By cultivating a business - friendly, low «prosperity tax» environment while reducing the harms of carbon pollution, British Columbia's carbon tax has gone from maligned to celebrated, commanding a 64 %
public approval rating, according to a 2012 poll.
No wonder Hollande's
public approval rating in France rivals that of our Congress.»
While
the public approval rating for the pet trade is certainly low, the good news is that almost 60 percent of respondents gave no opinion either way.
In 2014, total pet industry spending topped $ 60 billion, and yet, according to a recent survey commissioned by PIJAC and completed by TargetPoint research, the pet industry had a 30 - percent
public approval rating, compared to animal welfare organizations that had 76 percent public approval.
President Macri, on the other hand, has experienced a 10 - point increase in
his public approval rating since July.
However, Facebook executives might be counting on Congress's low
public approval rating to lend them the upper hand.
And while Xi is riding high after consolidating power at a twice - a-decade Communist Party Congress last month, Trump comes to China saddled with low
public approval ratings and dogged by investigations into Russian links to his election campaign.
The Commerce Department reported on Thursday that the economy grew by 3.2 percent in the final quarter of 2013, echoing the even stronger 4.1 percent pace of expansion in the summer months and providing the White House with a rare bit of good news despite dismal
public approval ratings.
But Cuomo's press management has been a political success:
His public approval ratings, two years into a job that destroyed the careers of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, is at an all - time high at more than 70 % of New Yorkers approving of his job performance, according to a recent poll from the Siena Research Institute.
It also comes hot on the heals of a YouGov poll which found not just that the prime minister and mayor of London need to do something pretty sharpish to boost
their public approval ratings concerning their handling of the recent troubles, but that nine out of ten British people support the use of the weapons of mass saturation.
Cuomo sought months ago to convince Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D - Brooklyn) to challenge the mayor but abandoned the effort when the congressman insisted he wanted to remain in Washington and the mayor's
public approval ratings began to rise.
After several months of what the mayor himself called «relentless negative headlines» around investigations into his administration and campaign fundraising, Bill de Blasio is facing low
public approval ratings, strong doubts about whether he deserves to be re-elected in 2017, and a resurrection mission ahead of him.
As we jump right into 2016, Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares for his State of the State and budget address, Mayor Bill de Blasio works to improve
his public approval ratings, and the two keep on feuding.
We fielded our survey in March of 2009, when newly elected president Barack Obama enjoyed
public approval ratings above 60 percent.
The 2009 survey was undertaken in March when President Obama's
public approval ratings were above 60 percent, providing a unique opportunity to measure his impact.
Not exact matches
A December survey by
Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, found that McConnell is the least popular senator in the country, with his
approval rating underwater by 30 points.
You're not going to please everyone but in today's B2C world where people can easily complain about anything they want and make their complaints
public to the world you want to shoot for an 80 %
approval rating - or four stars on Yelp, whichever makes more sense.
With
approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the
public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.
The fundraising numbers help explain why more Republicans — particularly those facing re-election next year — aren't openly distancing themselves from a president whose
approval rating hovers below 40 percent and whose White House has been wracked by
public back - biting and legislative stumbles.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and
public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory
approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange
rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
She similarly resisted any hint of remorse over power
rates until she started getting booed in
public and her
approval rating identified her as the least popular premier in the country.
Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and
public opinion polls, which have found declining
rates of
approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.
In New Lenox, the
Public Library District is seeking voter
approval of a 13 - cent increase in its tax
rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax
rate increase was rejected in November.
Corbyn might be offering a clean slate to his MPs, but the
public won't extend him the same courtesy as his dismal
approval ratings continue to plummet.
Trump has yet to make inroads with the American
public beyond his party's faithful, and his
approval rating stands at 37 percent, according to a NPR / PBS NewsHour / Marist poll.
Several
public - opinion polls have recently shown Gillibrand with less than a 50 percent
approval rating and with a large number of voters saying they know little about her.
Cuomo's job
approval rating stands at 50 percent, down 8 points just from last December, before the legislative session began and the governor began a more
public feud with the state's teachers unions, said Quinnipiac University spokesman Mickey Carroll.
«Mayor de Blasio's
approval rating has inched up, and he has improved his standing with New Yorkers on both his handling of issues and their perceptions of his qualities as mayor,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion.
A Marist College poll released on Monday found Cuomo's
approval rating fell 5 percentage points to 53 percent as controversy over the Moreland Commission to Investigate
Public Corruption continues to swirl in Albany.
I already had many concerns with this proposal, including the impact of so many truck trips in an area with the highest
rate of asthma in the Nation, but the totally undemocratic disrespect for the
public approval process and the people of the City and the State prompts me to write to you.
But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's
approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on
public school teachers.
And Comcast, which is seeking
approval from the state's
Public Service Commission for a proposed merger with Time Warner Cable, gave at nearly three times the
rate ($ 31,000 to $ 11,000).
«Former Governor Pataki is the big unknown for Gillibrand,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion, «With her
approval rating at 27 percent, Gillibrand will almost certainly have her work cut out for her if Pataki enters the race.»
While studies find the president's job
approval ratings on a downward curve, a just - released poll by the Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion finds that Obama would decisively defeat Palin in a hypothetical race between the two and independent New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The latest Ipsos Mori survey found the Ukip leader struggling to maintain his positive reputation with the
public, earning a personal
approval rating of -5, a drop of four per cent since last month.
The mayor's
approval rating has ticked up amid his concerted effort to convey a more forceful
public image, and he now receives positive marks from half of New York City voters, according to a new Q poll.
His
public -
approval ratings have rebounded slightly.
However Cuomo's
approval rating is relatively strong, at 57 %, and Greenberg says if the governor actually achieves ethics reform and some of his more popular education changes, the
public is likely to back that.
Cox said all that shows in recent
public opinion polls, where he said Cuomo's job
approval rating is in the low 40s.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's
approval rating has ticked up amid his concerted effort to convey a more forceful
public image, and he now receives positive marks from half of New York City voters, a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday found.
Cuomo has been brilliant at creating the conditions to advance his agenda — running up high
public -
approval ratings, propping up amenable legislative leaders.
The proposed
rate increase still requires
approval from the New York
Public Service Commission.
Kelly, who has the highest
approval rating of any city official, would also lose by double - digits to former City Comptroller Bill Thompson and
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the poll found.
Cuomo's job
approval rating stands at 50 percent, down 8 points just from last December, before the legislative session began and the governor began a more
public feud with the state's teachers unions, says Quinnipiac University spokesman Mickey Carroll.
Critics have noted that Cuomo's
public -
approval ratings dipped during a «summer of hell» of subway woes in New York City and that his former closest aide is going on trial next year for allegedly rigging state contracts.
The latest Quinnipiac poll, for instance, puts Liu's
approval rating at 40 percent — far lower than the 57 percent he was seeing last May — but still just two points behind fellow mayoral hopeful and
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
Both Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with whom de Blasio has an ongoing
public feud, and Comptroller Scott Stringer, with whom the mayor has also sometimes clashed, received higher
approval ratings.
In this episode of Poll Hub, Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for
Public Opinion, Dr. Barbara L. Carvalho, Director of The Marist College Poll, and political journalist and tech entrepreneur Jay DeDapper discuss the historical context of job
approval ratings and explain their relevance in modern day politics.
De Blasio, New York City's
public advocate, claims higher
approval ratings, but New Yorkers are split over whether he can keep his promises.
SOMERSET — Fresh off the stunning
approval of a cut -
rate electricity deal between a Canadian government - run power monopoly and New York City by the New York State
Public Service Commission, local leaders are calling for the deal to be blocked before local jobs are lost.