Sentences with phrase «public policy barriers»

Trust Ventures, is designed to «find, fund, and assist companies whose groundbreaking products, services, and innovations would otherwise be locked out of the marketplace by burdensome public policy barriers,» according to a release announcing the launch.

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That in turn increases barriers to entry for startups, because entrenched political players look to «economic winners» for support to stay in power, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

Another public policy option would be to put up barriers to save jobs.

Promoting public policies and federal child nutrition programs and eliminating barriers to service to these programs is an investment in our country's future that I am willing to make.

«Politicians have an important and legitimate interest in how health care is provided locally but too often act as a barrier, rather than facilitating the honest dialogue needed with the public,» deputy director of policy Candace Imison said.

Opting in to data sharing should be the default practice during public health emergencies, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, and barriers to sharing data and findings should be removed to ensure those responding to the emergency have the best available evidence at hand, according to Vasee Moorthy and colleagues from the World Health Organization (WHO) in a Policy Forum article published in PLOS Medicine.

A revised Medicaid sterilization policy that removes logistical barriers, including a mandatory 30 - day waiting period, could potentially honor women's reproductive decisions, reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and save $ 215 million in public health costs each year, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Public health policy and research must overcome several barriers to developing vaccines for pregnant women, say authors Saad B. Omer, MBBS, PhD, professor of global health, epidemiology and pediatrics at Emory University and Richard H. Beigi, MD, MSc, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and chief medical officer at Magee - Womens Hospital of UPMC.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Over the course of the past two decades, a series of court cases — including a 2007 Supreme Court decision that struck down voluntary integration policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. — have created tough barriers for public schools attempting to pursue integration.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

As Chief of Policy & Public Affairs, Richard leads the KIPP Foundation's public policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to suPolicy & Public Affairs, Richard leads the KIPP Foundation's public policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to suPublic Affairs, Richard leads the KIPP Foundation's public policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to supublic policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to supolicy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to success.

Three years ago, researchers with the Center on Reinventing Public Education conducted in - depth interviews with principals in three states in order to learn about innovations they would like to make in their schools but could not due to policy barriers.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

Perhaps both the most fundamental and overlooked aspect of public education, attendance rates have attracted increased attention in recent years as educators and policy makers grapple with the many barriers to improving student performance.

-- The term «qualified individual with a disability» means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable modifications to rules, policies, or practices, the removal of architectural, communication, or transportation barriers, or the provision of auxiliary aids and services, meets the essential eligibility requirements for the receipt of services or the participation in programs or activities provided by a public entity.

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) seeks public comment regarding current or potential regulatory or other policy barriers to the development, demonstration, deployment, and evaluation of automated transit buses and related technologies for Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) automation levels 3 through 5.

This attitude polarizes groups and individuals who otherwise have common concerns about animals and the environment, and is a barrier to developing effective public policy.

As I explained in my first blog post, I see the hijacking of science by TNR opponents as a significant barrier to developing sound public policy.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

«Although such estimates of future deployment of carbon - free energy sources indicate that it may be possible to achieve a decarbonized energy system, great uncertainties remain regarding the implementation of such scenarios due to factors such as costs, technology evolution, public policies, and barriers to deployment of new technologies (NRC, 2010b)»

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

Barrier removal includes correcting market failures directly or reducing the transactions costs in the public and private sectors by e.g. improving institutional capacity, reducing risk and uncertainty, facilitating market transactions, and enforcing regulatory policies.

It also seeks to expand research on the scale up of EV deployment, including such topics as policy efficacy, barriers to adoption, the electrification of public transportation, grid integration and load management, and synergies with automated, connected and shared vehicles.

Investment Provisions: Will the Trans - Pacific Partnership FTA include so - called «investor - state» provisions that allow individual corporations to challenge environmental, consumer and other public interest policies as barriers to trade?

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

Lorenzoni, I., Nicolson - Cole, S. & Whitmarsh, L. Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications.

The survey questionnaire included extensive, in - depth measures of public climate change beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, policy preferences, behaviors, barriers to action, motivations, and values.

Notify their employees and the public, during the recruitment processes about their policies on reasonable accommodation for applicants disabled by barriers.

The CSAS requires all of Manitoba's public, private and non-profit organizations with one or more employees that provide goods or services directly to the public or to another organization in Manitoba, to establish and implement measures, policies and practices to remove barriers for access to the goods or services it provides... [more]

Articling had become a barrier to entry to the profession that was hard to justify as a matter of principle or of sound public policy.

The barriers these children and their families face are more frequently the result of their environment and public policies rather than their impairment.

Our Centre will make an on - going contribution to these debates by producing evidence - based information on the extent to which policies in a range of sectors are contributing to fair health outcomes and will identify the opportunities and barriers to the development and implementation of public policy that contributes to fairness.

«This ordinance would have done nothing to improve the health and safety of women in St. Joseph County — instead, it would have created barriers for local women seeking safe, legal abortions,» said PPINK Vice President for Public Policy Patti Stauffer.

In addition to addressing structural barriers such as income inequality and affordable housing, many researchers and policy makers have called for comprehensive preventive interventions for high - risk children in public and community settings.36, 37 Supporting children's cognitive development and schooling is particularly important and early childhood education programmes should be available for children at greatest risk.

Racism and discriminatory public policy have created systemic barriers that result in women of color disproportionately relying on Medicaid.

Additionally, due to discriminatory public policy, people of color, young people, and people living in rural areas who already face systemic barriers to accessing health care would be severely hurt.

Many of these barriers are the result of «collateral consequences» — penalties embedded in public policy that prevent people with criminal records from accessing basics such as a job, an apartment, or vital public assistance programs such as food stamps.

«Historically low homeownership rates across nearly every age demographic have led to a public policy push to lower the barrier to homeownership through down payments as low as 3 percent, but the fact is that the barrier to homeownership is often much lower than even that 3 percent for borrowers who take advantage of one of the myriad down payment help programs available across the country,» says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.