Sentences with phrase «harmful policies»

Women's health champions pushed back on proposed cuts to women's health programs, offering amendments to restore funding for these critical programs and strike harmful policy riders from the bill.

Ultimately, the disparate impact guidance both protects certain groups from harmful policies that impact them more than others, and inspires systemic changes that benefit all children.

And as we have done year after year, we will be fighting with all our hearts to block harmful policies.

Reclaiming the promise of public education will bring back the joy of teaching and learning, which has been drained by years of harmful policies.

Given Nestlé's refusal to change any of its pre-existing harmful policies in various aspects of its operations, the marketing of a Fairtrade brand appears less a commitment to human rights than a cynical PR move to draw attention from its dubious record.

But the original intent, implemented by Mao's successors, was to prevent another popular leader arising who could commit as many damaging and harmful policies as he had.

It seemed logical to begin by discrediting current harmful policy, but that's not where I want to focus attention.

Since the January inauguration of Donald Trump as president, department heads and administrators throughout New York City government have been bracing for negative reverberations, with many expecting slashed federal spending and harmful policy rollbacks.

Jennifer Ronayne, a fifth - grade teacher at the Connetquot schools with 13 years of experience, said Cuomo has little understanding of how classrooms work — and of how harmful his policies have been for teachers and students, particularly those children who have special needs or who are English language learners.

Protecting the environment is important, but enacting harmful policies under the guise of environmental protection simply to make headlines is irresponsible.

Reports of damaging ocean acidification, accelerating sea - level rise or unprecedented decreases of polar and glacial ice are also mostly myths designed to terrify people into accepting harmful policies that allegedly «save the planet.»

Readers familiar with the education reform debate will not be surprised by the list of clearly harmful policies that the unions support and commonsense reforms that they work so hard to impede.

It was an important benefit for teachers who often found themselves at the mercy of politicized school boards if they spoke out against harmful policies.

It reveals itself as a liberal farce that is less concerned with liberation or justice and more concerned with not alienating those who perpetuate harmful ideologies and consequently harmful policies.

We should be banding together to fight them and their selfish harmful policies.

And while his speech featured strong points on the importance of tough action on climate change and mocked Republicans for their widespread climate denial, he also touted environmentally and economically harmful policies such as the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Donald Trump is again trying to co-opt «women's health and economic empowerment» in this budget as part of a sales pitch for harmful policies.

We strongly urge the Department to immediately abandon its effort to bring about these ill - conceived and harmful policy changes.

Twenty years of harmful policies have hurt Pennsylvania's neediest families.

«Ending this harmful policy is an important step towards reducing child poverty across the province.»

Upstate New Yorkers, who have been hardest by the state's harmful policies, are seeing through these gimmicks and packing their bags.

What is particularly troubling is the fact it is local leaders that are proposing the harmful policies and not distant bureaucrats.

«Our nation faces threats to civil liberties, healthcare access, and public safety, and it is our responsibility to protect New York City from the harmful policies that exacerbate these problems.»

Rebuilding the world's fisheries will require tossing out a piece of folk wisdom that has led to harmful policies.

For an alternate take, please see, «Harmful Policies, Values, and Rhetoric,» by Shavar Jeffries.

In inviting DeVos, Harvard passively aligned itself to the harmful policies that DeVos and the administration she represents, continues to enact.

However, if the vast majority of the union membership believes that corporate reform policies of privatizing education and reducing teaching and learning to a test scores is harmful to public education — as we have expressed in numerous votes in the SEA — then we need a union that more rigorously opposes these harmful policies.

There was no new thinking, just more money to push states to engage in harmful policies, like evaluating teachers by student test scores.

Harmful policies are being based on this pseudo science» -LSB-...]

All to convince us that only fossil fuels can support our way of life, that oil is clean, and that it's us and our lifestyles, not them and the harmful policy they push, who are responsible for climate change.

This is a time for the Governor to protect his constituents from those harmful policies, not back away from the state's commitment to ensure everyone has access to health care,» Childs - Roshak said.

Through it all, women have been and will continue to be at the forefront of the resistance to these harmful policies and more.

And not only is funding eliminated, but the bill includes a harmful policy rider that would allow

Watch Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards explain the impact of this harmful policy:

And not only is funding eliminated, but the bill includes a harmful policy rider that would allow employers and health insurance companies to refuse to provide coverage of any health care service on the basis of religious or moral convictions and will permit hospitals, health insurance plans, health care providers, and non-medical personnel to refuse to provide, pay for, or even refer for an abortion — even when the abortion is medically necessary to save a woman's life or health.

The FY 17 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Committee specifically passed a funding bill that zeros out Title X. What's more, the bill includes a harmful policy rider that would interfere with access to safe, legal abortion.

The group of individuals, clergy, and organizations calling themselves Moral Missouri united to call out harmful policies that target marginalized communities.

Its legacy: Since it was enacted, this harmful policy has restricted women in some of the poorest countries in the world from accessing vital, lifesaving health care they need.