Sentences with phrase «reform by doing less»

If you can do more reform by doing less physical publishing, that just makes sense.

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It presented two findings: First, the German public didn't like the reforms passed by Merkel's government in its first year; second, when the public was presented with arguments and data justifying the reforms, it liked them even less.

Under the proposed reform, campaigns would be financed by taxpayers only and candidates would spend less on their campaigns than they currently do.

Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society shows that 63 % of those who voted on May 7 did so for losing candidates, and that almost half of elected MPs won less than 50 % of their constituency vote.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

This implies that the real challenge for conservatives like my pal Andy has less to do with the nature of reform than ensuring that the public and private functions served by education are brought into proper balance, held there, and made to work optimally for as many of our children as is humanly possible.

School finance reform, the remedy sought by urban districts and activists in the post-Milliken era, has made less difference than one would have hoped and has done little to bring most urban schools up to par with suburban ones.

«They who in my time have attempted to correct the manners of the world by new opinions, reform seeming vices; but the essential vices they leave as they were, if indeed they do not augment them, and augmentation is therein to be feared; we defer all other well doing upon the account of these external reformations, of less cost and greater show, and thereby expiate good cheap, for the other natural, consubstantial, and intestine vices.»

The nonpartisan branch of government is getting its job done, by implementing commonsense reforms and measuring performance, by implementing new technology and working smarter, and by re-engineering courts and increasing efficiency — all to serve the public better and at less cost.

My point here is that rather than start ethics reform by randomly introducing less qualified, for - profit law practitioners into the market as specious proof that something is actually being done to improve access to justice, let's tackle the challenges that can and will move the needle; such as, modernization of the court system, increasing legal aid, and modernizing lawyer ethics rules that will enable lawyers and law firms to innovate and modernize the business and practice of law.