Sentences with phrase «failed social policy»
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The social network has occasionally cracked down: In 2014, Facebook blocked two advertising partners, HasOffers and Kontagent, for violating policies on retaining customer data and failing to notify partner companies about their data collection practices.
But the prophets had failed; instead of telling the truth, they deceived and distorted: «When the people build a wall» (the wall of the city; Wall Street; walls of finance, defense, security and privilege; walls that divide and protect; walls that include and exclude; walls of policy which are highly doubtful in their social implications and in their theological presuppositions), «the prophets paint those walls with whitewash.»
If European policy - makers fail to switch gears and respect Greek pride and honour when approaching the economic crisis, the potential backlash might be devastating for both Greece and Europe with far - reaching social, political and economic implications.
The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.
From social care to intervening in failing markets the policies are now nowhere to be seen.
A reform of capitalism agenda would also include changes to CEO pay, more prudent mortgage tests, a real end of too - big - to - fail, counter-cyclical monetary policy, more dynamic patenting laws, a rethink of trade agreements and the introduction of a wholly new set of social and economic indicators (to capture phenomena like differential inflation rates and the uneven benefits of GDP growth).
This seems a little suprising given the terms of reference used: «In the sphere of international, as of domestic, policy, the attempt to give a social bias to capitalism, while leaving it master of the house, appears to have failed.
«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.
«Teachers and support staff are being left to pick up the pieces of this Coalition's failed education, social and economic policies.
Passionate for social justice, but not an ideologue who'll stick by homeless or affordable - housing policies that are clearly failing.
«Our study shows that failed substance use policies can reverse life expectancy trends for large population groups or even countries,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of Social and Epidemiological Research at CAMH and first author of the study.
As policy makers look for ways to fix the nation's failing schools, many eyes are focused on Chicago's four - year - old effort to end social promotion.
The lessons of the past half century, and especially of the Great Society's mostly failed experiments in social policy, can help us think more clearly about the means by which this end could be pursued.
Their policies are creating the image of our having failed our students when it was the board that failed the students through mandating social promotion.
What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.
Community Schools - The Mayor has called for creating 130 such schools, which are supposed to bring social services and community engagement to schools, but the policy fails to address teacher and instructional quality.
What you fail to acknowledge with this argument is that choice policies can also create a tremendous burden for families and that not all families have the same social and financial resources or time to effectively navigate choice systems and make informed decisions.
«They also speak to larger issues facing the entire world, including failing infrastructures, climate change, natural disasters, and the tensions between the needs of individuals and small communities on the one hand and national or international social policies on the other.
There is also, of course, the tension between empiricism and scientific theory, as demonstrated often in engineering: English suspension bridge designers in the 19th century were generally empirical, and their bridges stood; French were highly scientific and theoretical, and their first bridges, tho elegant, almost all failed (turned out to be the way they anchored their cables)... and the regrettable tendency of scientists to think that, because they are authoritative in their own field, they are thereby authoritative in policy and social engineering...
Policy literalists seemingly fail to understand the importance of tone or political and social change in general.
Again — interesting as all that is — the question you fail to answer is what social and policy prescriptions you would adopt.
Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».
The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.
«half the world is vulnerable to social instability and violence due to rising food and energy prices, failing states, falling water tables, climate change, decreasing water - food - energy supply per person, desertification and increasing migrations due to political, environmental and economic conditions... With nearly three billion people making $ 2 or less per day, long - term global social conflict seems inevitable without more serious food policies, useful scientific breakthroughs and dietary changes».
The reason, says Wu, is because we fail to understand this «tolerated lawbreaking» as a means by which our nation creates social and legal policy.
Social media and other similar policies can be used to put employees on notice of company expectations and the consequences of failing to meet those expectations.
However, the EAT found that the ET judge had «failed to consider whether, in the context of the FPS, the application of the transitional provisions and the differential treatment on the grounds of age was a proportionate means for achieving what she had concluded... were legitimate aims of social policy».
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On 7 November 2006 there was an extraordinary meeting of the EU Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council to try and reach agreement on these proposals, but the attempt failed.
The social media giant on Monday said that is auditing each and every app that has access to the data of its users and has already suspended 200 apps which failed to comply with its policies
The social network has occasionally cracked down: In 2014, Facebook blocked two advertising partners, HasOffers and Kontagent, for violating policies on retaining customer data and failing to notify partner companies about their data collection practices.
Staff who failed to like or comment on social media posts from the company's CEO had been fined under a policy which is intended to improve morale and encourage «mentoring» among younger staff.
Or perhaps the policy context in which social workers operate fails to support action to minimise and mitigate material deprivation.
By the mid-1960's, this «termination» philosophy was in decline as failed policy and Congress began to include Indian tribes in legislation designed to rebuild the social infrastructure of the nation and provide economic opportunities for economically - depressed areas.