Sentences with phrase «new national debate»

Tough's book will prepare you for a new national debate long before it gets started.

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Their early 1990s study Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national debate.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee prepares to consider new legislation that would open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development, long - time players in the debate over Alaskan energy production are explaining why now is the time to unlock critical resources in the region.

The national gun debate has a new, youthful face.

Hundreds of critics and supporters of the proposed center in New York showed up despite an overcast and drizzly sky to express their views amid the national debate over the facility.

As the BCS National Championship game between the LSU Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide approaches, the Republican presidential candidates had a debate in New Hampshire on Saturday night and discussed this big sporting game between two SEC teams.

The debate on talking to terrorists comes as the government prepares this week to unveil its new national security strategy.

As a New Yorker, I'm excited about the prospect of Elise helping to shape the national debate.»

The opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] which is championing the course for a new register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debaNew Patriotic Party [NPP] which is championing the course for a new register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debanew register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debate.

The study was widely quoted across media from the Washington Post, the Guardian, National Public Radio New York, the BBC, and elsewhere across Europe, and itself has added to the debate about the media and the migrant crisis.

According to organizers of the debate, the IEA, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) wrote two weeks ago that it was bringing a team led by the party's General Secretary to debate the NPP on its unrelenting call for a new voters» register.

Interpretations of the National Interest have been at the forefront of the debate in an entirely new way for the British, pitching referendum against parliamentary voting, domestic and against foreign policy issues, numerical majorities against political and economic arguments, elites against elites.

One of the election flashpoints in Accra, Odododiodio Constituency erupted into violence Friday evening when supporters of National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) clashed at a 3FM parliamentary debate.

Assembly Democrats relaunched a push for a statewide single - payer health - care program in hopes that the national debate over health care will give their legislation new momentum.

The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

As part of arrangements towards the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) 2016 Debate Series, the IEA on Wednesday 1st June 2016 convened a meeting of representatives of flagbearers of three political parties, namely the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the Peoples» National Convention (PNC).

The New Patriotic Party's (NPP) acting General Secretary and National Campaign Coordinator, John Boadu, has told President John Mahama to go and debate one of the failed presidential aspirants, Akua Donkor or Hassan Ayariga, if he is eager for such an encounter.

In response to the upheaval from Washington, some New York activists are actually pushing a proposal to cut the state off from the national healthcare debate entirely.

(CNN)- CNN's Jessica Yellin takes a look at national Republicans» new effort to revive their image as they debate where the party should head.

Washington (CNN)- As two of the three candidates in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York get ready to debate, another major national political organization has jumped into the ad wars, another sign that a once semi-obscure local election is now firmly in the national spotlight.

Pataki, who served as New York Governor from 1995 - 2006, failed to make any of the GOP's main stage debates in 2015 as a result of his anemic national poll numbers.

In all cases, Cuomo said, New York has influenced the national debate.

A new Fox News national poll suggests Donald Trump suffered real damage in his first debate with Hillary Clinton — not just losing the debate, but sliding in some key measures of voter confidence in his ability to serve as president.

The 94 - year - old Women's National Republican Club in New York City wants to reassert its relevance with a new president, increased openness to admitting men and events geared more toward political debate than just ladies who lunNew York City wants to reassert its relevance with a new president, increased openness to admitting men and events geared more toward political debate than just ladies who lunnew president, increased openness to admitting men and events geared more toward political debate than just ladies who lunch.

Much of the debate focused on the new national policy statements, which will lay out the government's plans to develop what Mr Healey called «essential infrastructure development».

For David Cameron, who as leader of the opposition traditionally leads the primary response to the Budget, this will be the last parliamentary occasion for him to dominate the House of Commons, impose himself on the national debate and inject some new momentum into the Tory campaign.

New York voters by a wide margin back leaving Confederate statues and monuments in place, amid a national debate over their place in history.

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

Wading into the national debate about potential security risks posed by refugees fleeing violence in Syria, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton today said he is more concerned with people on terrorist watch lists being able to purchase firearms.

Separately, Vlasto told me the other books are about how New York legalized same - sex marriage, which was a watershed moment in the national debate on that issue, and Cuomo's term as New York attorney general.

New York became the epicenter of the national debate in a fast - moving week rife with broadsides and apocalyptic overtones.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

Paul and Christie tangled in a passionate debate over government surveillance that highlighted the wide gulf in the Republican Party between libertarian - leaning Republicans like the Kentucky senator and national security hawks like the New Jersey governor.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a lightning rod in the national debate over immigration, spoke to Republicans in western New York ahead of last night's debate.

As well as the need for a debate around road user charging, he remarked that a national infrastructure plan must reflect the emerging new city and regional governance arrangements such as sub national transport bodies.

A parliamentary debate in the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region was postponed because of the presence of some National Democratic Congress (NDC) women clad in red at the venue to protest against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the area George Andah.

The sweeping change, which would put New York at the forefront of a growing national debate over use of the drug, calls for recreational marijuana to be regulated and taxed like alcohol and tobacco.

Democrats in the New York Assembly are relaunching a push for a statewide single - payer health - care program in hopes that the national debate over health care will give their legislation new momentNew York Assembly are relaunching a push for a statewide single - payer health - care program in hopes that the national debate over health care will give their legislation new momentnew momentum.

ALBANY — Amid the ongoing national reckoning over sexual harassment, New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, has been front and center in the debate, denouncing the unsavory actions of powerful men in all walks of life, from President Trump to fellow Democratic senators like Al Franken.

As the national debate rages on over what's causing the temperature to rise, New York continues to brace for its next storm, and its next, and its next... all mingled with prayers and hopes that none are as bad as the last few.

A moderate Republican whose candidacy for an upstate New York Congressional seat had set off a storm of national conservative opposition abruptly withdrew on Saturday, emboldening the right at a time when the Republican Party is enmeshed in a debate over how to rebuild itself.

New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy compared taking money from the National Rifle Association to accepting contributions from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein during a debate on Tuesday night.

After years of debate, the National Marine Fisheries Service gave its approval this summer to the U.S. Navy's use of a new low - frequency active - sonar system for locating enemy submarines.

Co-author Professor Eelco Rohling, from the Australian National University and formerly of the University of Southampton, adds: «By developing a novel method that realistically approximates future sea level rise, we have been able to add new insight to the debate and show that there is substantial evidence for a significant recent acceleration in the sea level rise on a global and regional level.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

Kouchner says the new regulations will last only until the adoption of a wide - ranging bioethics bill, expected to be debated by National Assembly this autumn.

A paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in February described a new method for resolving this debate, and discussions continue.

The national debate over illegal immigrants in the United States has sparked fears among health authorities about the spread of diseases, such as tuberculosis, but a new study indicates that those concerns are overblown.

This debate's newest study, led by Dean Falk (Florida State University), was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.