Sentences with phrase «federal policies do»

«State and federal policies don't reflect the knowledge of how much earlier these gaps appear, and therefore the need to start as early as possible,» he says.

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While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

Instead, it might just be the unintended consequences of Federal Reserve policy that could pose the biggest difficult if we do encounter a liquidity event.

The divergence in policy between the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada is happening: the Fed likely will raise interest rates at least a few times in 2017, while the Canadian central bank likely will do nothing at all.

But he said Trans Mountain may be a federal policy that «shoots Canada in the foot» and reverses some of the work the province has done.

Federal regulators are poised to impose a $ 1 billion penalty on Wells Fargo for a variety of alleged misdeeds, including forcing customers to buy auto insurance policies that they didn't need, according to people briefed on the regulatory action.

Considering the US's lack of federal paid family leave policy, Sandberg said companies need to take the lead and support families with their own paid leave policies, which she said wouldn't just be nice to do, but would also improve the bottom line by increasing employee loyalty and performance.

While not - for - profit directors are generally supportive of the federal national disability insurance scheme, there is concern that the policy does not consider the long - term impact of the intended changes.

Unfortunately, since there is no existing federal mandate requiring online companies to provide a privacy policy, many businesses don't feel compelled to offer one.

«We take stock of coal market developments in 2017 and find that while U.S. production did recover slightly, it had nothing to do with a change in federal policy,» Rhodium Group analysts wrote in a recent note.

The boom years for employment and balanced federal budgets in the 1990s had everything to do with the emergence of the Internet rather than with any enlightened economic policies.

Gold has regained its shine in recent months, but that doesn't change the dull outlook for the precious metal over the longer - term, warns Goldman Sachs, which sees prices falling to $ 1,000 in 12 months as the Federal Reserve normalizes monetary policy.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

However, he also doesn't believe that there will be a marked departure in the direction of federal health IT policy under the new administration since the issues surrounding interoperability and record - sharing are largely bipartisan.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such loans.

Instead, she sees forcing a change in personnel — which, she notes, the Federal Reserve has the power to do to Wells Fargo should it so choose — as itself a meaningful policy action, one that would help reform the bank's culture and could deter bad actors throughout the industry.

Cohn's exit is, in its way, normal: He passed his signature policy effort, he didn't get the promotion to Federal Reserve chair, he was losing influence internally, he was burnt out, and so he is leaving.

Douglas Hyndman, who heads the Canadian Securities Transition Office that Flaherty set up to push this file, even told Maclean's in an email that the Supreme Court, by directing federal policy - makers to consider regulating systemic risks, shifted their attention «precisely where Canada needs to do a better job to get regulation right.»

«Convergence and harmonization means... Canada bending its regulations or simply adopting U.S. federal regulations, and I ask the question: at what point does the narrowing of policy room to manoeuvre fundamentally compromise democratic accountability in our political system?»

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

He has been pointed over the past several quarters to the fiscal side and pointing to Washington as opposed to the Federal Reserve in terms of what they can do going forward with tax reform with some type of stimulative fiscal policies that propel the real economy forward as opposed to monetary policy.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

While President Trump sought to allay jittery currency markets that monetary policy had not changed, candidate Trump supported the Federal Reserve's suppression of interest rates and did not want to see a rising dollar:

The Federal Reserve is targeting stock prices with it's monetary policy because, if it did not, the financial system would collapse led by collapsing pension funds and the housing market.

Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) is pushing to end Citibank's federal contract after the finance giant adopted new gun policies that do not respect the Second Amendment.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailIf asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

If asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

I don't think that shift will stop since it's the product of market forces as much any governmental policy (though federal tax policy has surely helped spur renewable energy investments).

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With these kinds of benefits on the table, political leaders at both the federal and provincial levels ought to be making CETA a «must do» in their policy platforms.

The US Federal Reserve didn't find a compelling reason to raise interest rates at its March policy meeting, maintaining its benchmark short - term interest rate (fed funds rate) in the range of 1/4 to 1/2 percent.

How the collapse of oil prices is impacting the Canadian economy, and what policy makers at the federal and provincial level should do to ease the pain

The Federal Reserve's policy errors are now becoming quite apparent, particularly when you look at the major homebuilder stocks, The yield on the 10 - year Treasury breached below 1.80 today, but even lower mortgage rates aren't doing much to spur sales so far this year.

We want a country where the federal government does not adopt short sighted policy for political gain, but acts in the best interests of the whole country with a long term vision of what Canada can and should be.

So here's a modest proposal: why doesn't the federal government get things rolling by pushing for reform of supply management — that convoluted mess of federal and provincial policies that actually make it an offence for farmers to sell milk and poultry across provincial boundaries?

Though they did say that «Interest rates will gradually rise as the Federal Reserve continues on its path of policy normalization.»

For more than a year, public policy experts across Canada have hotly debated the federal government's strict anti-corruption rules, which are aimed at ensuring that Ottawa does business only with ethical suppliers.

It did not take long after the passage of Humphrey - Hawkins for wiser Federal Reserve officials, including Paul Volcker (who became Chair in 1979), to conclude that the «dual mandate,» far from defining a new and sustainable approach to monetary policy, was simply a nuisance — something they had to pay lip service to, whilst really concerning themselves with keeping a lid on inflation, so as to undo and avoid repeating the mistakes of the 70s.

After The Close - Stocks did little more than mark time on Tuesday, turning in a mixed performance after trading broadly higher for much of the day on hopes for new policy initiatives on the part of the Federal Reserve and a lessening in fears about the euro zone.

The US Federal Reserve didn't find a compelling reason to raise interest rates at its March policy meeting, maintaining its benchmark short - term...

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How do you see Federal Reserve policy evolving over the coming years?

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

Although short - term interest rates did rise this year as a slightly less timid Federal Reserve (Fed) nudged the policy rate higher, for the long end of the curve it was more of the same.

The Federal Reserve is pursuing an easy money policy, to offset the federal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't knoFederal Reserve is pursuing an easy money policy, to offset the federal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't knofederal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't know yet).

As the Federal Reserve eyes a tighter monetary policy with higher rates ahead, exchange traded fund investors do not have to rely solely on tradition investment options to hedge against rising rate risks.

Most of what a Federal Reserve Board member does is dealing with microeconomic issues having to do with bank regulation, bank mergers, bank supervision, consumer protection laws, CRA [Community Reinvestment Act], fair lending statutes — all kinds of things that have nothing to do with monetary policy.

So for me, the key issue is not the sorts of welfare policies the federal government can do.

civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security.