Sentences with phrase «public policy groups with»

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

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Public health and consumer groups applauded the move, which does not go as far as the company's policy for the United States, where already for a year suppliers have provided the chain with chickens raised without antibiotics deemed important to human health.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

All 50 states have transparency websites, but they vary, according to Elizabeth Ridlington, a policy analyst with the Frontier Group, a public - interest organization.

«The panoply of public policies offering «voluntary» options for saving - such as RRSPs, TFSAs, group RPPs, and the most recent Pool Registration Pension Plans - have demonstrated their inadequacy to address the shortcomings in declining workplace pensions and a Canada Pension Plan with limited benefits,» the study concludes.

Dr. Anna Biolik, Chief Executive Advisor and VP with the Allam Advisory Group is a former Canadian Ambassador and diplomat with over 30 years of public and private sectors experience in diplomacy, international commerce, trade policy, and international governmental affairs.

Karen's background in public policy, communications, strategic planning, and issues management is founded on previous roles with Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG group, Westport Innovations, the United States Consulate General (Vancouver), and the Business Council of British Columbia.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

Hostility against pro-lifers seems now to have spilled over into a distrust of any group of citizens seeking to connect public policy with a transcendent moral order.

With the exception of a few lobbying groups, they are not trying to initiate public policy.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

Every Living Thing: An Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals is a new offering spearheaded by Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Michael Cromartie with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Clapham Group's Mark Rodgers, a former chief of staff to Senator Rick Santorum.

Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, it is in our interest to farm responsibly with the best science available,» said John De Luca, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 600 California wineries.

The Australian Beverages Council also recognises its responsibility to provide extensive communication to Governments, community groups, the media, and consumers with respect to the industry's views on regulatory matters, legislation, and public policy, dietary guidelines, health claims, and front - of - pack labelling are just a few examples of specifics that are proactively addressed to these audiences within these fields.

Paul Tough delivers the Fifth Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, presented by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP), in collaboration with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, Director of Public Policy Jack Clarke, and Legislative Director Karen Heymann met with Senator Edward J. Markey and other groups to brainstorm strategies for working with the incoming Presidential administration and new Congress on critical environmental issues.

Health care providers and groups with public influence — such as the media, policy makers, and health advocates — need accurate technical information on this issue to prevent the spread of misinformation and to maintain the strength and credibility of breastfeeding promotion activities.

And speaking of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, look around to see if there is a local group — a food policy council, a chapter of Slow Food, a food bank, a public health department, Kiwanis, Rotary, the Junior League, maybe a social justice organization — that can provide you with a home and some support.

Common Cause says third - party groups and coalitions with feel - good names have stepped up their campaigning in recent years to influence public policy.

The researchers asked a selected group of voters to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center for Public Policy, has long been skeptical of the state's SolarCity arrangement, which is now one of the focuses of the federal corruption case.

The Internet Advocacy Center was launched in partnership with turner4D in 2005 to provide leading edge digital and social media consulting to advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations seeking to leverage online channels to change policy and public awareness.

Karl Rethemeyer, interim dean of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, and political science associate professor Victor Asal are creators of a database named BAAD — Big, Allied and Dangerous, which is packed with in - depth information on hundreds of terrorist groups.

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

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.»

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

But alarm bells should ring when our politicians address themselves specifically to faith groups, solicit them as partners with local or national government, and encourage them to believe that they might have a distinctive role in providing public services and meeting public policy objectives.

«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.

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.

To start off with, this grouping will cover four policy areas — promoting local economic growth, reducing crime, bettering the lot of disadvantaged children, and looking after the elderly — that amount to # 200 billion - worth of public spending.

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

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

The Empire Center's E.J. McMahon, whose group co-wrote the study with the Business Council of New York State's Public Policy Institute, says taxpayers may have saved as much as $ 7.6 billion since 2012.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The medium of engagement (e.g. social media, news media, policy engagement, talks with community groups, science cafés, science festivals) varies, but each Fellow's plan expresses clear goals for public engagement and institutional change, appropriate audiences, and specific strategies.

Scientists can consult with their institutions» public affairs and government relations offices and join groups like Engaging Scientists and Engineers in Policy that seek to empower scientists to involve themselves in the policymaking process, panelists said.

«It is often difficult to penetrate these age groups with effective public health interventions and policies to prevent drinking and driving,» says Carter.

Supporters of FRPAA include a business group called the Committee for Economic Development, which this week released a report finding that the NIH policy «has substantially increased public access to research results with benefits... that far outweigh the costs.»

«Professor Macfarlane is a scientist with a long history of working on complex technical public policy issues,» the group said.

«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.

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

Right now, the «playbook» at the boundary of science, society and public policy is being re-written, by multiple groups with multiple mandates and agendas.

Through annual giving, members of this group foster community engagement in some of the most pressing public policy challenges while interacting with world leaders, national decision - makers and leading researchers.

Maria is a Mitacs Science Policy Fellow and Behavioural Scientist with the Behavioural Insights Group in the BC Public Service.

For the past year, a group of researchers with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public pPolicy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public policypolicy.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

The public opposes policies to prevent differences in discipline rates across racial group by a wide margin, with support even within the African American community falling in 2016.