Sentences with phrase «own policy efforts»

Cohn's exit is, in its way, normal: He passed his signature policy effort, he didn't get the promotion to Federal Reserve chair, he was losing influence internally, he was burnt out, and so he is leaving.

Yet industry and policy efforts can help to ensure that over time the pricing of market - making services becomes more consistent with the actual costs and risks involved.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the top 50 global central banks have cut interest rates 673 times, and negative interest - rate policy efforts haven't worked.

Jacob helps coordinate policy efforts and political advocacy support for Blue Haven and works on select outside projects, including organizing student and youth engagement activities.

The trustee committee of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission announced two reprimands on Friday for Richard Land, who leads public policy efforts for the Southern Baptists, according to the official press arm.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

SNA CEO Patricia Montague, along with outgoing President Leah Schmidt, presented attendees with an update on SNA's public policy efforts, while incoming President Julia Bauscher gave a terrific incoming address to introduce her theme, «Engage.

Obstetrician — gynecologists and other obstetric care providers should be in the forefront of policy efforts to enable women to breastfeed, whether through individual patient education, change in hospital practices, community efforts, or supportive legislation.

It is time for our policy efforts to reflect the SCIENCE of food and disease.

One of the implications of these policy efforts has been to turn the Mediterranean into a highly militarised zone.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

If cities in upstate New York want to see tangible economic solutions, New Yorkers should consider DeFrancisco's tax policy efforts when they enter the voting booths in November.

Cuomo, too, has been at odds with the New York State United Teachers over education policy efforts as well his support for charter schools.

Fellows spend eleven months working in a Federal agency or in a U.S. Congressional office, bringing their extensive knowledge and experience in the classroom to education program and / or education policy efforts.

«The value in this exercise is in its ability to look at alternative levels of policy effort and the relative impacts those would have.»

The findings also underscore how critical sharing data and knowledge about the effectiveness of various interventions will be to coordinated policy efforts among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers

... We believe that a primary aim of new policy efforts should be to reinforce these pathways to lower CO2 emissions.»

«In addition, the reasons for these substantially higher costs have been misunderstood: These data suggest that many of the policy efforts in the U.S. have not been truly evidence - based.»

«New global policy effort to tackle crisis of plastic litter in oceans urged.»

As adherence to recommended clinical practice guidelines increasingly is used to measure performance, guidelines play a major role in policy efforts to improve the quality and cost - effectiveness of care.

Despite concerted policy efforts, legal paternity is not established in a significant number of cases.

In fact, approximately 3 out of 4 individuals support efforts to add body weight as a protected class under Civil Rights laws, and the majority of those surveyed (at least 60 %) are supportive of other policy efforts to address weight discrimination across the nation.

We're hopeful that identifying these trends in support of action to end weight discrimination can provide backing for current and future policy efforts.»

But in 1976, the U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research — the country's first bioethics policy effort — issued a report that effectively brought human challenge experiments in prisons to a halt.

«Our hope is that future clinical, research, and policy efforts focus on reducing that number as close to zero as possible.»

This new policy effort will comprise a series of new guidance documents covering many aspects of the regulation of regenerative medicine products.»

The Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy (CAPP) provides the direction for the public policy efforts at the AAS.

That's the driving idea behind a global policy effort we helped pioneer, known as REDD +, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Angela was given the distinguished Ricardo Azziz PCOS Challenge Advocacy Leadership Award for her dedication to advocacy and public policy efforts that expand access to resources and support for women with PCOS.

Findings like this demonstrate the need to keep race and past and present racial discrimination an explicit part of conversations and policy efforts related to schools, transportation, health, and housing.

The 16th edition of Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes.

I conclude that educational progress is real, but stalled, and that we may need new and sustained policy efforts to resume the gains we saw in the 1990s and 2000s.

This reliance on summative will in turn stunt other policy efforts, such as competency - based education or seat - time waivers.

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

The wide variation across states in the relative size and characteristics of the public and private sectors revealed by this exploratory, descriptive analysis suggests the need to tailor federal and state policy efforts to best leverage the private sector in each state to meet policymakers» goals.

My point is not that other policies are therefore unimportant, but rather that the policies mentioned here have broad support, have moderate to strong research evidence of positive effects (except for the case of nonurban charters, which have strong evidence of neutral to negative effects), and could therefore be a prime target for ongoing bipartisan policy efforts.

This means that the next president and congress (as well as governors and state legislatures) have the opportunity to use education for bipartisan policy efforts that will unify, rather than fracture, diverse groups.

For the past decade, Quality Counts has focused on the policy efforts states have undertaken to improve K - 12 education.

The 14th edition of Education Week's Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes.

Policy efforts that raised the floor and eased the achievement gap did so at the expense of strong students, who were already nudging the ceiling.

The Joyce Foundation supports coverage in Education Week and on edweek.org of policy efforts to improve the teaching profession.

Hill is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and serves on the AERA grants board, on the editorial boards of several journals, and as an advisor to numerous research projects and policy efforts in both the U.S. and abroad.

Every education policy effort going forward must be focused on creating the opportunity for innovation.

This is after decades of continued policy efforts by successive Commonwealth, state and territory governments to ameliorate Indigenous education disadvantage.

We are inviting all our allies, former adversaries, and new partners to join hands in a commitment to a new equation for education — Innovation + Opportunity = Results, or Ed Reform I.O, dedicated to advancing the foundational concepts of innovation and opportunity in all future policy efforts.

One of the Obama administration's signature higher education policy efforts was the new College Scorecard, which provides information on median income after attending a given college.

Substantial policy effort has focused on improving the educational opportunities for students in these schools, including the Obama administration's School Improvement Grants (SIG).

More importantly, the policy effort would increase the real dollars available to support students without an increase in overall spending, and these dollars would be available to increase services targeted toward low - income schools that improve outcomes for low - achieving students.

LULAC works to advance the educational attainment of Latinos by engaging the community in advocacy and policy efforts at the local, state, and federal level.