Sentences with phrase «federal policy reform»

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- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan participate in «Monetary Policy and Reform in Practice» panel before the Hoover Institution / Stanford University «Currencies, Capital, and Central Bank Balances: a Policy Conference,» - 0000 GMT.

Among other unfriendly business policies, he's known to favor eliminating federal financing support for exporters, and he opposes comprehensive immigration reform.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

As I have explained elsewhere, many of the policies put in place by the Federal government since the election of President Obama in 2008 — banking reform, business regulation, tax policies, and the Affordable Care Act to name a few — have made entrepreneurship more difficult to undertake.

«The data makes it clear that ending the War on Drugs will not alone end mass incarceration, but that the federal government and some states have effectively reduced their incarcerated populations by turning to drug policy reform,» the report says.

Leaders of federal financial agencies testified on the status of the the rulemaking finalization process and reform policies included in the Dodd - Frank financial regulations law.

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.

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.

Should the federal government continue to abdicate leadership in key policy issues of health care, pension reform, Aboriginal issues, education and research, and modernizing Canada's infrastructure?

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.

Since the historic federal budget of 1991 presented by then Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh that launched India on a path of reform and market orientation, Budget Day in India has been high season for economic policy.

WASHINGTON — Most business economists believe the Federal Reserve's controversial bond - buying stimulus program has helped boost the recovery, but differ on the effects of the healthcare reform law and other policies by President Obama and Congress, according to survey results released Monday.

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?

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983 - 1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes (the Bank Act, the Insurance Companies Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act).

William Dudley, President and CEO (Speaker) Date: Friday, April 7, 2017 Time: 12:15 PM EDT Subject: Remarks on the State of Financial Regulation and the Potential for Reform Event: Special Luncheon with William Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Organizer: The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University Location: Princeton Club of New York, 15 W. 43rd Street, New York, NY (4th Floor — West Wing)

The time is ripe for an exceptionally broad political coalition to work for a new federal housing policy reflecting what the bishops call «the American pragmatic tradition of reform.»

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, has said that the outcome «highlights the importance of the Federal Government's Competition Policy Reform Bill, which introduces a concerted practices prohibition...»

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

Recognizing reforms to state and federal healthcare policy.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) on Monday told a group of marijuana industry professionals that the federal government should reform laws affecting its medical use, allowing states to set their own policies.

Under her leadership, numerous reforms agenda of the Federal Government had been undertaken such as the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS), implementation of Treasury Single Account, implementation of Whistleblower Policy, establishment of an Efficiency Unit, establishment of Development Bank of Nigeria, launch of Asset Tracking and Management Project, and introduction Fiscal Sustainability Plans for States, among others.

Some reforms underway at Rikers, including a new use of force policy, were mandated as a result of a federal lawsuit, Nunez v. New York City.

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

Lib Dem strategists are already considering inviting Mr Obama to chair one of the party's federal policy committees, possibly on health issues, where his advice about pushing through unpopular reforms will no doubt be of invaluable use to the Lib Dems.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federal aid.

AAAS sends letter to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to share our thoughts about federal travel and meeting policies.

At this critical time of tax reform, widening gaps between the rich and poor and growing public support for higher taxes and redistribution to combat inequality, policymakers should consider joint federal tax and redistributive policies to reduce the burden of mortality among Americans,» said Professor Kim.

Dr Schneider said: «Environmental, agricultural and social policies of the Federal Government are supposed to be harmonized, but central government ministries compete against each other, and the Ministry of Environment seems to be the «weakest link» whenever it confronts the agrarian reform program.

Information about efforts to reform federal fiscal policy, statements, letters, and other materials are in this section.

About Blog Bob Laszewski's review of the latest developments in federal health policy, health care reform, and marketplace activities in the health care financing business.

He has advised on the city, state, and federal levels on family policy and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, CNN, The New Republic, The American Prospect, NPR, and Psychology Today.

Follower's of Fordham's work know that for the better part of three years, we've been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call «Reform Realism «-- a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in educReform Realism «-- a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in educreform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in education.

The main goal of the group is to support the new national education policy in Pakistan by helping increase the capacity of the federal and provincial governments to implement reforms.

Is it even possible for federal policies to compel state and local officials to make controversial and painful reforms?

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

The exorbitant costs of broadband would make subsidizing broadband unsustainable (Marwell thinks that reaching lower price points would actually require increasing competition among telecom providers and a broader set of federal E-Rate policy reforms).

By demanding that states embrace a very prescriptive set of policy reforms in order to win federal funding, policymakers locked in the «best thinking» circa 2010.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Jennings, founder and former CEO of the Center on Education Policy, reflects on the history of the federal government's involvement with education reform, and discusses its most notable changes to pPolicy, reflects on the history of the federal government's involvement with education reform, and discusses its most notable changes to policypolicy.

I'd argue, in fact, that this marks the sharpest reversal of federal ambitions in domestic policy in 20 years — since the welfare reform act of 1996.

Much will be learned from these experiences in the years ahead, but for the time being one immediate takeaway merits repeating: Local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

(I'm also a Reform Realist on federal policy.

Jack Jennings, author of the new Harvard Education Press title Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools: The Politics of Education Reform, was witness to the evolution of federal policy, working closely with Congress, first as a subcommittee staff director and then as general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.

Beyond the school environment, federal and state government departments need advice from education experts for designing education policy and reform.

The paper makes a number of recommendations for federal and state policy that would reform state tenure laws and district tenure processes: