Sentences with phrase «progressive reform agenda»

We still need to elect Green progressives who, because they are independent of the corporate power structure, can carry through a comprehensive progressive reform agenda.

Transparency and comparison of performance against local plans, strategies for support and intervention for struggling areas, and mechanisms for patients to achieve change both in their own care and in local services more widely would all need to be part of a progressive reform agenda.

«They have no progressive reform agenda at all - only an unbearable sense of entitlement that it's just their time to govern.»

«The City Council will select the Speaker, and Mayor - elect de Blasio looks forward to working with the next Speaker and Council on passing a progressive reform agenda for New York City.»

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

I ask because I've read progressive Christians who linked certain legislative agendas with «biblical» values, such as the 2010 health - care reform law or with a progressive tax system.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

My worry is that if it doesn't happen now, then the next election could deliver a Tory majority, and electoral reform and progressive politics could be off the agenda for another generation.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

Since the formation of the IDC in 2011, mainline Democrats have howled that the IDC's partnership with the GOP has blocked consideration of key progressive agenda items such as the development of a single - payer health care system, campaign finance reforms, abortion protections and more.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

«To further our unity solution for the New York State Senate and define each other's position, there is no doubt all Democrats agree that a united Democratic delegation will take up a progressive agenda including such items as the Dream Act, GENDA, single payer healthcare, the Reproductive Health Act, campaign finance reform, the Contraceptive Care Act among other progressive initiatives that have been, or may be advanced.

I am running for Democratic District Leader for the 44th Assembly District to fight for a Democratic Party with a progressive agenda centered on economic justice, criminal justice reform and support for women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and religious and racial minorities.

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They believe the Democratic governor has not only supported their agenda, but «accomplished progressive reform.»

Even if electoral reform is now off the agenda, progressives should reflect on this experience, and begin a new push for change

Launch the «New York Promise» Agenda to Advance Social Justice and Affirm New York's Progressive Values - Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.reforms statewide.»

Only when progressives hold the gavel can we actually deliver on the progressive agenda working families demand: fair funding for public schools and universities, stronger rent laws, real criminal justice reform and so much more.»

While the party endorsed Mr. Cuomo in 2010, members have been growing increasingly frustrated by what many see as his shift to the right, including a recent budget agreement that stressed tax cuts over more progressive agenda items, and a campaign finance reform deal that many see as watered down.

During his campaign, Gonzalez presented himself as natural successor to Thompson, and promised to pursue a progressive agenda that will include an end to prosecuting minor offenses and bail reform.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

All of them will likely continue to frustrate de Blasio and other progressive mayors in their attempts to develop an alternative to the education - reform agenda.

Has he succeeded in crafting a progressive alternative to predecessor Michael Bloomberg's «education reform» agenda?

It's time for the country to see and understand the New Democrats and their «progressive» «neoliberal» agenda that we know to be a «bipartisan» agreement on education reform.

Rather than requiring that any candidate seeking political support from teachers have a solid progressive record on public education and articulate clear - cut policies and positions that are diametrically opposed to the corporate education reform industry, there is a growing acceptance of candidates who have thrown their support behind the charter school industry and the broader education reform agenda.