Sentences with phrase «at the policy consequences»

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Should Parkin's nightmare scenario pan out, the blame would lie not so much with Carney but with Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, who is bent on using the full force of monetary policy to boost the U.S. economy, consequences be damned.

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The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.

Today's biggest bubble in safe assets, however, is the one in Treasury bonds, which is a direct consequence of the Fed's policy of holding interest rates down at abnormally low levels.

This special report will take an in - depth look at current and historical trends in income inequality, its causes and consequences, and possible directions for policy.

«Portfolio strategies should acknowledge bite - sized future returns and the growing risk that the negative consequences of misguided monetary and fiscal policy might lead to disruptive financial markets at some future point,» he concludes.

At the time, a movement was building to rein in zero - tolerance policies that had resulted in severe consequences for in - school infractions, the vast majority of which were only misdemeanors.

The study, «Return Shipping Policies of Online Retailers: Normative Assumptions and the Long - Term Consequences of Fee and Free Returns,» was conducted by Amanda Bower, professor of business administration / marketing at Washington and Lee University's Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics.

Sabet, who worked in the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Obama's first term and serves as director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, said the negative consequences of marijuana legalization include advertising aimed at kids, an increase in drugged - driving incidents and a spillover of marijuana from Colorado into surrounding states, where the drug remains illegal.

At the level of national policy, it is now possible to despoil the American wilderness; since the end is near, we are no longer required to worry about consequences for future generations.

The reason for the present Republican surge is that this isn't change that most Americans believe in, although it is change they voted for (at least if any of them gave a moment's thought to the more or less inevitable policy consequences of their votes for Obama and a Democratic Congress).

Their policy, at least in the field of European cooperation, was a direct consequence of their Christian ethics.

«Names have consequences,» says David Figlio, the director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, who has conducted extensive research on names.

I discussed how the research on breastfeeding carried out at the Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) has helped shape global policies on the recommendation for exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, the use of child growth standards based on breastfed children, and the harmful long - term consequences of artificial feeding.

The policy causes unacceptable consequences, which ruins people's lives, puts them at risk of destitution and can even increase the risk of modern slavery.

«Today, the Party has become a voice for higher taxes and job - killing policies that will bloat the public workforce and increase the role of government regardless of the consequences, at a time when we need fiscal constraint,» Hills continued.

Indeed, policies directed at «migrants» can have very real consequences for those with the formal status of citizenship.

Here at Freedom from Torture, we see the consequences of Hostile Environment policies daily.

Over the last four weeks I have done everything I can both at formal meetings and informal meetings trying to convince my colleagues that our current policy on Gaza is morally indefensible, that it's not in British interests and that it will have consequences for us, both internationally and here at home.

Instead of outlining her own policy proposals in granular detail as she often does in these settings, she asked the crowd to give her their votes to show Republicans their positions carry consequences at the polls.

Meghan Heintz of More New York, a group that advocates for policies that increase housing supply in the city, argued at the hearing that the tech hub was a boon to residents of nearby neighborhoods, and warned against the consequences of prohibitively restrictive zoning.

Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world.»

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests new reforms to the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)-- ending the practice of throwing away unwanted fish caught at sea — may have unintended consequences.

Now, environmental economist Chris Hope and Arctic Ocean specialist Peter Wadhams, both at the University of Cambridge, together with climate policy analyst Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have analysed the likely consequences of such a release occurring between 2015 and 2025.

The collision of water, energy and climate change will reverberate through public policy decisions for decades to come, with unintended consequences at each step.

A major part of his role will be to ensure that high - quality advice is available across government departments as they deal with the legal and regulatory consequences of the UK's decision to leave the European Union, says Graeme Reid, a science - policy researcher at University College London.

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At its best, Snowfall illustrates the unintended consequences and collateral damage associated with drugs — characters enter into new alliances at their peril — while revisiting the CIA's role and shady dealings to advance its foreign - policy objectiveAt its best, Snowfall illustrates the unintended consequences and collateral damage associated with drugs — characters enter into new alliances at their peril — while revisiting the CIA's role and shady dealings to advance its foreign - policy objectiveat their peril — while revisiting the CIA's role and shady dealings to advance its foreign - policy objectives.

Rather, it's a bleaker look at the consequences of American policy (or the lack thereof), from the way in which the U.S. flaunts Germany's privacy laws to the way in which doles out «justice»: Do those who adapt the tactics of their enemies in order to defeat them not run the risk of becoming the very thing they fought against?

It's worth remembering that an army of naysayers predicting adverse consequences, or at best futility, has accompanied every major federal policy shift in education.

The detrimental consequences of government policy on art, craft and design education have been exposed by the findings of The National Society for Education in Art and Design Survey Report 2015 - 16 to be launched at the All - Party Parliamentary Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education at 4 pm on Tuesday 9 February 2016.

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.

Put it all aside because the fact is that full - time virtual charter schools, which are funded by public dollars, are on the defensive in the battle of public perception, which will, at some point, have public policy consequences.

«There are lots of policy levers, and we are able to look at the consequences of these policies.»

«Pence's K through 12 education agenda has had serious, deleterious consequences for public education,» Bob Arnove, the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Indiana University, told Business Insider.

Find The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia, by Matthew P. Steinberg & Johanna Lacoe, and published by the Fordham Institute, at: http://edex.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/publication/pdfs/%2812.05%29 The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform Evidence from Philadelphia.pdf

Before we can recommend a general policy of higher standards, we must understand the distributional consequences at all levels and know how to implement a policy of high standards.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

This policy brief developed by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, describes child sex trafficking, including what it is, who is at risk, the potential consequences, and what can be done to address it.

For this reason, as the Common Core, and its fewer, higher, clearer standards, moves forward into implementation, states must give adequate attention to their accountability policies and the potential consequences of these policies on those students most at - risk of dropping out.

Ironic here is that they, immediately thereafter, insert their Figure D (p. v titled Figure 3 below), that they explicitly title «Connecting the Dots,» to illustrate all of the punitive consequences already at play across the nation (giving Delaware, Florida, and Louisiana (dis) honorable mentions for leading the nation when it comes to their policy efforts to connect the dots).

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

An unintended consequence of these policies and practices was that youth with behavioral health needs were put at an increased risk for exclusionary discipline and school - based arrests.

# 19 Suzy Hansen Notes on a Foreign Country Hansen's investigation into U.S. involvement abroad is a compelling look at the consequences of interventionist foreign policy.

In dealing with the continued weak economy, our leaders are so determined not to repeat the perceived mistakes of the 1930s that they are risking policies with possibly far worse consequences designed by the same people at the Fed who ran policy with the short term view that asset bubbles don't matter because the fallout can be managed after they pop.

The consequences of going without include suspended registration, fines, and possible car impoundment, so you should probably buy a policy for at least the minimum in coverage: bodily injury liability of $ 15,000 per person and $ 30,000 per accident, and property damage liability of $ 5,000.

Some of the participating artists include: Abbas Akhavan who will exhibit a water fountain created using stacks of dishes pots and cooking pans that explores the politics of hospitality; Zineb Sedira whose large - scale photographs and sugar sculpture references the history of sugar, race, migration and globalization; Tadasu Takamine reflects on the consequences of the catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in a series of performative videos; Asunción Molinos whose work in the show originates for a «pop - up» restaurant she ran in Cairo which dealt with issues related to Egypt's export / import policies and Senam Okudzeto whose work Portes - Oranges features metal sculptures used by Ghanaian fruit sellers to display oranges.

Dr Smith said: «Lady Butler belonged to a group of thinkers who were critical of British colonial policy and this was partly produced to show history repeating itself with disastrous consequences - though at the time it was seen to be a heroic image of endurance and survival at the very edges of the empire.»

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.