Sentences with phrase «important public policy issues»

Join the Planned Parenthood Action Network so that you may be informed and alerted about important public policy issues.

When I help people with research or do a training session, I like to remind them that law reform bodies often deal with important public policy issues that are not on the government agenda but may nevertheless require critical analysis and potential reform.

Successful pro bono cases have helped to overturn injustices and raise important public policy issues.

They tell a tale that is disturbing in what it says about journalism, the law, and our nation's discussions on the most important public policy issues.

Some of it is misguided, but I also feel some of it is due to the fact that governments have failed to act on some important public policy issues.

«It is my view that this is one of the most important public policy issues that the U.S. has and that the outcome is extremely important.»

The Heartland Institute is not letting up on its efforts to spread the truth about climate change and other important public policy issues.

We are not letting up on our efforts to spread the truth about climate change and other important public policy issues.

The design of Canada's retirement income system and the extent to which working - age Canadians are saving adequately for old age continue to be important public policy issues.

For two years, lawmakers rubber - stamped state budgets that undermined state operations, and shortchanged localities and schools and they forfeited oversight responsibility on important public policy issues.

«Given the important public policy issues at stake, we have also asked the court to hold its hearing in open rather than behind closed doors.

«This program will harness the intellectual resources of the entire university to address the most important public policy issue of the 21st century.

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We look forward to helping the Attorney General and his staff bring attention to this important issue,» said Facebook's director of state public policy.

An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

The absence of consensus on important public issues means that the power of the churches to influence public policy tends to be proportional to the charisma and prestige of individual church leaders.

Public policy issues that determine the health of the human web are as important as issues of individual emotional well - being.

Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America's families.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

«This contortion of the Governor's long - recognized constitutional authority lacks a basis in law and must be recognized for what it truly is — a political maneuver to frustrate the Governor's efforts in convening the Legislature to address politically unpopular, yet critically important issues of public policy.»

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

«In this project, the youth will be making a difference in the community, they will be learning about an important community issue, and they will be learning about public policy through the survey.

The Board focuses on issues dealing with land use, development, public policy, budget, and other important matters with potential borough - wide implications.

They are creating public policy on important issues including civil rights, a living wage, affordable housing and alternative voting systems.

To help bring the science and government interplay to the public, he helped launch the «science policy» topic for the magazine and wrote a four - part series on some of the most important societal issues where government and scientists can come together for public benefit

A 2015 national poll commissioned by ScienceDebate.org and Research!America revealed that a large majority of Americans (87 %) say it is important that candidates for President and Congress have a basic understanding of the science informing public policy issues.

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), may have important public policy implications for genetic counseling for individuals with sickle cell trait (SCT).

«Sustainable food systems and environmental protection may be important, but these issues don't belong in discussions of healthy eating,» wrote Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., in an op - ed in The Des Moines Register today.

In an accompanying editorial, David Goldblatt, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., of the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, and Elizabeth Miller, F.R.C.Path., of Public Health England, London, write that the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts recently decided to revisit the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines as part of its continued appraisal of important issues that could be relevant to inform global immunization policy.

Through the internships and other initiatives described below, the institute helps Rice students explore careers in public policy, or simply become better informed about important issues of the day.

By offering this Prize, Foresight hopes to encourage continued responsible coverage of nanotechnology as a means for engaging the public in dialogue leading to improved public policy on these important issues.

The ceremony is part of Kavli Prize Week - a week of special programs that celebrate extraordinary achievements in science, educate the public on important scientific advances, and bring together distinguished members of the international community to discuss key global issues in science and science policy.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

Oklahoma Watch is a nonprofit organization that produces in - depth and investigative journalism on important public - policy issues facing the state.

2011 — The VIVA Project report gives voice to the arts In a project designed to dramatically increase classroom teachers» participation in important state and national public education policy decisions, the VIVA Project issues a report sanctioned by both the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Scpublic education policy decisions, the VIVA Project issues a report sanctioned by both the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public ScPublic Schools.

While there are a number of important issues, we can't let education fall off the public policy radar and risk shortchanging our nation's 50 million public schoolchildren.

Many articles in this issue cite the overwhelming consensus among researchers, policy - makers, educators, and members of the public that good teachers are the single-most important element of quality education.

In other words, as far as New York City's exclusive Harvard Club is concerned, when it comes to important issues of public policy and the apparent widespread abuse of children who attend Success Charter Schools, ensuring that the truth is told is of little to no concern.

«The most important policy issue is to keep restating to values of public libraries to each generation — what they can do for children; what they can do for students; what they can do for working people; what they can do for people who are housebound; and what they can do for our seniors.

The company is also actively engaged in public policy advocacy on various issues that are important to its business, its customers, its employees, and its distributors.

This is an important issue of public policy and we should be able to have an honest discourse on it.

While dog breeders and other enthusiasts may debate the pitbull label ad nauseam in their circles, the issue becomes important to the public when antiquated laws, ordinances, insurance policies, military housing and rental leases exclude «pit bulls.»

As a citizen I have a perfect right to debate this issue, since very important public policy decisions are involved.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

For highly important public issues we need a science policy that further formally allocates a substantial portion of funding to «Red teams» to test hypotheses and generate the evidence, and analyses which such a tentative science court could weigh.

This is itself a more important issue than the supposed «greenhouse platform», as this «Public Dissatisfaction» is producing within the PUBLIC ARENA an attitude that there is NOT any «honest truth» expressed BY the «environmental movement» and THIS is being seen in rather complacent attitudes to WHALING Policy on the International stage, as example and the need for various «green lobbies» to «market themselves to solicit donaPublic Dissatisfaction» is producing within the PUBLIC ARENA an attitude that there is NOT any «honest truth» expressed BY the «environmental movement» and THIS is being seen in rather complacent attitudes to WHALING Policy on the International stage, as example and the need for various «green lobbies» to «market themselves to solicit donaPUBLIC ARENA an attitude that there is NOT any «honest truth» expressed BY the «environmental movement» and THIS is being seen in rather complacent attitudes to WHALING Policy on the International stage, as example and the need for various «green lobbies» to «market themselves to solicit donations.

I have worked with nonprofits, political campaigns, grassroots groups and the media, bringing my expertise and training to bear on public polling, media strategy and policy across a wide range of important issues.

Welcome to the RFF Weekly Policy Commentary, which is meant to provide an easy way to learn about important policy issues related to environmental, natural resource, energy, urban, and public health proPolicy Commentary, which is meant to provide an easy way to learn about important policy issues related to environmental, natural resource, energy, urban, and public health propolicy issues related to environmental, natural resource, energy, urban, and public health problems.

«Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process.