Sentences with phrase «most need of reform»

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Republicans point to the age of that 1986 legislation — the most recent major overhaul of the federal tax code — as a reason new reforms need to be enacted.

When growth is most needed, when a country is suffering from excessively high levels of debt, it is hard to find many cases in which the aggressive implementation of reforms led to growth rates fast enough for the debtor to grow its way out of debt.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

Reforms are needed but America has won most of its complaints, including against China.

Most of tax reform has a direct revenue impact and probably could be enacted through reconciliation, but it would either need to be revenue - positive over the long run or else rely on gimmicks, such as sun - setting rate reductions or other revenue - reducing provisions, to avoid increasing the long - term debt.

Targeted benefit enhancements for Social Security recipients who need them most certainly should be considered in the context of a reform plan, and indeed they have been included in a number of bipartisan plans put forward in recent years.

This is the most dramatic reform needed, as well as one of the most difficult to achieve, except where already present, as in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

A most telling aspect of that rigidity was the oath by which each pharaoh bound himself to nip in the bud any attempt at calendar reform although it was sorely needed.

The LCWR (which does not represent the views of 80 % of American Nuns, it is an association of religious orders that include 80 % of women religious in the U.S., but that does not mean that all of those nuns / sisters agree with the shenanigans of the LCWR, in fact most probably don't) brought this on itself and it needs to be reformed.

I must say I find some of Ryan's writing disingenuous, most notably his claim that his budget «reforms welfare for those who need it,» including the poor and the sick, while it «ends welfare for those who don't — entrenched corporations, the wealthiest Americans.»

Most needed, given an analysis of this kind, is moral tutelage that encourages people to be less greedy (or to reassert traditional gender roles), not radical reform of the economic system itself.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

Poverty indeed is the strenuous life — without brass bands or uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions; and when one sees the way in which wealth - getting enters as an ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy religious vocation may not be «the transformation of military courage,» and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in need of.

In its response to the consultation, published on 4 April 2011, the Government said it was «clear from the responses received that some reform of DLA was welcomed» and that «most organisations agreed that DLA needed modernising».

Labour should be in the business of framing most of current welfare provision as something like the «basic needs» of most British people, & pushing for innovative tax & legal reforms that enable the deficit to be closed with minimum civic disturbance.

Extending childcare for those in receipt of Universal Credit is absolutely the right thing to do: but when money is so tight, why the perk for the very wealthy who can afford it — and why not reforms to address the shortage of supply that would create jobs as well as helping those who need it most?

New York needs comprehensive reform: lower contribution limits, an independent enforcement agency, no more loopholes, and most importantly a system of matching small contributions with public funds.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

«We've been very vocal of the needed [MTA] reforms — New York is the most expensive place to build rail in the world — but we can institute reforms and raise revenues at the same time.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed HMRC's announcement today of # 2 million a year of grants to be given over the next four years to voluntary sector bodies, so that they may provide support and advice to HMRC customers who need most help in complying with their tax obligations and claiming their correct entitlements

All the evidence tells us that it is our most vulnerable children, those living in poverty and those with special educational needs, who will do least well out of these reforms.

His experience pushing to reform Albany and deliver results for those who need it most will make a big difference for the people and neighborhoods of the 26th Senate District.

«We're at a point where we need to restore democracy,» said the soft - spoken yet determined Reform Party candidate who, unlike most of this year's third - party aspirants, is looking neither left or right, but forward in the tradition of John F. Kennedy's presidency — one of the most prosperous periods in American history.

«It's a shame that the public's trust in career politicians is so low that they need to wave the flag for the most obvious of reforms,» Curran said.

Taxpayers in New York will get the two things they need most — lower taxes and the continuation of essential and high quality municipal services — only if Albany finally demonstrates the will to reform state mandates, giving local officials the tools and flexibility to implement real and sustainable property tax relief.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «This research shows that once again the casualties of the Coalition Government's education reforms and austerity measures are the children and young people that need the most support.

Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.

The goo - goos praised the GOP for keeping «most of the important advances from the last session,» which, as you'll recall, were made in the wake of the coup - inspired 31 - day stalemate, but said the changes proposed «fail to take the next crucial steps that are needed to continue reforming the Senate.»

The NYT editorial board comes out against a con - con — a reversal from 1997 — citing a concern that «the likelihood of a con - con yielding the most desperately needed reforms is disappointingly low, and the possibility of its accomplishing nothing at significant cost, or, worse, setting New York back even further, is worrisomely high.»

Right now, the government must look cumulatively at the impacts of its reforms and whether they are succeeding in their stated aims, or even in the basic objective of providing a safety net for those who need it most.

Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, said «It shocks the conscience that we continue to look the other way while we permit our schools to pair our most ineffective teachers with the children most in need of great classroom instruction.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

Within the centre right, I think most people agree that the welfare system is in serious need of reform.

We start to see the widespread withdrawal of the «consent to be governed» and across the parties they see the need for comprehensive reform and that those in charge decide that STV is the most effective way to retain or regain widespread consent to be governed and campaign for it.

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

And Mr Fillon's powers as a negotiator will be needed in full if Mr Sarkozy is to modernise the pension system, the most perilous part of his reform programme.

«What Sheriff Moss most brings is a reformer's passion in a state in desperate need of reform, ethically, educationally and economically,» Astorino said in a video announcement.

«Community health centers have the unique ability to help fulfill the promise of health reform by providing much - needed primary care to our nation's most vulnerable populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

For many countries — especially those in the developing tropics where fishery reform is needed most — the required costly short - run reductions in fish catch would be difficult to implement because of dependency on fisheries for food and livelihoods.

«Community health centers can only fulfill the promise of health reform if they have the resources to provide much - needed care to our nation's most vulnerable populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

It also needs to be acknowledged that this Bill is being introduced alongside the most radical reform of the education system that many have seen.

Building on this, Cahill proceeded to set forth a «dynamic model,» arguing that, for true transformation that will allow schools to most effectively move forward with Common Core, schools can not just focus on one area of design, but instead, need to approach reform from a number of different angles.

Weighted student funding (WSF) As with most major reforms of school finance, doing WSF right entails complex formulas, oft - changing allocations of money (when a kid shifts schools, for example, or moves to the next grade, or her needs change), sophisticated building - level budgeting, and the integration of dollars from multiple sources that carry different requirements.

His statistical gymnastics are used most often in the service of defending current school practices against most reform proposals, usually by denying the need for reform in the first place.

What may have been needed instead, Hentschke says, was a «radical» reform that started with an empty slate and redesigned the most basic operations of the schools.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

The Committee is currently inviting written submissions addressing the following topics: - The purpose of primary assessment and how well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessment

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

Marking three years since the review into school funding was released Haythorpe said that needs - based funding for schools is the most important issue in the education sector and the Gonski reforms are the best chance it has had in a generation of getting real change and equity.