Sentences with phrase «policy change made»

The researchers make the case that the 2013 policy change made it more difficult for these women to get access to reliable birth control.

A 2017 working paper from Barbara Biasi, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, suggests a more positive impact of one specific policy change made possible by Act 10, that is, allowing school systems to more easily implement new pay structures.

Instead of siphoning more traffic onto the central roads, the policy change made congestion worse all over.

But what I and many others continue to find perhaps most disturbing about the mandate is that it was a policy change made by FHSAA in complete disregard of the unanimous recommendation of its own Operations Committee, US Lacrosse staff, nationally renowned sport medicine doctors and the Florida lacrosse community that it hold off until performance standards for helmets were established.

«Our board acknowledged that the policy change we made was a mistake... and we believe that [World Vision supporters] helped us to see that with more clarity... and we're asking you to forgive us for that mistake.»

Even for companies that haven't seen an impact on their business to date, the fear of unknown, and potentially drastic, policy changes makes it difficult to make even short - term plans.

DeVos's policy changes make sense: Both the accused and the accuser must enjoy clearly defined rights — rights that must be equitably balanced so that the truth of an accusation may be determined and justice served.

Education policy changes made this decade by state lawmakers have helped create a trend in which enrollment in traditional public schools has declined while more students are enrolling in charter schools, private schools and homeschools.

Some states had already started down this path, broadening the measures they used to assess school quality in response to federal education policy changes made in 2011 through the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers.2 Building on this progress, ESSA requires all states to rethink their school classification systems in consultation with community members.

Paul Aiken, the executive director of the Authors Guild, said the Amazon policy change makes the book - selling business «that much more opaque for authors.»

Recent policy changes make it so you can't get the Sapphire Reserve sign - up bonus if you currently own the Chase Sapphire Preferred.

The Obama administration's recent policy changes make mortgages more affordable for qualified buyers by reducing mortgage prices and fees, but in no way lower the lending standards to get those mortgages, as the article implies.

Not exact matches

Currently, no U.S. carrier has made the change, though a few international airlines — including Air Asia, Malaysia Airlines, and Singapore's Scoot Airlines — have created policies in the last few years.

Regardless of what changes the president decides to make to his press team or his briefing policy, it sounds as though Sean Spicer will have a much - reduced role in the process.

But before that transformation takes hold, some other changes will have to happen — including new reimbursement rules from insurance companies and policy shifts that make it easier for physicians to practice across state lines without gaining extra licenses or accreditation.

Shum and Colaco point out that any reclassification of risk would be heavily scrutinized by Canadian regulators, in order to make sure that changes aren't self - serving on the part of policy providers and in fact benefit consumers.

This announcement makes Kroger the third major retailer to change its gun sale policies in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14.

«You're not going to make policy changes in response to every blip.

So while it's a powerful gesture for these retailers to change their policies, it may not actually make a significant dent in the access to guns.

The first: Japan has made aggressive, but legitimate, policy changes to repair an economy that can better serve the world in strength.

«We don't have any plans to make changes to our policy,» said Ross Feinstein, spokesman for the airline.

In July 2016, while Manafort was still Donald Trump's campaign manager, a change was made to the Republican Party's policy on Ukraine.

Many of the policies that Barack Obama has advocated - the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banking reform, and changes to tax rates, the minimum wage, and regulations - make life more difficult for small - business owners.

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

Walmart also made firearm policy changes following the Parkland shooting; the retailer raised the minimum age for purchasing ammunition and firearms.

«In reviewing our parental leave policies, we have decided to make this change because it's the right thing to do for our people and their families,» Goler said.

However, a new policy change being weighed could make airport checkpoint security a bit longer — and may result in unhappier passengers.

'' [I'm] very scared because of the possible changes in policy, but also because American voters made it clear that they don't want us here,» says David, 28, a software engineer in the Bay Area.

In a letter made public Friday, Apple made a series of suggested changes to the policy that is under development and said it looks forward to working with California and others «so that rapid technology development may be realized while ensuring the safety of the traveling public.»

Reworking EI benefits to be portable across provinces for a trial period garnered the most support among the respondents, since they believe such a policy change would make it easier for job seekers to move to where employment is available.

«The challenge for an incoming administration is always to make those policy changes without making law enforcement look like a purely political undertaking,» said William Yeomans, who worked in the division for more than two decades.

A 1994 Pentagon policy preventing women from serving in combat was rescinded in 2013 by then - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and ultimately led to the current DoD head Ash Carter making the historic change.

If the original tax base is $ 263 billion and if nothing else changes — the assumption you have to make in assessing the effects of a policy — then this information is enough to put some numbers on the sort of revenues you can expect to generate by an increase in corporate tax revenues.

Canada hasn't made a substantive change to its cultural policy in 25 years.

Rather than join the chorus of outrage towards changing immigration policy, I want to focus on ways to make positive changes to the H - 1B program.

U.S. - based firms made up a fifth of those in a 2017 «A list» of 159 companies judged to have ambitious policies on limiting climate change and protecting water resources and forests, according to London - based non-profit CDP.

If enough teens spoke up, perhaps banks would start changing their policies to make them more friendly to young entrepreneurs.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

«We have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.»

If tax policy should be doing anything to change the income distribution, I would prefer it lean against these strong winds of inequality rather than making life still easier for those at the top.

«The nature of jobs is quickly changing with automation, globalization, government policies, and other factors, making it impossible for anyone to predict which skills a job will require in the future,» Udemy CEO Kevin Johnson said in a news release.

Though victories against ISIS in Iraq and Syria may make more resources available for Afghanistan, Trump's change in policy comes as the Air Force grapples with a number of protracted operational commitments.

«The administration had made it very clear they are changing the thrust of U.S. policy to allow the private sector in Cuba to blossom,» said Pedro Freyre, chair of law firm Akerman LLP's international practice.

The change, which applies to all retailers that accept AmEx, comes in addition to similar policy changes the company has already made, such as the elimination of signature requirements for purchases under $ 50 in the United States, $ 100 in Canada and 30 euros in the United Kingdom.

A spokesman said in a statement: «At Twitter we've launched more than 30 policy and product changes over the past 18 months, all with the aim of making our platform safer.

Possible tweaks include making individual tax cuts permanent or changing capital gains tax policy.

Companies that have made such agreements, like the world's No. 1 retailer Wal - Mart Stores Inc and convenience store chain Kwik Trip, say they expect to uphold the commitments they have made regardless of any policy changes in Washington.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Cue added that Swift's letter, in combination with complaints from other artists, made Apple change its policy.

Following the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is taking strides to make big changes within their data and privacy policies.