Sentences with phrase «good policy ideas»

I consider Mike a friend, but I find it troubling that he and others seem willing to walk away from his good policy ideas simply because the political winds today are less friendly to federal involvement in education policy.

In terms of productivity improvements, it simply says that the Scottish government has some good policy ideas, and here is a number for the higher productivity growth that these could generate.

«We can take leadership by entering into and facilitating the debate, as well as sharing good policy ideas,» he says.

Gardner's success, however, reveals problems in the establishment conservative platform and shows what it would take for a populist conservative with better policy ideas to get elected.

The war between Newt and Rush extends back to earlier this year, when Limbaugh said Gingrich was tearing apart the conservative movement by trying to embrace «better policy ideas.»

APA played an important role in making ProComp, Denver's path - clearing teacher compensation system, a reality, not just a good policy idea.

Not exact matches

My company has a policy that everyone's input is heard and considered: Diversity in ideas is a good type of conflict.

Better still, Jacobson's blueprint started to inform policy discussions, with serious people taking the idea of 100 percent renewables pretty seriously.

Even if yours doesn't, taking out a renters insurance policy can be a good idea to protect you financially if there's a fire, robbery or some other emergency, King says.

The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.

It turns out the policy wasn't a good idea, and by Thursday it had been reversed.

Both candidates have proposed policy that would be good for Canada, and both have ideas that could do us harm.

Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.

As California puts the finishing touches on a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage by 2022, Morning Consult's policy polling shows that voters nationwide think that's a pretty good idea.

«I think we'll get a better idea on monetary policy after the March Fed meeting.»

And, use of APR may be most helpful when comparing loans of similar term, but it's always a good idea to also ask about the fees, the total dollar cost of the loan, and prepayment policies.

«The best response by central bankers is to continue running effective monetary policy, while being open to fresh ideas and new demands, as economies evolve.»

While NAFTA functions well for manufacturing and resource businesses, it leaves our policy makers believing that opening more international markets is the key to success for all sectors — even as that strategy fails to provide equitable results for Canadian companies competing to scale up their ideas globally.

What you can do on your side is equally ambitious: keep building competitive and dynamic businesses; keep the collaboration going between educational institutions and companies; and keep sharing your good ideas with policy - makers.

To the extent the ownership and profit sharing is a public good, a nudge in policy to consider the idea makes sense.

What is great about nonprofit insurances is that it takes the guaranteed assistance to a level of commitment that helps those who are within these different policies and plans to have a better idea of just how they should be able to handle the monetary benefits that is guaranteed so that in the long run finances are left stable.

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

It's a good idea to speak to your insurance agent to see if there is an umbrella policy available that will cover acts of nature.

The president of the United States is a well - known conspiracy theorist, which raises the prospect that ridiculous ideas lurking in the darkest recesses of the internet could actually influence national policy.

Rather than hold onto outmoded ideas ideas like the Phillips Curve, which may have made sense when the US was a more insular economy, there are better ways to think of monetary policy from a structural standpoint of how financial firms work.

The left - leaning Tax Policy Center doesn't believe the Trump tax plan is a good idea.

But whereas in 1637 the average participant in the Dutch tulip market had a fairly good idea about what was being promised, as 2018 dawns, confusion abounds about exactly what Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum (Figure 2), Litecoin, and Dash are; how they differ from other currencies or commodities; and whether trading them in warrants any special policy attention.

Most of its ideas are well - regarded policies that economists have advocated for years.

The public's perception of Obama's handling on foreign policy was not based on the idea that he was perfect, just that he was better than the guy who came before.

They should have faith that they have the better ideas as to both politics and policy, and that Republican primary voters will have the sense to see this.

«Jobs and the environment» is a good slogan, but in fact we can not have both economic opportunity and a sustainable environmental policy without a fundamental transformation in some of our ideas about how we are related to one another and what makes life worth living.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

As I understand it, the policy at just arsenal is to promote debate and cross pollination of ideas, however those that call themselves AOBs have contaminated the good policy by their obsession with Wenger sacking.

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as well as our current agricultural policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea of universal, free school food.

It also is a good idea to check to see if your state has a policy on foods served on school grounds.

It sounds like very good news that Gove has gone, but I'm just slightly concerned that all the crazy ideas / policies were not his, but Tory policies, so they will still exist.

«Vitamin and mineral supplements are a good idea and can be used as an insurance policy.

«It is a good idea to try to pair less preferred foods, like vegetables, particularly those that your child doesn't like so much, with something to give it a little more flavor,» Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University told Reuters.

Need some ideas and well - tested strategies on how to get new policies established in your institution?

But a popular idea isn't necessarily an ethically good or economically optimal idea - many people have suffered or not done as well as they could have because of apparently popular policies.

The line from the Miliband camp is they're keeping their powder dry in case the Tories pinch their best ideas, but the view of those close to the policy development process is that the Labour leader remains congenitally afraid of setting light to the powder in case it blows up in his face.

To go back to Keynsianism, you don't cut spending when you're just barely struggling out of a recession, unless you've drunk the Hoover Kool Aid (go look at his policies in» 30 - ’31 if you think budget - cutting's a good idea right now — utterly disastrous).

It is precisely because Parliamentary sovereignty, as it has evolved, looks only to executive policy as the fulcrum of constitutional change that ideas — however good and however brave — will be dashed upon the rocks of executive insouciance unless they resonate with what the executive sees as being in its self - interest.

And coming soon after a Foreign Policy piece that demolishes the idea of an Iranian «Twitter Revolution» last summer, it clearly demonstrates the ability of electronic tools to work FOR an authoritarian government as well as against one.

Now it's back to the business of actually making politics work — proposing policies, persuading people that they're good ideas and getting them passed.

«This platform will have a policy unit which will draw on the best ideas and practical solutions, building partnerships with other organisations, in the public policy and private spheres, so that those in the frontline of politics have a bigger and better policy agenda to reflect upon; and a networking capability to join like - minded people up.

These could encompass the establishment of real and constraining confidence - building measures, and the development of defence doctrines and military procurement policies that better reflect the cooperative security ideas inherent in what China referred to as its «New Security Concept» first introduced in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Gill, 2005).

NH: The book demonstrates a myriad of new influential actors and the resurgence and emergence of ideas (old and new) in China — complicating the control the CCP has traditionally had over its foreign and domestic policy — as well as a sense that China is nearing a cross-roads in formulating its international identity (from a developing to developed state).

And for better or worse — New York State is structured in such a way that the city of New York must rely on it's Albany representatives to deliver big policy ideas.