Sentences with phrase «progressive policy proposals»

The poll comes after a frenetic first five weeks of campaigning, as Ms. Nixon has attacked the governor in sharp and personal terms while rolling out some flashy progressive policy proposals, including calling for the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York, and for the state to use 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.

Michael Burgess, FPI board chair, said «Frank Mauro has used his great understanding of fiscal issues and his passion for tax fairness to make the Fiscal Policy Institute the source for progressive policy proposals through five governors and an entire generation of Albany legislative history.

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Over the last little while, some of my compadres here at Relentlessly Progressive Economics have intuited and sometimes even insisted that while Stà © phane Dion's socially liberal bona fides are not in question, his economic policy proposals place him well to the right of centre.

This submission lays out concrete policy proposals that the government should consider if it is serious about implementing progressive reforms in Budget 2016.

For a more comprehensive look at the state's revenue and budget challenges, see the Fiscal Policy Institute's 2018 - 2019 budget briefing book, which includes a discussion of many other progressive pro-revenue tax proposals which would generate billions of dollars that New York needs to remain competitive in the future.

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

It is worth remembering, too, that an early proposal for vouchers for the poor emanated in the mid-1970's from the Center for Public Policy, a Cambridge - based offshoot of the progressive Institute for Social Policy in Washington, D.C.

Efforts to use climate science to threaten an apocalyptic future should we fail to embrace green proposals, and to characterize present - day natural disasters as terrifying previews of an impending day of reckoning, have only served to undermine the credibility of both climate science and progressive energy policy.

In large part, this explains why the Alberta and Canadian governments, in cooperation with the oil industry, have been lobbying to undermine progressive climate policy, such as the European Union's Fuel Quality Directive and similar proposals in many U.S. states.