Sentences with phrase «for policy wonks»

After all, this is not some conundrum for policy wonks to strategize.

This isn't just a loss for policy wonks, as Mike suggests.

That history poses a potential dilemma for policy wonks concerned about U.S. research funding.

And it's not just for policy wonks.

For policy wonks, the list of ITRE members includes other familiar names, such as former industry commissioner Antonio Tajani from Italy; and ITRE alumna Marisa Matias, a left - wing member from Portugal; and German Christian - democrat Christian Ehler, who played an active role during Horizon 2020 negotiations.

For policy wonks, university administrators and those who followed the Dearing report debate, the need for much more money for universities may have been old news - but it was not on the public radar.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Not exact matches

There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.

Pence didn't have a reputation for legislative acumen («I would not call Mike a policy wonk,» one former staffer told the Indianapolis Monthly), and some of his colleagues called him a nickname behind his back: «Mike Dense.»

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

Policy wonks from a variety of political backgrounds have sought to generalize this concept to establish a «universal basic income» that everyone gets simply for being alive paid for with tax funds.

These people were not swivel - eyed policy wonks, political anoraks, or for that matter, Blairite control - freaks.

Garodnick is a Manhattan Democrat known for being a bit of a policy wonk, and has told people a campaign could be run on strong management of a city that is concerned about homelessness and quality - of - life.

But, perhaps frustratingly for economic - development officials and other policy wonks, it's unclear how New York, with its rapidly shrinking manufacturing base and sky - high taxes, beat the odds.

«What these right - wing policy wonks in their nostalgia for the divisive years of Mrs Thatcher don't understand is that unions do not just benefit their members, but employers and wider society too.

What good wonks we are, not letting scandal obscure our eagle - eyed hunt for the candidate with the best record and soundest policy proposals.

Needless to say, Trump is more likely to spend the next three weeks rehearsing for the role of George Washington in the road company of «Hamilton» than he is to suddenly discover his inner policy wonk.

In what has become an annual exercise, legislation to create a single - payer health care system in New York state drew ardent support from labor leaders, policy wonks and regular folk who told often grueling stories of their experiences navigating the current for - profit system.

Republicans are less populist than the national GOP — recent candidates for statewide office notwithstanding — and the governor, for all his partisanship, is a policy wonk.

One of the many aspects of state energy law understood almost exclusively by policy wonks, energy performance contracts allow municipalities to enter into long - term agreements — running up to 35 years — for projects specifically designed to reduce energy consumption and costs.

Warner is all for transparency, but being a chemist himself, he knows how his colleagues think, and he's concerned that if green chemistry becomes mandatory, industrial chemists will misunderstand it, writing it off as a policy - wonk proposal when in fact it is solid science, built on the core principles of traditional chemistry.

George Church, director of Harvard's Center for Medical Genetics and a synthetic biology policy wonk, feels that synthetic biologists ought to be under government surveillance — and if they don't like it, they should pick another field.

It also appeals to the yearning of some GOP lawmakers and libertarian policy wonks to get Uncle Sam completely out of the school - accountability business (though they'll gag on Rothstein's demand for buckets more in federal dollars for those unaccountable schools and sundry other services to kids).

We policy wonks may see the value in such tests (Brookings has been especially effective in making powerful arguments for keeping them), but parents and the public are fed up.

Two years ago, when I wrote about top tweeters, I posted two lists: One for education policy wonks, and another for teachers.

With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA / NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization — and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches.

This was an exciting occasion for us Washington - based policy wonks, starved as we are for any legislative action on education.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

Once upon a time (OK, it was 2007), we D.C. policy wonks were gearing up for a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind), and all the buzz was about the new federal requirements that would be added.

Sure, that means that lots of innocent New Yorkers get stopped, questioned, and frisked, but to my policy - wonk eyes, it's a fair tradeoff for greater public safety.

Every two years, education policy wonks like me wait with bated breath for the release of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Education policy wonks and observers are so pessimistic, they've declared it will never be updated, though it's already seven years overdue for a rewrite and considered broken by those on the left and the right.

Every two years, education - policy wonks gear up for what has become a time - honored ritual: the release of the Nation's Report Card.

And... you're a policy wonk, berating us for finding fault with the scientific technological elite.

Climate policy wonks in the UK spent most of 2017 waiting for the government's Clean Growth Strategy.

One might wonder why all of these policy wonks didn't think to ask a physicist for advice on policy and world trade earlier!

The two wonks, working for organizations that are typically locked in opposition, recognized a shared interest in finding an alternative direction for U.S. climate policy.

Climate wonks would recognize the charts and graphs that university professors and policy think - tank experts shared showing how our planet is being affected by carbon pollution, where the tipping point is for our climate, and how much the Keystone XL pipeline will make our climate crisis worse.

This is what one expects of a policy wonk, for example Brad de Long.

So now the latest strategy is to debate whether or not we should have the IPCC — that ought to keep policy wonks from taking any action for at least another 5 years....

We need to get rid of 50 % of you in the next two years and replace you with practicing lawyers, ex-judges, regulators and policy wonks who will work for half as much money and have real skills to pass on.»

The faculty will be hired for their experience as lawyers, judges, regulators and policy wonks.

Still, the audience for this book should include all Canadians, not just communications nerds, policy wonks, and working artists.

On the surface, the architecture of ECE in California seems like a topic reserved for the state's policy wonks, but its implications for children and families underscore the need for broader attention to the subject.

To survive the onslaught of the multi-nationals taking aim at our Industry for «advertising revenue only», government beaurocrats, and public policy wonks, we need to move forward with that Provincial «Super Association Office» for one stop delivering of services to the public and its members and at the same time bringing a new and strong cohesiveness for its members.

Tuesday's vote was a triumph for Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and self - described policy wonk who put aside his vision for a more comprehensive, cutting - edge — and controversial — approach to overhauling corporate taxes earlier this year.