Sentences with phrase «change coalition policy»

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The coalition plans to present specific policy changes to the administration, including efforts to speed visa processing times, that it expects will help boost tourism.

Coalition organizers said the U.S. remains a vital draw for foreign travelers and that only modest policy changes would be required.

The organization's mission is to strengthen the wealth - creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change in the business culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and influence opinion makers.

But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.

Her previous work experience includes the Center for Community Change as a policy analyst on transportation issues and Housing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant organizing.

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

The election of Mauricio Macri, leader of the Cambiemos («Let's Change») coalition, to the presidency should not be seen as yet another shift in Argentina's policy pendulum.

Importantly, there is no change of macro-economic policy, which is the raison d'etre of the Coalition Government.

The coalition government is unwaveringly refusing to reverse a combination of the housing and climate change policies formulated by Ed Miliband as secretary of state for energy and climate change in Gordon Brown's last Labour government.

A Capital analysis of his legislative activity in recent years helps fill in the details of the coalitions he has built and what policy changes he seems to support.

Most profiles of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have described him as a relatively quiet legislator who is more likely to build coalitions behind the scenes than to push policy changes in news conferences or rallies.

But he made clear support for the changes would come at the price of increased union influence on Labour policy - to the extent that the party abandons its support of the bulk of the coalition's deficit reduction measures.

This indicates that the party is digging in on both the principle of respect for the party's policy and the coalition agreement and the need to protect the NHS from excessive and damaging changes.

Diplomats at the embassy tonight are expecting little change from the new coalition in terms of policy.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

The centrepiece of Labor's policy is the Fair Work Act, which the Coalition has pledged to keep in place (with changes).

«On its current course, with no change in policy and no commitment to action, much of the countryside is becoming part dormitory, part theme park and part retirement home,» said Lib Dem peer Lord Taylor, who chairs the Rural Coalition.

Notably, these left wing coalitions didn't really have to change anything to have those more attractive policies for Muslims.

While the coalition itself might have been the product of pure parliamentary arithmetic, the changing policy profile of the Party after 2006 meant that by 2010 a Liberal - Conservative coalition was substantially more viable than it had been for decades.

In Mississippi's case, the policy change led to reduced violence — a point the coalition emphasizes.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

He was also specifically critical of the Tory rebels for trying to «pick and choose» coalition policies, and accused Labour of «allowing short - term political opportunism to thwart long - term democratic change».

Monday's bombshell abuse allegations changed all that, removing a critical player from the coalition of state Democratic attorneys general confronting the Trump administration on everything from climate policy to immigration.

Kath Checkland, professor of health policy at Manchester University, said the new processes could help address inequality if different groups within the coalition pooled budgets together but, in practice, little would change as legislation remained the same.

For example, much of Ed Davey's chapter on localism sits very comfortably within the coalition's decentralising agenda, and government environment policy, like the Green Investment Bank, at least in part reflects Baroness Susan Kramer's essay on using the market to tackle climate change and pollution.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

I, as a loyal if not wholly enthusiastic supporter of this coalition, see Liberal Democrat spokespeople going on the television and in the press defending in detail policies that I know to be Tory policies that this party does not agree with, which are against party policy and which will not party policy at the next general election... The way in which coalition policy, when it is not Liberal Democrat policy, is being presented has got to change.

Social Services Minister Christian Porter talks down conservative opposition to the Coalition's superannuation policy, saying changes laid out in the budget have the «solid support» of senior party figures.

The Cameron decision, due to be formally announced this month, is likely to contribute to a turbulent mood at this autumn's Lib Dem conference, where the business secretary, Vince Cable, is set to ask for a change in emphasis in economic policy — the glue that has held the coalition together.

The Accu - Weather report was commissioned by a lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue».

Meanwhile, the Canadian Association for Responsible Research Funding (CARRF), a newly formed coalition of some 150 scientists, is pushing for major changes in current funding policies.

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

But both Jorge and Alves say they don't expect a fundamental change of line from the current coalition government, which oversees FCT's policies.

Sacramento About Blog The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) is a coalition that advances policy solutions at the nexus of climate change and sustainable agriculture.

The education coalition will not permit real policy change without a lot of new money.

In order to help lawmakers translate issues raised in the courtroom to lasting positive change for students in the classroom, Students Matter works with diverse coalitions of organizations and individuals to identify and advocate for the commonsense policies proven to serve students, especially those in underserved communities.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

When the Coalition came to power in 2013, however, Australia saw very little substantive change of position in relation to schooling policy.

Policy change and learning: An advocacy coalition approach.

Stephen Sigmund, the executive director of High Achievement New York, a coalition that advocates higher standards, said in a statement, «The Regents shouldn't make significant policy changes with an 11th hour and 59th minute addition to the agenda.»

, a coalition that advocates higher standards, said in a statement, «The Regents shouldn't make significant policy changes with an 11th hour and 59th minute addition to the agenda.»

«The most important piece,» she says, «is the value of the coalition building we did prior to implementing any sort of policy change.»

When a principal refuses to allow parents in the classrooms or balks at changing a policy parents feel strongly about, it's time to marshal your resources and go over the principal's head, says Sue Ferguson, chairperson of the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education in Fairfax, Va..

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She has been involved in changing animal welfare policies since 1985, when she organized a coalition that successfully petitioned to stop an Illinois county, Madison, from selling shelter animals to research.

The coalition team met with county officials to see if they could change their minds and policies regarding free adoptions.

Sacramento About Blog The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) is a coalition that advances policy solutions at the nexus of climate change and sustainable agriculture.

From what I can make out, in the change from a Labour government to a largely Tory coalition (right wing), «green» policies have remained intact.

RBF's emphasis today is on policies, programs and coalitions against «catastrophic manmade climate change.»