Sentences with phrase «by public policy groups»

The same talking point has been re-iterated again and again by public policy groups and environmentalists, as well as the most influential scientists in the US government.

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«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.

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In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

Afterwards, there will be afternoon breakout groups to discuss specific policy recommendations, which will be open to the public and accessible by teleconference, but will not via webcast.

The report, released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that religious groups spend $ 390 million a year to influence U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

It is the responsibility not of government to formulate and perpetuate public policy but of the citizenry, who can do so wisely, creatively and effectively only by organizing themselves in voluntary groups around their various shared interests and concerns.

Every Living Thing: An Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals is a new offering spearheaded by Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Michael Cromartie with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Clapham Group's Mark Rodgers, a former chief of staff to Senator Rick Santorum.

Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

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.

Paul Tough delivers the Fifth Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, presented by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP), in collaboration with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago.

Paul will deliver the Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at the Harris School, University of Chicago, and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

Access to Public Liability Insurance for Local HE groups run by three or more EO members at a preferential rate via EO's collective policy.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

By not lobbying for a specific policy or explicitly supporting any candidates, there's no requirement the group's donors be made public.

In an idea very similar to that proposed by Iain Duncan Smith, the public services policy group will say that parents should have the power to set up new schools to rival those of local education authorities:

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups who endorsed Nixon.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's «excited» by the prospect and said he also wants the rest of the Democrats to adopt his group's policy agenda, including transgender rights and public financing for campaigns, items supported by many mainstream Democrats.

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

«There's another class of bills that involve whole groups of employees by classification or category,» said E.J. McMahon, the president of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

«We stand here today in outrage and disappointment that 15 of our City Council members, including nine members of the Progressive Caucus, have decided to participate in a delegation to Israel sponsored by groups known for promoting Islamophobic public policies,» said Brandon Davis, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, in opening a rainy press conference outside of City Hall on January 12.

In particular we believe oral evidence sessions before Finance Bill public bill committee, bringing in both expert witnesses and representatives from groups affected by particular changes, could lead to better - informed policy - making.

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

The office pointed to a 2014 ruling by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that found that politicians could appear in an ad funded by a nonprofit group if the message was in the public interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or pPublic Ethics that found that politicians could appear in an ad funded by a nonprofit group if the message was in the public interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or ppublic interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or policy.

The professionals that we have will run the airport and then ultimately public policy that will be set by the county executive and by the county board of legislators as a group,» Latimer said.

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups that endorsed Nixon.

The poll of 542 voters in the district was conducted Nov. 27 to Nov. 28 by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., for «Not One Penny,» a coalition of liberal advocacy groups that oppose the tax overhaul.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

And on 7 December, a report from Policy Cures in Sydney, Australia, a group that monitors global research and development for neglected diseases, showed that public and private funders last year cut their commitments to HIV / AIDS research targeted at the developing world by US$ 67.5 million, or 5.9 %.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

Led by James Pollard, UNLV's program director for the partnership, the joint venture ensures that 16 UNLV researchers can continue studying and developing the best information - management systems for collecting, compiling, and distrib - uting data to policy makers, researchers, inter-est groups, industry, and the general public.

Right now, the «playbook» at the boundary of science, society and public policy is being re-written, by multiple groups with multiple mandates and agendas.

Dr. Ornish was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and by President Obama to the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.

For the past year, a group of researchers with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public pPolicy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public policypolicy.

Released last month by the Institute for Educational Leadership, based in Washington, and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, located in San Jose, Calif., the report analyzed data collected by several groups over five years.

The piece I wrote illustrated the power of personalized learning powered by blended learning, which addresses the call by a group of business and academic leaders in their recent «Open Letter on the Digital Economy» and a corresponding piece that contained a set of public policy recommendations to «redesign how we deliver education at all levels using the power of digital technologies.»

The public opposes policies to prevent differences in discipline rates across racial group by a wide margin, with support even within the African American community falling in 2016.

Philadelphia — Evangelical Christians who teach in the public schools should do all they legally can to impart their religious values to students, a group of Christian educators said here at a meeting attended by President Reagan's domestic - policy adviser.

Many school districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy.

An independent study by SRI International, a nonprofit science and public policy research institute based in Menlo Park, California, evaluated two separate groups of students who were taught the same subject by the same instructor — one group of students taught face to face, and the other via the VHS method.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

School board policy at North White Pine County states that the board has established its commitment to families and the community by creating and maintaining policies to provide for the transparency of public records, for having open board meetings, for allowing community groups to use school facilities, and for allowing visitors to have access to the schools.