Sentences with phrase «expanding access»

This includes expanding access to Medicaid, the source of healthcare coverage for the majority of uninsured people living with HIV, under the Affordable Care Act.

Envisioning a Better Model — Over time, the emphasis of health care reform in Massachusetts shifted from expanding access to controlling costs and improving the quality of health care.

This partnership with University of Chicago is part of a larger citywide strategy to invest in expanding access for youth to learning, mentoring and employment opportunities that will better ensure all of our students graduate 100 percent college ready and 100 percent college bound.»

The report calls for expanding access to the overdose antidote naloxone to laypeople, and also says jurisdictions should explicitly authorize syringe exchange as well as their sale or distribution.

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

The lobbying group Research!America summed it up in March when it gave Obey an award: «Obey has been a driving force behind strengthening federal investments in medical research and in expanding access to affordable health care.»

«Results from our research will help employers as they think about strategies to reduce psychological stress in their employees such as implementing or expanding access to paid sick days,» said Stoddard - Dare.

At the meeting, attendees discussed four broad goals for the proposed Observatory: expanding access to large scale electron microscopes; providing fabrication facilities for new, nanosized electrode systems; developing new optical and magnetic resonance brain activity imaging technologies; and finding new ways to analyze and store the staggering amount of data detailed brain studies can produce.

Expanding access to the compound should help speed up this sort of research.

In recognition of the theme of the 2013 International Conference on Family Planning, Full Access, Full Choice, the Bellagio Group reaffirms its commitment to expanding access to highly effective, long - acting, reversible contraception for women and adolescent girls within the full range of contraceptive choice.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

EWG lauds the new standards for significantly expanding access to and appreciation of nourishing food.

The researchers noted that the students in the study were kindergartners in 2009, several years before the de Blasio administration introduced universal pre-K in 2014, expanding access to public pre-K for the city's four - year - olds.

By expanding access to lands for safe and responsible energy production, promoting infrastructure developments, and pursuing market - based solutions to reduce demand, we can increase energy security and sustainability while also creating jobs and spurring economic growth.

Whereas the industry and many consumers celebrated DSHEA for expanding access to supplements, the act was skewered by physicians, journalists, and consumer protection groups.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

Though the governor has taken steps like expanding access to voter registration forms, his proposals to enact automatic registration and early voting that have passed the Democratically controlled Assembly haven't gained traction in the Republican - led Senate.

«I will be a Secretary of State committed to fair elections and expanding access to our democracy,» Yee writes on his website, where he also promises front and center on his campaign website, «Committed to fair elections and expanding access to our democracy.»

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

«Expanding access to public charter schools will help eliminate the achievement gap in New York City and will help give children like my son access to the schools they deserve,» said Tamika Bradley, a public charter school parent from Brownsville.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

Throughout the year, you've helped others secure a living wage and affordable housing, expanding access to health care, limiting discrimination and disenfranchisement on the basis of color or gender, and ensuring a fairer, more ethical, more participatory democracy and government that work for us all.

We commend both Mayor de Blasio and this Council for their strong commitment to expanding access to universal pre-K.

Stressing that he remained committed to expanding access to all levels of education, the Governor pointed out that the reduction of fees at the University in 2012 was to reduce the burden placed on parents by their children's tertiary education.

Councilman Ritchie Torres said: «I am proud to host my second intern as part of Bronx H.I.R.E. Expanding access to economic opportunity has to be core component of any effort to prevent and combat domestic violence.

He said the district also must work to attract small businesses by expanding access to broadband internet through infrastructure investment and cut bureaucratic red tape that impedes economic growth.

She helped write a bill this year aimed at stopping the opoid crisis by expanding access to Narcan and restricting the length of first - time painkiller prescriptions given to patients.

Mark - Viverito's spokesman Eric Koch wrote in an email that «the speaker never supported the deal and still doesn't but looks forward to continuing to work with South Bronx United on issues ranging from keeping trucks off residential streets to expanding access to the waterfront to supporting development that respects the character of the community.»

«Expanding access to driver's licenses would be a big improvement in the lives of some of the hardest - working and hardest - pressed New Yorkers,» said David Kallick, Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Initiative.

Sanders boost Cuomo's push for expanding access to free tuition to New York state public colleges and appeared at a New York delegation breakfast with the governor during the Democratic National Convention.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Advocates cite FPI's report, Expanding Access to Driver's Licenses, and argue that it will help families... (read more)

According to Fordham University Professor Zephyr Teachout — whose journey from Vermont to Brooklyn, and primary challenge of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, seems like a mirror - image of Mr. Sanders» early career — Mr. Sanders succeeded by leveling his attention on bread - and - butter issues: expanding access to dental care in the countryside, helping people cope with credit card debt, increasing benefits for military veterans.

The final budget takes important steps, including by expanding access to school breakfast and preventing «lunch shaming.

By expanding access to affordable housing and eliminating the spread of Hepatitis C, we will further build on the gains we've achieved and continue our historic march forward.»

Under Governor Cuomo's leadership, New York is making an historic commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation.

He cites FPI's 2017 report, Expanding Access to Driver's Licenses.

The projects are part of Governor Cuomo's NY Parks 2020 initiative, a multi-year commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation by leveraging $ 900 million in private and public funding through 2020.

New York State is improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation.

The gateway visitor center projects are part of Governor Cuomo's NY Parks 2020 initiative, a multi-year commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation by leveraging $ 900 million in private and public funding through 2020.

Sarah believes that the Welsh Government must give top priority to attracting new industries and expanding access to fast internet services.

In conjunction with Somos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced actions to increase the number of minorities in the state workforce, including legislation to accelerate the hiring of highly - qualified diverse candidates and expanding access to Civil Service exam preparation and tests.

He had a clear focus on expanding the country's economic and social infrastructure, and also worked to actualise his vision of expanding access to secondary education and also to quality healthcare across the country.

«By expanding access to cutting - edge, life - saving breast cancer screening options, like 3D mammograms, we are taking our efforts to protect our mothers, sisters and daughters another step further.

«When you see our unwavering commitment in changing the face of public transportation, committing more funds to providing jetties and expanding access to waterways, please know that we are driven only by the need to build and sustain the needed infrastructure upon which an enduring tourism landscape can stand and outlive our administration and those coming after us,» the Governor said.

In general, she said, the governor «applauds the mayor's emphasis on expanding access to affordable housing» and believes he hit on some important points.

As a member of the bi-partisan New York State Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction, Senator Golden has fought for laws to establish Good Samaritan protections, create I - STOP, enhance insurance coverage to combat addiction, as well as expanding access to Naloxone.»

State Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City), the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health, will hold a legislative roundtable discussion in Albany on Tuesday that will focus on expanding access to naloxone.

His priorities in office include expanding access to high - speed internet, supporting dairy farmers and controlling state spending.

New York State is making a historic commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation.