Sentences with phrase «better federal policies»

«It's not a substitute for good federal policy, but for a city that needs to ensure that it has open Internet access, I think it makes a lot of sense to build a municipal network and keep it neutral,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

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In absence of a federal policy, what's the best way to get corporate America on board?

Though the U.S. economy has been performing well and the Federal Reserve has signaled further interest rate hikes, investors have been concerned over when and how this policy will be delivered.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

Stock indexes rallied as investors continued to find good cheer in the Federal Reserve's accommodative approach to monetary policy.

«Many federal integration programs are not working particularly well,» says Naomi Alboim, a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

Douglas Hyndman, who heads the Canadian Securities Transition Office that Flaherty set up to push this file, even told Maclean's in an email that the Supreme Court, by directing federal policy - makers to consider regulating systemic risks, shifted their attention «precisely where Canada needs to do a better job to get regulation right.»

What is important for attaining the Federal Reserve's mandated objectives is not that monetary policy is described in terms of a formal prescriptive rule, but rather that the FOMC's intentions and strategy are well understood by the public.

The federal government, including the finance and public safety departments, have been studying policy options to better protect Canada.

All this has contributed to a knife - edge quandary for Federal Reserve policy makers: Raise rates too soon and markets could plunge, economic momentum could fade and long - sought hopes for better - paying jobs could wither.

It's conceivable that by sending the Obamacare markets into a quasi-death spiral, the policy will significantly drive up the costs to the federal government through bigger subsidies — which is, funnily enough, a good thing for conservatives as far as the Byrd Rule is concerned.

Disclosure is consistent with public policy, in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders, and critical for compliance with federal ethics laws.

Ensuring the economic well - being of Canada's growing population of seniors is an important and complex public policy challenge that the new federal government must grapple with.

Maybe that's what the NDP (both federal and Ontario wings) had in mind, as well, but there weren't enough details in any of the published policy documents to tell.

With inflation well below its longer - run goal and high unemployment, the FOMC decided at its March meeting to maintain a «highly accommodative» policy stance: a federal funds rate in a range of 0 to 25 basis points with forward guidance based on economic thresholds.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

There are objective reasons to be optimistic, including ongoing labor market improvements — underscored by falling unemployment and underemployment rates, as well as solid job growth — combined with the Federal Reserve's expectations that conditions will permit further interest rate hikes this year as it continues to move toward policy «normalization.»

The day's trading was driven by uncertainty over how to interpret the Federal Reserve's recent policy statement as well as worries over talks in Beijing designed to avert a full - blown U.S. - China trade war.

We want a country where the federal government does not adopt short sighted policy for political gain, but acts in the best interests of the whole country with a long term vision of what Canada can and should be.

And just yesterday, Mester supported her colleagues» notion to announce a plan for balance sheet reduction, which will take «several years,» as well as a return to using the federal funds rate as the «main tool» for monetary policy.

Many people are familiar with the FED's monetary policy responsibilities, including the FOMC meetings, Federal Funds Rate decisions, Fed Chair's press conference, as well as various unconventional policies.

Thus far in 2005, the dollar has risen back to around 1.30 against the euro, in part reflecting the fact that the US federal funds rate has now risen above the monetary policy rate in the euro area, as well as comments from European officials expressing concerns about the extent of the appreciation of the euro.

Concerns over energy - induced weakness in headline PCE, as well as non-oil import prices» pass - through impacts on Core PCE had dominated recent Federal Reserve policy deliberations.

When asked for additional clarity during the March FOMC press conference she said only that shrinking the balance sheet is not predicated on a pre-specified level for the federal funds rate and that overall monetary policy normalization would be «well under way» before shrinking the balance sheet commenced.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Despite its obvious importance, federal policy makers and regulators still have not affirmed or promulgated a view of the «Best Interest» standard as drawn from the Advisers Act and common law.

The below chart illustrates U.S. oil production (in gold) vs. FED's balance sheet (in blue), and how overproduction from accommodative monetary policy resulted in the sharp decline in oil prices, creating a systemic risk that was again transmitted from financial and commodity markets to the real economy (in job losses and slow growth in Texas and other oil producing states, as well as the decline in headline inflation, pushing the Federal Reserve further from the price stability objective):

And so, Federal Reserve policy has not improved the economy, although it certainly has well served components of the economy.

Additionally, they claim the Federal Reserve's new restrictive monetary policy will continue to impede economic growth well into the end of this decade.

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. EcoFederal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Ecofederal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.

Throughout the third quarter of this year, investors have become increasingly nervous regarding forward Federal Reserve monetary policy, and for good reason.

As well as more corporate earnings, investors will also have the latest policy statements from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to digest as well as a raft of economic news from around the world.

The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under pressure to change its policies to better provide aid for places of...

FLPC will assist the Good Food Institute, whose goal is to disrupt animal agriculture by supporting plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, to research and identify the federal laws and policies that facilitate or impede plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs.

It offers an array of policy recommendations, including an expansion of SNAP (the federal food stamp program), creating more and better youth job opportunities, and creating teen - led food distribution programs.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

We need to be better on our own federal procurement policies.

Although programs have proliferated to address the needs of fathers and families, there is also a need to evaluate their effectiveness in helping fathers become better parents and better partners.8 Federal and state policy makers have placed increasing demands on programs to evaluate the effects these programs have on fathers and families and whether they are worth investing public dollars.9

A better, tried - and - tested method through congress is to make certain (significant) aspects of federal funding of local police forces contingent upon compliance with a camera program / policy.

At the time she was hired, the University at Buffalo graduate — she has a bachelor's degree in public policy as well as an MBA — had spent seven years working with HUD's Western New York field office, assisting municipalities and organizations with federal programs.

As one of the few Democratic governors in the country, with experience in federal government to boot, he was well - placed to propose himself as an alternative to the president's destructive policies.

At 8 a.m., Queens Rep. Joe Crowley speaks at an Association for a Better New York power breakfast on his legislative priorities, as well as federal issues and policies impacting New York City, Hilton Hotel, Mercury Ballroom, 1335 Sixth Ave., Manhattan.

«There are several open issues that need to be considered, including but not limited to an ongoing Federal investigation as well as policy and procedural issues.»

After the recent state budget adapted codes to work against federal tax policy, John DeFrancisco is the best gubernatorial candidate to relieve economic burdens for working - class New Yorkers.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

When asked his broader view of Trump's first ten days in office Massey demurred, saying only that «I disagree with him on a bunch of policies» before pivoting to talk about the importance of a mayor «getting along with the federal government» as well as the governor of New York, and attacking Mayor de Blasio as «corrupt... divisive... incompetent.»

A member of the Federal Policy Committee, he achieved the party's best - ever General Eelection result in Reading East (where he lives) in 2010.

At the same time, Cuomo said he was worried federal lawmakers and the Trump administration would seek other ways of running roughshod over states» rights beyond the tax law approved last month as well as federal immigration policy.

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».