Sentences with phrase «doing policy research»

This is always a delicate issue, but there is little point doing policy research if the results are not fed into the debates of the day.

As a small group, the teachers dedicated themselves to organizing great teachers to do policy research and make recommendations with the only bias being the guiding question: «What does this mean for students?»

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«This is an extremely generous benefit, and while it's fantastic for the women who work there, I don't know how feasible it is going to be for the majority of industries to do something to this extent,» said Alina Salganicoff, vice-president and director of women's health policy for Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that researches health care issues.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

But they did leave those of us who prefer to be guided by research with a natural experiment of what could be wrought by a sub-optimal policy mix.

A newly released study from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research did detailed surveys with more than 1,100 drivers.

New research published this summer by economists Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in the American Economic Journal found that policies that increased maternity leave did little to increase children's future educational achievement.

As BuzzFeed notes, much of Uber's new policy on accessing passenger data was included in an update to the company's privacy policy issued a day after reports of an Uber executive's comments about doing research on journalists.

My company had been publishing Chinese language b2b magazines and doing market research in China since 1975, so we had a ground floor seat from which to witness the dramatic changes before, during, and after the Open Door policy was announced in 1979.

Given that our esteemed lawmakers can't seem to agree on anything these days, the entrepreneurship organization is a long way from being able to guarantee that such a measure will ever pass, but on the Hill's Congressional Blog recently, Kauffman's policy director Jason Wiens and Dane Stangler, the organization's vice president of research and policy, did make a strong case regarding why it should.

Research by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that there may be less of a shortage of STEM workers than assumed by the bill's proponents, and loopholes in the bill will allow unscrupulous companies to use H - 1B visas to fill jobs with cheaper foreign workers when U.S. workers would do.

In fact, half of online Americans don't even know what a privacy policy is, according to a Pew Research Report published last year.

In survey research, businesses also directly report that they do not change their hiring and hours policies in response to paid sick days requirements.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that most households have less wealth now than they did in 1989.

«You don't ever really see him, when there's a financial interest or there's a big lobbying effort, where he abandons his principles,» said Edward Mills, a financial policy research analyst with FBR Capital Markets & Co..

During the years since the global financial crisis, we have been doing a lot of thinking and research to improve our understanding of the nexus between monetary policy and financial stability.

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«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

«The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a «good jobs» deficit,» said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.

In order to focus on providing objective, conflict - free research and analysis to our clients, we do not discuss our policies or recommendations with issuers during the solicitation period (which begins on the date the notice of meeting is released and ends on the date of the meeting), unless we decide to conduct a Proxy Talk with the company, which we record for access by our clients.

I would suggest that Daniel Burke and all the other liberals do some research and discover the evils of Marxism and the number of people killed for the sake of that failed policy.

Does Huntsman recognize the ways in which public policy — everything from education policy to funding for high - tech research — affects these deep questions?

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University, said execution would do nothing to truly combat the issue.

Poverty research and policy development has since been dominated by economists, who attribute the same maximizing psychology to the poor as they do to stockbrokers on Wall Street, thus obfuscating the distinctive, defeated mentality of the ghetto.

To all of you who say such negative things toward Islam, you have not done your research of both the Islamic religion, the Christian religion, and American policies.

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 believe.

The authors of the report say that people doing federal research on things like income, spending and health should also ask questions about happiness because of the more developed view it could lend to in setting policies to improve people's lives.

Ease off the caps and do some research into how religious nuts are trying to inject their nonsense into public policy and K - 12 education.

My guess is probably 5 - 10 % of the population are still hungry — they still do not have enough to eat,» said Shenggen Fan, the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.

They even fund research scientists at prestigious universities to conduct studies and write policy papers that are skewed toward saying that their products don't contribute to diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc..

Attitude surveys, and more in - depth research, show that when attention turns to policies designed to support men and women in their sharing of breadwinning and childcare roles, this is in line with the aspirations of the vast majority of parents, who do not want to organise their household duties along gender lines.

But if the standard return policy is still in place, there are a few exceptions to the Babies «R» Us 90 - day limit, so it's best to do your research before purchasing and returning.

Get some online insurance quotes and do your research: There are many great websites out there that can give you comparisons from several different companies at the same time so that you can see which policy will work best for you.

In the case that not everything and everyone is covered under your policy, it's time to do some research into insurance that will provide adequate coverage.

She's an MD who does research into women's public health policy, while looking and dressing like a supermodel.

Pew Research Center does not take policy positions.

It argued convincingly that politicians and others with the power to make education policy rarely read education research, and if they do, they only accept conclusions that confirm their biases.

, I've done some informal research, and most Laundromats have no official policy against diaper laundry.

The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.

However, research has shown that policies that use weak and vague language and don't require action are less likely to be implemented.

Another study done by the Environment California Research and Policy Center tested 5 popular baby bottles: Avent, Dr. Brown's Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex.

Our understanding of biology / physiology often starts with animal research, but this doesn't give us evidence of sufficient quality or specificity with which to make public health policy.

«The committee felt that the potential benefits to NOMS [National Offender Management Service] from this research proposal were limited and that the project did not sufficiently link to NOMS priorities and our focus upon identifying ways of improving the effectiveness of operational policy / delivery and maximising the use of our available resources.

Even when we didn't have specific information pre-prepackaged (press releases, policy analyses, details about how particular Congressional districts would be affected, video B - roll, etc.), we had staff on hand who were primed to do the research and put critical material together quickly, often in hours.

Less than a month later, Cameron already knows that the policy has failed — even before the umpteen business and economics research consultancies do.

The pamphlet — co-authored by Patrick Diamond, senior research fellow at Policy Network and former Downing street advisor, with Giles Radice, a Labour peer — revisits Radice's original work «Southern Discomfort» written in 1992 where he warned «Labour can not win without doing better in the South.»

The Chancellor's commitment to protect the Science Budget in real terms over the life of this Parliament is a positive first step but sadly does not go far enough to compensate for the # 1 billion lost to the research base over the past five years due to the Government's flat - cash policy.»

«As I researched the idea of promoting savings in our sector, the idea of credit union came into mind and I said that's it because it dawned on me that majority of the people don't have savings accounts, insurance cover or even pension schemes and since I became the Chairman of GHAMRO I really felt the pinch because every now and then I get calls from members asking for advance payment of their royalty to either pay school fees, settle medical bills or to even solve other financial problems then I've realized that this vacuum has to be filled because GHAMRO doesn't have a policy to pay this type of monies».

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.