Sentences with phrase «policy disaster in»

A new study claiming renewable energy is the «most expensive policy disaster in modern British history» was written by climate sceptic Rupert Darwall and published by UK conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

«Gordon Brown can not be allowed to sidestep the massive part he played in signing the cheques for the biggest foreign policy disaster in half a century,» said party leader Nick Clegg.

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While not having those policies does save you money in the short run, it can set you or your family up for a certified financial disaster anytime in the future.

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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

«This policy intends to strike the careful balance between the goal of transportation availability with community expectations of affordability during disasters,» Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in the release.

His policy ideas, again and again, have been disasters in theory and would be in execution.

The largest policy disasters causing the greatest reversals and the most in tax expenditures are summarized in The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse.

Congress or the President creating an Office of Broad - based Employee Share Ownership and Profit Sharing in the White House to coordinate policies across the government to assure that there is sufficient data, research, and analysis to encourage responsible policies and avoid unintended consequences as the many policy disasters of the past noted above.

The Harper government's response to the humanitarian disaster in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, and the announcement on November 22nd of the Canada - United States Asia Pacific Defence Policy Cooperation Framework, signal that its policy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objecPolicy Cooperation Framework, signal that its policy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objecpolicy towards Asia is developing a greater security dimension to accompany its single - minded emphasis to date on economic objectives.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather - related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006.

What I care about is who is smarter, has more experience with foreign policy, has done more to avert a financial meltdown that could very well have spelled disaster for the world economy, got rid of Ghadafi and Bin Laden, which is certainly more than Bush did, who has shown restraint in his remarks instead of recklessness.

In October 2001, then - New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected a $ 10 million donation for disaster relief from Al - waleed after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East may have contributed to the September 11 attackIn October 2001, then - New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected a $ 10 million donation for disaster relief from Al - waleed after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East may have contributed to the September 11 attackin the Middle East may have contributed to the September 11 attacks.

The characteristics are, but are not limited to... Keeping more than 1 week's worth of food in your household, owning any type of gun or ammunition, paying in cash, physical disablements and disabilities, disagreement with government policies, opposition of 1 world government, opposition of the UN and agenda 21, opposition of the Federal reserve, living off the grid, being a prepper for disaster situations, growing your own food supply, etc...

Naomi Klein's important work, Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will initiate man - made disasters to destabilize a country in order to introduce controversial policies while its citizens are too overwhelmed to resist.

If America is dumb enough to put Perry in office (who is a near - perfect carbon copy of Bush in terms of policy, mindset, and hubris), then we deserve every bit of the economic & political disaster that will most certainly ensue.

It's been my recent New Year's tradition to see which posts most interested you in the prior year, and in 2017, the topics were all pretty weighty: Trump's child nutrition policies, worries about school food, a science scandal, even a natural disaster.

The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.

In addition to these largely weather - driven disasters, there are emergencies caused by humans as well: wars, terrorists, and even governmental policies are creating emergency situations for families around the globe who may find themselves fleeing from their homes and homeland.

As Tory sceptics applaud what any sane observer would call a major foreign policy disaster, could it be that Cameron is in the process of taking the UK out of the EU without a referendum?

and the weakness of Parliament in pre-scrutiny of policies — although legislation is now subject to pre-scrutiny, policies as such are not subjected to thorough examination usually until well after they have been implemented (and disaster has struck).

«While we're complaining — could politicians trying to talk about policy do so in an intelligent way, rather than preaching disaster and standing outside Greggs?

Many experts agree that the policies that Cuomo pursued as HUD Secretary played a major role in today's financial disasters.

The education policy component of the so - called «Opportunity Agenda, Uptown» enunciated by Governor Cuomo, in of all places, the Malcom X / Shabazz Center, is only an opportunity to court disaster.

I actually that policy commitments are (at best) secondary when it comes to determining GE outcomes, and that these are in fact decided by how well things seem to be going under the incumbent governing party (or parties, in the case of a coalition government) and how well - placed the main opposition is to capitalise on any disasters that occur, but that's beyond the scope of the discussion.

Bossert, who was a former deputy national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, had overseen the Trump administration's response to the Hurricane Maria disaster in Puerto Rico, as well as cyber security policy.

«Washington has to stop taking and wasting so much of our money and creating policy disasters like Obamacare,» Malpass said in a press release.

He has been a disaster in education policy and I am hoping that his administration will be replaced by Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu.

«The campaign was a complete disaster,» Policy Exchange's former deputy director David Skelton told me shortly after the results came in.

«Despite everything, people in Britain are still willing to support a principled foreign policy with an emphasis on sorting out humanitarian disasters.»

Whitelaw's solution was to abstain, but the policy ended in disaster: while the bulk of the party abstained, 31 Conservatives supported the sanctions order, 50 opposed it.

The Labour leader seized on the chancellor's decision to leave Smith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, to defend the policy on BBC2's Newsnight in what was widely judged to have been a disaster.

At the time I thought Mann was just engaging in rather empty grandstanding, but he managed to get Osborne branded as a modern - day Marie Antoinette in a tabloid splash and he contributed to establishing the pasty tax as one of the coalition's worst policy disasters, and so he was clearly onto something.

UFT members throughout the five boroughs participated in events in March and April to push back against City Hall's destructive policies and alert the public that the threatened teacher layoffs are totally unnecessary and would be an educational disaster.

[2] Labour said that the results would be a disaster as they said Health Concern had no policies in many areas.

An appearance on BBC2's Newsnight by Chloe Smith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, was widely judged to have been a disaster, leading to accusations on social media of cowardice being levelled at the chancellor for not taking a greater public role in defending the government's latest budget policy reversal.

«It's no secret that corporate influence in our government causes disasters — everyone knows that all industry has increasingly been too close to our government for years now and has been quietly deciding our policies, but this time it's the last straw,» said David Braun, MoveON Manhattan Coordinator.

Yet, her expertise in infectious and zoonotic diseases enables her to support policy addressing public health and agricultural disaster prevention, preparedness and response.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

This is an important policy area to examine now: «In an era of growing coastal populations and rising sea levels, decisions made after one disaster strongly influence our vulnerability to the next.»

A few months after retiring from the U.S. Geological Survey in 2016, she founded the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society to bring policy makers and scientists together to discuss disaster resilience.

A team led by Duke University, in collaboration with the Census Bureau, has developed new methods that enable people to learn as much as possible from Census data and other government workforce statistics for things like disaster management, policy - making and funding decisions, while guaranteeing that no one can trace the data back to your household or business.

«Disasters are a tempting image for advocacy, but the science is just not there to support strong claims,» says Roger Pielke Jr, a climate - policy researcher at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Health professionals are speaking out against Detroit's policy of cutting off water to people with unpaid bills — warning of a disaster in the making

We also looked closely at whether policy stories focused on systemic causes of wildfire disasters, such as human development in fire - prone areas, or merely on symptoms of these problems, such as needing more slurry bombers for fighting fires.

Through the pilot project, eight scientists and engineers in the region will work on policy matters related to biodiversity, climate change, reducing disaster risks, health, and water management.

We welcome the mobilization of relevant institutions, networks and initiatives, to provide a synthesis of the current situation and proposals for actionable research, to assess and monitor disaster risks, to engage in communication efforts of such risk, to develop overall capacity in dealing with risk and to provide science advice to both policy makers and elected officials in order to develop resilience.

Douglas Mercado, who received his master's degree in public policy in 2007, is the team leader for the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), which is spearheading the U.S. response to the crisis.