New
policy initiatives increase the deficit by $ 1.1 billion in 2012 - 13 but thereafter are virtually neutral.
Not exact matches
Most of this deterioration is due to lower revenues (down $ 3.3 billion), new
policy initiatives amounting to just over $ 1 billion and an
increase in the «risk adjustment factor» resulting in a loss of revenues of $ 1 billion.
Award recipients are selected based on their impact on the growth of WBEs; creation of
policies, procedures or
initiatives that
increase opportunities for WBEs; and innovative and inspirational leadership on behalf of women business owners and their companies.
Creation of
policies, procedures or programmatic
initiatives that
increased opportunities for women's business enterprises.
However, this
policy is more than just a strategy for China to leverage its economic might to
increase its influence beyond Asia, this
initiative is also part of China's domestic reforms and economic growth.
The contingency reserve would not be used to finance new
policy initiatives, such as the Family Tax Cut and the
increase to the Universal Child Care Benefit.
They can only be made consistent if Washington also unleashes an infrastructure building program, a
policy initiative consistent with either of the other two, on a truly heroic scale — which, as an aside, I suspect would be a smart strategy under any circumstances as American infrastructure needs are so great that the consequent productivity
increases would fully service the associated debt long before they stopped adding value to the economy.
NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote
policy initiatives intended to
increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.
This improvement of $ 2.1 billion was primarily due to somewhat better - than - expected economic conditions and an
increase in the lapse ($ 3.2 billion) partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new
policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).
Jeremy Davies writes: Emerging details about the Pupil Premium suggest schools could focus on
increasing father - involvement as a key response to this major Coalition
policy initiative.
In Brazil, the length of breastfeeding
increased dramatically from 2.5 months in 1974 - 75 (one of the shortest in any low - or middle - income country) to 14 months in 2006 - 07 due to a combination of
policy, health service, civil society, and mass media
initiatives.
Created to
increase exclusive breastfeeding rates at six months of age and beyond in Kansas, this
initiative will help practices create
policy and environmental changes that will support breastfeeding mothers.
Touching on the
initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School
policy has resulted in an
increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.
James, I'll think you'll find that it used to be Lib Dem
policy to use the funds from scrapping the CTF to
increase spending on early years education, but that this is no longer the case (the funds aren't targeted specifically for early years
initiatives any more - or so I am told by Lib Dems).
Cuomo had been expected to propose a comprehensive minimum - wage
increase, but he typically saves his major
policy initiatives for unveiling in January, teeing up his proposals for the spring legislative session in his State of the State speech.
The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's
initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an
increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every
policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».
New York State Senate Democratic
Policy Group
Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt,
Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students
Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and
Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success
In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic
policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights,
increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.
Cuomo announced the funding
increases at event on Long Island and Rochester on Tuesday, where he began rolling out
policy initiatives that will define this year's legislative session.
Mayor de Blasio and City Council leaders have taken
policy positions that do just that: committing to non-cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pioneering an IDNYC program, maintaining strong worker protections, and
increasing funding for universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) and the Community Schools
initiative.
«The economy has started responding to these
policy initiatives of the government as evidenced in the improvement and stability of the naira exchange rate;
increase in the country's foreign reserves and the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Statistics NBS that the country has officially come out of recession.
These paths for further research would benefit public
policies aimed at
increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education
initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.
After all, Africa isn't the first region to put in place a
policy aimed at
increasing the number of advanced - degreed scientists it produces as part of an economic growth
initiative.
«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to
increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate
policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy
initiative, said by email.
Developed for the Commonwealth Marine Science Event 2018, this publication is an
initiative by UK scientists and international partners, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, providing evidence - based science for
policy making on the impacts of
increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the ocean and human systems.
Having helped create LACEA's Impact Evaluation Network (IEN), an
initiative that aims to
increase knowledge about impact evaluation of different
policies, he has been a member of their executive board since 2007.
The Center for Education
Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education
initiative to help school district and state leaders
increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.
Given the threefold
increase in per - pupil spending and countless
policy changes, blue - ribbon panel recommendations, and foundation
initiatives in the intervening years, it is undeniable that districts have already tried, or have been forced to try, to shape up.
Policy initiatives in this area are almost all focused on
increasing need - based financial aid, and that is the direction taken by the authors.
In education, these dynamics have played out in predictable ways with growing discontent among districts, educators, and parents, and
increasing political pressure for
policy retrenchment on even more innocuous
initiatives like the Common Core State Standards.
Most states have already dramatically
increased their spending on education and have poured considerable resources into testing programs - changes driven by earlier federal
initiatives, state - level
policy, and court decisions, not NCLB.
Organizing efforts have sometimes proved able to work together to influence state
policy, for example, to
increase core funding to urban schools and to provide additional funding for new
initiatives like teacher home visitation programs.
Publicly funded school choice has
increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of
initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of
policies to subsidize private - school tuition.
In combination, these
initiatives have progressively
increased the demands on teachers and their students and have laid the groundwork for what was to come next - an unprecedented federal intervention on state level education
policy - making that directs all states toward a single goal (i.e., 100 % of students reaching «proficiency») via a single system of implementation (i.e., standards - based assessment and accountability).
Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement
initiative, OKF
increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and
policies at the district level and at three partner schools.
MCAN works toward achieving this goal by advocating for
policy reforms that lower the barriers to college for students, sponsoring a number of statewide
initiatives focused on
increasing college access, delivering professional development to train college access professionals to be highly qualified and effective college advisers, and strengthening like - minded and mission - aligned statewide college access and success
initiatives.
Our research study on a citywide
initiative to
increase teacher leadership opportunities offers an example of Eskolta's research work focused on understanding how district
policy rollout affects educators and can be improved.
It said Caputo - Pearl and his new team of officers are «hitting the ground running» on
policy initiatives, which include «organizing members school - by - school, neighborhood - by - neighborhood, and area - by - area to a place where we can strike if we feel it is necessary» to achieve other gains, such as smaller classes, pay
increases, additional school staffing and elimination of «gotcha» evaluations and «teacher jail.»
Given the above, it is hard to see how the emergence of
increased competition, division and fragmentation within the teacher trade union movement is going to help teachers (and school leaders) reclaim the
initiative in relation to the education
policy agenda.
The Influence Grant program, now in its third year, helps affiliates implement
initiatives that will
increase the affiliates» impact on education
policy.
New Leaders» co-founder Ben Fenton participates in a Fordham Institute panel on how state
policy initiatives can
increase the number of highly effective principals.
«Many of the measures of «health of the movement» are just that — measures of the degree to which charter schools, as a movement, are
increasing in number and influence,» said Elaine Weiss, who helps lead education
initiatives at the Economic
Policy Institute, a think tank focused on low - to - moderate - income people.
Recent studies have also demonstrated this marked
increase over the last few years (see another forthcoming with my former doctoral student Clarin Collins in Teachers College Record), but this article in the Huffington Post provides a decent graphic illustrating where the nation currently is in terms of these
initiatives /
policies.
Since 2002, the government has sought to achieve
increased and equitable access to quality education at all levels through a variety of
policy decisions,
initiatives, and programs.
This appears to
increase the effect of actual
policy implementation, and to
increase the influence of grass - roots
initiatives.
By adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology,
policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government
initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to
increase citizen involvement.
NHTSA is working with OST -
Policy's TRIAD
initiative to learn more about why these fatalities are
increasing.
We also have
increased citizen participation on all fronts, including engaging the public on departmental
policy and regulations and in local transportation decision - making through our Ladders of Opportunity efforts and
initiatives such as the Every Place Counts challenge.
We work with our companies to
increase long term corporate value for all of our stakeholders and shareholders utilizing Steel Partners Operational Excellence Programs, the Steel Partners Purchasing Council, Steel Partners Corporate Services, balance sheet improvements, capital allocation
policies and growth
initiatives.
After several novel
policy initiatives, it should be painfully obvious to Fed - watchers that the lack of
increase in the monetary base is intentional.