Sentences with phrase «other federal measures»

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But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

Spring time tends to be the busiest for home buyers and sellers in Metro Vancouver, said Oudil, adding the board will wait to see how they react to taxes and other policy measures the B.C. provincial and federal governments introduced so far in 2018.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

His Race to the Top initiative invites states to compete for federal dollars using tests and other methods to measure teachers, a philosophy that would not fly in Finland.

The bankrupt island's federal oversight board certified plans that include cuts to pensions and other austerity measures.

The 2012 Study — similarly developed in consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, other federal agencies and President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability — updated key measures from the 2009 Study and deepened the exploration of topics that are highly relevant today.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

Because of the surprising nature of the rollout, the administration wasn't able to notify senior officials in multiple federal agencies, State Department officials who needed to notify other countries of the drastic measures, or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The new legislation is designed to improve the federal government's effectiveness in promoting religious liberty by, among other measures:

Other measures would seek to unify the state and federal party primaries, which are currently split between June and September.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

Mr. Larson is an advocate for campaign finance reform on the federal level, as well as tax reform, limits on congressional gerrymandering, increased Connecticut and U.S. manufacturing and other useful measures.

The measure, among other things, would prohibit coordination with state and local police agencies when it comes to federal immigration enforcement.

The measures backed by Schneiderman this week would provide for a system of early voting in the state, consolidate the two federal and state party primaries in a single date and allow for same - day enrollment, among other provisions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed his call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured.

Among other provisions, the county measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed a call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured Wednesday.

Among other provisions, the measure calls for county employees to not stop, question, interrogate or arrest individuals «solely for the purpose of enforcing immigration law»; to not perform the functions of a federal immigration officer; to honor detainer requests from federal agents only in specific limited situations; and to deny federal agents access to inmates in county custody.

The measures include reinstating the federal ban on military - style weapons that expired in 2004, however it will be up to Congress to decide on that and the majority of the other proposals.

De Blasio had previously stated that he would only back «right to counsel» in housing court if the federal government financed it, and called it a «very, very costly» measure that would preclude funding for other programs.

The movement on the measures comes amid a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and it follows a series of stories by The Associated Press that revealed how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

Second, in a sample of 20 schools that the authors had collected for other purposes, the expected negative relationship between a student's TAAS score and his eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a common measure of disadvantage, didn't arise on the TAAS.

Over the past 15 years, No Child Left Behind and other federal policies have given special prominence to one primary measure for assessing student progress: the so - called percent proficient measure.

The goal of a federal educational - flexibility bill and the comparable state measures that will presumably follow it is to free these 535 new schools from the regulatory burden faced by other schools.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

Several states, including Alaska, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia, have backed away from prior commitments to use new Common Core exams funded by the federal government to assess their students» progress and measure their achievement against kids in other states.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

NSBA urges the opposition of the Spending Reduction Act of 2012 (H.R. 6684), as this bill and other similar measures would significantly undermine key federal investments on education.

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.

Mr. Cerf said districts that want the federal funds must also set up a teacher evaluation system that takes student test scores and other measures of student progress into account — a nearly unheard - of practice in New Jersey.

Although it maintains a federal mandate to measure and improve student academic achievement, ESSA codifies the nation's retreat from NCLB by mandating some of the very policy changes put in place by Georgia and other states.

Teacher unions and other education advocates who favor the bill have been stressing that the Protect Our Schools Act serves as a preemptive measure against school privatization, particularly since Drumpf and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, both advocates of charters and vouchers, now guide federal policy.

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

It's why our current federal education law asks states to define other measures of school quality in addition to information gleaned from test scores.

The federal government, however, has put a few measures in place with its loan to ensure that Musk, along with a few other key players, remain Tesla investors.

If other Federal agencies plan displacements in or adjacent to a demonstration program project area within the same time period as the project acquisition and relocation actions of the demonstration program, the Secretary shall adopt measures to protect against inconsistent treatment of displaced persons.

Many Democrats champion better tax breaks, but they primarily support other measures like federal refinancing and forgiveness.

The focus of the Committee's policy going forward will be is to support the functioning of financial markets and stimulate the economy through open market operations and other measures that sustain are likely to keep the size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet at a high level.

We'll wait to see how they react to the taxes and other policy measures that our provincial and federal governments have introduced so far this year,» Oudil said.

To be consistent with the practice of other Federal agencies and the Department itself, we have determined that the CPI - U is the most appropriate inflation measure to use to adjust the threshold debt amount.