Sentences with phrase «policy proposals around»

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I'm sure there's a lot of ink on these in today's papers, mainly around proposals to raise the retirement age (which we actually did two years ago, except the Trudeau government reversed it, but now evidence - based policy FTW, as the kids say).

Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy director for the Nature Conservancy, called Cuomo's $ 2 billion proposal to improve water quality around the state «amazing,» adding: «The level of funding is exciting, and frankly, it surprised me.»

«We know that the conversation around arming teachers and other school personnel was an attempt to delay substantive action on gun violence prevention and deflect attention from real policy proposals.

Bill Hammond, the health policy analyst for the budget watchdog group The Empire Center, says that under the proposal in Congress, the state would likely lose some federal Medicaid funding, in the best case scenario around $ 2 billion.

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

Does David Cameron ever think about how his silly proposals play out around the ENTIRE United Kingdom before he says they are party policy?

Whether it is the 100 % proficiency goal of No Child Left Behind or the School Improvement Grant program's promise to turn around the bottom 5 % of schools, education reformers have wildly exaggerated the potential effects of their policy proposals.

As school districts around the country struggle to find enough qualified teachers to staff their classrooms, state policymakers are considering a range of budget and policy proposals to address immediate teacher shortages and build a sustainable, high - quality, and more diverse teacher workforce.

The list of proposals is grouped around the following themes: national emission targets and emission trading, sectoral approaches, policies and measures, technology, development - oriented actions, adaptation, financing and proposals focusing on negotiation process and treaty structure.

All told, the speech was a mix of style — rousing the base, hitting the right anecdotes — and a bit of substance around actual policy proposals like the immigration deal.

This brought cuts to public hospital funding and a proposal for a GP co-payment: hallmarks of policy measures geared around reducing health expenditure rather than impacts on people and what was best for the sustainability and effectiveness of the health system overall.