Sentences with phrase «in welfare policy»

Murray's earlier books — Losing Ground in 1984, on welfare policy, and The Bell Curve (with Richard Herrnstein) in 1994, on the significance of differences in intelligence as measured by intelligence tests — aroused controversy, because, implicitly or explicitly, they focused attention on black Americans, who play a disproportionate role in welfare policy, and as a group score lower than whites on IQ tests.

Not exact matches

The net effect of the Ontario government's new policy is to subsidize jobs in an already strong labour market, increase the wages of already high - income workers and give hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare to one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

But that is best done through generous social welfare policies and support in making the transition to new employment.

Last year, in consultation with key stakeholders, we expanded our animal welfare policy to include a focus on supporting responsible use of antibiotics to support animal health.

In addition to its «No No List,» Panera has been reviewing and changing other food policies, including its animal welfare standards.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

The company has since introduced an animal welfare policy across its global operations — a move that Saputo says he hopes will enable them to assume a «leadership role» in more humane treatment of livestock.)

(a) Schedule 2.7 (a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a list setting forth each employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement (including any «employee benefit plan» as defined in Section 3 (3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended («ERISA»)(«ERISA Plan»)-RRB-, including, without limitation, employee pension benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (2) of ERISA, multi-employer plans, as defined in Section 3 (37) of ERISA, employee welfare benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (1) of ERISA, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, bonus plans, stock purchase plans, fringe benefit plans, life, hospitalization, disability and other insurance plans, severance or termination pay plans and policies, sick pay plans and vacation plans or arrangements, whether or not an ERISA Plan (including any funding mechanism therefore now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise), whether formal or informal, oral or written, under which (i) any current or former employee, director or individual consultant of the Company (collectively, the «Company Employees») has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has had, has or may have any actual or contingent present or future liability or obligation.

In determining monetary policy, the Bank has a duty to maintain price stability, full employment, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the Australian people.

Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markeIn social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markein the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing markein line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

How the Mexican American ambivalence is resolved will have a strong bearing in the years ahead on questions ranging from immigration policy to welfare reform and realignments in the culture wars.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

Given the inherently incremental nature of welfare reform, the new legislation represents, despite its shortcomings, a noteworthy advance in public policy.

My criticism of Bread for the World is that its advocacy is captive to discredited welfare policies that have exacerbated the problem of «welfare dependency» and have had the unfortunate effect of discrediting concern for the poor in the minds of many Americans.

The Clinton Administration was politically able to trade market reforms of social welfare programs (where there are fewer well «organized voters) for egalitarian policies in the labor market, college athletics, academia, and the military (where voters can be organized).

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

Through its great influence in government, it enacted policies that drastically weakened organized labor and undercut the «welfare» state.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

The ideologisation is seen in that the market with its sole criterion of economic growth is made to determine policies regarding other economic goals like liquidation of mass poverty, economic welfare and eco-justice, but also policies regarding directions in social educational and cultural life.

Yes, immigration policy is out of control; illegal immigration needs to be sharply stemmed, even if it can not be entirely stopped; and the effective assimilation of immigrants requires major changes in welfare and education policies in order to avoid the welfare dependency syndrome and the cultural balkanization of «multiculturalism.»

While many see the UK Government's welfare policies as an «attack upon the poor», Philip Booth argues that welfare reform can actually benefit the most vulnerable in our society.

Health Care in an Aging Society Mr. James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs.

To be sure, the low - income family was not eroded by state welfare policies alone: changing social mores, particular those from the sexual revolution, have contributed to the poor's marital crisis in a profound way.

How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: «Does the welfare of non-Americans count in the creation of U.S. economic policy?

Kristie Middleton, food policy manager for The HSUS said, «We welcome Papa John's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

Josh Balk, director of food policy for The HSUS said, «We applaud Ahold USA's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

In support of the Five Freedoms of animal welfare, we require our suppliers to have a zero tolerance policy for willful acts of animal abuse and neglect.

So, when the Australia - India Institute tobacco control task force held a high - level launch of its policy document on plain packaging at the Press Club in New Delhi, we all waited intently for a response from the government and department of health and family welfare.

Aramark has become a remarkable partner with The HSUS, and today, I am so pleased to announce that the company itself has reached new heights when it comes to animal welfare — announcing a game - changing set of new policies to improve the lives of animals in its supply chain and setting the bar even higher for other corporate players in the world of food service and retail.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed with parents, policy makers, and child welfare providers at Sabot at Stony Point, an independent school in Richmond.

Arch Creative and Play Therapy Centre Child Protection Policy sets out clear procedures in relation to record - keeping of all child protection and welfare concerns.

The research has been spurred by changes in federal welfare policies that have emphasized moving families, often headed by single women, off public assistance.

This suggests that welfare reform policies should also be evaluated and adapted with children's outcomes in mind.

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.

Other Ministers during the course of this parliament, notably Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove and Andrew Landsley, have shown themselves to be deeply engaged with the portfolios that they have held (welfare, education and health respectively), while it is hard to detect a comparable passion in Cameron (although Steve Richards, in the article linked to above, suggests that foreign policy is his special interest).

Article 8 — he reckoned «The Republic shall direct its policy towards ensuring for all citizens, without discrimination, opportunities for employment and livelihood under just and humane conditions, and towards promoting safety, health and welfare facilities in employment.»

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

Critics of the policy have argued affluent areas will be «cleansed» of welfare claimants causing social segregation and destitution in larger households.

Correction: those figures are for welfare state performance from the early 1970s to the late 1990s from Moller et all (2003), given in Horton (2010), «Whose Middle is it anyway» public policy review.

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

The impossibility of comparison may exist in some cases, but incommensurability fails to justify the ethics behind the ranking of values in policy matters; without compromise, the valuation of equal human welfare ought to be the chief concern in politics.

I fought to change those policies in areas like welfare reform and policing, as did Mike Bloomberg.

The party's influence over coalition policies is practically invisible, though it is undeniable that it has restrained the Conservatives in areas such as welfare cuts and repatriating powers from Brussels.

The study, by welfare - to - work consultancy Policy in Practice, also suggests that the changes would leave recipients facing tax rates of 93 % on their additional earnings.