Sentences with phrase «needed reforms in»

The Administration has also implemented needed reforms in the program, identifying and requiring lower - performing providers to compete for funding in order to ensure that families and children receive the best services and support, while also pioneering innovative approaches to a full continuum of services for children from birth through school - entry.

Needed reforms in critical areas like primary care, mental health and Indigenous health have to date involved little more than disruption (of the non-innovative kind), budget cuts, short - term funding and transfers of responsibility.

Now, we must do the same to advance needed reforms in civil justice.

It also brought about many needed reforms in housing laws.

Critics (often including ourselves) typically assert that these organizations are the prime obstacles to needed reforms in K — 12 schooling, while defenders (typically, also, supporters of the education status quo) insist that they are bulwarks of professionalism and safeguards against caprice and risky innovation.

Though some see this unforeseen development as an opportunity to move on much - needed reforms in Albany, it's not great news for advocates of congestion pricing.

But we also need reform in Washington.

Sen. Mike Gianaris, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, emphasized a campaign focus on ethics, telling POLITICO New York his party represents «the best hope for needed reform in the State Senate.»

Also during his interview with Samuels, Gibson said he supports a Constitutional Convention in 2017, saying «we clearly need reform in this state.»

The exact narrative a gubernatorial opponent would want to draft is that Albany remains broken under a two - term incumbent; this past weekend, potential Cuomo challenger Chris Gibson said in a radio interview with Bill Samuels that he supports a convention because «we clearly need reform in this state.»

The other, from Transparency International's executive director Chandu Krishnan, reminds us exactly why we urgently need reform in the first place.

Repeatedly, a series of particularly egregious complaints of sexual harassment or rape has led the Legislature to a watershed moment of sorts, producing much - needed reform in how accusers are treated and how their complaints are handled.

And I think that everyone understands that you need reforms in Albany.

«It's true that education isn't the sole solution to the issues that we face — we need reform in so many areas, including in the criminal justice system — but a great education can be a significant driver in ensuring that our children have a better, more peaceful future.»

Representative Darin LaHood states that «higher education needs reform in America.»

Thirteen young adults from all over England were the toast of Westminster yesterday (25 September 2014) when a government minister thanked them for helping to mould the biggest special educational needs reforms in a generation.

Not exact matches

The Panel's final, overarching recommendation was that Canada needed a «Canadian Competition Council» to continually review the state of competition in Canada and make recommendations to government for further reform.

And throughout much of the world, it remains a messy, inefficient, expensive sector in need of radical reform.

Western Australian Treasurer Christian Porter has welcomed an interim report on the carve - up of GST revenue, which has flagged changes to a system Mr Porter says is broken and in need of reform.

Earlier this year, he stressed the need for tax reform, particularly in allowing companies to bring back profits stored overseas at lower rates.

He has been outspoken on a number of issues lately, particularly regarding the gridlock in Congress and the need for less regulation and tax reform.

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

«Maybe he is getting more mellow,» said Schankerman, who has has spent a lot of time discussing his research on reforms needed in the patent system with Spangenberg.

«It's not really a change on being pro or against austerity, it's understanding that the supply response that we got from the reforms now need to be matched, with some demand response and Europe is in a very good position to do it,» he added.

Tax reform has been a major focus for a GOP in need of a legislative win since their failure to repeal Obamacare.

To ensure we're not left behind, Canada will have to reform the immigration system with the needs of the tech sector in mind.

«Additional vigilance in terms of macroeconomic management is needed in order to weather any negative impact of those policies, and the best way to do it is to accelerate some of the reforms that need to be introduced,» he added.

Employment insurance in Canada needs reforming, according to a web poll of 122 CEOs conducted by COMPAS Inc..

The U.S. needs tax reform and workforce development programs in order to be successful, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty told «Power Lunch.»

And in the intervening years, the need for immigration reform has only gotten more extreme.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

«These people paid a terrible price and demonstrate why we need a secure border and legal immigration reform so we can control who enters our country,» Patrick said in a statement on Facebook.

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The priority the government gives to different reforms set out in the coalition deal, the extent to which it implements them, and the personnel involved promise a welter of competing pressures that Merkel will need all her political skill to balance.

But analysts say more still needs to be done on structural reforms to rein in ballooning corporate debt, which has reached levels that the IMF and others have warned sharply raises the risks of a financial crisis.

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

«The difficulty the Republican majority is having addressing a key political priority suggests that lawmakers might ultimately need to scale back their ambitions in other areas as well, such as tax reform.»

The Chinese government has been implementing supply - side reforms in the industrial sector, but buyers of those assets still need to be able to manage any excess capacity, he said.

That raises doubts about a key argument for proponents of federal immigration reform: that companies need looser rules to import overseas workers because there aren't enough job candidates in the United States who can fill specialized skills, namely in science, technology and engineering.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

«While this would be politically difficult on the island, it's possible that a new administration in Puerto Rico in 2017 could ask Washington to create such an entity, arguing for example, that it had inherited a fiscal mess and needed help to push through messy reforms,» Boles wrote in a note last week.

In addition, the conservative Koch - backed group Americans for Prosperity launched a $ 500,000 ad campaign touting the new tax law because, according to Americans for Prosperity Foundation Senior Director Michael Fields, «all Americans need to know how tax reform is leading to higher pay and lower taxes.»

Reform of the Express Entry and Post-Graduation Work Permit Programs are badly needed and it appears the government is moving in that direction.

With deadlock in the Senate it will be harder to pass key legislation needed for economic reforms.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing featured a string of critics who rebuked Bresch for raising the price of a product with life - or - death implications, especially one that needs to be replaced almost every year and in a therapeutic space where Mylan has more than 90 % market share.

THE WA taxi industry is in need of sweeping reforms, according to an independent review undertaken by BSD Consultants.

Time to put an end to frivolous lawsuits with much needed federal tort reform, including a «loser pays» provision like they have in the U.K.

Toronto's taxi system is, as in many cities, in desperate need of reform.

Important concerns are the weakness of the Italian economy, which advanced only 0.1 % in the first quarter, and questions about the political commitment to needed productivity - enhancing reforms.