Sentences with phrase «public policy groups from»

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«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

From 1997 to 2005 he was a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and focused on public debt dynamics while at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

The group of bishops addresses many needs of the church, from how to handle changes in the liturgy to acting as the public policy arm of the church.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

Different stakeholders, such as farmers, policy makers, students and teachers, research and development professionals, medical and health practitioners, and media and public information officers, including those from women's groups and the religious sectors were briefed about the project from July to September 2017.

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

We've seen this sort of criticism of policy and political decisions coming from pundits and bloggers for years, but now a large enough group of online political professionals is writing in public that the degree and level of discussion of online strategy is astonishing this far in advance of anything resembling an election.

But there is a downside to leaving the seat vacant for six months while facing threats from President Donald Trump's administration, according to Blair Horner of New York Public Interest Group, who noted that public policy is a significant component of thPublic Interest Group, who noted that public policy is a significant component of thpublic policy is a significant component of the job.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

In particular we believe oral evidence sessions before Finance Bill public bill committee, bringing in both expert witnesses and representatives from groups affected by particular changes, could lead to better - informed policy - making.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

A proposal that includes tolls on the free East River bridges has recently gained renewed attention from the news media and public - policy groups.

The Executive Chamber will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids / services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs.

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy... (read more)

FRC is a conservative group with a mission to «advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.»

While that policy could put increased pressure on journalism outlets to use the information they glean from FOIL requests in stories more quickly, to avoid losing the competitive edge, good government groups said it could also help the larger public.

From the traditional left of the party we saw John Gummer and Stephen Dorrell run the quality of life and public services policy groups.

And on 7 December, a report from Policy Cures in Sydney, Australia, a group that monitors global research and development for neglected diseases, showed that public and private funders last year cut their commitments to HIV / AIDS research targeted at the developing world by US$ 67.5 million, or 5.9 %.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

Such a jury would consist of public jurors, who would draw up policy guidelines, expert witnesses from the scientific community, and special interest groups.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hpublic health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public HPublic Health.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

In a posh hotel not far from Central Park, a small group of lobbyists, administrators, and legislators gathered to consider an interesting question: Does anybody in the public schools ever hear the policy debates that rage back and forth at the state level?

The school districts described in the above three case vignettes have much in common: a district - wide commitment to listening to public concerns; serious effort given to communicating district policies and practices to the public; and a focus on collaborating and partnering with individuals and groups from the community, including business people.

In the meantime, Washington Policy Center Education Director Liv Finne says that the one group that has benefited from the new education spending has been the public teachers unions.

The company this summer acquired rights from McGraw - Hill Education to administer the TerraNova test, which is popular with Wisconsin voucher schools, according to the Public Policy Forum, a Milwaukee - based nonpartisan research group.

This month, Barnes» group asked federal officials to block state leaders from implementing their policy change, which will be phased into 97 percent of local public school systems and a portion of charters by the end of the 2016 - 2017 school year.

Its policy to have all public education follow the same state statutes and regulations with oversight by elected school boards differs from many choice groups.

Still, given that truly integrated public schools have long - established benefits for students who are poor and who come from minority groups, many researchers believe that creating classrooms that benefit everyone is a good policy.

Along with the shift in goals, the public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools, to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse» than traditional public schools.

«The public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse,»» the book argues.

Earlier this week a group of pro-charter pastors from West Louisville in conjunction with the extreme right - wing anti-public education think tank, the Bluegrass Institute of Public Policy, held a press conference to call on the Interim Commissioner to authorize a state takeover of Jefferson County Public Schools and to end the ability of the Jefferson County Teachers Association (JCTA) and the other JCPS employee unions to bargain collectively.

Another powerful lesson, said Voloch, came from a group of students participating in the Bronx Civic Scholars Institute, a summer program focused on public policy, with an emphasis on internships and field trips.

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

In the shaping of legislation and public policies, there is a large place for efforts to «calculate» or predict, from the findings of all appropriate social - scientific research and analysis, the probable effects of alternative policies or measures upon the happiness or welfare of the people generally, and of different groups among them; and to choose the policies most likely to be conducive to something like (in the ambiguous Benthamite phrase) «the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

that led with the $ 155K number from a recent report from «Demos, the non-partisan public policy group.»

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

Late in 2006 the «Institute for Public Policy Research», a grandly - titled and extravagantly - funded pressure group in the UK, first proposed that the international Left should from then on declare that the science of «global warming» was settled.

«We have discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

In mid-January 2010, a group known as the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), which receives funding from the Scaife Foundations, led a campaign to have my NSF grants revoked.

In numbers, after all, there is strength, while individuals and small groups are far more vulnerable — and the purpose is two-fold: to undermine the credibility of wider scientific consensus and to discourage other researchers from sticking out their necks and participating in the public discourse over matters of policy - relevant science.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»

Sen. Boxer — Time TBD — Hoover Institution, Reason Foundation, Pacific Research Institute Sen. Coons — Time TBD (or Monday)-- Group TBD Sen. Schatz — 5 pm — Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Heartland Institute Sen. Franken — 5:15 pm — Heritage Foundation Sen. Warren — 5:30 pm — Science and Public Policy Institute Sen. Heinrich — 5:45 pm — American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Shaheen — 6 pm — Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy and Environmental Legal Institute Sen. Reed — around 6 pm — SEC climate change disclosures and the dangers of climate change denial from a national security perspective Sen. Markey — 6 pm to 6:30 pm — Acton Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Lexington Institute, Global Climate Coalition Sen. Peters — 6:30 pm — Cato Institute Sen. Blumenthal — Time TBD — Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council Sen. Whitehouse — Time TBD — The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Locke Institute

A group of 40 auditors — including scientists and public policy experts from across the globe — have released a shocking report card on the U.N.'s landmark climate - change research report.