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Such omissions risk damaging HMRC's reputation in the eyes of disabled taxpayers and therefore work against wider policy drives like getting more disabled people working.»

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Scientific, research - driven public policy might prevent shooting massacres like this week's at a Las Vegas country music festival, he said.

On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to change the official plan so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.

She works with KDA members and key external stakeholders to drive collaboration and collective action on issues like overconsumption, drunk driving, and underage drinking through programming, partnerships, and policy.

Promises to bring back coal as a viable part of the U.S. energy policy have sent coal stocks soaring, and if government policy succeeds in driving more domestic manufacturing and production, then coal producers like Natural Resource Partners could see demand keep climbing.

He also objected that Democratic proposals to adjust the visa lottery and federal policy for immigrants with temporary protected status were going to drive more people from countries he deemed undesirable into the United States instead of attracting immigrants from places like Norway and Asia, people familiar with the meeting said.

Finally, looser monetary policy implies that the economic situation is not as rosy as many would like to believe, so if the Federal Reserve acts by loosening monetary policy and driving down real interest rates then that sends a message that the economy is in a bad place therefore investors buy gold as a safe haven asset.

If Congress and state legislatures listen to what families say they want, however, they will look for ways to ease policies like the «parenting penalty» that permeate the federal and state tax codes and are helping drive more and more young mothers with children into the job market.

Newsflash: Farmers — no matter where they are from — do not benefit from policies like the TPP that encourage oversupply and drive milk prices down.

I would like to point out that the concerns you state regarding food safety drove, to a large extent, my father's policy of eating fast food when we were on the road during vacation season.

The chancellor acknowledged the work of individual campaigners like shadow minister Stella Creasy and Conservative backbencher Robin Walker, but refused to accept the policy had been driven from opposition.

This policy is also flawed though, it has been deeply criticised for driving up the value of homes, it reduces individual ownership of their biggest asset and even with the reduced cost, in places like London, the mortgage payments remain high.

Commenting on the plans, Paul Davies, Head of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) said: «While it's great to see a big focus on science subjects in the new EBacc, we are concerned that the plans to narrowly prescribe the curriculum in this way will effectively drive subjects like design & technology (D&T), as well as creative and artistic subjects, from the curriculum.

There was a brief period before the 1997 election when it looked like the idea of «stakeholder capitalism», which explicitly recognises the tension at the heart of profit - driven business enterprise and seeks to mitigate it by empowering employees and the community at large in the decisions of otherwise independent businesses, might form part of Labour Party policy.

One major hurdle to an on - time budget, DeFrancisco said, is Cuomo's proposal for free public - university tuition.He said the free tuition proposal is just another example of the way Cuomo has pushed for expensive policies that drive out «productive» state residents like business owners and taxpayers.

Other key points from the interviews include Mayor Bloomberg's personal commitment to public health, his use of data to drive policy decisions, and his appointment of and reliance on like - minded agency leaders.

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Addressing statewide inequities would require policies like changing school funding formulas to drive more money to poorer schools.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

By accepting so few applicants, Finnish teacher colleges accomplish two goals — one practical, one spiritual: First, the policy ensures that teachers - to - be like Stenfors are more likely to have the education, experience, and drive to do their jobs well.

This data is ubiquitous and drives both individual decisions (like home buying) and policy decisions around budgeting, planning, zoning, and transit.

Unfortunately, many folks driving policy and influence — like Arne Duncan, the Waltons, Bill Gates — have never been educators.

As the issues keep coming forth like the Budget and the growing realization that this administration's educational policies are one and the same with the corporate educational policies that are profit driven, I don't see how the Democrats will retain power in Hartford.

In bad weather, all - wheel - drive is like an insurance policy that ensures the vehicle won't lose traction on wet or snowy roads.

(While the Fed's short - term rate policy doesn't directly affect longer - term rates like for mortgages, an aggressive policy aimed at driving up short - term rates would increase the chances for higher long - term rates.)

Buying the first policy you see is like buying the first car you test drive.

For many policymakers and activists, Australia's student loan policy, income - driven repayment, looked like the perfect model for reforming the student loan crisis.

What's more, ultra-low borrowing costs a la zero percent interest rate policy largely drove risk assets like stocks to unbelievable extremes.

Address Proof like Passport, telephone bill, ration card, electricity bill, driving license, life / medical insurance policy, rental agreement, and apartment allotment letter.

There are hosts of experiments under way, some, like a Green Mobility Network around Miami, Florida, driven by communities, others by elected officials (e.g., London's congestion pricing and New York City's babysteps toward such a policy).

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

I - 732 would also drive down emissions in sectors like manufacturing and air / marine transport that are exempt under the other policies.

«What SRP doesn't see is that by pushing back against solar, they are driving companies like SolarCity to lead a migration away from the grid that will cost SRP more revenues,» explained former ACC policy advisor Nancy LaPlaca, now an NC WARN energy consultant.

Therefore the development of policy mechanisms like REDD will involve thorny issues like traditional land rights as well as broader questions on how compensation will be structured and what measures will effectively conserve forests without driving more people into poverty.

Bruce Burcat, Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition, told me, «Sound policies like the PTC have driven innovation which has helped reduce the cost of wind energy down by about 66 percent over the past six years, making it highly price competitive with traditional forms of energy resources.

Driven by factors like the Bush administration's censorship of climate science communication, Al Gore's prominent role in promoting awareness of the science of global warming, and frequent Republican deployment of climate change denial and «skepticism» to oppose greenhouse gas regulation, a destructive dichotomy has been created suggesting that valuing the role of science in public policy is a matter of political partisanship.

It's time to question the direction in which Big Green groups like NRDC and FOE, whose lobbying has dominated policy - making on this issue, are driving the country.

That so much interest has fallen on what could be described as an anti-science conference packed with ideologically driven fake experts, and that this conference attracted influencers like the Mercers, shows the rocky road ahead for climate policy.

«If France really wants to remain the guardian of the Paris Agreement,» added Lucille Dufour, policy adviser for Reseau Action Climate in France, «it must bring forth all of its political weight to drive forward progress on key issues like adaptation and loss - and - damage.»

«It is up to activists like Leng and affected local communities to make a stand against the short - sighted, greed - driven policies of the Phnom Penh elite.

The obsession among the rising middle - class has an innocent and giddy feel to it, almost like America in the» 50's: Car clubs, drive - ins, glossy automotive magazines, and even luxury plates proliferate, to say nothing of the cities» high levels of pollution or the prospects of increasing land and oil consumption (see Earth Policy's brief on China's potential consumption).

The news that the key report driving global policy on climate change used a throwaway line in a popular science magazine to suggest some Himalayan glaciers could disappear in 25 years reads like a Monty Python skit.

Our federal policy platform has been successful at getting clean tech sectors off the ground, and state - level policies like the popular renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have been effective at driving the deployment of the most mature low - carbon technologies.

Greece, like all other countries accepting assistance, was bound to an Economic Adjustment Programme that required austerity and supply - side reforms, while the new government was elected based on the promise that it would repeal austerity - driven measures and focus on demand - side policies.

Factors like whether they are in «drive mode» or have a paying passenger in their car will determine who is financially responsible and which insurance policy will kick in to pay for your damages.

An agent can help walk you through the many discounts an underwriter may offer, be it a discount for driving safely, donating to charity or bundling your car insurance with another policy like renters or homeowners.

Just like in most of the countries across the world, all the states across the United States of America have made it mandatory for every driver to have a valid auto insurance policy to drive in the country.