Sentences with phrase «major public policy efforts»

Now a pair of economists are reporting a concrete connection between poverty and teen pregnancy, and they conclude that breaking that link will require major public policy efforts and not just more lectures about using birth control.

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In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

The campaign released it just as Mr. McCain was planning to give a major speech on energy policy today, and a day after Al Gore, the public face of efforts to slow the warming trend, formally endorsed Senator Barack Obama.