Sentences with phrase «social welfare policies»

Significant courses in this field include social work methods, social welfare policies and human growth / development.

At this point, popularity of these social welfare policies will be the least of our worries.

My point is that many non-profit organizations can support social welfare policies because they are receiving revenue from the government.

R. Claire Friend, MD, is a retired psychiatrist and frequent commentator on the psychological dimensions of education and social welfare policies.

She is a retired psychiatrist and frequent commentator on the psychological dimensions of education and social welfare policies.

NYT columnist, Nicholas Kristoff comes to Pat Moynihan «s conclusion (endorsing «benign neglect «-RRB- regarding harmful social welfare policies.

Social welfare policies which encourage marriage and family cohesion such as increasing the «marriageability» of men, through wage supports and the EITC, will be of more long term benefit than creating new programs and new services.

But that is best done through generous social welfare policies and support in making the transition to new employment.

Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Security.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

Our findings have important implications for education and social welfare policy in Michigan and beyond.

We will begin by considering historical and contemporary trends in domestic poverty, U.S. social welfare policy, the legal framework under which poverty - related claims have been adjudicated, and the role of lawyers in combatting poverty.

Social Justice Solutions is a forum to promote the exploration of social welfare policy, social work practice and politics in general.

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They direct and administer the development of health care and social policies, and oversee programs aimed at improving the health and social welfare of individuals and communities.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

75, the federal government also introduced virtually all of the major policy innovations that make up Canada's system of social programs: Canada - wide Medicare, universal pensions, the modern unemployment insurance system, and cost - sharing with the provinces for higher education and welfare.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

The Clinton Administration was politically able to trade market reforms of social welfare programs (where there are fewer well «organized voters) for egalitarian policies in the labor market, college athletics, academia, and the military (where voters can be organized).

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

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.

The ideologisation is seen in that the market with its sole criterion of economic growth is made to determine policies regarding other economic goals like liquidation of mass poverty, economic welfare and eco-justice, but also policies regarding directions in social educational and cultural life.

Health Care in an Aging Society Mr. James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs.

To be sure, the low - income family was not eroded by state welfare policies alone: changing social mores, particular those from the sexual revolution, have contributed to the poor's marital crisis in a profound way.

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

That is why we maintain that consistent opposition that such policies of privatization, deregulation and commercialization are policies that are deliberate to punish the poor that will never at any point give social welfare security.

Critics of the policy have argued affluent areas will be «cleansed» of welfare claimants causing social segregation and destitution in larger households.

The discourse surrounding this protest avoids foriegn policy issues, while it is obvious to all parties involved that the solution to questions of welfare and social policy can not be detached from whatever stand Israel chooses to take with regard to the upcoming UN resolution and its consequences.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

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.

And Osun, despite its lean purse and the plain mischief of negative branding on the religious front, approximates most, by its developmental policies and programmes, the Awo exemplar of a welfare state, as well as how MKO's presidency could have panned out, in people - centred social democracy.

For example, in 2006 Brian Burgoon argued that social policies offset preference for terrorism and countries with generous welfare provisions suffer fewer attacks and have a lower number of home - grown terrorists.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.

[Next month Greg Clark MP - chairman of the welfare reform subgroup of Iain Duncan Smith's social justice policy group - will be writing three articles for ConservativeHome on what he is learning].

Social Liberal Forum campaigns on welfare and food poverty illustrate the need for that document to look forwards as well as back; to solve problems left by Conservatives» espousal of regressive policies.

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.

«Contrarily to what we initially hypothesized, gender inequalities... were not lower in those welfare state regimes with greater levels of wealth redistribution and more universal policies for social protection nor, more specifically, among the most privileged... occupational social classes,» Campos - Serna writes.

Delaying what they believe is the optimal policy by 50 years, the researchers estimate, would have a social welfare cost equivalent to a perpetual 1.7 percent drop in annual consumption, from today forward.

And they call on doctors «to advocate for social and welfare policies that are informed by the evidence available and evaluated for their health effects, so that they protect people during crisis rather than creating further health problems.»

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.

Their study «provides further evidence to policy makers who are interested in aligning the social welfare objective of improving workers health and wellbeing with the need to make the business case to employers.»

I speak at universities and conferences internationally about nutrition and sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and food policy issues.

So you might have a welfare policy, a student welfare policy or wellbeing policy that's about supporting students and being caring and developing their social skills.

Early - education policy in the Unites States has its roots in the social - welfare initiatives that began at the turn of the 20th century and continue to this day with successful programs like Head Start.

The journal offers a forum for the presentation of research and policy initiatives in education, social services, public policy, and welfare reform as they affect children, youths, and families in poverty.

Together, they bring decades of experience promoting the social and emotional welfare of children as classroom teachers, developmental psychologists, pediatricians, nonprofit leaders, and leading voices in public education policy.