Sentences with phrase «of federal policy changes»

Legislation has been introduced in both houses of Congress already this session, and many members of Congress currently support the legislation in favor of a federal policy change.

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«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

The memo changed federal policy to a more «hands off» approach as long as states properly regulate marijuana production and distribution, including keeping it out of the hands of minors.

While not - for - profit directors are generally supportive of the federal national disability insurance scheme, there is concern that the policy does not consider the long - term impact of the intended changes.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

«We take stock of coal market developments in 2017 and find that while U.S. production did recover slightly, it had nothing to do with a change in federal policy,» Rhodium Group analysts wrote in a recent note.

Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

In contrast, the U.S. Federal Reserve is in the middle of a rate - hiking cycle although no changes to monetary policy are expected when the bank concludes a two - day meeting on Wednesday.

It is assumed that part of this increase is offset by the changes to the federal and members of Parliament pension plans, although one would have expected these savings to be included under «Policy Decisions».

Over the past century, monetary policy strategies have evolved in response to changing realities, from the panics and depressions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve to the Great Depression, from Bretton Woods and subsequent battles to contain inflation to the dominance of inflation targeting today (Williams 2014, 2015a).

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

The Federal Reserve has lowered short - term interest rates by 100 basis points in a month — an action they describe as a «rapid and forceful response» of monetary policy both to the changing circumstances and the changing behaviour of the US economy.

Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

While President Trump sought to allay jittery currency markets that monetary policy had not changed, candidate Trump supported the Federal Reserve's suppression of interest rates and did not want to see a rising dollar:

An election year usually means limited action on the federal policy front, but 2016 holds prospective wins — and challenges — for entrepreneurs.The Kauffman foundation highlighted these areas of change:

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

In the George W. Bush administration, changes in accounting regulations and Federal policies made granting of broad - based stock options and restricted and other stock grants to employees in high technology and other companies less attractive, which led to a huge drop in employee share ownership among the middle class in those companies and industries.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

They are also predicting some volatility in long - term interest rates when the Federal Reserve changes its stimulus policy, which could occur in the fall of 2015.

The company's economists cited policy changes at the Federal Reserve and rising inflation as contributing factors in the steady upward climb of lending rates.

The paper hypothesize that the change occurred because the Federal Open Market Committee switched from using the federal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypoFederal Open Market Committee switched from using the federal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypofederal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypothesis.

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

In the wake of America's 1907 financial panic, the Aldrich - Vreeland Act of 1908 created a «National Monetary Commission... to inquire into and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable, what changes are necessary or desirable in the monetary system of the United States or in the laws relating to banking and currency...» [1] The Commission's thirty - five monographs provided an exhaustive study of central banking structures and commercial banking policies, laying the groundwork for what in 1913 became the Federal Reserve Act.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

«Factory activity accelerated in April despite concerns among many firms about changes in international trade policy,» said Chad Wilkerson, vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statePolicy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statepolicy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

Furthermore, changing monetary policies by the Federal Reserve are widely seen as a potential risk, leading investors to abandon their recent habit of buying market declines.

The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under pressure to change its policies to better provide aid for places of...

The bill would change federal policy and allow Tribes to administer federal programs that provide free, healthy meals to children in schools, while simultaneously helping to alleviate some of the hurdles Tribes face in trying to access hunger and nutrition services.

A regulatory change that allows schools to use federal lunch money to buy hormone - free milk, and one achieved without arousing the ire of farm - state congressmembers who might be inclined to block a measure not as agribusiness - friendly as much of U.S. ag policy has become.

The ESD president said regardless of whether federal energy policies change, the demand for solar and clean energy is growinng.

These are jurisdictions that in the view of the federal government have a history of discrimination in their voting policies and can no longer be trusted to continue to change policy without approval from the federal government.

Such a use of the Reconciliation procedure would be immensely consequential: the Tax Policy Center estimates that the result of Trump's proposed tax changes would be a reduction of annual federal tax revenue by 4 per cent of GDP.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would sue the federal government over the just - passed tax bill, proposed major changes to the state's criminal justice system and introduced a suite of policies to combat sexual harassment in his annual State of the State address on Wednesday.

«The federal government must take action, but for too long forces in Washington backed by the gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving laws and policy changes.

Please join the Fiscal Policy Institute's Ron Deutsch and others in discussing issues like food insecurity, poverty, and the impact of the federal administration's changes on New York.

Even though Democrats have rushed to the aid of immigrants this year amid federal policy changes, both of Sepulveda's ideas have proven to be controversial in New York in the past.

In 1995, the state board explained its ruling by citing the Federal Election Commission's treatment of LLCs — but the FEC changed its policy in 1999, ruling that LLCs should be treated as either corporations or partnerships (depending on their self - identified tax status).

As predicted, the Senate Democrats are seizing on today's «Race to the Top» announcement, declaring both a policy and political victory in their ability to push through changes that helped again push New York into the list of finalists for federal education cash.

On this edition of Need to Know, A new supreme court nominee, changes in immigration policy, and a hiring freeze in the federal government.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, says legislators are finding that if they don't change their policies they are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.

«If the Commission believes that the privacy protections granted by the IRS undermine accountability in the electoral process, then it should lobby Congress to make changes, but the Commission's charge does not pertain to reevaluation of those federal laws and policies,» the filing says.

The New York City Bar Association released a report urging federal and state leaders to «make the reduction of mass incarceration a top priority» and offering several recommendations for changing sentencing laws and other policies.

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

While it's uncertain what a replacement plan under the incoming Trump administration might entail, or what consumer protections or mandates may be changed or removed, New York could be looking at a loss of $ 3.5 billion in federal funding, according to the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy.

President To Announce Significant Change in Federal Minimum Wage Policy During State of the Union

Commissioner Eagan echoed the governor's sentiment that changes in federal tax policy, namely the elimination of the State and Local Tax deduction, will harm the middle class.