Sentences with phrase «into public interest groups»

January 19, 2017 — «Since Donald Trump was elected president on a platform that many fear would curb protections for society's most disadvantaged, donations have flooded into public interest groups.

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

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The Public Interest Advocacy Group has called on the Joe Ghartey committee to make public, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments CommPublic Interest Advocacy Group has called on the Joe Ghartey committee to make public, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments Commpublic, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments Committee.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.

«It's a shame that they made so much progress in starting an investigation into this area, but were unable to follow this investigation through to completion,» Bill Mahoney, research coordinator at New York Public Interest Research Group, told City & State.

This year, the conversation moved from wonkish to very public, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo declaring that upstate needed ride - hailing because «upstate matters» and with special interest groups pouring money into public awareness campaigns to try to either have the bill killed or passed.

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«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

NASA Nationwide also provides NASA scientists who are interested in participating in education and public outreach (E / PO) efforts, or have a need to incorporate E / PO efforts into missions and projects, a means to learn more about these groups, get involved, and partner with member networks.

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

Second, teachers unions have fooled a large section of the general public and elites into thinking of them as something other than a regular interest group advocating for their own concerns.

Lobbyists for special interest groups will be in the Capitol every day pressuring lawmakers to support legislation that will siphon money out of public schools and into private pockets.

Never mind that none of these groups are actually interested in either modernizing or elevating anything, and are instead working to hasten the privatization of public education, and turning P - 12 schools and college teacher education programs into profit centers.

And then there was Al Gore and IPCC, and before they knew it, the ACC group were flipped into «the Establishment», for a brief moment the wider public agreed with the tiny ACC minority view — which by that time was much more mature and had substantial interest and support as, if certainly not definitive, the best of the extant theories at that time.

They claimed that the problem has been that fossil fuel interests have massively outspent underdog environmental groups, funding skeptics to mislead the public and duping the media into giving too much credence to skeptical views about climate change.

So as the public interest in the race starts to climb, lawyers may find themselves asked (in particular by friends and family who fall into that middle - of - the - political - spectrum undecided group that determines the outcome of every election) to shed some light on the issues of the day.

The public consultations wrap up at the end of the month, but invitation - only consultations with selected interest groups — small and solo practitioners, diversity leaders, innovators and students, to name a few — will continue into February.

Mauro sums it up this way: «That concern has transformed Sole v. Wyner from a quirky case with unusual facts into the next major battlefield between public - interest groups and government over fee - shifting statutes.»

It gives governments the right to infringe on native title if it's in the broader public interest, but also strongly reinforces the view it's better to reach a deal with an aboriginal group than to launch into a costly legal process that may take more than a decade to be resolved.