and around the world.

Issues around sexuality and sexual practice are therefore powerful factors in shaping public attitudes and concomitantly the policies of public authorities.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Trevor Tompson, director of the AP - NORC Center, said the bipartisan agreement on climate change's existence could be reason to hope for policy action: «Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

NCPI is committed to building a unified science of child development to explain the early roots of lifelong health, learning, and behavior in Brazil; translating and communicating science effectively to inform the public discourse around issues that affect children and families; and preparing leaders to leverage the science of healthy development in the design and implementation of innovative policies and programs that reduce preventable disparities and promote well - being for all Brazilian children.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

To accomplish this, researchers around the world should be requested to report on and document how ethics and equity issues are being considered in public policy debates about national policy within each country.

Since public perception influences government and business policies around environmental issues, it is important to ensure enough unbiased and reliable information about the issues are available to the public.

Prior to WRI, she worked as an advocacy campaigner and policy analyst in the Pacific Northwest around industrial pollution and toxic chemical public health issues.

«I always had an interest in public policy in a lot of different areas,» he says, noting that while growing up he would pay close attention when issues were discussed around the dinner table at home.

The program includes the usual workforce and health service issues, and also addresses Indigenous health, the arts and health, environmental issues, mental health and racism, the federal policy vacuum in oral health, palliative care, recovery from bushfires and other disasters, and has quite a few presentations around public participation.

We increase public dialogue and policy development around real estate professional practices and land use issues.

Increase public dialogue and policy development around real estate practices and land use issues.