Sentences with phrase «national economic agenda»

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Since then, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, reducing the role of national boundaries in economic matters has been the primary foreign policy agenda of the United States.

Pete Spiliakos describes a populist Republican economic agenda: The Republican National Committee is in a cul - de-sac.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

«Instead of respecting the right of citizens in every state to make the laws they wish regarding marriage, and instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.»

Their problem is that no one knows what that economic agenda is, besides opposing tax cuts, generally not a good strategic position to be in just months away from a national election.

In a swing across Central New York today, Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, says it's important that New York is be a leader by passing the agenda that ranges from health care to economic issues, because states are where women's issues are languishing.

De Blasio's trip comes after he traveled to Washington last spring to launch a national campaign called the Progressive Agenda to push for changes in national economic policy, including a $ 15 minimum wage, closing the carried - interest tax loophole and national paid sick leave and paid family leave.

For example, let us say that the next national delegates congress must achieve three things; it must set a long - term agenda for national socio - economic development.

«Because the majority of children in immigrant families, including those in noncitizen families, are U.S. citizens by birth and are likely to remain here throughout their lives, investing in human capital and economic outcomes should be an important national agenda,» he said.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

Through well - publicized partnerships with elected officials like Chicago mayor Richard Daley and through Bill and Melinda Gates's personal advocacy for their high - school agenda in such forums as the National Governors Association and the National Economic Club, the foundation has signaled its intention to leverage its investments through policy change.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

It also «explains how such proposals might fit within the broader economic agenda of both local and national corporate lobbies.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Some of the issues that proponents of other equity frameworks have argued should be considered in allocating national emissions targets such as historical emissions or the level of economic development in poor countries are already in serious consideration in international climate change negotiation agenda focused on such matters as: (a) financial responsibility for adaptation, (b) responsibility for loses and damages for climate change, and (c) financing of climate friendly technologies for developing countries.

In its 13th Five - Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, China announced to the world that green development will be high on its agenda for the next five years.

People's Action is a network of grassroots organizations with a fierce reputation for direct action from across the country that work to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda.

A message released during the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), said, according to Xinhua, that «saving energy and protecting environment is a big government agenda, though keeping a «steady and relatively fast» economic growth is a paramount task amid the global economic crisis.»

On March 26, 2009 The White House and a whole bunch of environmental group leaders decided to stop talking about climate change and push the agenda by talking instead about national security, green jobs, clean energy economic growth, clean energy future, diversification of energy, health, future generations...

From North to South, from national governments to the Commission: EU Institutions and Member States are in agreement that a reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is high on the political agenda.

The authors argue that the fragmented status of public international law with respect to the limitations period doctrine is attributable to (i) the wholesale importation of national - domestic law on limitations into public international law without having considered the policies and aspirations of international law, and (ii) the economic agendas of industrialized states to the exclusion of the interests of developing states and economies in transition.

You can access a free download of Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Towards an Agenda, edited by symposium keynote speaker Professor Tahu Kukutai and John Taylor, Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University.

With the disparate provincial legislatures being responsible for standards within our industry, it makes one wonder how it is that transitory elected officials (who often come and go as the case may be from election to election) with short - term agendas (aimed at the next election) are the people who set standards for a business environment so critical to the long - term economic well - being of our national society.