Sentences with phrase «to make public policy»

Which is why I recommend the book to anyone involved in making public policy.

A recent study promoting privately run charter schools uses flawed methods and conclusions — and policymakers are strongly urged not to rely on the faulty claims when making public policy.

Government officials, not authors of government textbooks, respond to scientific evidence by making public policy.

There are no good reasons to make public policy based on predicted anthropogenic warming, I look at the past, as recorded, to find a warming off some 1 °C since 1910.

The highly educated people who make public policy explain that cheap imports make everyone a winner, according to economic theory.

Some could not sign, because their jobs did not allow them to make public policy statements (some civil servants in other countries are in this category).

Protecting student privacy rights should come first when making public policy and legislative decisions.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all...

While cheering for their faction of scientists, laypeople often lose sight of the big picture — the key elements for making public policy about this important issue.

Elected representatives in the US making public policy and awarding multi-billion dollar weapons deals with Isreal based upon their biblical beliefs is just plain insane.

«Most corporate leaders, while proudly exercising their constitutionally protected right to influence elections and legislation, deny that they are making public policy merely by doing business.

«Treating taxis — who have paid into the system and should be exempted from additional charges — the same way as those responsible for the problem makes no public policy sense because it won't reduce congestion,» said Nino Hervias, a spokesman for the Taxi Medallion Owner Driver Association, which represents about 1,500 individual taxi owners, most of whom are immigrants.

«She basically said «What kind of fool would be making public policy without listening to the people who live in those communities, the people who know the names of the kids»?»

There has never been a time when we have made it a public policy imperative to stop bull markets in their tracks.

Committees shall neither make public policy pronouncements nor exceed prescribed powers and responsibilities.

With Governor Brown's recent Executive Order instructing all of California's state agencies to take climate change issues into account when making public policy decisions, doing infrastructure planning, and making regulatory decisions, a golden opportunity is arising in the Golden State for advocates of the renewables to force California to adopt a renewables - only approach to building new or replacement power generation capacity.

Its nominal creators, aside from Exxon - related entities and others, were William Nierenberg, Frederick Seitz and Robert Jastrow [2] This industry and right - wing front group has described its role as encouraging «the use of sound science in making public policy about important issues for which science and technology are major considerations.»

According to this influential version of liberalism, people who want to make public policy on the basis of some private knowledge of God are fundamentally undemocratic, because they refuse to share a common base of discourse with their fellow citizens.

You continue: «Government officials, not authors of government textbooks, respond to scientific evidence by making public policy.

It makes public policy but doesn't have to live with it.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

(Under the providentialist reading, government can acknowledge a dependence on the Creator, and citizens and legislators may act on their religiously informed moral views in making public policy.)

The writer of this article is correct that if you consider that people should forget their beliefs when making public policy, and if you consider that to be an absolute, then using the word absolute there is problematic.

Robertson is unsympathetic to religious ethics or deontology, and claims that they have no place in making public policy for a pluralistic society.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all the time,» said Councilman David Naftzger.

«Elected officials are the ones that make public policy,» Kink said.

Organizers of the march in Clinton Square had announced that Schneiderman would be the headline speaker at the event, aimed at underscoring the importance of science in making public policy.

«One of the things I'm proudest of is that we've made the public policy of this state that people in need who are fighting for the necessities of their life... get legal representation, or effective legal assistance,» he said.

Science, of course, is only one factor to be considered when making public policy.

«Today, thousands of people from all walks of life all over the world are saying that evidence verified by science is the only reliable way to make public policy, policy that touches our lives in every way — health and economics, environment and transportation and security,» he said.

NEWS FLASH: Today we see the ultimate example of Governor Malloy's approach to making public policy.

NAS has submitted a public comment to the EPA on the proposed rule to increase transparency in science used to make public policy.

However, it was the job of politicians to make public policy, and they should not surrender that role, Mr Howard said.

We can't afford to reject this clear and compelling scientific evidence when we make public policy.

I cite scientists to illustrate the current frontier of knowledge, an essential to make public policy (which is the subject of interest here).

Ebell claims most of the letter's signers «have little or no expertise in climate science, and virtually none knows anything special about making public policies.»

Rather, the bill aims to overturn the legal force and effect of the Endangerment Rule, ensuring that Congress, not bureaucrats posing as custodians of policy - neutral science, make public policy.

Sure they might talk about the issue, but it's not the industry's role to make public policy.

Real estate companies that handle customers» Social Security numbers must maintain and make public a policy for protecting the number from identity thieves under a state law that took effect September 1.