Sentences with phrase «poor policy choices»

Unfortunately, government also can hinder it — with limited vision, misplaced priorities and poor policy choices.

While it has been present for some time, its urgency for governments has been overtaken by immediate problems such as contracting economies, high debt, high deficits and high unemployment caused by a combination of factors including poor policy choices.

The intention is to remember that we're talking about complicated issues, and that children are the ones either helped or hurt when adults make either wise or poor policy choices.

Actively discouraging states from including science as an ESSA accountability measure would be a poor policy choice.

Not exact matches

Understanding Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects finds that poor energy policy choices — including Ontario's Green Energy Act — has increased electricity prices for residents, cost tens of thousands of manufacturing workers their jobs and produced only minimal health and environmental benefits.

I think that Marion Nestle's blog, Food Politics, does a good job of discussing how public policies actually reinforce poor food choices at the moment.

The problem is the change in Conservative Party policy away from choice and less government won't help the poor and people who are dependent on their wages / salary to live.

Writing for nonspecialists, Acemoglu and Robinson explore the interplay of economic forces, politics, and policy choices to explain why some nations are rich and others poor.

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

Bartiromo tried to further defend DeVos by talking about her plans to incorporate school choice in education policy to make poor schools better, but Wasserman Schultz disagreed.

A study released earlier this month suggests that the district is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy in large part because of state policies regarding school finance and «choice» — i.e., allowing more and more charter schools — and not because of «poor decisions» by local officials.

At her keynote address for the National PTA Legislative Conference, Secretary DeVos accused CBS of editing her poorly, and then doubled down on school choice, claiming that Michigan's poor showing under policies enacted with her financial support is because «Michigan hasn't embraced further reforms and hasn't yet offered parents robust choice.»

In her home state, Detroit's laissez - faire choice policies have led to a wild west of cutthroat competition and poor academic results.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

However, if you are alive in year 31, a term policy will have been the poorest choice financially: you will have paid $ 60,000 with nothing to show for it at the end.

If your aunt is in very poor health, a guaranteed issue life insurance policy may be your best choice.

The rate of return earned in the above example is just 5 % which makes endowment policy a poor choice for making investments.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.