Sentences with phrase «lot of policy issues»

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«This is a pro-business issue,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. «You have a lot of firms that lose workers; making child care accessible and affordable can increase the labor pool.»

«The change in how people understand issues and perceive one another have to come first and when we have a lot of organizing and engagement around that sea change, then we're going to see policy changes occur.»

No, it means that they are arguably hypocritical on this one issue, but stick with Obama because this isn't the most burning of issues for them and they like a lot of his other policies.

But for those with families to support and lots of bills to pay, «the challenge becomes what kind of policies can help people move up,» says Kazis, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston group that specializes in workforce development issues.

That injury list is clearly an issue and not a helpful one to our hopes in Europe or the Premier League and after it just about doubled in the month of November at the same time as our results hit a wall, a lot of Arsenal fans as well as those critics in the media always ready to gloat over any Arsenal misfortune were quick to lay the blame squarely at the feet of Arsene Wenger and his transfer policy of, well not making any transfers.

«A lot of people have over-simplified the environment issues in attempting to reduce them to one - sentence do «s and do n`ts, «says John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

Not a lot of time to debate issues that will have an effect on the future of Britain's foreign policy and the transatlantic alliance.

The candidates talk a lot about job creation and economic development, with Espaillat condemning the growth of so - called big box stores and Walrond promoting infrastructure investment, but there is not a policy issue driving the race.

«I think there is a lot of room for a Democrat to speak to these issues,» Mr. de Blasio said last year at a Politico breakfast when asked if there was room to the left of Ms. Clinton's policies in the presidential race.

There are a lot of things that have been happening in this country, both in terms of actual issues or policies being advanced and in terms of rhetoric, that are really harmful.

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

Local issues may also have helped, especially the huge housing development planned for the open land between Thurmaston and Barkby, which the Tories claimed were a Central Government Labour policy, but still went ahead after the 2010 GE; I would guess this lost the local Tory Party a lot of credibiliity.

We have lots of experience addressing the issue in the United States, where policies aimed at promoting diversity in the sciences are mainstream.

The EU Parliament has seen a lot of to - ing and fro - ing of the issue over the years, but they've finally set a date for implementing a strict zero - tolerance policy towards privacy and data protection.

It didn't give them carte blanche, but Congress certainly intended them to have lots more sway over key education policy issues, including the design of their school rating systems.

«At an age when young people are dealing with «in» and «out» groups and peer pressure, it's a lot easier to address these issues by talking about historical events,» says Terry R. Tollefson, Ed.D.,» 89, FHAO's director of administration for policy, planning, and evaluation.

Because she was a rescue and had experienced a lot of neglect, we were concerned that she might have some medical issues eventually, so we took out a policy for her right away.

«Our facility is located near the beach so a lot of tourists board their pets with us,» said Michele Wieting, office manager of Owl Creek Pet Hotel in Virginia Beach, Va. «Prior to implementing our proactive flea control policy, our biggest issue was that we couldn't guarantee that all of our clients were using monthly flea prevention.

With lots of other issues on his plate, Obama can't afford a highly visible foreign policy thorn that he can't manage.

While it's tempting for us TreeHuggers to give all the credit to recent innovations in green technology, victories on the environmental policy front and a growing divestment movement — all of which are no doubt contributing to the industry's woes — Stevens says the issues that BP, Exxon and the like face are more fundamental, and a lot more deeply seated than these relatively new challenges.

There's lots of literature about how climate change has developed into a far more complex «social problem / issue», as it's moved from scientific journals onto the policy agenda.

The US under Trump has the correct policy for dealing with this issue and I find it utterly baffling that the rest of the world is still united on this issue; why should Nepal care, why should French Guiana care... theres a lot of countries signed up that have almost nothing to do with the claimed calamitous global warming anyway.

The vast majority of the public knows a lot less about climate sensitivity, the link between hurricanes and CO2 or analogues with past climates than either you or I do, but the link between these issues and actual policy is quite convoluted.

I think there's still a few scrappy skeptics chasing the receding tail lights of the science and policy of this issue making a lot of noise, but they have been rather left in the dust.

«this issue has policy implications that may potentially raise the price of energy a lot, and thus essentially the price of everything else.»

«Net metering is an important policy issue and there has been quite a lot of work done on it,» Fox - Penner said, «but the purpose of this report is to look at the aggregate total costs of two solar options.»

The issue of concern here is how this gets communicated to the public and policy makers — lots of misleading spin

So there are a lot of scientific issues to resolve, dismissing this uncertainty and this disagreement is not useful, and has caused much uneccessary conflict and distraction from the real policy issues at hand.

The US msm has had a lot lately about Australia where they seem to be struggling with similar issues of policy promises and politicians.

I usually confine my posts on this blog to issues with the science of global warming rather than policy issues, but I know I get a lot of folks with science backgrounds here and I would honestly like to see if there is something in this I am missing:

«The issue of methane leakage is getting a lot of attention, because much of the policy discussion is premised on the view that natural gas has roughly half of the greenhouse gas emissions relative to coal for power generation,» said Jason Bordoff, Director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, at an event to discuss the study on Mpolicy discussion is premised on the view that natural gas has roughly half of the greenhouse gas emissions relative to coal for power generation,» said Jason Bordoff, Director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, at an event to discuss the study on MPolicy, at an event to discuss the study on Monday.

It's another issue turning that into policy, for governments, and it's very easy for all of us who don't have to be elected to say «this is how I would do it», and I have a lot of sympathy for our politicians, because they are dealing with extremely selfish populations.»

There's lots of rhetoric going on and politicization of this issue but it goes nowhere for policy decisions, or even if any policy decision made will do anything measurable at all.

A ton of policy innovation is still taking place, and industry can move a lot more nimbly than government to address these issues.

Lawyers in other jurisdictions — Pennsylvania leaps to mind — are shocked at how conservative Maryland accident law is on stacking insurance policies and lots of other issues related to the handling of car accident claims.

I can not stress how important it is for trial lawyers nationwide to be aware that these changes in Medicare policy are going to generate a lot of additional issues, and potential liability, when injury victims and their lawyers settle claims with a Medicare component.

As far as recourse to those affected goes, I view this as a policy rather than a rights issue, and I'm sure the RCMP would have a lot to say about the «necessity» of the delay.

«The Court emphasized that respect for the conditions of «living together» was a legitimate aim for the measure at issue and that, particularly as the State had a lot of room for manoeuvre («a wide margin of appreciation») as regards this general policy question on which there were significant differences of opinion, the ban imposed by the Law of 11 October 2010 did not breach the Convention.»

«I always had an interest in public policy in a lot of different areas,» he says, noting that while growing up he would pay close attention when issues were discussed around the dinner table at home.

I don't mean to overstate this, and for certain the Crown can and does advocate in the public interest on lots of issues in public law and policy.

It's been my experience that most lawyers, certainly those of the managing partnership generation, lack the confidence with IT issues and knowledge necessary to make good policy without lots of advice.

There are a lot of factors which go into getting an accurate quote, and even then, the rate is not final until the policy has been underwritten and issued.

For many people, especially those with serious medical issues, even a smaller life policy ends up providing a lot of value for the surviving family.

This is super important for a lot of reasons, but the main one is that you want the company who issued your life insurance policy to be in business for the entire length of your policy.

They also offer term life insurance plans they have a lot of potential add ons and conversion privilege, which means that you can always turn your Term Policy into a permanent plan without any new underwriting, so basically on a guaranteed - issue basis.

Because there are no major medical exams to contend with, as well as because the insurance underwriters will not have to spend a lot of time reviewing medical tests, this policy can be approved and issued relatively quickly.

Yet a lot of people, even with severe medical issues, be eligible for policies often times better than burial insurance.

You see, many online brokers deal either exclusively or primarily with policies that can be issued right there, without a lot of health questions — yep, another benefit of buying simplified issue contracts.

Meaning that the amount of money that you will need to spend to purchase a guaranteed issue life insurance policy would buy you a lot more coverage if you were able to qualify for a traditional term or whole life insurance policy.