Sentences with phrase «policies on the public services»

A 17 - page workbook explaining and encouraging students to evaluate the impact of different government policies on the public services.

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«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

Princess Reema bint Bandar al - Saud is on Uber's public policy advisory board, and according to the New York Times worked with Uber to bring the service to Saudi Arabia.

The three - year agreement between the state and Uber, an on - demand car service that lets users order cars through a mobile app, comes after lengthy public scrutiny over Uber's price surging policy.

Instead of answering the CEOs or sorting out his wireless policy, Harper launched a website that played on public dissatisfaction (often justifiable) with high prices and poor service in the wireless sector.

The Conference Board of Canada's Global Commerce Centre has embarked on a research series to explore the magnitude of services in Canada's global commerce picture and help bridge the gap on this issue between policy - makers, businesses, and the public.

It adopted this policy to head off a rising chorus of public attacks on the Postal Service monopoly.

Facebook is spelling out in plain English how it collects and uses your data in rewritten versions of its Terms of Service and Data Use Policy, though it's not asking for new rights to collect and use your data or changing any of your old privacy settings.The public has seven days to comment on the changes (though Facebook doesn't promise to adapt or even respond to the feedback) before Facebook will ask all users to consent to the first set of new rules in three years.

And, although I have worked on evaluating public policy more than the average Canadian, evaluating models of effective service delivery for the homeless is not an area in which I have any expertise.

«This money is mandated for services for pregnant teens and women - violence prevention, vocational training,» said Carrie Gordon Earll, a spokeswoman for CitizenLink, the public policy arm of the evangelical group Focus on the Family.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

In our Promoting Strong Couple Relationships paper we considered a range of options for how the Coalition Government might use the promotion of strong couple relationships in its policy development, thus enabling a shift away from public services focused solely or primarily on the mother and child.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

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.

On the day Justin Welby is officially confirmed as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the British Humanist Association has expressed its deep concerns about the policy direction he will set for the church of England in relation to public services.

This is currently happening in Lagos, Nigeria, where the State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has embarked on an ambitious set of policies designed to improve public services provided by his government and infrastructure of one of the most populous cities on the continent.

We disagree on foreign policy, tax rates or public service reform.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

Aware of these challenges, Farage has started to soften some of the party's stances on fiscal policy and public services; he has even expressed some support for the welfare state.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

To some extent, this is of course understandable as UK elections are rarely won or lost on the basis of foreign policy with domestic social policy, especially in the context this year of a still recovering economy and broad public service reforms half completed.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

But we have had to swallow some bitter pills, especially in the small state / public services run on market based policies espoused by Clegg and the «Orange» brigade.

The Chancellor also failed to take meaningful action on Universal Credit or the public sector pay cap, preferring instead to simply pay lip service to the suffering these policies are causing.

Founded in 1935, NACo brings county officials together to advocate with a collective voice on national policy, exchange ideas and build new leadership skills, pursue transformational county solutions, enrich the public's understanding of county government and exercise exemplary leadership in public service.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters hosts the second installment of the Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series on the building sector, New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

In practice that would mean ensuring equal treatment of people with no privilege or discrimination on the grounds of people's religious or non-religious beliefs, including in public services, law, parliament and public policy.

Chris Keates: «Once again we see the stark reality of the Government's economic austerity policy and deregulation which is impacting adversely on the provision of vital public services».

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

The Executive Chamber will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids / services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

The office pointed to a 2014 ruling by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that found that politicians could appear in an ad funded by a nonprofit group if the message was in the public interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or pPublic Ethics that found that politicians could appear in an ad funded by a nonprofit group if the message was in the public interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or ppublic interest and promoted government services and did not promote any candidate or policy.

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

Phil Haberstro of the Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo, a key volunteer leader of the policy writing team, noted that the work of policy implementation is the next phase of work that is currently being accomplished through the newly formed District Health Council, the Board and the community at large - The public may view the District wellness policy on the Board of Education Web Site or by contacting Sue Ventresca, the Buffalo School District's Director of Health Related Services.

Jeremy Corbyn stood on a platform of investing in public services, standing up for workers» rights, moving to a more just and fair foreign policy, and has been rewarded with a quite remarkable turnaround in the Labour vote.

We can just move on... & oppose front - line job losses & the dismantling of specific public services i.e. oppose specific policies (don't even call them «cuts») that the public clearly do not support.

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The real point is that any genuine Labour policies are a world away from market fundamentalism, deregulated finance, indiscriminate privatisation of public services, fostering of inequality, and courting of Big Business, all of which both New Labour and the Tories agree on.

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

But whether you can detect a smidgeon of divergence between New Labour and Tory policies on «modernising» public services is not the point.

Lasher has taught public policy at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and currently serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty organization, as well as the Riverside Parkpublic policy at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and currently serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty organization, as well as the Riverside ParkPublic Service and currently serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty organization, as well as the Riverside Park Fund.

The political landscape is wholly transformed by new dynamics of Brexit not only on issue of EU membership, but on immigration / race, welfare, education, policies of austerity, cuts and caps to public services..

Giving further explanations on the party's request on Eyewitness News, Policy Adviser for PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw said: «over the years, the Electoral Commission and some other institutions have conducted public service in a manner in which they please and they have hurt this nation's progress and development, so we have taken issues with the Electoral Commission's function of being a regulator of the activities of political parties.»

DM and I had a row drafting TB's Times article on public services, which I felt had to have real cutting edge and DM kept defaulting to these policy wonk words that I found impenetrable.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

«The CMA continues to recommend a broad public health policy approach focused on preventing problematic drug use; ensuring the availability of assessment and treatment services for those who wish to stop using; and harm reduction to increase the safety for those who are using.»