Not exact matches
Other analysts, such
as Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and
Public Policy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by th
Policy, an economic
policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by th
policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach
by the FCC.
In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet
by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing
by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn
as a
public policy issue is on the ascent.
As an attorney who moved into the public policy and government and now as a university president (all positions in fields dominated by men), I have faced challenges while working my way u
As an attorney who moved into the
public policy and government and now
as a university president (all positions in fields dominated by men), I have faced challenges while working my way u
as a university president (all positions in fields dominated
by men), I have faced challenges while working my way up.
«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it
by the Fed Up coalition (
as well
as surveying the views of other
public interest groups),» the Economic
Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.
Angus responded
by arguing that Chan's role
as the company's leading
public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.
In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's
public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned
by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register
as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
But it's significant considering that, unlike other major American CEOs who have spoken out about Trump's approach immigration and racial
policies, Frazier's response was aggressive and he's not necessarily
as well known
by the general
public.
«We will be profitable,
as measured
by EBITDA,» said Chris Lehane, global head of
policy and
public affairs, in a conference call.
The Congress faces an array of
policy choices
as it confronts the challenges posed
by the amount of federal debt held
by the
public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.
Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern
Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement
by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its
policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically
as social assistance).
As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed
policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding
by the
public at large.
Such a debate would be further enriched
by a comprehensive study of how countries such
as Australia, with its recent
policies and
public / media perceptions, has fared after instituting new regulations to curb foreign investment.
During his tenure
as chairman, Bernanke was acutely aware of the
public's deep resentment of the Fed's emergency bailout of financial giants such
as AIG
as well
as policies that inevitably favored the wealthy
by spurring the stock market.
An earlier filing might have been a telltale sign about the financial problems to come: Tesla disclosed that it had begun reimbursing Mr. Musk for his use of his private plane, justifying the cost
by saying, «By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.&raqu
by saying, «
By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.&raqu
By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement
policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving
as compared to the customary practice for an initial
public offering road show.»
Without such reasons or explanation, Canadians can only guess
as to «the wider
public policy factors» (Pembina at para. 74) taken into account
by the GiC in ultimately granting project approval.
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While political and foreign
policy wonks will understand that Trump isn't necessarily going to end the deal
by sending the issue to Congress, broadly speaking it will be read
by the American
public and the international community
as him trying to deliver on his promise to scrap or improve the pact.
The accounting
policies underlying the Budget primarily follow those recommended
by the
Public Sector Accounting Board and we would recommend that the Estimates follow these accounting standards
as well.
In the final days, the
public policy debates became more lively and diverse
as participants began to react to the directions being pushed
by WCC staff.
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child
policy,» replete with forced abortions,
public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged
as wrongs even
by international human - rights bureaucracies.
It is a tragic error that those of us who make the «self - help» argument in internal dialogue concerning alternative - development strategies for black Americans are often construed
by the political right
as making a
public argument for a
policy of «benign neglect.»
This
policy of supplying,
by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private
as well
as public.
As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or
public policy can not be established merely
by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.
1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families
by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits,
as well
as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our
public policies directed towards lower - income families.
So long
as the prevailing view is that they are not necessarily wrong,
public policy in a pluralistic system must be indifferent to any beliefs that can not be independently supported
by rational (utilitarian) argument.
Much
as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed
by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and
public -
policy formulation.
As long as you don't MAKE them my business by interfering with the law, public school policy, or science research, I don't care what you believ
As long
as you don't MAKE them my business by interfering with the law, public school policy, or science research, I don't care what you believ
as you don't MAKE them my business
by interfering with the law,
public school
policy, or science research, I don't care what you believe.
But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism,
as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just
as much a religion
as any other, except that
by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for
public office but anything
public (
public policy, the
public square), whose content is defined
by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»
It all started a few years back when,
as the senior editor of a Jerusalem - based journal of
public thought, I ran into trouble on a 10,000 - word, brilliantly researched essay about Israeli social
policy composed
by the sweetest man on earth who, unfortunately wasn't a stellar writer.
What troubles me is this: When discussing how to apply the Bible both personally and in
public policy, nine times out of ten, the words of Jesus are trumped
by some other biblical passage or are discounted
as impractical.
He warns that
by adding them to the well - publicized list of «fundamental rights and freedoms» which was accepted
as public world law in the Universal Declaration of 1948 and its subsequent Conventions, we risk diluting the «true» rights and place them at the mercy of changing
policy decisions.
I have myself taken part in a demonstration against a
public policy that was later described
by «the other side»
as being violent and hateful, with the intent to intimidate the school board into breaking the law.
These shifts have already taken place to some extent, but
as «our side» ceases to feel surrounded
by a monolithic «slave world» the
public may be ready to accept much greater changes in
policy.
Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made
by individual experts with the decisions of the
public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range
policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.
Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion
as the alleged differentiation of private piety from
public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy
as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling
as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced
by broader international patterns.
Nonetheless, we may also hold that so far
as public policy is concerned in a pluralistic society, justice is best served
by a Madisonian approach that thwarts the tyranny of the majority.
Could
public opinion sustain such a
policy as the
public seems to oppose even the more limited bombing proposed
by President Obama?
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role
as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in
public policy which «has been made surreptitiously
by administrative action without
public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation
as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled
by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new
policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in
public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known
as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally
by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such
as public engineering, economics, and regulation of
public safety.
Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family
by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials
as they develop
public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.
Evangelicals of a social - justice bent have mounted like - minded projects on a smaller scale, such
as the Crossroads Program sponsored
by Evangelicals for Social Action (seeded
by Pew Trust money in 1992) and its ongoing series of publications on faith and
public policy.
However, the Committee's efforts went beyond its charge and authority to develop dietary recommendations based on scientific evidence
by advocating for
public policies such
as taxes and restrictions on foods and beverages.
This is done intentionally
by some, and it is merely done unintentionally
by others who are so cloaked in their ideology that they can not discern the difference between expressing data and extrapolating
public policy prescriptions, for instance,
as a result.
These are essentially questions of
public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way,
by public officials at all levels —
by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries —
as well
as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.
The International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes (known in lactivist circles
as the «WHO Code»), prohibits formula companies from advertising in any conspicuous way: «There should be no advertising or other form of promotion to the general
public of products within the scope of this Code,» proclaims article 5.1 of this
policy, coauthored in 1981
by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Virginia Hunger Solutions works to increase participation in school breakfast programs throughout the Commonwealth
by promoting alternative breakfast delivery models, such
as Breakfast in the Classroom, and innovative
public policies, such
as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
Intended for use
by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for
public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been
as safe
as it is today.
(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a
policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the
public view to be designated
as an area in which any mother who is employed
by the local school board or enrolled
as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.
Third, the publicity afforded to the most recent debate could be viewed
as part of a wider effort
by the Chinese to indirectly warn North Korea and demonstrate to the outside world, especially the US, that China is open to a more
public discussion of
policy.