Sentences with phrase «from economic debates»

In a sign that U.S. politics really has turned sharply from economic debates to cultural warfare, President Obama called Fluke to offer his support just before she was to talk on NBC with Andrea Mitchell.

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Many people argue about what needs to come first in order to create an entrepreneurial community — ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

TALKING THE TALK Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine - tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional debate.)

Prescinding from the conventional debate over the relative importance of civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic and social rights on the other, we ought to be able to agree on those elementary rights that have priority over any political or economic program, regardless of that program's ideological label.

Continuously growing sales under challenging economic conditions requires patience, stamina and insight gained from natural curiosity and tasty debate.

Equally important, Murphy says, is to recast the debate about good food from a moral battle to an economic one.

From this economic standpoint, the debate (in the US) over universal medical coverage can be boiled down to a question of whether basic healthcare is a right or a privilege.

For quite understandable reasons, much of the debate about independence for Scotland has so far focused on the economic consequences of seceding from the UK.

Moreover, a number of actors have employed arguments relating to the potential economic decadence of an independent Catalonia or its automatic exclusion from the European Union (in contrast with empirical evidence and the Scottish debate).

** September 15th UPDATE ** The SLF's amendments to tomorrow's economic policy debate have rightly attracted attention from party members, the leadership and the media.

This enabled the Labour leader to move the national economic debate from dry discussions about deficits on to the impact of coalition policies on ordinary, hard - working families squeezed by rising prices.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

Moderated by WNYC economic development journalist Janet Babin, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton answered questions submitted by the community and debated topics ranging from education to public schools to affordable housing.

Last night's debate had several contentious moments, including a fight over economic policies that evolved from a completely unrelated question.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

«Miliband says he would not want a Labour government to be deflected from its economic agenda by pursuing an in - out referendum in 2017, but Britain's economic interests are intricately bound up in the debate surrounding EU reform.

Wednesday Questions — Implementation of the recommendations from the farming regulation task force report; harmonising British time with that of the UK's main European trading partners; health of carers Legislation — Justice and security bill Debate — The economic viability, value for money and benefit - cost ratio of the high speed 2 London to Birmingham and London to Leeds and Manchester lines

Mrs Jean Mensah, Executive Director, IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs, IEA, will begin its 2016 Presidential debate from June to July this year.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

The officials at the Labour Party Conference, pursuing again as usual the hard - right bias instilled by the culture still remaining from the tenure of a previous General Secretary, Margaret McDonagh, stitched up the economic debate today.

In a bid to refocus the political debate away from the spending cuts unveiled last week, David Cameron promised to create a «new economic dynamism» in Britain.

As Nick Watt notes, David Miliband's backbench intervention in a recent economic debate — I clocked it myself here — triggered speculation that he really ought to take over the shadow chancellor's job from Balls, who has what Stalinists used to call «a spoiled biography» — closely associated with the discredited regime of Gordon Brown.

However, notwithstanding the immediate favourable headlines that the government has garnered from today's figures, the present economic debate still contains numerous positives for Labour.

Three Republican presidential candidates stated their belief in climate change last night during two debates that wandered from economic policies to sharp attacks on the media.

Although vouchers and tax credits can be debated on several fronts, research (in part from a 2007 study of vouchers by RAND and a 2015 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research) has suggested key design safeguards for those states still wishing to proceed with one of those privatization options:

A galvanizing new work from America's leading economic critic — a book that will set the terms of the political debate for years to come.

This debate is part of The New Economy of Art — a series of open discussions throughout 2011 - 12 that will focus on the economic developments and opportunities in the cultural sector that impact on artists, from the perspective of artists.

His short mature career, from 1930 to 1942, spanned some of the most trying, soul - searching years for the United States, as the country grappled with the aftermath of an economic meltdown and engaged in vigorous, sometimes bitter debates over its core national identity.

But in no case should a reporter who wishes to portray with accuracy the debates about global warming, present a minority view unbacked by science and promoted by businesses with a small, old dog in a very tough dog fight, as equivalent to hard science from unbiased scientists with no economic interest in anything but getting the facts and predictions right.

Maybe someone would like to reply to them but I guess scientifically the debate ended some time ago but getting political and economic action on climate change still requires a response from those who continue to befuddle the public.

Liberals hope the Occupy Wall Street protests have shifted political debate from an overriding focus on the long - term danger posed by the federal deficit toward a focus on unemployment, income inequality and other immediate economic problems.

Gernot Wagner co-authored a new working paper that offers lessons from risk - management practices used in investing in cutting through debates about the present value of limiting future climate risk: «Applying Asset Pricing Theory to Calibrate the Price of Climate Risk,» by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner (National Bureau of Economic Research).

Countries rich and poor are backing away from commitments they made years ago during rosier economic times, before the public became aware of Climategate, renewable energy costs and genuine debate.

In turn, far from being out of bounds, the unresolved question of climate change's economic and social effects should be central to a reasoned policy debate.

She added: «We need to move the climate debate from a treehugger issue to an on - balance sheet financial risk, and we need to act based on the economic risks and opportunities.»

As the interpretation of infinity in economic climate models is essentially a debate about how to deal with the threat of extinction, Mr Weitzman's argument depends heavily on a judgement about the value of life... A lack of reliable data exacerbates the profound methodological and philosophical difficulties faced by climate change economists... The United Nations conference in Paris this December offers a chance to take appropriate steps to protect future generations from this risk... http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/climate-change (MOST COMMENTING ARE NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED)

Fortunately, Canadian government sees the uncertainty in this debate and steps back from taking negative economic action.

For instance, if the the US not only has economic interests in the climate change policies in political debate but also obligations and duties to poor vulnerable nations to not cause them great harm from US ghg emissions, the United States may not justify failure to act to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of economic cost to the US.

The Dunlap / Brulle book acknowledges that the dominant scientific and economic discourses framing the climate debate «reinforces the existing socio - politico - economic status quo» and «removes moral and political considerations from the discussion» (Brulle.

However, the extent to which rebound effects from specific sectors and economic contexts can be generalized across other sectors and economies remains debated.

While DOE critiques the narrow frame of environmentalism (for excluding the «human environment» and failing to connect to larger social, economic, and political issues and dynamics), the paper and ensuing debate suffer from a lack of diverse voices in this ostensible autopsy of the environmental movement.

Economy vs. Environment: We've Heard This Before The debate that has surfaced in Nunavut is not unlike ongoing debates elsewhere regarding the development of coal, oil, and natural gas: Some Inuit argue in favor of the economic development that would result from mining, while others worry about the environmental consequences.

As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.

Drivers for the growing number of layers in the climate debate are the implications of the 21st century hiatus in warming, the growing economic realities of attempting to transition away from fossil fuels, and a growing understanding of the clash of values involved.