Sentences with phrase «public programs do»

Most of the public programs we do offer are of decent quality, if not sufficiently accessible.

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«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.
The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.
Aside from the lack of public support from Netflix, Nielsen's new service could also suffer from the fact that it does not yet measure how many people watch Netflix programming on mobile devices, which likely represents a large chunk of viewership.
The cheques do not have to be tied in the public's mind to the GST credit; call it the Canada Food Inflation Rebate (CFIR), but piggyback it off of the existing infrastructure provided by the GST credit program.
Since the Italian public opinion does not want a euro exit, the political class will probably decide that the former is better, and that it is less humiliating to be in a conditional lending program run by one of their own - the ECB President Mario Draghi.
Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.
If you thought or were told you didn't qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program because you were not enrolled in a qualifying repayment plan — typically an income - driven plan — the Department of Education might still let you erase your loans.
«This is a great first step in ensuring the program is doing what it was intended to do — incentivize people to work in public service,» she said.
Dr. Louis Baxter, executive medical director of the Professional Assistance Program of New Jersey and an alcohol and substance abuse consultant with the NBA and NFL, told me that it's one thing for CC Sabathia to voluntarily announce that he is going to rehab, «but the public doesn't have a right to know this information, and Sabathia wasn't obligated to disclose it.»
She does a lot of public speaking, and earlier this year starred in the Oxygen series Quit Your Day Job, a reality - type program that documented her and three friends as they invested in and mentored young entrepreneurs.
But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.
Bob Coleman, the editor of the small - business lending industry newsletter The Coleman Report, says that his public - sector pick would be Canales because she did a «great job» running those targeted financing programs.
In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).
To do a marketing campaign in which to get PurseAid into public awareness such as appearing on QVC - HSN type television programs and possibly making a commercial promoting and selling PurseAid to the general public.
For example, federal loans can often be a better option for borrowing — even if you could get a lower interest rate on a private student loan — because federal loans have advantages private loans don't have, such as the opportunity to choose income - driven repayment plans or qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»
On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.
But the show has also done good, small - bore reporting on President Trump's domestic agenda — the impact on Kentucky drug - treatment programs if Obamacare is repealed, or how public - private partnerships, of the sort championed by Trump to rebuild infrastructure, have failed to work in building highways in Virginia.
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However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.
And as the Salvation Army does not engage in harm reduction programs, such as needle exchanges or supervised injection, drug use, drug dealing, and alcohol consumption in public spaces can be expected to increase.
Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»
But the First Amendment does not, I believe, preclude government funds going to faith - based programs that offer public goods (e.g., health care, job training, education) that the society wants the government to fund.
James Nuechterlein replies: If Mr. Segermark has his way, the word socialism will no longer mean what it has always meant» public ownership and control of the means of production» but something along the lines of «left - wing programs I do not like.»
it used to be we strived to do better, that is why we ended slavery, ended segrigation, created Social Security, built roads, public schools, ended child labor, created FEMA, the National Weather Service, FDA, FFA, the Military and all the other programs that give us safe schools, roads, public buildings, homes, food, water and products.
And, as Jean - Louis Brindamour, who developed Pyramid Publications» religious program, points out, «The phenomenal growth of sales so far tells us that time and a determined public will eventually force even greater space for such books where they do not yet appear.»
In the earlier years of broadcasting, broadcasters promised Congress to provide churches and other public groups with free air - time for the broadcast of their programs in exchange for favorable legislation which did not bind them to such a compulsory arrangement.
These new UHF stations generally did not have a network affiliation and therefore were not provided with network programs for public - service airing.
Religious affiliation appears to be a litmus test for people who don't want (or are unable) to think critically about more important issues like the economy, war, and support for public programs (education, social security, etc.).
Election returns and public - opinion studies indicate discontent with some serious imperfections in recent liberal political policies and programs; studies also show that the general population does not want to give up the values of such programs and still wants additional selected government services.
I have suggested some of the ways this can be done: increasing the number of TV networks to six or even 12; diversifying the sources of production; increasing support of public broadcasting and community - supported stations; the use of telephone call - ins; follow - up programs with discussions; community - media projects; more use of cable, videocassettes and other less «mass» forms of the technology.
In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.
While the broadcaster is therefore responsible for the content of programming, this right does not abridge the public «s «right to know» and to be fairly represented on the air.
It is possible that stations which did not accept payment for air - time for religious programs reflected a greater concern for public - service programming and therefore presented a wider representation of other programming such as network and local programs.
I do, however, believe religious views are constantly pushed on me, my children, my grandchildren and public school science programs.
«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.
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There are gifted programs in public schools; generally they do not start until first or second grade, or even third grade.
What are N.C. Public Schools doing to improve meals kids eat at school in the wake of new regulations and programs designed to improve childhood health.
Little Groove also does a lot of free programs at the public libraries, classes in different neighborhoods including a weekend class in Back Bay, and two classes a week at the Children's Museum.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.
Does not participate in the following government aid programs: cash assistance, welfare, public housing and section 8.
In Australia giving birth at a public hospital is free, as well as giving birth in a birth centre (I don't know of any private birth centres) and so are the hospital based homebirth programs.
So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.
What I'd advise you to do is call up some of the public hospital antenatal clinics in your area and ask if they run a Midwifery Group Practice program.
In an interview, CPS parent Joy Mollet said she was appalled by the classroom breakfast program offered by her children's public preschool and does not want to see it at their grade school, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy.
It was my understanding from the article that this school participates in the National School Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public school.
She speaks out against CPMs (lay midwives who are tricking the public into believing they have medical training), but is supportive of midwifery programs that do produce real midwives (CNMs) who can provide safe care.
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