Sentences with phrase «happening at all levels of government»

Similar shifts toward more flexible procurement methods and policies are happening at all levels of government.

Not exact matches

He added, however, that «not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin,» reaffirming that the hacking happened at the highest levels of the Russian government.

«So what my co-author and I wanted to explore was exactly what the impact was of this introduction of withholding that happened from 1948 - 1976 at the state level on income tax collections, and the kinds of revenues that are being raised by state governments as a result.»

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

For this to happen, governments at all levels should structure the testimony of such organizations into their decision - making processes.

The primary charge of government at all levels is to protect the citizenry, and it appears as though that may not have happened in Hoosick Falls.

«It's historic what's happened to revenues in the city and the county and at every level of government,» she said.

But the truth of the matter is that what happens in these localized governments actually has a bigger impact on our daily lives — and a lot of the decisions made at the state or local level actually inform the decisions your reps make federally.

These invidious divisions happen partly because of the psychology of judging: deliberately or subconsciously, panels tend to operate a version of the political «ticket splitting» that leads many US citizens to vote simultaneously for opposing parties at different levels of government.

and for this to happen it is important that all governments and all peoples must get involved at all levels of the processes.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

Working at the state level to place charter school authorization solely in the hands of state governments — which has already happened in states such as Georgia and Washington — would also make it easier to expand choice in suburbia.

If the director is a city or county employee, then personnel decisions, budgetary choices, and setting policy may happen at a higher level of city government, where the ultimate decision - maker is not solely focused on No Kill.

This fails the «follow the money» test on so many levels: not only is politically unpalatable to tax something so ephemeral that governments are being dragged kicking and screaming to it, and not only is the economic incentive more of a disincentive, but the opposing interests have billions of dollars staked in it not happening at all.

Many state leaders recognize «the benefits could be absolutely enormous for us,» she says, but discussions are «not necessarily happening at the highest levels of government — at the moment.»

The statement emphasized that 50 — 80 per cent of the actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade will happen at the subnational level, and called on world leaders to formally recognize this significant role of subnational governments.

Blaming government officials at the local, state and federal levels for failing to stop Cruz before the mass shooting happened may be the wrong things to focus on, said Rev. Anthony Burrell, who spoke on behalf of the clergy.

So there has to be consistent funding, there has to be a commitment by governments to coordinate, not only with each other but with departments within levels of government so at state level to have all of the departments responsible have some form of mechanism where they can appropriately untangle the wires and get things happening.»

Our system of «Governance» is badly broken and needs a total overhaul and until that happens the Agent's seemingly bottomless pockets will be picked to support an every growing increasingly expensive bureaucracy and their voices will continue to fall on deaf ears much the same as they currently are by elected politicians at all levels of Government in Canada.