Sentences with phrase «public policy point»

As he stated «there is logically, and from a public policy point of view, no difference for this purpose between doctors and social workers», and that «it is immaterial that social workers, not doctors, place children on the Child Protection Register or take them into care, since child protection work requires social service departments to work closely with the police, doctors, community health workers, the education service and others».

From the public policy point of view, though, there is nothing to be gained by suppressing the renewable energy market.

«From a public policy point of view, that's not ideal.»

Not exact matches

A December survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, found that McConnell is the least popular senator in the country, with his approval rating underwater by 30 points.

But to assume prices will keep rising as a result misses an important point, says Josh Gordon, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

While it is easy to point fingers and shame corporations for not offering paid leave to all employees, Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of PLUS told Fortune in an interview about an earlier version of the non-profit's report that «ultimately, solving paid family leave will require a national public policy.»

«I think Cuban is pretty competitive given his comparatively low level of name recognition at this point,» Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, told Business Insider in an email.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

• Employee Code of Conduct for Online Communications • Employee Code of Conduct for Company Representation in Online Communications • Employee Blogging Disclosure Policy • Employee Facebook Usage Policy • Employee Personal Blog Policy • Employee Personal Social Network Policy • Employee Personal Twitter Policy • Employee LinkedIn Policy • Corporate Blogging Policy • Corporate Blog Use Policy • Corporate Blog Post Approval Process • Corporate Blog Commenting Policy • Corporate Facebook Brand Page Usage Policy • Corporate Facebook Public Comment / Messaging Policy • Corporate Twitter Account Policy • Corporate YouTube Policy • Corporate YouTube Public Comment Policy • Company Password Policy «While it may seem frivolous to spell out policies for every social network, that's not quite the point,» Falls says.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

The point to remember is that the public policy discussion we are having now is about fairness.

«However, using the rules as reference points and discussing why our policy may differ from these policy descriptions could go some way in helping to explain our own policy reaction function to the public.»

Stephen Tapp, a former Bank of Canada economist who now is research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, reckons the reversal will cost 0.2 percentage points of gross domestic product annually over the longer term.

From football, basketball, and tennis to hockey, cycling, and swimming, public support for sports activities — along with national policies that promote mass fitness — have created a new growth point for China's economy.

An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

The inclusion of these ideas in the CIC report underscores a key point about the importance of Asia for Canada — that Asia's rise matters for all of Canada, and that an Asia strategy should be central to Canadian public policy as a whole, rather than a niche activity for a few line departments that deal with «international» issues.

Alan Deardorff, professor of international economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, said that if U.S. - China trade tensions were to reach a boiling point, «the pain would be widespread and deep» for U.S. businesses.

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.

More important, however, is this point: Attempting to take my charge seriously, I will speak theologically» not just in the standard language of bioethics or public policy.

The point is that churches exceed their competence, undermine their credibility, skew their mission, and risk betraying the trust of their people when they turn themselves into political lobbies, promiscuously pronouncing and advocating on almost every policy issue in public dispute.

The point of the bible based discussion is because the bible thumpers have been able to successfully shape public policy based on their biblical interpretation.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

In recommending policy at such a point, is this man's first duty to his employer or to the public?

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public - justice issues invPublic Policy), there are public - justice issues invpublic - justice issues involved.

The fourth fact about the Catholic Church is that there are many points of disagreement on social policy among Catholics; there is no one Catholic line on most public issues.

Nevertheless, as the authors point out, a national food policy would shine a brighter spotlight on these conflicts and would also likely raise public awareness about and support for meaningful improvements to our food system — a much needed first step toward change.

From a public - policy point of view, this is a challenge, because we don't really know how to get government to help improve attachment relationships in low - income homes.

The minister argued that there were more than five million public sector workers in the country, and pointed out that they all had loved ones, such as parents, spouses and children, who might share their frustration at government policy.

I'm all in favor of using pop culture to communicate a policy point to the public, as long as it's somehow relevant (or at least clever).

Brown's thesis is a strong rebuttal to a commonly held point of view, arguing that a «strong» leader — defined as someone who «concentrates a lot of power in [their] hands, dominates both a wide swath of public policy and the political party to which [they] belong, and takes the big decisions» (p. 1)-- is ultimately an undesirable leader.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

He also partially distanced himself from the policy of Alistair Darling, the previous Labour Chancellor, to make public spending cuts sufficient to halve the government deficit in four years, by calling it a starting point.

State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly led Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and the establishment - preferred candidate, by 5 points in a poll this month from the Public Policy Institute of California.

At that point, it became my duty to clarify the public record, else the patently erroneous view that multiple and divergent exchange rates and economic policy confusions do not negatively affect FDI, become accepted as truth.

One point eight million television views tune in to watch the three men vying to be chancellor after the next election clash over the public deficit, taxation policy and spending cuts.

Krueger says it does not matter that «at this point in time that I don't think a tax cap is good public policy.»

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a man with more political lives than an adventurous cat, leads Republican incumbent Rick Scott by a dozen percentage points in the latest Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released yesterday.

«We will each have different things to point to in our respective records, but that does not mean that we're not moving toward the same public policy goals.

«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.

The strategy was to coordinate messaging among liberal groups and reduce complex policy questions to «talking points and narratives that play well in the media and build public support for the White House's policy goals.»

On an equally serious point, some of the anti-hunting groups are charities, which are supposed to base their policies and public statements on firm evidence, something that has clearly not happened in the hunting debate.

Dr. Spencer's point was the initial public health policy reactions by politicians in the US were largely driven by fear instead of science.

At one point it celebrates the fact that public support for the policy in Australia has risen from 28 % to 51 % since plain packs were introduced.

Businesses are questioning the legality of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policy to direct 30 percent of public contracts to women - and minority - owned businesses, pointing out that agencies seem to have skipped conducting studies that are required by law.

Yesterday's speech was light on new policy, so we must assume the point was to send a message: that despite growing public scepticism — a recent YouGov poll found 78 % of people thinking it «unlikely Cameron will deliver his immigration promises» — he remains personally committed to doing so.

Labour is moving leftwards, not necessarily far left, but my point is that there are many unknowns such as the McClusky / union ties, or any kind of policy which is in the public domain which are yet to play out.