Sentences with phrase «progressive social reforms»

Over the next decade, a wide range of progressive social reforms were enacted, [68][69] with millions lifted out of poverty during Labour's time in office largely as a result of various tax and benefit reforms.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

For those who share an ethical, non-religious outlook and are committed to equality, human rights and progressive social reform, the party should seem a natural home.

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Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive — meaning cutting benefits for high - income workers, while preserving payouts for low - income earners.

It is the West itself that has veered away from the direction in which its civilization was traveling under the direction of classical political economy and Progressive Era social reforms.

With the exception of the 1989 election, when Liberal Bill Code placed second, only the conservative Reform Party, Progressive Conservative, Alberta Alliance, Social Credit and Wildrose Party, and the environmentalist Evergreen Party have participated in the elections.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Armed with their «progressive» reading of Vatican II, American Jesuits of this transitional generation became more committed to the struggle for social reform than to the propagation of Christian faith.

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.

It also takes a progressive approach to social policies such as animal rights, LGBTIQ rights and drug policy reform, and believes strongly in nonviolence, basic material security, and democratic participation.

But while economic efficiency and social justice arguments for wealth taxation are important, analysis of the political context in which progressive policymakers have to make the case for reform is often missing.

Such initiatives have also been interspersed with attention to moderate social reforms, including gun control and paid family leave, dappled with more progressive policies like protections for transgender residents and a rejection of fracking.

Morgan lists Lloyd George's dazzling achievements, including extending political democracy for working men and women, pioneering progressive concepts of social reform, managing both business and the unions and being a successful wartime prime minister.

Long - term bills: The Conservative Party's social reforms - reducing welfare, strengthening the family and reducing drug dependency - should deliver progressive reductions in the demands on the welfare state.

In the internal election of the progressive liberal D66 the more radical democratic minister without portfolio for government reform Alexander Pechtold beat the more social - liberal chair of the parliamentary party Lousewies van der Laan.

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.»

«I applaud Governor Cuomo for his dedication to the people of New York and his work to ensure our state continues to lead the nation in social reform and progressive policy.

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.

I'm worried that when the history of today's era of education reform is written, the most damning critique will be that its progressive leaders had little understanding of social capital.

This view holds that true school reform must be part of a broader social justice campaign led by people of color, which calls for progressive changes to health care, housing, immigration, and economic policies, as well as education.

And following what appears to be the new ed reform ideal model, Massachusetts charters predominantly serve highly disadvantaged communities, so they have positioned themselves as the progressive promoters of social justice.

The appointment of the progressive Liberal, who replaced Christopher Pyne, will see the boost of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector and will also see him take control of the government's $ 4.4 billion childcare reforms as they move out of social services and back into the education portfolio.

Today, progressives dominate education reform, and progressivism is stirred by calls for «social justice» and transfixed by economic inequality.

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In the next breath, however, he confusingly characterizes progressive reform during that same time period as «radical» — the Common School movement, for example, in which education was first envisioned as the province of the entire public, regardless of money or social status.

Like Nesbit, Olive Wellwood belongs to the Fabian Society, a group that advocated for democratic socialism and social reforms, and the novel concerns itself with progressive social and artistic movements as well as fairy tales and folklore.

HSUS is the nation's largest animal protection organization that works to reduce animal suffering and create meaningful social change through progressive legislation; making sure existing laws are enforced; public awareness campaigns and investigations; assisting large corporations in reforming their animal welfare policies, and providing direct care, rescue, and services for animals in crisis.

That said, social justice adventurism is a progressive cause of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (e.g. elective regime change, abortion fields) that forces Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform (e.g. refugee crises).

Economic reforms began to tackle Brazil's foreign and domestic debt head - on, address the problems of poverty and social justice, put the country on a firm economic footing, and finally, strive towards a responsible environmental policy — the latter being hailed as being among the most progressive in the world.

And while the young prince is progressive on social issues by Saudi standards and is making efforts at reform, his government is still under scrutiny for its restrictive policies toward women and other groups.