Sentences with phrase «policy group led»

The survey, conducted by a health - policy group led by David Blumenthal at the Massachusetts General Hospital, found that almost 20 % of the 2167 academic life scientists who responded to a questionnaire said they had delayed publication of data by more than 6 months.

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While the Republican - led tax reform plan is short on details at this point, the head of a tax policy group called the plan «viable.»

Trump has inveighed against the group, against what he perceives as Mexico's failure to stop it, and against what he sees as weak US immigration policy that has led to such migration.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor law.

«Beijing will not sit idly by,» said Paul Triolo, who leads global technology policy analysis at Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk consultancy.

In addition, as part of the broader project, workshops are planned in both Washington and Beijing that will bring together leading experts on U.S. - China relations, as well as representatives of the expert groups polled by the project, to discuss in detail the survey findings and their implications for policy in the United States and China.

This group meets twice a decade to study ways to improve the nation's multifaceted financial system, and has historically galvanized the nation's financial institutions into action, playing a leading role in China's domestic and foreign fiscal policies.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

The event will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

Insurance giant ACE Group is leading the Series C investment, and CEO Keith Moore tells TechCrunch values the company at around $ 103 million, after the company hit a milestone of 50,000 policies sold in the last two years, growing 170 % in the last 12 months.

However, the majority of policymakers (certainly the «core» group within the FOMC led by Chair Yellen and New York Fed President Dudley) believe that monetary policy is not a suitable tool to address financial stability risk.

As central bankers and finance ministers from the G - 20 group of leading economies obtain in Turkey, the Intercontinental Monetary Fund warned of the pitfalls to worldwide progress and urged superior economies to preserve fiscal and monetary policy loose.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Consensus 2018 will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

In 1997, a group of unipolarists led by Cheney, Libby, Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Frank Gaffney, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz and Donald Rumsfeld founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which issued a statement of principles that called for an aggressive American policy of global domination.

A significant congressional advisory group, the Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations (led by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability), recommended such changes in a 2013 report.

Councils, Committees and Working Groups — led by representatives of our member organizations — determine how to fulfill consumers» needs, help shape the association's policy positions, identify industry - wide model practices, direct scientific research and ensure strong and frequent collaboration among members and with retail trading partners.

Sylvia Rowe of SR Insights, the Resource Specialists for the Policy Working Group, led a discussion of how changing politics and dynamics in Washington, D.C. are impacting various nutrition, food labeling, and menu labeling initiatives.

The next session was led by the Policy Working Group.

Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, and clergy.

Illinois could feed 38,000 to 49,000 more low - income women and babies through a federally funded nutrition program if it followed the lead of 25 other states and demanded rebates from infant formula companies, a Washington policy group and U.S. representatives said Monday.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

So I was particularly interested to read this critique of the Vermont study from Hunger Free Vermont, the state's leading anti-hunger authority and nutrition policy advocacy group.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

At the very least the proposed changes in Greater Manchester — which obviously go a lot wider than the system of government — have all the hall marks of a policy being made on - the - hoof, behind closed doors, by small groups of like - minded people — just the sort of ingredients identified by King and Crewe which lead to monumental blunders.

Far from helping families children's groups said the policy will lead to parents taking low paid jobs and «cycling» from work to benefits, putting families in greater risk of falling into debt.

In early December, a different set of 20 states — a Republican group led by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette — filed their brief backing Mark Janus, the Illinois state employee challenging the agency - fees policy.

The Internet Advocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awareness.

When asked about the reasons for social policy eventually leading to democracy, their response was that it empowered different social groups, which eventually demanded a wider political change.

The event itself is being led by a group of Democratic conference members who have released a series of policy - based reports — Sens. Daniel Squadron, George Latimer, Velmanette Montgomery, Jose Serrano and Brad Hoylman.

The group is designed to encourage action, influence public opinion that will lead to policy change.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

The 19 leading figures from groups such as Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress expressed unease that Labour's leader may not secure a mandate for the kind of reforms they believe Britain needs.

The effort is not attracting some of the leading drug policy groups that have worked the halls of the New York Legislature on relaxing drug laws, such as the Washington, DC - based Marijuana Policy Prpolicy groups that have worked the halls of the New York Legislature on relaxing drug laws, such as the Washington, DC - based Marijuana Policy PrPolicy Project.

The exposé led the head of a government - watchdog group — who has accused Mateo of flagrantly violating the terms of his contract to run a bar and lounge on city parkland — to call the situation «a continuation of the mayor's pay - to - play policies — and one that is impacting an entire community.»

Liz Cheney's group Keep America Safe, which has led the resurgent Republican attacks on President Obama's national security policies, is releasing a video this morning that questions the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers who advocated for detained terror suspects during the Bush Administration.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

This analysis was supported by Munira Murza, lead author of today's Policy Exchange report, who warned: «Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the «right to be different».»

In particular we believe oral evidence sessions before Finance Bill public bill committee, bringing in both expert witnesses and representatives from groups affected by particular changes, could lead to better - informed policy - making.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

The fact that David Cameron leads a coalition rather than a Conservative administration has given the group a rare freedom to criticise government policy and suggest alternatives.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

The logic behind this approach was derived from the 2009 report by the New Automotive Innovation and Growth Team (an industry - led automotive group established to advise government policy makers) in which it was recommended that: «It is worth resisting the temptation to pick a winner prematurely, however politically attractive it may appear.

On Thursday, Richard Angell, the director of Labour's centrist pressure group Progress, wrote an editorial arguing that policy of remaining in the single market would be the best move by Corbyn to unite all Labour members across the political spectrum as well as in leading trade unions.

The failed effort to sink her nomination was led by policy - minded groups, not «the political left that took the lead on defeating the GOP Obamacare repeal plan,» they write, noting that the policy groups «weren't as well - equipped to mobilize grass - roots pushback.»

Nancy Rankin, the vice president for policy, research, and advocacy at the Community Service Society, a leading advocate for the legislation, said her group estimates that 350,000 workers will be left out of the bill as a result of increasing the threshold from five to 15 workers.

Bill Hammond, the health policy analyst for the Empire Center, a budget watchdog group, said that could lead to a huge political clash with New York state's laws.

Recognition of the barriers faced by scientists from underrepresented groups can inform programs designed to recruit and retain those scientists; understanding the prevalence and impact of deceitful research can lead to more effective policies to prevent them.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.