Sentences with phrase «rating of an elected official»

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Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold measures.

Elected officials vote on business regulations and rates and subsidies and you see no conflict of interest there?

Elected officials should serve the public because they feel it is a civic duty, not because of the rate of pay.

The comptroller, who has the highest approval rating of any city elected official according to a recent Quinnipiac Poll, said he understood why so many of his colleagues were excited to participate in a roll - out of the program today, and to offer their support in a press release in which Mr. Stringer was notably absent.

An elected official in the City of Buffalo, Council Member David Rivera recalled Lt. Duffy saying to a group of Latinos he met with in Buffalo the week before the election he'll be back, but no one has heard from him ever since and there are no Latinos from the City of Buffalo on any of the transitions teams though it is the largest community outside of NYC and among the most impoverished one with one of the highest unemployment rates in the regions, dropout rates and dependency on social services.

Bloomberg and Cuomo are among an array of elected officials — both Democrats and Republicans — who question the federal government's formula for calculating unemployment rates.

The decision, backed by all of the neighborhood's elected officials, dramatically increases the odds that CB3's vision of a mixed use (residential and commercial) project, including 50 % affordable and 50 % market rate housing, will one day become a reality.

At 63 %, Schumer had the highest approval rating of any New York statewide elected official in a Siena College poll late last month.

There are also a few top elected officials with a lower approval rating than the mayor: Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, whom the poll found only 29 percent of New Yorkers support (and 23 percent oppose), a new low for her as well.

At the same time, they showed pictures of these elected officials to Dutch students who knew nothing about Israeli legislators, and they asked the students to rate the politicians» physical attractiveness.

The angst is palpable among state officials — especially the elected kind — over the threat of soaring failure rates, and not just among the poor and dispossessed.

Cities across the country suffer from lagging student achievement and high dropout rates, and elected officials know the role that education plays in the overall vitality of their communities.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

Washington, DC About Blog PolitiFact is a fact - checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth - O - Meter.

We regularly get updates on approval ratings for our elected officials, but what about CEOs of major companies, especially those in charge of retail chains?