Sentences with phrase «politically powerful interest»

Politically powerful interest groups must be overcome.

The health care proposals drew a sharp and immediate response from two politically powerful interest groups, the Greater New York Hospital Association and 1199 S.E.I.U., the health care workers» union, which, in a joint statement, said the governor's health proposals were «riddled with inaccuracies.»

The tax code is riddled with special favors for politically powerful interest groups.

Not exact matches

Crony - state capitalism has imposed rentier monopolies and cartels on wage earners, effectively transferring more of the nation's income and wealth to politically powerful entrenched interests and cartels.

Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?

«At a time when the city is being forced to do more with less, it is outrageous that the state would create a new unfunded mandate that will benefit a politically powerful special interest group,» said Bloomberg spokesman Mark Botnick.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

The goal is to revamp a process in which the vast majority of teachers are traditionally stamped with «satisfactory» or «meets expectations» ratings — if they are evaluated at all — either because of administrative incompetence or an interest in keeping the peace with politically powerful unions, reform advocates say.

Issuetastic fiction that turns up - to - date, politically loaded topical material into powerful works of stating the obvious whose aim is to educate the Uninformed or Casually Interested Westerner in the ways of another culture at a time when that culture or nation is under scrutiny, or has the western gaze upon it and needs to answer for itself in an accessible and heart - tugging manner.

A wealth transfer scheme The primary purpose of cap - and - trade is not to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to transfer wealth from consumers to politically - powerful special interests.

Dr. Mann, who now works at Penn State University, said in a statement: «It is a victory not just for me and the university, but for all scientists who live in fear that they may be subject to a politically - motivated witch hunt when their research findings prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests.»

In most areas extreme care in the wording of an issue is not that critical, but with something as important and politically charged as climate change where there are powerful interests determined to make sure nothing changes and who freely manipulate public opinion through corporate outlets every word, every turn of a phrase, every nuance needs to be carefully considered.

But we are skeptical that a morally permissible deployment would also be politically feasible; we fear that the rich and powerful would arrange for any SRM deployment to cater to their own interests, which may well diverge from the interests of the poorest and most vulnerable.

Powerful interests are capable of amassing armies of lobbyists and lawyers to influence (and even capture) politically accountable bureaucracies.