Sentences with phrase «increasing public efforts»

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The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

But since Fowler's accusations of sexism at the company, the ride - hail player has made a more public effort to be more transparent and increase diversity, including donating a $ 1.2 million grant to Girls Who Code — although that move was not without controversy.

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As a result, increasing numbers of public relations firms are making efforts to incorporate SEO into their offerings.

«Until ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of oil sands are more successful and widespread, the Final SEIS makes clear that, compared to reference crudes, development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions,» the EPA states in a letter made public Tuesday.

Presidential debates, increased public affairs, innovations in news coverage, fewer commercials on children «s programs, more female and minority on - air employment, greater minority ownership of stations, «free speech messages» in many cities, greater responsiveness to viewer «s letters, and a temporary reduction in violent programs — all were brought about through the efforts of the broadcast reform groups.9.

«We believe this issue is important and that is why we have increased our efforts to educate the public on the cost and inconvenience of a national container deposit scheme,» Mr Parker added.

The public is invited to attend a public meeting which is the next step in the Park District's efforts to increase bicyclist and pedestrian safety at Lake Arlington.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

Marie Stopes International is calling for greater effort, through public education campaigns and advertising of family planning methods and services, to increase women's awareness of the full range of contraceptive options and regular use of a method suitable to their lifestyles.

First, the growth of the professional public affairs industry and an increased effort by many organisations to infl uence politics and policy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday in Albany during a reception at the executive mansion pledged to push for a long - stalled effort to increase the age of criminal responsibility in New York as well as his own proposal to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities.

To halt this trend, Governor Cuomo has implemented aggressive efforts, including changes in insurance to ensure coverage of substance use disorder treatment, increased access to treatment, additional treatment capacity in regions across the state, and comprehensive public awareness efforts.

The Council's public tech division was a unit first created under Mark - Viverito as part of an effort to modernize the Council, increase outreach to communities of color and increase participation among communities typically less involved in civic activity.

He has long expressed frustration with the efforts by public education and teachers union organizations lobbying and pressuring him to increase school aid.

«I commend Governor Cuomo for taking these important steps today to complement the Senate's ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and direct resources to increase the number of life - saving organ donors in the state.

«But through a bipartisan effort, rules changes were adopted that strengthened the committee process, increased transparency and disclosure to give the public greater insight into legislative proceedings, and placed term limits on the length of time legislative leaders and committee chairs can serve, among other reform initiatives.»

Governments have become locked in a vicious circle of centralising power in an effort to improve public services, only to find this leads to increased dissatisfaction.

He held three events on Tuesday in New York City and Long Island, part of a effort to increase public support during budget negotiations.

On - topic questions include: whether de Blasio and McCray's partnership is modeled on the Clintons, how the Mayor's Fund will be financed including whether they plan to ask Michael Bloomberg to contribute money, the anticipated size of McCray's staff and office location, whether McCray will regularly issue a public schedule, how de Blasio decided to appoint McCray, whether she will continue to be active in other efforts related to the administration such as the pre-K initiative, whether McCray is ready for increased public and press scrutiny and how others who disagree with any actions or decisions by McCray at the Mayor's Fund can address those with the mayor.

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

Poughkeepsie... As part of the continuing efforts to get public input and increase community dialogue, Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will host the County's first live Telephone Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening at 6 pm, following the release of the 2014 Tentative County Budget at 11 am on Wednesday, October 30th.

On April 29 - 30, firehouses across the state will open their doors to the public in an effort to increase membership in the volunteer fire service.

Such efforts should include providing special consideration as to rents (e.g., rent increases should be comparable to existing contracts and commensurate with what would be expected in a public market), assisting tenants with moving and relocation costs (e.g., through the creation of a fund or by way of a requirement in the RFP), and assuring that the new market space is move - in ready before tenants are relocated.

«We continue to work closely with Borough President Oddo to increase public awareness about Lyme disease, and the administration has begun an extensive effort to reduce the deer population on Staten Island.»

The effort comes as a way to stem the tide of rising costs for government and public safety from a growing drug epidemic in Westchester County, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent in the last year, according to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, who confirmed the arrests, said the police were making efforts to increase security network around the state.

Of that total he wants roughly # 12 billion to be made up of welfare cuts, in an effort to halt the ever - increasing proportion of public spending taken up with benefits.

In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Legislator Lynne M. Dixon, Hamburg, declared October 20th Breast Cancer Awareness Day in Erie County in an effort to increase public knowledge about the importance of early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

«Our findings indicate that even a best - case scenario will lead to an increase in extreme heat exposure in the future, so from a planning perspective, identifying potential hotspots will help target public health efforts,» says Jones.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

All told, such efforts to restrain methane and soot emissions could help hold back global average temperature increases by more than 0.5 degree Celsius this century and improve public health.

«Regardless of price increases, soda taxes can be a means of sustainably funding public health efforts,» said study senior author Dr. Kristine Madsen, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Hpublic health efforts,» said study senior author Dr. Kristine Madsen, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public HPublic Health.

WHILE scientists in Britain are keen to increase the public understanding of science, their European counterparts are concentrating efforts on encouraging la culture scientifique.

The timing of papers describing the work also remains up in the air, pending more effort into what Fukuda described as increasing «public awareness» about the importance of the work.

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

The researchers argue that their findings suggest the need to re-double efforts to address the TB burden in India, and urgently increase surveillance in the private sector, as well as ensure greater collaboration between the private and public sector in India.

Shah noted that public health experts recently have placed efforts on increased screening, particularly among those at high risk of HIV, such as men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and heterosexuals ages 15 to 24.

So, when thinking about future solutions to the problem of sexual assault, in addition to increased public education about consent — it never hurts to just ask someone if they want to have sex with you — preventative efforts may also one day benefit from including a similar cognitive training paradigm, but with an increased number of photographs and multiple sessions to maximize the amount of feedback given to the person using it.

«Efforts to increase organ donor consent rates by all parties should be a major focus of the transplant community and the general public,» Goldberg said.

In the aftermath of the attack, two - thirds of Massachusetts residents surveyed supported increasing the number of video surveillance cameras (66 percent) and the number of police officers at public gatherings (69 percent) in an effort to prevent future attacks.

In a communique issued after the two - day summit in Bavaria, G7 leaders promised to «continue our efforts to provide and mobilize increased finance, from public and private sources, and to demonstrate that we and others are well on our way to meet the $ 100 billion goal».

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

To reach this level of investment, the European research effort will have to grow by 8 % per year; business funding for R&D will have to increase more (9 %) than public funding (6 %), because it lags far behind in most countries.

By helping laypersons better distinguish brain myths from brain realities, Barry Beyerstein was a pioneer in the ongoing effort to increase the public's scientific literacy.

«Public health efforts aimed at decreasing the prevalence of smoking must take depression into account, a common and modifiable barrier whose treatment may help to increase successful smoking cessation,» said Dr. Goodwin, adjunct associate professor of Epidemiology.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.