Sentences with phrase «debates over the cost»

And although there's been a lot of debate over the cost of Pre-k, leaders of afterschool groups are pretty happy with what they are getting.

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

The debates over the cost of action and the effectiveness of a destructive statement over productive alternatives are in the margins, present but always framed by the personal.

* Contrary to Nisbet's finding, we believe that false balance in climate reporting persists, especially when it comes to the debate over costs and benefits of climate action.

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The Committee for Perth has added to the debate over Perth's public transport system by releasing research indicating light rail systems attract more passengers, have lower running costs, and travel faster than rapid bus systems.

The debate will continue over whether protected classes need to be expanded under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and whether those expansions are worth the legal and regulatory costs to business associated with them.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

But the debate over whether college is «worth it» shouldn't focus on what economic model we apply, but rather whether the cost side has applied any rational economics at all.

PBMs have come into the spotlight in the debate over soaring drug prices, with manufacturers accusing them of contributing to inflating costs.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

One cost often neglected in the debate over recombinant DNA research concerns the allocation of scarce resources that might be used otherwise.

There is much advocacy around the issue of cost containment as we enter the great debate over health care «reform.»

The very first argument advanced in the first congressional debates over extending Medicaid funding to abortion referred to the many millions of dollars in future welfare costs that abortion would save.

I debated long and hard over calling Tina's and asking them to overnight a coconut cream pie — but then I snapped back into reality and realized it would cost me an arm and a leg and probably wouldn't produce the same eye - rolling euphoria my husband would expect.

Last month, Park District of Highland Park commissioners were told the cost to renovate Rosewood Beach would cost an estimated $ 5.58 million — about $ 920,000 more than the estimate from July 2012, amid a contentious debate over the project.

A terrible dilemma over the fate of a pregnant young mother throws a harsh light on the cost of the abortion debate.

Mylan and federal investigators finalized a $ 465 million settlement of charges the drugmaker overcharged the government for the injection allergy medication EpiPen, resolving an issue that fueled nationwide debate over soaring drug costs.

Debate over the CUNY shifts took a curious turn on Monday as Republican Sen. Cathy Young, the chair of the finance committee, offered a new rationale for the CUNY proposal: the cost shift as a punishment for recent anti-Semitic incidents at CUNY and what some lawmakers see as an inefficient response to them.

The trees were brought over from Florida and planted in 2001, when debate was already ranging over the cost of the Portcullis building, which soared from # 165 million to # 235 million and prompted an inquiry.

The debate over the reforms is battering his approval ratings and costing him valuable political capital in an effort to secure cross-party support.

State budget talks on Tuesday careened into a broader debate over Medicaid funding for New York City, which Assembly Democrats raising concerns over a $ 250 million «cost shift» from the state to the city.

The debate over the county settlement reignited this week, when Cuomo at an MWBE forum criticized Astorino's intransigence, saying it has cost the county money in the form of withheld grants.

What often gets lost in the debate, said Helgerson, is the county share of Medicaid costs in the state has actually been reduced over time, from 25 percent in 1960 to the current 13 percent.

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

If anyone has dipped into the debate on the Alternative Vote over the last three weeks, they will probably have picked up one thing: the No campaign say AV will cost # 250 million, the Yes campaign disagree.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

Publishers have a massive problem with perception of value CNET) Here's something that tends to get lost in the debate over e-book prices: Paper doesn't cost very much.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

While Americans debate the rising cost of health care, a new study of 30 countries over 27 years found that medical expansion has improved overall health — with one major exception.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

The great tragedy of the faux «debate» over Common Core is that some of the people most ideally suited to wisely guide its implementation — Stotsky, for instance — have opted instead to endlessly re-litigate the standards, at incalculable cost to students in classrooms today.

The cost of standardized tests, long assailed by testing critics as too high, has resurfaced in the debate over reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act currently underway in Congress.

The debate over the skyrocketing cost of going to college may get even more intense as a result of the 1988 - 89 tuition figures recently released by the College Board.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

Says WILL's Education Policy Director, Will Flanders, Ph.D., author of the study, «The debate over school choice is almost always focused on the so - called costs.

Whether it's worth the premium over its rivals is open to debate as the diesel engines are bettered elsewhere, the rear seats aren't as roomy as they should be and running costs tend to be high, while depreciation can also be stiff.

Publishing industry events have been debating the ins and outs of reaching readers directly for several years, and companies have been exhibiting at these events for that same amount of time, promising both publishers and authors they could reach out to book audiences and seamlessly sell content, wiping out the need to pay fees or argue over how much a book should cost.

There is an ongoing debate over which program costs the federal government less.

Although lawmakers like to debate over rules that would make credit scores free to consumers, it still costs money to see the same three - digit numbers that banks use to determine creditworthiness.

The debate over porting is decided by the management based off the current market and the costs.

At the national level, these days any Washington talk of a rising cost on carbon generally comes up only in debates over why cap - and - trade legislation failed.

Framing climate - change costs as the equivalent of a hidden rising tax could be useful in debates over a climate response.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Second, now that the scientific phase of the debate is over, attention will move to the question of the costs and benefits of mitigation options.

What surprises me is that the debate over the «hockey stick» is well known to all the politicians pushing for the US to ratify Kyoto and they must know that the argument is slowing down progress towards their goals and costing a fortune in enhanced PR budgets.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

This chart is unnecessarily complicated — I'm not going to get into the debate over whether to measure costs via DC or AC — but the thing to notice is that the lines go down.

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

Yet through it all — from regulatory debates over interconnection cost upgrades to bill crediting to project size eligibility — you managed to add 218 megawatts and grow a whopping fourfold over 2015.

The project is part of a $ 550 million plan by the state government to guarantee energy supply following a statewide blackout last year that turned into a national political debate over energy security and costs.