Sentences with phrase «kind of policy change»

The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon output from coal - fired power plants represents the right kind of policy change.

Has there been some kind of policy change?

As a result, it's a bit of a mug's game when it comes to establishing how much — or little — the middle class is struggling and what kind of policy changes would at least win votes, if not actually have a positive impact.

«There are further unintended consequences from these kinds of policy changes,» Soper says.

Not exact matches

Bass Pro Shops has never sold those kind of accessories in its stores, but the company has not yet announced changes to its gun policies in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

Then, of course, we'll have the governments forcing new kinds of systems or policy changes such as helicopter money to push more money into our society and that's when we start to get into hyperinflation.

I think the moderates are the worst kind of accommodationist, simply because they pass off the literalists as «few», the «odd crazy»... when it is these few and odd crazy ones that have the money and the intent to change policies to «make the prophecy» come true.

It turns out that the constituency for radical tax policy changes is very limited — at least for the kinds of radical changes that have been proposed.

Similarly western hemisphere countries have said some kind things to the decedents of indigenous people who faired poorly under previous policies, and revolutions have blamed deposed rulers for bad things, but I'm not sure that it is in the spirit of the question to count changes in government.

«It's time for us to push the same kind of ambitious policies — to transform our economy, improve working lives and change the country for the better.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.

So, might there be some kind of «magic bullet»: one or two key policy changes that would significantly improve the postdoctoral experience?

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

(Last month, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have changed the policy in a way that would allow funding of this kind of stem - cell research.)

These are precisely the kinds of far - reaching reforms that my colleagues and I called for four years ago when the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, based at Stanford's Hoover Institution, evaluated Florida's Jeb Bush - era policy changes.

To this end, our current work plan is focused on three core objectives: (1) To build a dynamic «Frontiers of Innovation» community composed of scientists, scholars, policymakers, policy analysts, practitioners, and other creative individuals who are motivated to engage in the kind of transformational thinking that is needed to break down disciplinary barriers and catalyze significant change in early childhood policy and practice.

As a result, our results should be interpreted as the overall availability of different kinds of school options and not necessarily the marginal increase in access that would result from a new policy change (federal or otherwise).

Districts must advocate for changes in state policies, both those affecting evaluation and others, that act as barriers to scaling up these kind of roles across districts.

Our book offers tips for teachers who want to make small but powerful changes to their own classroom policies, such as changes to the kind of homework assigned and how much it is worth, test correction and revision policies, incorporating more real - world, project - based learning and authentic assessments, and how to foster more positive teacher - student relationships.

In 1989, when the Chicago School Reform Act gave rise to local school councils and other major policy changes, Linda Lenz, then an education writer for the Chicago Sun - Times, saw the need for a publication that would focus on public education with the kind of detail and depth that her newspaper and others could not.

However, teachers have different needs and prefer different kinds of PD support (Martin, Miyashiro & Baird, 2015), keeping in mind that their available technology resources, such as digital devices, learning management systems, online curriculum, and technology - related policies, are constantly changing.

While we work on the ground to support schools, we also work with partners of all kinds to change public policy and build sustainable public funding to expand learning opportunities across the nation.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

This can cover all kinds of new learning objectives, from simple policy refreshers to major changes in processes.

Expecting Congress not to approve policy changes of any kind is a pretty safe bet nowadays.

The 4C changes direction quicker than Donald Trump's border policy and the unity between car and driver is special... but it takes a certain kind of courage to push this car to its limit, especially on bumpy road.

Pages read might also be flawed and Amazon will almost certainly end up changing their policy down the road because pages read is not equitable across all kinds of books.

It's kind of long, but goes into the changes that have happened at the Fed since the crisis, and points out why tightening policy might be tough.

But it's also important to think about how insurance changes based on personal events — new drivers or changes to a family auto policy can alter car insurance premiums, and other kinds of insurance can be affected by changing property values or even changes in the local business world.

Similarly, since Southwest tickets come with free checked baggage and their generous change / cancel policy, elite status holders don't need these kinds of fee waivers.

Know what kinds of emergencies are covered and which are not, and make sure to carefully review that paperwork each time you renew your policy, in case of any changes.

But the art isn't there to argue for our foreign policy, and since our foreign policy changes all the time, it's kind of a ridiculous idea that you could do that at all, because then you're stuck every time the policy changes.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

In trying to get close to reality on climate change, particularly on policy questions, the same kind of practice is vital.

I believe the kinds of accusations you (and most climate change advocates make) make about people who disagree with your judgment and priorities ensure that reasoned public policy on long term energy supply will not happen any time soon....

By far the most frequent arguments made in opposition to climate change policies are economic predictions of various kinds such as claims that proposed climate change legislation will destroy jobs, reduce GDP, damage US businesses such as the coal and petroleum industries, or increase the cost of fuel.

To understand why these questions should be asked, it is first necessary to review the kinds of arguments that have usually been made in opposition to US climate change policies, programs, and legislation and why these arguments fail to deal with the profound ethical questions raised by the threat of human induced climate change.

Strawless In Seattle is the first campaign of its kind, demonstrating how the market can lead and inspire policy change.

Developers and other stakeholders are also carefully watching the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to see what kind of policy signals emerge from the next round of Conference of Parties (COP) negotiations in Lima next month and in Paris in 2015.

This kind of argument has taken several different forms such as, climate policies simply cost too much, will destroy jobs, harm the economy, or are not justified by cost - benefit analyses just to name a few cost - based arguments made frequently in opposition to climate change policies..

For over 35 years, opponents of climate change policies most frequently have made two kinds of arguments in opposition to proposed climate policies.

Any reasonable scenario for global development over the next century is likely to project technological change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.

In the climate change field, it may be that the modellers, who in some cases appear to try to drive policy, need someone in my kind of role, with enough comprehension to assess the validity of the models but with a better understanding of, and ability to communicate, the policy relevance of the material.

Similarly, trends in a certain kind of impact of that class of events can also be detected and attributed, although the influence of other drivers of change, such as policy decisions and increasing wealth, can make this challenging.

I hope David receives the kind of feedback he has been looking for in both areas and, while I'm on the line for the first time on Climate Audit, thank you to the whole Aussie skeptic team (that I'm aware of), including Bob Carter and, not least, your own work with David Henderson which, from what I can tell, usefully triggered the interest of Nigel Lawson here in London not just in climate change but its policy implications.