Sentences with phrase «sectors of public life»

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The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.
The emergence of industrial civilization, in other words, called forth a federal apparatus sufficient to the need to regulate the private sector in the public interest, to provide macroeconomic stability amidst the uncertainties of the business cycle, and to offer the nation's citizens welfare and security programs appropriate to the vicissitudes of modern life.
The greater visibility for Protestants as a whole in Brazil also means that denominations can no longer live in such isolation: the public image of evangélicos affects all sectors and the desire for power leads to alliances which overlook denominational polemics.
«Internships and mentorships are a hallmark of the plan, allowing students to build professional networks, test their skills in real - life situations and develop competencies — including cross-cultural communication — in both public and private sector environments.»
Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bPublic Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bpublic health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.
In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.
Iweriebor assured the players in the private and public sectors in East Africa's largest economy that its Kenyan franchise is ready and committed to finance key projects and business transactions capable of galvanising the economic development of the country and upscale the standard of living of its people.
He therefore pledged his support to forge strategic partnership with traditional authorities, private sector, public institutions, NGOs and individuals, «to attract the needed investment to design, and implement programmes and projects to impact positively on the lives of the people».
(iv) the reversal of public sector cuts and austerity programmes which are putting at risk the lives of pupils and teachers.
I make it 21 to date, including tax - cuts for low - earners, the introduction of a mansion tax, a major council house - building programme, cuts to universal benefits for wealthy pensioners, rent reforms for private tenants, a living wage for public sector workers, and an elected House of Lords.
The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.
Despite campaigning for the living wage to be paid in the public sector and for zero - hours contracts to be scrapped, Freedom of Information requests have shown that all three of the councils controlled or led by Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion, Conwy, and Gwynedd - pay people less than the living wage and use zero - hours contracts.
«The way to build a stronger economy and fairer society, where everyone has opportunity to get on in life, is not to punish public sector workers outside of London and the south east.»
Indeed, when the research team evaluated three further private prisons, they found that prisoner quality of life was higher in two of these additional prisons than in either the poorer performing private prisons or either of the public sector prisons in the study.
Methodology: the research had two main components: an interview, survey and observation based study of senior managers in public and private sector corrections; and a mainly ethnographic and survey - based study of four matched public and private sector prisons and three additional establishments involving observations of and interviews with prisoners and staff, and the administration of quality of life surveys to both groups.
«We have to grow to appreciate the richness that immigration brings, not simply to the Catholic church but to the life of hospitals and many public sector areas where we are now embracing and dependent on people who come to this country willing to give and wanting to support their families back home,» he told the Telegraph.
We have a diverse and growing membership of 21,000 - both in the public and private sectors - living and working in over 20 countries on five continents across the world.
But while the child benefit cut will make a big difference to the lives of already struggling families it will make almost no difference to Britain's huge public sector deficit.
«They added that under President Jonathan, there has been remarkable progress and landmark developments in all sectors of the Nigerian public life, through his Transformation Agenda.
The Department of Environment and Planning collaborates with public and private sector organizations to improve the quality of life for Erie County residents.
The additional cuts to local government, transport and public sector pay will squeeze already - strained public services, making a mockery of the localism agenda and adding more pressure on the cost of living.
In undertaking this important project, Omni and our other private and public sector partners are making a real difference in peoples» lives and the overall vitality of the local economy and the city as a whole.»
These commitments include a national living wage for public sector workers, electrification of the transport network and a «National Care Service».
Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.
Ms Flint said: «Over the next 12 months we will be rolling out a series of other initiatives linking in with partner organisations across the public sector, the food manufacturing and retail sector and with voluntary organisations to support families live a healthy life based on a healthy diet and increased physically activity.
Liberal Democrats under VAT fire In an article for Channel 4 News UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said the VAT rise, along with the changes in the public sector would mean a «cut in living standards for millions of ordinary workers and their families.»
McDonnell is also turning his attention to the prospect of parliamentary battles this autumn, pledging to make life difficult for the Conservatives in the Commons after winning a «majoritarian position» on issues such as scrapping the public sector pay cap.
It is simply an economic fact of life that the public and private sectors must change the way they operate and find new cost effective models to fit these times.
A year before Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his $ 650 million push to grow the life sciences and biotech sectors in the Empire State, SUNY Polytechnic Institute planned a $ 500 million public health complex on its Albany campus that would have housed key labs for the state Department of Health along with IBM and Albany Medical Center.
«The Conservatives and Labour seem to be saying that the easier option for them both is to put up taxes rather than risk upsetting some of the public - sector clients who live on the taxpayers» back.»
General Secretary Frances O'Grady said public sector workers would have «no shares» in the UK's economic recovery, but faced «several more years of penny - pinching and frugal living».
Dyring the 90 minute live programme, the Tory leader said a # 73,000 Lexus purchased by Hull police was a «striking example» of public sector waste.
A public service is a service which is provided by government to people living within its jurisdiction, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services.
Yet the cultures of these four stakeholder sectors in research — public, private, government, and voluntary — are quite different from each other, and each has its own advantages: flexibility, work - life balance, money, accountability, corporate citizenship, future career opportunities, travel demands and opportunities, and so on.
A new innovation fund is investing in start - up and spin - off companies born out of the public research sector that have potentially life - changing, high - yielding ideas.
This year is strong in both the public AND the private sectors of your life, bringing a heady mix of influence and introversion.
John Danner came from Silicon Valley and saw how technology had permeated so many other parts of industries and sectors and service areas that afford us the life that we enjoy, [but] was stunned to find how little technology had infiltrated and become a part of how public education works.
After all, a common test does make life easier for parents «shopping» for schools across the public, private, and charter sectors and for taxpayers seeking evidence of return on investment from their education dollars.
Across the United States and around the world, in both public and private sectors, the work of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child has helped change the conversation about providing young children with a healthy, safe, and nurturing start in life
«The pay cap needs to be lifted for all public sector workers if we are to protect our public services, which are an essential part of everyone's daily life.
The Colorado Supreme Court recently restored a measure of fiscal sanity to public sector retirement law in the Centennial State by reversing a Court of Appeals ruling which said that the state could not cut cost - of - living adjustments to help return the state's pension system to health.
In 2016 a publication I worked on focused on visual imagery as much as the text that accompanied it with a series of photographs that illustrated the many, fascinating stories of life in the public sector.
While neither sister has a firm retirement date in mind, they can expect their investment portfolios and generous public - sector pensions will provide a retirement standard of living well above the average.
That's why many public sector workers discover that they actually have a much higher standard of living in retirement than they did when they were working.
For instance if you and your spouse earned an annual salary of $ 63,000 each working in the public sector, and you both retired at age 65 after working for 35 years, you can expect to live like royalty when you retire.
While 70 per cent of public - sector workers enjoy the classic DB pensions that guarantee a set payout for life, only 10 per cent in the private sector do, Bezaire confirmed, «and it's trending even lower for private - sector pensions.»
In this country, many people of color work in the public sector as teachers, social workers, first responders, healthcare providers, and other critical areas of responsibility that improve our overall quality of life.
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PARINAZ MOGADASSI — A new chapter of your life is beginning: you're closing the gallery and making a move to the public sector, as Director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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