Sentences with phrase «policies focused more»

Late in October, California Governor Jerry Brown threatened to sue the administration of President Donald Trump for implementation of environmental policies focused more on real pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) and less on contrived ones (e.g., carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.

Rapid Builder IUL: IUL policy focused more on early cash value growth vs death benefit protection.

Not exact matches

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Collins pointed in part to the candidate's post-primary failure to «focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill - tempered rants.»

Rather, he argues, Ottawa needs to pursue a more multi-faceted policy that focuses on the parts sector and the tool - makers, promotes labour - force development and assists Canadian auto parts suppliers to promote themselves internationally.

The problem, he says, is that Trump has turned the race into «more of a celebrity sweepstakes» that focuses on one candidate's personality while ignoring a host of important policy issues, from income inequality and health care to job creation.

Until recently, he has focused on more tangential issues for the Fed — like the regulation of scandal - ridden Libor interest rates, financial innovation, and housing policy.

First, Trump's focus in dealing with the corporate world is preserving American jobs, while antitrust policy is more about the consumer than the worker (although some argue that workers benefit from aggressive antitrust enforcement because mergers seek corporate streamlining, leading to fewer jobs).

He mentioned his first mentor, Speros Drelles, investment chief at Pittsburgh National Bank, taught him to focus on the future rather than the present with investments, and also that central bank policy moved markets even more than earnings.

This resulted in monetary policy working more broadly through the financial system, rather than being focused only on banks, making it more effective and also less distorting.

The speech concludes by reiterating the importance of keeping a strong focus on durably lifting growth prospects and noting that policies beyond central bank actions need to do more in this regard.

gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.

«Small firms, with their dependence on domestic customers, are much more concerned about Washington's inability to formulate coherent fiscal policy than their larger, globally - focused competitors.»

While ultra-loose monetary policies may live on, one potential successor is more focused on North Korea than structural reforms.

There are hotspots globally, and there is policy uncertainty in the United States, but again, we've been focused on the emerging market theme because we have found that economies that we used to think of as politically unstable have actually proved to be less so as they pursue more orthodox types of policies.

On a more positive note politically, however, in recent months there has been a rising expectation that governments will increasingly start to focus more intently on fiscal stimulus, and we expect this theme to gain some traction in a number of major economies given the diminishing returns of unconventional monetary policy.

By following this approach we would broaden innovation policy from a longstanding, almost singular, focus on R&D to a more challenging, but more rewarding, multi-faceted micro-economic agenda.

Attentions this week turn to a busy macroeconomic calendar headlined by the Bank of England's policy announcement Thursday while the more immediate focus turns to Manufacturing PMI for direction through trade on Monday.

More directly, attribution analysis measures the portfolio effects of a given manager's investment decisions, focusing especially on overall investment policy, asset allocation, security selection and activity.

However, section of the minutes focusing on policy normalization highlighted many policymakers» willingness to wait for more data and assess economic conditions.

Wildrose MLAs will likely focus their energy attacking the carbon levy and calling for more oil pipelines, but will the official opposition defy the radical climate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate Leadership Plan?

Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»

I had hoped that we would see a «new» Donald Trump as a general - election candidate — one who would focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill - tempered rants.

It seems to make more sense for Republicans to focus policy proposals on parental rights and restrictions on late - term abortion while noting that - whatever their ultimate beliefs - some abortion restrictions are very unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future while third trimester abortion on - demand is a reality.

Given the presence of Naomi Klein at People and Planet, and the fact Pope Francis has already delivered an extensive message on climate change with his encyclical, it is possible the meeting will be much more policy - focussed, calling for very specific and detailed changes.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

Policy must be justified by «studies,» which typically focus on determinants that are more impersonal, particularly adverse economic conditions and insufficient government training programs, support services, or income benefits.

The Prime Minister, Mr Cameron, may well find that he becomes remembered more for his headline - grabbing moments pandering to focus groups than for coherent policy.

«Schools became our focus because a lot of public schools have a green policy and want to be more sustainable.

The organic industry needs to review risk management policies and focus more on ensuring end organic products remain non-GM, rather than expecting zero GMO presence in the ambient farming environment — not ideal for those passionate about the anti-GM cause but a practical reality all of us face.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

The Commission first issued warnings the TPP negotiation process in 2010, stating «a more transparent and strategic approach is required to ensure that there is an appropriate focus on policies that are most in Australia's interests».

They were seemingly moving away from their Galácticos policy, instead focusing more on long - term squad building.

But beyond this important policy implication is a second implication in Jackson's study that is more relevant for our purposes: There is a more creative and potentially more useful way to measure noncognitive skills than what most researchers are currently focused on.

This step would reduce the number of insane and wasteful program such as Cash For Clunkers and get the political class focused on fewer but more impactful economic policies and programs.

I think the focus of the debate should focus on why we don't have better maternity leave policies for women of all income levels, rather than Rosin's focus on who's the better mother / smarter / making more money, etc..

If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.

(While most of these policies focus on high school sports, there is a huge need for similar policies in youth sports, and we'll delve into that more another time.)

I would like to focus on one person who has likely done far more than anyone to push forward with this new policy.

This new clip from the Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity explains more about how the junk food industry targets kids (it has a US focus).

In his book The Myth of the First Three Years, Bauer is mostly skeptical of public policy that focuses on «educating» children, which often involves taking children from their families and placing them in a «more stimulating» environment in the first three years of life.

To get serious about school food and its consequences, policy makers need to focus less on tinkering with funding formulas, surplus agricultural commodities, and % of calories from fat while focusing more on stopping kids from devouring plate after plate of hamburgers and cheesy noodles.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»

«Sustainability research and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.

Run TV ads that focus more on testimonials from family members or supporters than on you discussing wonky policy initiatives (Tip: puppies never have bad hair days).

A focus on policies that might turn you green and the more unusual bets from the election are among...

If the wheels of the economy are to start turning faster, with more jobs being created and more investment being undertaken, policy changes that directly help the business community should be the focus.

But even as lawmakers sought to stake out a focus on policy, the broadening corruption investigations into the Buffalo Billion economic development project, former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and, in New York City, an inquiry into Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, have provided more than monkey wrench into Albany's cogs.

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.