Sentences with phrase «public infrastructure so»

We need to invest in our decaying public infrastructure so that it can withstand increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

Far too often can «innovation» become a buzzword in today's new globalized economic reality, as governments seek to find new ways to increase GDP and revenues so they can sustain the critical social programs and public infrastructure so many Canadians rely upon.

Not exact matches

Their civic and business infrastructure requires massive amounts of electricity and, given the way so many are currently planned, their private and public forms of transportation emit enormous CO2 emissions.

Jassy envisioned that Amazon could share its know - how and infrastructure with other businesses over the web, managing computing power for them so they could keep costs down — a concept now known as a «public cloud» model.

Government has failed to improve public transit and other infrastructure quickly enough, so much that it can take a half - hour to squeeze through the bottleneck exits of some industrial parks at rush hour.

This is the latest example of a big software company moving its IT operations to AWS or another public cloud so it doesn't have to build or manage data center infrastructure on its own.

So the discussion in Addis Ababa revolved around things like how to finance infrastructure, how the public sector and the private sector can partner for best results, and how to change the tax systems that apply to multinational corporations so that they are more beneficial to developing countrieSo the discussion in Addis Ababa revolved around things like how to finance infrastructure, how the public sector and the private sector can partner for best results, and how to change the tax systems that apply to multinational corporations so that they are more beneficial to developing countrieso that they are more beneficial to developing countries.

I have long been a strong advocate of debt - financed public investment in the context of low interest rates and a decaying US infrastructure, so I was glad to see Mr Trump emphasise it.

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

The same minister who helped use the «border infrastructure fund» to build gazebos and public toilets in his riding and left no official paper trail in doing so is also

As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

So we need to work on that as a public safety issue as well as a communication and infrastructure issue.

«We should be looking at ways to encourage and invite investors to back British enterprise and infrastructure projects, not reverting to government - run public interest tests which make it more difficult for them to do so.»

In the last decade or so, we have seen record levels of net migration in Britain, and that sheer volume has put pressure on public services, like schools, stretched our infrastructure, especially housing, and put a downward pressure on wages for working class people.

«The idea is to identify problems quickly so that they can be addressed before they become big problems and — in the case of some critical infrastructure — so that public safety measures can be implemented,» Pour - Ghaz says.

For ALEC, it is all about tearing down our public school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

The so - called «Mangan Report,» presented to Illinois Vision 20/20, stated that «Illinois ranks second to last in the nation for state share of public school budget revenue; as a result, significant discrepancies across the state's nearly 900 school districts exist in terms of teacher quality, building infrastructure, and educational materials, such as technology.»

These attachments won't be made public, so it's probable that they relate to issues of staff training and animal handling, rather than infrastructure.

«So even though I am seduced as an architect in looking at them closely, I also realize... that we need to imagine a public infrastructure that is more inclusive,» he said.

The countries that are most vulnerable are those that have been laboratories for neo-liberal economics and Cold War (or «War on Terror») dirty wars, leaving behind non-existent public infrastructure and lots of angry guys with guns (as Christian Parenti shows so well in his new book, «Tropic of Chaos»).

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

That's also why it's so hard to sustain public investment in the research and intellectual infrastructure required to make progress on the frontiers of chemistry, biology and physics, even though it is this kind of work that could produce leaps in how we harvest, harness, store and move energy.

We must enhance community safety and enjoyment: Traditional infrastructure isn't designed to handle the increased floods and droughts that come with global warming, so we need a modern approach to protect public health, safety, and quality of life.

We need to rapidly adopt new thinking about what constitutes «infrastructure» and implement new policies so that green infrastructure investment can complement traditional grey infrastructure to derive the maximum taxpayer benefits from the billions of public dollars invested each year.

Nor can private firms invest in the public infrastructure, such as new transmission lines, both because they are public and also because they are so capital intensive.

Of course, some of the missing pieces of a truly smart mobility plan are the integration of public transit, parking infrastructure, and urban planning into the mix, but even so, these Ford initiatives do seem like they could eventually be a part of a bigger set of transportation solutions.

A better solution would be to have electric powered vehicles, better public transportation infrastructure to reduce private motor vehicle demand, civic infrastructure changes so daily commutes can be made shorter and use natural gas to replace electricity generated currently by coal.

Traditionally CPOs are used for infrastructure projects so the Attorney General's advice does present a new policy direction for the use of CPOs but it is certainly arguable that it is proportionate to public policy.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Nicholas Gregory, chief executive of CommerceBlock, a public blockchain infrastructure company, argued that the reason bitcoin works so well is because it is decentralised.

These include infrastructure (bridges, highways, rail and so on), the energy sectors, water and public health.

Having said that, my view is that the revenues generated from advertising (to the public viewers of the MLS) would be so substantial that Realtors in good standing should only have to pay a token membership fee, rather than support the entire organized real estate infrastructure.