Sentences with phrase «example of public policy»

«This is an example of public policy by press release,» said Nadeau, who said the underlying «complex issues» need to be more openly discussed.

In Brazil, in recent years, we have many examples of public policies for management of solid waste.

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Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

Long after leaving active duty, they continue to vote, volunteer and serve their communities at a high rate, serving as the best examples of citizenship,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Social Impact & Public Policy.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

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.

Current U.S. income - tax regulations are an example of inadequate public policy.

I wanted Governor Perry to explain his relationship with David Barton, the founder of the WallBuilders evangelical movement, who preaches that America should have a government «firmly rooted in biblical principles» and that the Bible offers explicit guidance on public policy — for example, tax policy.

12) It is therefore right that public policy should encourage the well - being of the natural family unit and discourage activities that fundamentally undermine it, including sexual activities; fornication, for example, whether inter-sex or same - sex, ought to be discouraged in a manner respectful of individual freedom and responsibility.

The characterization of criminals as primarily victims of their environment, a notion that has become increasingly popular among public policy analysts and social critics since the 1950s, is the clearest example of the erosion of this belief.

Clearly they are right that the public has a crucial stake in the scientific enterprise, whose general direction at least should be a matter of national policy, for example in the allotment of federal funds.

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

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.

It is often supposed that preoccupation with metaphysics makes one's work irrelevant to the real problems of life, to matters of public policy, for example.

As increasingly more Nordic consumers continue to choose organic over conventional foods, and cities across Scandinavia (like Copenhagen, for example) continue to put organic food at the top of their policy agendas (and on their public - sector kitchen menus), so those numbers will rise.

The Australian Beverages Council also recognises its responsibility to provide extensive communication to Governments, community groups, the media, and consumers with respect to the industry's views on regulatory matters, legislation, and public policy, dietary guidelines, health claims, and front - of - pack labelling are just a few examples of specifics that are proactively addressed to these audiences within these fields.

The executive committee will then turn to the section when it needs to construct a policy on that specific issue; for example, the majority of information on infant feeding that gets filtered through to the public via the AAP website is written by the Section on Breastfeeding.

For example, we have a long - standing relationship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion as part of the Dietary Guidelines Alliance, a public - private partnership focused on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the MyPlate Food Guidance System, and resources such as the «It's All About You» toolkit.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

For example, many politicians demonstrate a need to engage in «moral top - up» of war aims, such adding democracy, girls education and economic development to the list of aims for the war in Afghanistan several years into the conflict, in order to retain the support of an increasingly war weary public for what is, in essence, a strategic, not a moral, policy.

In Clegg's characterisation of not making public disagreements as the pukka thing to do, for example, he seems oblivious to how Lib Dems are going to campaign against those policies that they do disagree with when they have been silent on them for five years.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

The episode is just one example of Indonesia moving closer to a dangerous line where public pressure and intolerance influence policy making and interpretation of law.

For example, one missing variable that could account for much of the variation is that in America there's a strong history of public opinion (albiet not perfectly) translating into policy through democratic process, while in Egypt, average people have had incredible difficulty getting public opinion into policy and a protest was one of the tools that seemed to work.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

«It doesn't set a very good example,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

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On individual policies I've seen Corbyn supporters taking succour from polls showing, for example, that a majority of the public support rail nationalisation or much higher taxes on the rich and drawing the conclusion that there is a public appetite for much more left wing policies.

I believe he was simply using the death penalty as an illustrative example of a contentious public policy issue with a tenuous link to appropriations... the point being, to what degree does the Governor get to «make new law,» if you will, in budget bills?

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

One major hurdle to an on - time budget, DeFrancisco said, is Cuomo's proposal for free public - university tuition.He said the free tuition proposal is just another example of the way Cuomo has pushed for expensive policies that drive out «productive» state residents like business owners and taxpayers.

Much of the transport policy is a recycling of old ideas; for example, the public ownership of the railways, a fuel duty regulator, and rail electrification.

E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, explained how, using the example of a family with a $ 300,000 mortgage, which is common in the New York City suburbs and not altogether rare in wealthier Buffalo suburbs.

For example, they argue that opponents have co-opted the human rights language in battles over tobacco and gun control policy to the detriment of desirable public health goals.

... I fully support her career and often use her as an example in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota on careers and the role (s) scientist [s] can play in affecting public policy and development.

Estimating the influence of the news media on public expression — on whether it causes individuals to take public stands on key policy issues, for example — has long been challenging to scientists.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

We declared a pause to this important research to provide time to explain the public - health benefits cheap oakley of this work, to describe the measures in place to minimize possible risks, and to enable organizations and governments around the world to review their policies (for example on biosafety, biosecurity, oversight, and communication) regarding these experiments.

Starting in 2010, for example, dozens of college professors (including at Harvard) assigned students to write Wikipedia entries for credit about public policy issues as part of a project launched by Wikimedia.

However, if charter advocates carefully target specific systems with an exacting strategy, the current policy environment will allow them to create examples of a new, high - performing system of public education in urban America.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

For example, expanding distance from one mile to five more than doubles the number of families who could gain access to a choice of at least two public schools under an intradistrict choice policy.

And charter schools in D.C. have taken advantage of this friendly policy environment to innovate: Briya Public Charter School, for example, offers a two - generation approach that combines pre-k with adult education for parents.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

This Education Trends report, Beyond the Core: Advancing student success through the arts, explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state - and local - level policy considerations.

Nevertheless, the basic principles regarding equitable determination of low - income student counts for participating public and private schools remain unchanged, and USED's March 2015 policy guidance offers several illustrative examples.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

In another example of how the wealthy use the tax code to their benefit while public schools suffer, some states are funneling public dollars to private schools and allowing businesses and upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit in the process, according to a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).

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.