Sentences with phrase «public policies like»

These respondents were also more likely to support stricter public policies like banning under - vaccinated children from schools to increase vaccination rates.

Whipsawing public policy like this is not only shameless, it is highly inefficient as well.

Not exact matches

Public policy, like Hollywood movies, can have an arc.

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Some universities also offer a bachelor's of public administration (BPA), like York University, which allows students to specialize in management, policy analysis, or law, justice, and public policy.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

How to qualify: A bachelor's degree is a must and a graduate degree — especially in fields like public policy or law — is also beneficial.

While his standing among troops has likely been burnished by some of his policies — like boosting spending and reducing executive - branch input in battlefield decision - making — he has faced public criticism on some initiatives, like raising the budget and expanding US involvement in Afghanistan.

«Like many of our social impact initiatives, the innovation and inspiration comes from our partners who are volunteering in and contributing to their communities,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Starbucks Global Responsibility, Community and Public Policy.

Corporations agree: «It makes so much sense that you would expect decisions like these to be made with your senior management, starting with your CEO,» says Tod MacKenzie, Aramark's head of public affairs, who also worked on animal welfare policies with Balk and HSUS at DineEquity, owner of the IHOP and Applebee's brands.

And what besides zealotry would lead him to tear up a policy that is widely popular with the American public who, understandably, are wary of increasing the power of companies like Comcast?

Like other countries, Canadian public policy will need to adapt to this new global competitive environment arising from demographic changes.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

Scientific, research - driven public policy might prevent shooting massacres like this week's at a Las Vegas country music festival, he said.

That gloomy question was behind Thinking the Unthinkable, a study of British public policy options by noted British financial firm Tullett Prebon — which was brave enough to ask the question that U.K. politicians have been avoiding like the plague: «Might there be no way out for Britain?»

«The more we grow, the more we pay artists, and we're growing like crazy,» said Jonathan Prince, Spotify's global head of communications and public policy.

McLaughlin, the former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and former public policy director for Google, said that platforms like Facebook have a single interest: They want to do whatever will maximize their market value.

«They don't necessarily have the resources, they can't absorb the increases in cost, and they feel like it's kind of relentless, it's one thing after the next,» San Francisco Chamber of Commerce vice president of public policy Dee Dee Workman told the Associated Press.

«If it feels like your smartwatch is turning into a spam box, you will take it off,» said Padden Guy Murphy, who heads business development and public policy at car - sharing service Getaround.

«The demand for solar energy is now higher than ever and this report spells out how crucial it is for America to maintain smart, effective, forward - looking public policies, like the ITC, beyond 2016,» said Rhone Resch, SEIA President and CEO.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Economist Michael Hudson explains how economic terms like capital gains are deployed to mislead the public about who is benefiting from economic policy and where wealth is going.

But in his shoes, at my next public appearance, I would say something like: «An economic truism about trade is not a policy pronouncement.

Still, they have important implications for public policy as it pertains to underfunded old - age entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as the tax treatment of retirement plans and savings accounts.

The federal government is testing the public's appetite for a variety of potential policies, including a tax on digital content providers like Netflix to help fund Canadian cultural industries.

At least people of faith like Rick Santorum point to the Natural Law as their basis to justify the relationship their faith has with moral public policy.

He was willing to make short - term compromises and mislead the public (if you like your health insurance you can keep it) in order to move policy in the direction of his long - term goals.

The church (and they do like to cap it, don't they, as if theirs were the one and only) continually intrudes on public policy when they should stick to church policy.

But I have a huge issue when religion is foisted upon me, it is used to make public policy, and used to inflict injury and death to people who are deemed «unworthy» (like gays or blacks or people who won't go along for the ride).

It's like he is saying «you killed my brother so I slaughtered your family» — gee, America is a democracy with a transparent court system, lobbying and public demonstrations, and there is such a thing as international courts if one has grievances with US policy.

because the religious lobbyists garner ridiculous influence over public policy, especially education, and we're a little concerned that our kids are going to be taught silly crap like the planet is 6000 years old.

It's simple to contrast that with what somebody like Santorum or Sam Brownback does, which is infuse public policy with religion.

Liberals like William Julius Wilson at Harvard tend to finger economic causes, whereas conservatives like Kay Hymowitz at the Manhattan Institute tend to finger cultural changes and poorly conceived public policies.

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

This stretch is bad enough but what's worse is how Prothero's disdain for Santorum manifests itself repeatedly throughout the piece in a petty ad hominem like «Saint Santorum» and resurrecting the deliberating misleading conflation of Santorum's personal beliefs about birth control with his public policy stance.

At the same time, the bishops, like everyone else who has a part to play in the contest over law and public policy, can not determine the partisan alignments of that contest.

We'll see it in «anti-bullying» policies that turn public schools into indoctrination centers on matters of human sexuality; centers that teach that there's no permanent truth involved in words like «male» and «female.»

Putting it in the hypothetical, he says,» If there's a good argument against polygamy, it's likely to be a fairly complex public - policy argument having to do with marriage patterns, sexism, economics, and the like.»

Evangelicals of a social - justice bent have mounted like - minded projects on a smaller scale, such as the Crossroads Program sponsored by Evangelicals for Social Action (seeded by Pew Trust money in 1992) and its ongoing series of publications on faith and public policy.

«In the United States, evangelicals feels like they're losing influence because the elite culture isn't sympathetic or sees them as intolerant - which I don't think it is the case, but it's how they're perceived,» said Cromartie, who directs the Evangelicals in Civic Life program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

Children like Pineapple depend on educational, public health and environmental policies developed by metropolitan and state governments.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

We will need to cast our votes at the ballot box to help decide how public policy should be formulated on many issues like this.

As increasingly more Nordic consumers continue to choose organic over conventional foods, and cities across Scandinavia (like Copenhagen, for example) continue to put organic food at the top of their policy agendas (and on their public - sector kitchen menus), so those numbers will rise.

She's an MD who does research into women's public health policy, while looking and dressing like a supermodel.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all...

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is procured.

«We're hoping this policy will encourage the public to report delinquent acts of vandalism, like dumping, defacing and other general destruction of park property,» Park District Director Larry Wheeler said at Monday night's park board meeting.

«In making public policy decisions, we don't always get things to our liking all the time,» said Councilman David Naftzger.

In short, it is complicated, just like public policy in the real world.