Sentences with phrase «said policy director»

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Gail McGowan, the Department of Consumer Employment and Protection associate director of Policy and Education, said WorkSafe aimed to focus on the prevention of workplace injury and the education of employers and employees.

«Some funeral home directors are saying, «Cremation isn't paying the bills anymore, so let me see if I can help people harvest body parts,»» said Steve Palmer, an Arizona mortician who serves on the National Funeral Directors Association's polidirectors are saying, «Cremation isn't paying the bills anymore, so let me see if I can help people harvest body parts,»» said Steve Palmer, an Arizona mortician who serves on the National Funeral Directors Association's poliDirectors Association's policy board.

Sarah Herrlinger, director of global accessibility policy for Apple, said a key challenge with implants was fact that audiologists do not always prescribe a matched set of Cochlear implants.

«Carly Fiorina was the only one who didn't sound like she had time - traveled from the Reagan administration,» says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way, a left of center think tank.

Other analysts, such as Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by thPolicy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by thpolicy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by the FCC.

«This is an extremely generous benefit, and while it's fantastic for the women who work there, I don't know how feasible it is going to be for the majority of industries to do something to this extent,» said Alina Salganicoff, vice-president and director of women's health policy for Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that researches health care issues.

«That increase represents money the U.S. is just throwing away — that's crowding out the funding on everything from health care to the military,» says Marc Goldwein, the CRFB's senior policy director.

Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

Industries including banking, healthcare and auto manufacturing «see themselves on the cusp of a new era of deregulation, and they do not want to do anything that would offend the new emperor,» said Cornelius Hurley, director of Boston University's Center for Finance, Law & Policy.

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

ILO Director - General Guy Ryder said that this required an urgent» policy re-think» and that «stronger efforts are needed to accelerate employment creation and to support enterprises that create jobs.»

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

«International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion,» Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

The BBC said it asked for an interview with Facebook's UK director of social policy, Simon Milner, to discuss its findings.

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

Amazon's expansion in organic products through Whole Foods bodes well for the sector, said Nate Lewis, farm policy director at OTA.

«The biggest mistake that people make is not filling out the FAFSA, or filling it out late,» said Karen McCarthy, director of policy analysis for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

«If a business eliminates pollution controls in the workplace, you [may] have an increase in industrial accidents,» says Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy Instpolicy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy InstPolicy Institute.

«That's a rounding error in Texas» budget,» said economist Frederick Floss, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York - based think tank that has researched the issue of immigration and state economics.

One common mistake entrepreneurs make in their business plans is to project that they will capture a certain percentage of the overall market for their product without fully explaining how they intend to do that, says Mark Steranka, director of planning and policy for Moss Adams» Consulting Group in Seattle.

«I would not say, or join the chorus, that [Mark Zuckerberg] has made a $ 45 billion gift,» says Roger Colinvaux, director of the Law and Public Policy program at Catholic University.

«This is a testament of Singapore's inclusive diplomatic relations and effective foreign policy,» Philippe May, managing director of Arton Capital's Singapore office, said in a statement.

«Government policy is pro — productivity,» says Andrew Sharpe, executive director of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.

What stands in the way of rapid development are numerous boundary disputes, says Peter Harrison, director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Additionally, when low - wage workers are paid more, they tend to immediately spend extra wages locally, says James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York.

«We know that guests are increasingly seeking plant - based proteins for personal health reasons and / or to reduce their environmental impact,» said Sara Burnett, Panera's director of wellness and food policy, in the release.

«It goes beyond matters of income and wages, said Will Rodger, director of policy communications, American Farm Bureau.

«It's both defensive and offensive,» Devi Keller, director of global policy for the Semiconductor Industry Association, said of the industry's position on the new talks.

«We're fairly confident the issues we identified will be addressed in the negotiations,» said Ed Brzytwa, director of global policy at the Information Technology Industry Council.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

«It's pretty clear that caring for children is a barrier for women entrepreneurs,» says Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation, citing a study that looked at men and women who had a PhD in a scientific field.

Bob Gardner, director of policy at the Wellesley Institute, says duplication is always a danger and that «unfortunately, health reform has a long and not so glorious history of that.»

«Once pollutants get into the ground water, they move pretty freely, so it makes a lot of sense to expand the types of waters covered by the EPA,» said Bob Martin director of food system policy, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

«The EPA has been overzealous and overreaching in their attempts to mitigate the inevitable environmental impacts of farming, said Will Rodger, director of policy communications, American Farm Bureau.

«Today people move from job to job and they need a retirement benefit that they can take with them,» said Jeri Busch, director of military compensation policy for the U.S. Department of Defense.

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

«There's a technical question, which is, could you comply if you wanted to, and then the bigger meta question is why would you want to cooperate with this politicized drive to suppress freedom of expression,» said Andrew McLaughlin, Google's former director of global policy and now leading content organization at Medium.

«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the egg and pork industries away from confining animals in cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.

«[It's] one of if not the worst forms of animal cruelty within industrial animal production,» says Josh Balk, senior director of food policy at HSUS.

«Extending the Choice Program is the right thing to do, but only as a stopgap measure until better solutions are developed and implemented,» said Dan Caldwell, policy director at CVA.

«For many years, the U.S. was the best place in the world to go start a company,» says Jason Wiens, a policy director at the Kauffman Foundation.

Travelers also say that they are often confused during the booking process, according to Anna Laitin, director of financial policy for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

E-mail has become so intrinsic to the way work is done at companies of all sizes, it's where most business records are stored, says Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, an electronic communications consultant and author of a book on e-mail policies due out in December.

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

Brad Close, the NFIB's director of public policy in the House, said it was a straightforward piece of legislation to address the needs of entrepreneurs who use their personal credit cards for business.

If these measures go into effect, the impact on the economy and small businesses would be modest, says Thomas Hungerford, senior economist and director of tax and budget policy at the Economic Policy Instpolicy at the Economic Policy InstPolicy Institute.