Sentences with phrase «said welfare policies»

Bryne says that when Duncan Smith was in opposition, he said welfare policies should be judged by their impact on the poor.

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Corporations agree: «It makes so much sense that you would expect decisions like these to be made with your senior management, starting with your CEO,» says Tod MacKenzie, Aramark's head of public affairs, who also worked on animal welfare policies with Balk and HSUS at DineEquity, owner of the IHOP and Applebee's brands.

«When you have a corporation making animal welfare policy,» Balk says, «there's no geographic displacement of cruelty.»

The company has since introduced an animal welfare policy across its global operations — a move that Saputo says he hopes will enable them to assume a «leadership role» in more humane treatment of livestock.)

Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»

What he does and says while he is here will not move the needle even one degree on the struggles over the death penalty, abortion and Planned Parenthood funding, the marriage and religious freedom issues, immigration policy, the international arms trade, or economic policy and social welfare programs.

Kristie Middleton, food policy manager for The HSUS said, «We welcome Papa John's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

Josh Balk, director of food policy for The HSUS said, «We applaud Ahold USA's move to join its peers in the food industry in addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.

«Hilton Worldwide's new animal welfare commitment will substantially improve countless animals» lives,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director for The Humane Society of the United States.

World Animal Protection says while other major Australian supermarkets provide customers with extensive information on their animal welfare policies with targets and timetables included, Aldi only has a single page on animal welfare.

Speaking today at the Policy Exchange, shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling said the welfare state must act as a safety net and not a way of life.

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

«The Department of Work and Pensions has a long track record of misusing statistics when it comes to the benefits system, and it's clear this was a tactic to vindicate further welfare cuts,» Parkinson's UK policy advisor Donna O'Brien said.

The Social Liberal Forum say «It is heartening to see policies that we as Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for being delivered: the Pupil Premium, the universality of most welfare payments, the creation of a Green Investment Bank, Regional Growth Funds and the protection of spending for schools, the NHS, international development and science.

Critics said the policy would simply result in the shifting of animal research work abroad, where research animal welfare is typically worse than in the UK.

And Mayor de Blasio is so ideological, and is really not focused on the needs of the people of New York City and is changing so many good reforms that were put in place by Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg [on] welfare, with respect to policing policies, and with respect to education,» he said.

The NG7 Food Bank opened 30 months ago in response to «punitive welfare reforms and further draconian immigration policy» which it says have deeply affected already vulnerable groups of people.

«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.

(Syracuse, NY) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, held a news conference today outside Governor Cuomo's media event for the Women's Equality Party (WEP) ballot line to say that Cuomo's economic policies are a slap in the face to working - class women he has neglected as Governor, especially women on welfare and minimum wage workers.

«After 12 years of my conservative policies, we replaced dependency with opportunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, a welfare check with a paycheck,» Mr. Pataki said, adding, «I know we can do the same thing for the United States.»

But the Conservatives said Ms Abbott had «floundered» when pressed over how the policy would be paid for and accused Labour of already pledging to spend the capital gains tax money on schools, welfare and the arts.

Coupled with the ban on claiming welfare entitlements for the first two years of residence, there is, as Jack Straw said more than ten years ago, barely a cigarette paper separating Labour and Tory policy on immigration.

Alexander said the Lib Dems put forward ideas for changing the controversial welfare policy last September and «people shouldn't be surprised it is something the Liberal Democrats have been thinking about».

Katie Lane, Citizens Advice social policy officer, said: «Every year Citizens Advice bureaux provide advice on nearly 3.5 million problems relating to welfare benefit, tax credit, and debt.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins held a news conference outside of the rally site at SWCC to say that Cuomo's economic policies are a «slap in the face to working - class women he has neglected as governor, especially women on welfare and minimum wage workers.»

The governor, who arrived the state from Abuja where he had been since Sunday to attend PDP meeting, said no policy of the federal government that is inimical to the welfare of the people would be spared by his comments.

David Cameron said that it was right to have a cap on welfare payments, and that Labour needed to «think again» about their policy.

He said the documents would help to enhance welfare, command, discipline and administration of the Armed Forces as well as the policy framework governing the conduct of security and defence in Nigeria.

The Work and Pensions Secretary wants to force thousands off ESA but campaigners say the real problem is the failure of his welfare policies

Those findings raise important policy questions in areas ranging from education and health to juvenile justice and social welfare, researchers said at a Capitol Hill briefing organized by AAAS.

Cats Protection's Advocacy Manager Jacqui Cuff said the manifesto would call on key policy - makers to implement measures to improve the long - term welfare of cats in Northern Ireland.

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home's Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Michael Webb, said: «As one of the UK's leading animal welfare charities, we're ready to start work with politicians and other charities to raise the profile of issues affecting cats, who are loved in their millions across the country.

Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer - funded agency on a foreign academic study about a foreign country's experience with its own policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the word gets out.

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.

The policy was said to reflect the maintenance of public confidence in the penal system and the welfare of any child conceived as a result of artificial insemination.

Although your children may now be grown and are enjoying a prosperous, healthy and happy life, it just seems to me that to deprive them of the proceeds of a life insurance policy that was intended for their welfare would be, to say the least, dishonorable.

Ms. Henderson said that family planning «is a matter of human rights and sound child welfare policy.»