Sentences with phrase «failed government programs»

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THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Finance Minister Vítor Gaspar said the ratings cut failed to reflect broad political support for the country's latest financial rescue program, and also a new income tax which he portrayed as «proof of the government's determination» to meet stated deficit targets.

«The Liberal government remains busy tinkering with eco fees and tweaking with failed recycling programs while we ship a third of our province's waste — or four million tonnes — to the United States every year,» he said.

So far, the pressure has failed to get North Korea's government, which views a nuclear arsenal as key to its survival, to return to long - stalled international negotiations on its nuclear program.

It is precisely when the market fails average wage earners that the so called «social wage» — that provided collectively through government programs and transfers — is so critical to ordinary families.

Several high - profile economists and pundits are both frustrated and perplexed that initiatives like cash - for - clunkers, the $ 800 + billion U.S. stimulus program, and Japan's 20 installments of government spending juice (over recent years) have failed to trigger anywhere close to the expected multiplier1 impact on economic activity.

Please explain how Mitt Romney stands for anything but more & bigger, failing Democrat government programs.

Lyndon Johnson's overly ambitious Great Society program, especially its failed War on Poverty, did much to diminish the faith in government that FDR's New Deal had generated.

Failed by flawed government policies and left out of development programs, women farmers around India are coming together to demand fair treatment and access the support to which they are entitled.

Adult children who are disabled also may receive coverage through the government's Medicaid program if their incomes fail to cover the cost of medical services, or if they qualify for and / or receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

It spends way more time on why students fail, but the worst part is the author's final conclusion: we need better government programs.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, who (correctly) predicted weeks ago that the supercommittee would fail, told reporters at an Albany event earlier today that Congress is now going to have to get over its partisan games or face automatic massive cuts to defense and domestic government programs — neither of which is 100 percent palatable to either side of the aisle.

The state's «population decline, economic stagnancy, failed jobs programs, highest tax burden in the nation, broken transit system, emboldened culture of corruption, secret government & [Cuomo's] closest aide convicted for selling the office all challenge» the gov's boast, tweeted Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (R), who hopes to unseat Cuomo in November.

Conservatives say Ryan failed a critical first test just weeks after taking the gavel, when he refused to leverage government funding to impose new restrictions on the nation's refugee settlement program in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Furthermore, any large government program often fails to achieve the stated aims due to the real aims being different (see above) or due to good old fashioned ineptness or being a boondoggle to begin with.

Good - government advocates have said the report essentially backs up what they said last year: The program approved in the budget was destined to fail.

The governor was immediately condemned by government reform groups who said the pilot program was cynically designed to fail.

Four key Republican U.S. senators — Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, and Lisa Murkowski — said they would vote against any reform bill that fails to protect Americans who became eligible for coverage under the ACA's expansion of Medicaid, the government - run health program for the poor and disabled.

«Population decline (upstate), economic stagnancy, failed jobs programs, highest tax burden in the nation, broken transit system, emboldened culture of corruption, secret government & your closest aide convicted for selling the office all challenge this self aggrandizement,» he wrote.

Cuomo's main economic development program has come under fire in recent years from political opponents and government watchdog groups who say it's not transparent enough and fails to attain job - creation goals.

Democrat Phillip Soskin, a military veteran, pointed out that the federal government itself had caused gun violence with its failed Fast and Furious program.

«We are considering expanding the existing pilot programs into surrounding areas and link up those regional carbon markets; if that fails, the central government will then design a nationwide emissions trading scheme and allocate allowances to each region,» said Xu, the government official involved in the national carbon market buildup.

Instead of listening to those who knew something about endocrine disruption, EPA tried to use traditional toxicology protocols, forgetting that these had failed miserably and allowed endocrine disruptors to get through the government's programs to protect public health.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

With foundations and governments willing to invest in the scaling up of promising schools, it is all the more disappointing when the books in this series fail to help answer the question of how to get beyond the boutique school and «mass produce» many smaller, personalized programs without losing the essential elements that make these schools a success?

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

Poor implementation is not the reason why the federal government's premier school - recognition program fails consistently to select schools with extraordinary achievement; there is no evidence of administrative malfeasance or cronyism.

Thus gap - closers approach the challenge not as educators but as social engineers, determined to see schools fix the problems that job - training initiatives, urban redevelopment, income supports, and a slew of other well - intentioned government welfare programs have failed to address.

For example, US Government Accountability Office reports from both 2007 and 2013 document how the Washington, DC voucher program has repeatedly failed to meet even the most basic, statutorily required accountability standards, such as maintaining certificates of occupancy and adequate financial records.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation creating a new STC program, though unfortunately it is limited only to low - income students assigned to government schools that are designated as «failing» by the state's board of education.

Other data are often just noise: For example, it's interesting that children enrolled in Head Start may be less likely to take to crime as adults, but it's pretty much irrelevant to judging the efficacy of an expensive government program that's failed to show much in terms of student performance.

Not only have multiple Department of Education (USED) studies concluded that the program has failed to improve educational outcomes for participating students, but two U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have also identified its repeated management and accountability failures.»

The relentless investigative reporter details his earliest contacts and first meetings with Snowden, his clashes with authorities and his disdain for mainstream media outlets that, in his view, failed to question government surveillance programs.

However, it may be your best bet if other government debt relief programs fail you.

That way, you are to some extent findependent of government programs or — God forbid — findependent of a corporate pension plan that fails to make good on its pension promise once you're too old to go back to the work force.

The Department of Education is urging borrowers to enroll in income driven repayment plans (IDRs), but the Government Accountability Office reported last December that about half of a sample of people who signed up for IDRs failed to recertify their income as the program requires (p. 36).

Without the funding piece, any law wil fail, because given our government financial woes right now, there is no way animal welfare will get prioritized over other social programs that are being significantly cut.

Technocrats are seldom prepared to admit to mistakes, let alone learn from them; government programs never fail because of faulty design, overreach, pork - barrelling, perverse incentives, compliance costs, mission creep or stupidity.

So by Jim D's definition, an elected government, voted in on a platform to roll back climate change based programs which were seen as failing, is supressing science.

«We have also raised concerns about repeated cases where the OPGT has failed to take appropriate action on behalf of its clients to obtain benefits from other government programs,» says the report.

In a landmark ruling released on January 26, 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services («FNCFS Program») and failing to implement Jordan's Principle to ensure equitable access to government services available to other children.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

c) Political or Security Evacuation when the evacuation notice has been issued or posted by the recognized government of Your Home Country or the Host Country for a period of more than seven (7) days and You have failed to notify Our Program Assistance Provider regarding Your need to be evacuated.

This was a fundamental failing of the extensive community profiling done as part of the COAG trial in Wadeye, where government expenditure and program activity has clearly not responded to the urgent and high levels of need identified in the community profiling work undertaken by John Taylor.

We know most failings in Indigenous affairs are not because of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but because governments and politicians are not consistent in their approach to implementing programs and applying funding.

This is very different from a government top - down technocratic approach, which might have strict accountability measures in place, but fails to recognise there may be better ways of delivering the program.

Advocacy groups say it has failed to undo the damage done and anxiety caused by funding cuts in last year's Budget and many programs and services continue to operate with uncertain funding without clear strategies and policies from the Abbott Government.

Often governments do not want to heed the advice of research commissioned by a former administration and, with each new government, many valuable lessons about why programs have failed or succeeded are lost.

Where they have failed, it is because the federal government has not invested resources to support broad access to quality programs.

The history of approaches to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health reflects this: Australian governments have proved unwilling to fund Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs based on the need and, as a result, plans have failed.216

Australian governments have proved unwilling to fund Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs based on need and as a result plans have failed.