Sentences with phrase «policies are solutions to the problems»

He may argue his policies are solutions to the problems we face, but they are visibly failing every day.

Not exact matches

When we do not know what a policy is meant to accomplish, I find it useful to work backwards and think of potential problems where the proposed policy makes sense as a solution.

One solution to this problem is to design stronger, more predictable, systematic adjustments of fiscal policy that support the economy during recessions and recoveries (Williams 2009, Elmendorf 2011, 2016).

The best solution to both these problems would be a grand bargain that limits the growth of debt over the long term while trimming the immediate deficit just enough to show that policy is heading in the right direction.

Boston has been trying to find a solution for its growing traffic problems in part by efforts to link its commuter rail lines, says Barry Bluestone, professor of public policy at Northeastern University.

«The main problem with entropy uncertainty models is that they are used to justify the notion that there's room to push agendas to the limit line of the outer edge of the envelope that supports the policy maker's cognitive bias,» opines Dennis Santiago, Senior Managing Director for Compliance and Analytics at Total Bank Solutions.

Perhaps the White Rose, in the limited space available in their leaflets, could do no more than raise the basic point that the Nazi policy of extermination of the Jews was of a different kind altogether from the earlier anti-Semitism, which for all its enormities would never have suggested that the solution to the so - called «Jewish problem in Europe» should be mass murder.

The problem that towers over us is not the morality of recycling plastic or making better immigration policies, although I do wish we could reduce our dependence on non-biodegradable packaging, and I do hope we continue to search for reasonable solutions to immigration that respect both the dignity of persons and the rights and duties of sovereign nations.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Water markets are not a stand - alone solution to California's crisis — there are some problems water markets can not solve, and so state leaders will need to develop other policies for these challenges.

If for some reason the new study finds a problem, PSC policy is to seek solutions that interfere as little as possible with the competitive market, according to the commission's 2005 Generation Retirement Order.

The founding document of this group was the Orange Book, a collection of essays published in 2004, which argued that the party needed to find market - friendly solutions to policy problems.

Paul Mason and Chuka Umunna would normally be expected to come up with radically different proposals with regard to Labour's policies, yet they are putting forward more or less the same solutions to the most pressing problem underlying Brexit, that of Free Movement of Labour (FML), Mason in an article in the New Statesman, Umunna in -LSB-...]

As Congress continues to consider policy options to combat the effects of sea level rise and climate change, one thing is clear: There is no silver bullet solution to this global problem.

«For me, it was a very good experience to have this exposure to a group of people who are trying to change policy, and it was good to hear the different solutions that were being proposed to solve the problem,» Cole - Rhodes said.

Our study suggests state Medicaid policies may be part of the solution to these problems.»

Climate activists are recommending many of the same policy solutions today that they were a decade ago — and while President Trump and several other GOP leaders are firmly in the skeptic category, a newer generation of Republican lawmakers seems at least willing to acknowledge the problem and, in some cases, even embrace bold solutions.

Before concluding that it was partisanship that caused public support for government policy solutions to social problems to decline during the Great Recession, the researchers ruled out several other possibilities.

The main activities implemented in the program by the students, under the coordination of their teacher, are: (1) analysis of the problems of the local Roma community; (2) selection of a problem for in - depth study by the class, a problem that can be solved through local public policies; (3) collecting information about the problem from various sources, including members of the Roma community, public institutions, NGOs, specialists, and analysis of possible solutions; (4) drafting a public policy that could solve the problem; (4) developing an action plan to influence public authorities to adopt the public policy proposed by the students; (5) organizing a showcase at local level in which students present their projects; (6) reflecting on the learning experience.

Bigger picture, I thought National Review's Jim Geraghty summarized the state of things when he wrote, «Trump is crude and painfully ignorant of policy details, plays with racially incendiary fire, lies casually and effortlessly, offers the simplest and most unworkable solutions to complicated problems, and has lived a life of selfishness, petty vindictiveness, and greed.»

One must be richly skilled in cherry picking, or else deeply in denial, to see clear public policy solutions to the problems illumined in Hillbilly Elegy.

At day's end, the multifaceted challenge of high - school reform seems to be a problem that needs to ripen before any comprehensive solution can drop from the policy tree.

The report is also notable for not proposing solutions to the disturbing set of problems it laid out, although the author did suggest policy prescriptions elsewhere.

[11] The policies are indeed solutions to a real problem, according to the Yannelis findings.

The WRONG way to think about federal policy in education is to identify the myriad problems plaguing our schools, and then dream up federal solutions, as if Congress could pass a law and magically things would change in the real world (and without any unintended consequences).

«We are committed to achieving measurable impact in education policy, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation's most pressing education problems.

We examine one recent, and uncommonly influential, reading methods study as an example of research that has been overly promoted by the media and misused by some policy makers and educational leaders to support a simple solution to the complex problem of raising the literacy of young children in high poverty neighborhoods.

While it is possible that the under - enrollment of ELL students in choice schools may not be the root of the problem, the remediation of this enrollment disparity may have the potential to turn around the achievement gap for English language learners in the state of Connecticut, and both policy changes and the creation of new, dual - language magnet schools are two, very promising solutions.

Under DfE policy, for a school that is in special measures or has «serious weaknesses», conversion to academy status is the preferred way forward, but it is not the only solution to a school's problems, and there is no legal requirement for academisation until an enforcement notice has been served.

Third Way: Third Way is a centrist public policy think tank that offers fresh thinking and modern solutions to the most challenging problems in the U.S.

In a blog post [http://bit.ly/1UklSSE], White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said that for all the good it has done, the policy «is not a permanent solution to our nation's immigration proPolicy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said that for all the good it has done, the policy «is not a permanent solution to our nation's immigration propolicy «is not a permanent solution to our nation's immigration problems.

The best argument for emphasizing evidence in educational policy and practice is what happens when evidence plays no role: practice and policy swing like a pendulum from one enthusiasm to the opposite, and then back again, but no progress is made.The solution is to have a wide array of research going on at all times to create and evaluate promising solutions to longstanding problems.

Their policy is to not accept «third party» solutions to problems.

Monetary policy has been debated for the last 250 years... the Fed was viewed as a solution to the Money Trust, but brought its own problems.

When we do not know what a policy is meant to accomplish, I find it useful to work backwards and think of potential problems where the proposed policy makes sense as a solution.

However, there are situations in which a second to die policy provides the perfect solution to an otherwise challenging problem.

We do not have the foster space to take them, and it is not our policy to provide an easy solution for this complex and difficult problem.

A good place to start is author and educator, Janis Bradley's Policy Paper, «Dog Bites: Problems and Solutions ``.

The report does not include, within its scope, the goal of prescribing specific policy solutions, but it makes very clear that fast, energetic policy (as well as a wide range of actions) will be necessary to address the problem.

On the policy front, environmental solutions and laws tend always to be single - issue based so that as one problem appears solved another, or more, appear as a result.

Such a technocratic narrative will also tend to encourage technocratic solutions: geoengineering as a quick - fix for climate change, say, or the Anthropocene imagined as a pragmatic problem to be managed, such that «Anthropocene science» is translated smoothly into «Anthropocene policy» within existing structures of governance.

Policy is about chosing solutions to problems, or chosing not to have a solution to a nonproblem.

Food Tank is for farmers and producers, policy makers and government leaders, researchers and scientists, academics and journalists, and the funding and donor communities to collaborate on providing sustainable solutions for our most pressing environmental and social problems.

The long list of sins committed by major environmental organizations — narrow policy perspectives, tech - oriented solutions, finely delineated problem statements, incremental approaches, and the failure to draw bright lines — is a letter - perfect description of the conditions that attach to virtually every environmental foundation request for proposal.

Devising unrealistic solutions to justify bad policies is just another distraction from the real problem: The RFS is fundamentally flawed, and its renewable fuel volume mandates are broken.

It is already evident, however, that it does not represent a long - term solution to our problems in energy and climate policy.

The Low - Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) was launched last year at COP22 and is aimed at problem solving, brainstorming, and global co-creation to inform nations about the latest low emissions technologies for energy, policy, and strategy development.

The process is particularly ill - suited to the so - called High Efficiency, Low Emissions (HELE) plants being pushed as a solution to the other half of the policy problem, reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

I recently attended a climate change conference where the attendees were sharing policies for societal climate solutions - and agriculture was an especially difficult problem to discuss policies for adaptation..

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»