Sentences with phrase «federal policy increasingly»

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The Federal Reserve, long hesitant to raise U.S. interest rates, increasingly faces risks if it waits too much longer so a gradual policy tightening is likely appropriate, a top Fed official said on Friday.

Throughout the third quarter of this year, investors have become increasingly nervous regarding forward Federal Reserve monetary policy, and for good reason.

Yet, with inflation picking up and policymakers increasingly worried about the distortive effect of multiple years of extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) now seems determined to keep raising interest rates.

The Bush presidency saw the conservative coalition and the Republican Party becoming increasingly restless — about federal expansion and big - government, about anti-libertarian policies and sentiments and about the Iraq war and the aggressive style of the Bush administration.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, says legislators are finding that if they don't change their policies they are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.

Because the 21st century economy is increasingly an information economy, I believe the federal government should pursue policies designed to eliminate the «digital divide» so that every American, every business, and every student has access to broadband.

Many, many federal policy decisions involve increasingly intense scientific and technological overtones, aspects and features.

As the law moves to closed - door negotiations, Republicans are increasingly opposing any and all federal education policies, regardless of merit, on the grounds that education is inherently a state and local concern.

The judiciary's role in social policymaking expanded broadly with the rights revolution of the 1960s, as the public's thirst for «total justice» combined with the courts» willingness to embrace new legal doctrines, increasingly long and complicated federal statutes, and the emergence of well - funded advocacy organizations to generate a surge of litigation across policy areas.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

State and federal policy makers are increasingly focusing on the quality of leadership preparation and practice in K - 12 education, and they are creating policies that have significant implications for colleges and schools of education where these leaders are being prepared.

Under ESSA, the long - delayed revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, state departments will be charged with more of the hands - on work in a variety of policy areas where the federal government increasingly called the shots in recent years.

Teacher attrition has attracted considerable attention as federal, state and local policies - intended to improve student outcomes, increasingly focus on recruiting and retaining more qualified and effective teachers.

The updated standards reflect research about the effect that social aspects — such as family engagement — have on education, as well as the increasingly complex role of school leaders, brought on by recent changes in state and federal policy.

Third, the federal government took an increasingly assertive role in shaping education policy, with reformers showing themselves to have more faith in prescriptive policies than in localized solutions or dynamic problem - solving.

There have been very few policy efforts to address the segregation problem in the U.S., as «housing policy in the United States appears to be in a protracted, transformative period that combines a lack of strong federal leadership with continued reliance on increasingly uncertain federal funding» (Basolo and Scally, 2008).

Yet, with inflation picking up and policymakers increasingly worried about the distortive effect of multiple years of extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) now seems determined to keep raising interest rates.

Victoria's plan to legislate its own renewable energy target of 40 % by 2025 shows how states are increasingly taking the energy policy reins away from the federal government.

New England has become increasingly reliant on natural gas and renewable energy, stemming from state and federal policies to shutter coal and oil power plants.

Clearly, this entity will become increasingly important as economic development from Indigenous lands becomes a policy goal of state and federal governments.

Federal and state policymakers and philanthropies are increasingly emphasizing the use of evidence to drive policy decisions.

As discussed in Chapter 3 the policy position at federal Government level has been to apply and reinforce this increasingly narrow judicial interpretation of native title, including opposing in the courts, recognition of native title (for example sea rights) and subjecting agreements recognising native title to critical scrutiny even where such agreements are based on consent.

With significant pressures on water resources in Australia, particularly in the Murray - Darling River Basin, the federal government is increasingly becoming involved in water policy and reform.