Sentences with phrase «policy ideas at»

I think we're screwed, basically, and while the science is fascinating to think about, all policy ideas at this point are just a rearrangement of deck chairs.

Clinton began articulating her education policy ideas at union conventions this month and Republican leaders championed school choice at their national convention last week.

Not exact matches

«Even if the bills are not implemented, it creates a public discussion about discrimination, and that creates the idea that discrimination is important to religious freedom,» says Marieka Klawitter, a professor of public policy and governance at the University of Washington.

But at that point, the Fed chair Janet Yellen and the other members of the interest rate - setting committee seemed to side with the idea that Trump's policies would do more to help the economy than hurt it.

On Tuesday, the Obama Administration tried to spin some old ideas on corporate tax cuts and infrastructure spending as a new «grand bargain» aimed at stemming another confrontation on fiscal policy.

A decorated Harvard economics instructor, a former White House policy adviser, and the author of bestsellers like Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz found himself surrounded by people he deemed to be seeking tawdry material gain at the expense of real quality of life.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

«The goal was for us, and those we worked with, to get some ideas that could be applied and put into practice,» said Dane Stangler, vice president of research and policy at Kauffman.

«People really hate the GPS idea,» admits Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation in Washington, D.C., and member of the Mileage - Based User Fees Alliance.

A roster of candidates whose monetary policy ideas are known to the markets and appealing — or, at least, not repulsive — to Democrats and Republicans means the appointment could be swift.

Blanchard's argument runs contrary to decades of monetary policy, but any idea to help prepare for future collapses is at least worth discussing, says Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.

Rather I would argue that the current situation reinforces the idea that the standard operation of monetary policy should continue to be directed at the inflation target, but that it needs to be supplemented by other tools to address the ever - present threat of financial imbalances.

Our series takes a look at what might have happened in the past — or could happen in the future — if certain energy - related ideas and policy prescriptions put forth by prominent politicians and their supporters were actually adopted.

Governments at all three levels need to be willing to try new ideas, to monitor the performance of public policies and to tweak or discard ones that are functioning poorly.

With a unique intellectual property (IP) rights policy at the acclaimed University of Waterloo, which allows inventors to own their own ideas, we are one of the most patent intensive communities in the world.

Papadopoulos first floated the idea of such a summit directly to Trump at a March 31, 2016, meeting of the then candidate's newly appointed foreign policy advisory board.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

At first only four policy committees met occasionally to feed ideas and proposals to the central committees.

«Backdating tax reform is a really poor idea,» said Steven Rosenthal, senior fellow at the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

As the United Conservative Party members move toward a May 2018 founding Annual General Meeting, members are hard at work democratically bringing forward ideas and policies they feel will benefit Alberta.

At some time in their recent history, most industrial countries, including Australia, have taken this idea seriously and have used money supply targets to guide policy.

But many conservatives chafed at the idea that the president's personal views would not affect public policy.»

Republicans and conservatives, instead of tilting at the defunding windmill, should be working now to present the American people with the policy ideas that will emerge inevitably when ObamaCare's declines.

Theological nuances aside, Pastor Bernard seems to have always been on the less supportive end of the spectrum but joined the president's advisory board anyway, hoping to be «a minority voice at the table to help influence policy, ideas, and initiatives.»

Senator Daniel Inouye at the Iran - contra hearings described the network that had subverted the U.S. Constitution and carried out illegal foreign policy as «a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fundraising mechanism and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Though Yaron Brook (of the Ayn Rand Insitute) does generally misrepresent Objectivism - mostly in the personal freedom and foreign policy areas (see ARIwatch.com)- I don't think he would make a statement so at odds with the Objectivist idea of Capitalism.

Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis with the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and, Dr. Andrew Novakovic, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, addressed the history and ideas behind federal milk orders.

now wengers absurd transfer policy «is down to you people»... seriously krish n`chips... the acolytes of the delusional one are beginning to sound even more of a parody than the master himself... walcott is a very very average player with one good season in 12 years at the club... the fact that wenger hasnt sold him is part of the sorry state of our club and the idea that this can be blamed on fans who want to see us back challenging for top trophies is frankly offensive

As I understand it, the policy at just arsenal is to promote debate and cross pollination of ideas, however those that call themselves AOBs have contaminated the good policy by their obsession with Wenger sacking.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

Their Galactico policy under Florentino Perez is based on the idea of boosting their reputation, branding and, ultimately, their revenue by bringing the biggest names to play at the Bernabeu.

As a stay - at - home mom, you may write off the idea of a life insurance policy for yourself because you're not the one bringing home the bacon, so - to - speak.

I'm stuck on ideas other than sandwiches (and I need to figure out if we have a no peanut policy at our school), but after browsing pinterest, I know I'll be able to make some awesome lunches for Princess V this year.

Over-intervention in maternity care was addressed by experts including the Home Birth Summit's Saraswathi Vedam at a recent panel held by the Wilson Center, the nation's key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community.

The idea of creating a written policy that would require wristbands at any event or fundraiser where alcohol is sold on park district property was discussed by parks commissioners at a recent meeting, but tabled until the June 18 meeting.

«It is a good idea to try to pair less preferred foods, like vegetables, particularly those that your child doesn't like so much, with something to give it a little more flavor,» Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University told Reuters.

The other issue that sometimes comes up is whether we discourage policy proposals by painstakingly examining clear promises whilst ignoring hazy ideas or failing to criticise parties that produce no proposals at all.

To go back to Keynsianism, you don't cut spending when you're just barely struggling out of a recession, unless you've drunk the Hoover Kool Aid (go look at his policies in» 30 - ’31 if you think budget - cutting's a good idea right now — utterly disastrous).

A leader who took tough choices at great personal expense, and transformed conference hall policy ideas into real, enacted government policy.

Every measure should be aimed at re-educating the people of the region and at making the idea of war, intolerance and violence unimaginable and unthinkable as policy choices.

The argument is not that these ideas determine policy decisions, but help to shape, or set the broad contours of, the decisions that are arrived at.

The legendary Alan Rosenblatt, Dr. Digipol himself, did come up with one idea that jumped out at me — digital graffiti screen as a public billboard, inviting people to register their support of a given policy.

Repeal remains relevant because it is a fascinating puzzle of intertwining causes and effects, but also because the ideas, interests and institutions that lie at the heart of Repeal still have bearing on trade policy in the 21st century.

Speaking at the launch of the new policy, Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah was highly optimistic Ghanaians will ultimately share in the idea for government to achieve its set targets.

«I will cut your taxes» «We'll make America strong» «I will take a hard line on international policy» and while these ideas sound better in today's light, we should remember that at the time, members of his own party called his economic plan «Voodoo economics».

At the launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate, there was considerable enthusiasm among those attending for talking to people outside the Liberal Democrats where there is scope for developing policy ideas together.

Politicians from all parties still squabble and shout at each other across the floor in the House of Commons, they still publicly bash each other's ideas without putting forward real alternatives and, even as we slide into the double dip of recession, the parties can't stop themselves from hurling scripted insults and blaming current problems on past policies.

The paper illuminates his backing for new grammar schools (May has at least one former minister on side with this policy it seems) coupled with concentrating on non-graduate routes into professions, encouraging kids to start - up businesses, among other ideas to improve social mobility.

Pataki went on to lambaste the president's Mideast policies («I think the president clearly needs to rethink completely his approach towards Israel») and to express his disgust at the plans for a Muslim community center a few blocks from Ground Zero («I think it's a terrible idea.