Sentences with phrase «policy gains we have made»

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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.

«In the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market,» she said, adding that «disinflation pressure and weak demand from abroad will likely weigh on the U.S. outlook for some time, and fragility in global markets could again pose risks here at home.»

... in the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market.

The problem is that U.S. financial and fiscal policy has institutionalized the financial sector's short - term outlook, «distorting decision - making away from long - term profitability and stability and toward short - term gains with insufficient regard for risk.»

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

To make gains among these voters, Republicans needed to make detailed (but pithy) arguments about what was wrong with Obamacare and the benefits of Republican health care policy X (read National Affairs to get an idea of some of the things they could have said), and do so in plain language.

As Michael Pollan (who is largely the reason food studies have even come to be) put it to her, «If we can make food policy hip the way that pork belly is hip, then it has a chance of gaining steam.»

According to her, gains had been made in the past in the reduction of children who died before they were five years when the exclusive Breastfeeding Promotion Regulation (BPR) policy was introduced.

The bailout hasn't built a constituency of support - US firms that have gained make their support for the Democrats conditional on pro-capitalist policies.

A growth policy, which is desperately needed, could be generated without any increase in public borrowing, by switching Mervyn King's further # 25bn tranche of QE from the banks to industrial investment, by taxing the ultra-rich on the # 155bn gains they've made (according to the Sunday Times) over the last 3 years, and / or by instructing the nationalised banks RBS and Lloyds to prioritise their lending on jobs in house - building and infrastructure.

Many have tried to ascribe gains to specific policies or practices, such as No Child Left Behind, but Whitehurst dismisses such connections as «guesswork,» noting that there are simply too many moving parts to make clear inferences.

Making small, consistent changes to the types of protein - and carbohydrate - rich foods we eat may have a big impact on long - term weight gain, according to a new study led by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University.

While Texas has shown gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), it makes little sense to generalize from Texas» policies to the nation as a whole.

We have made great gains in the last decade with new legislation, innovative programs and policy reform, but we can't afford to get complacent and fall into the trap of believing that things will continue to just get better for our youth.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

Almost all the policy attention has been on low achievers, and, in fact, they've made faster gains on measures such as NAEP than have their high - achieving classmates.

This leads to an important point for school reformers everywhere: It will take more money and more bodies on the ground in order to sustain the decade of gains that have been made on the policy front.

Eastin said most states that have those policies, such as Texas, North Carolina and Kentucky, have made substantial gains.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

What this makes clear is that the American people want and expect a national energy policy that protects the gains we've made in energy security, abundance and global leadership.

Alternatively, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute have argued — in TNR and elsewhere — that a policy like cap - and - trade, which works by making dirty energy expensive, will never gain broad political support.

«As to our advocacy around a carbon tax — I would not support putting a carbon tax in place today because I think we still have a lot of gains to be made through technology and other less intrusive policies on the economy which are showing results,» he said in a speech before The City Club of Cleveland.

The policy approach proposed above would make clear that we are willing to impose a globally credible carbon price so that firms in Alberta see gains from the elimination of any low - value uses of carbon in our economy and can effectively capitalize on low - carbon innovation.

Recognizing that no climate policy will focus on depopulation or reducing wealth generation, Pielke argues that setting objectives for efficiency gains in specific economic sectors and for the expansion of carbon - free energy supplies would be a first step in the right direction to make the UK a world - leader in the actual practice of carbon policy.

«For politicians, we still have image gains to make by announcing green policies, focused on sustainable development.

The IEA makes clear that recent efficiency gains have come as a result of an expansion of national policies, such as energy efficiency standards for vehicles and appliances.

Co-author Belén Balanyá, from Corporate Europe Observatory, said: «Polluting corporations with everything to gain from a weak climate policy should have no role in climate policy - making.

A large percentage of the scientists who contributed to the studies of temperature and climate variations and greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations behind the «Global Warming» political movement, disagree with the conclusions that have been drawn from their work by non-scientific hacks with an «agenda» and a stake in the game (Like making billions from the sale of carbon credits or gaining vast powers to control the energy policies of countries).

Greenpeace said that «All chains have made great gains, particularly around sustainable seafood policy implementation, labelling on seafood products, tracing fish from ocean to shelf and avoiding the sale of fish that are illegally caught.

With a wide competitive insurance market in Virginia, you would enjoy your buy provided you shed out that extra time to gain certain knowledge on how a car insurance policy works and on how to make a smart choice when deciding on coverages.

The small life insurance contracts had a small cost of insurance, and could still accumulate significant gain based on the dividend payments made into the policy by the insurance company (dividend payments grow larger as cash value is higher).

«However, if you have a permanent policy with built - in gains, then you will want to make sure you comply with the IRS 1035 exchange regulations so that you do not get hit with an unwanted and premature tax bill.»

Not only does it make it difficult or impossible to have any current liability hazards covered like a severe water damage claim needed after the torrential downpour last night, but now it becomes more difficult to gain a policy in the future.

The preservation of traditional lands in ultimately inalienable form for the use and enjoyment of future generations is still an important principle of Indigenous land tenure, as recognised by the first and second NIC Principles.136 There has been a strong policy focus over more than thirty years on Indigenous people gaining traditional land, having the right to manage it in accordance with Indigenous tradition, and being able to make decisions about land use in accordance with traditional decision - making processes.

Real estate executives have long said that they contribute heavily to state and city legislators» election campaigns in the hopes of gaining access to those who make policy in a state where tenants hold considerable voting power.