Sentences with phrase «standards of public life»

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At the same time, public pressure to improve the standard of living on reserves is soaring.

To put it another more understandable way these two families have completely different standards of living and if so there is no public policy reason why they should face similar tax rates.

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.

Because the standard VC fund charges an annual fee of 2 % on committed capital over the life of the fund — usually 10 years — plus a percentage of the profits when firms successfully exit, usually by being acquired or going public.

More visible to the outside world than modernizing our Membership model, we also strive to lead by taking public stances on issues that impact businesses across Greater Vancouver, and thus our communities and the standard of living we aspire to have for our families.

Sure this speaks of double standards to an extent but when you choose to live your life in the public eye that is what you have to be aware of.

The median Swedish family has a standard of living rough iv comparable with that of the median U.S. family: wages are if anything higher in Sweden, and a higher tax burden is offset by public provision of health care and generally better public services.

That is to say, theological schools have characteristically acted in this regard as though they acknowledged a responsibility to be part of a larger public cultural life and to be accountable to its standards.

Whether inflation rises or the Federal Reserve Bank uses its power over interest rates to limit the potential inflationary impact of the falling dollar, the ultimate outcome of our recent overdependence on foreign saving will be a lower standard of living (or slower increases in living standards), such that decent levels of retirement income (private and public) can not be maintained.

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It has to do with public standards that allow for all persons to participate in a just social order and in a community in which the promises of a good life may be a realized hope for all.

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But, then, why did he recognize a significant and positive role for public authority in the functioning of the economy and why did he advocate reasonable wages and living standards for the workers, instead of leaving these to be determined by the economic processes themselves?

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

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.

The standard operating procedure of the May government is to outsource immigration enforcement to the public, embedding borders in all sorts of different aspects of our day - to - day life.

The aim of a progressive political economy ought to be forging a resilient and balanced economy where people and businesses can plan ahead; delivering more egalitarian outcomes that narrow the inequalities of wealth and ownership which characterise modern capitalist economies; and sustaining growth that is necessary both for rising living standards and improvements in public services.

And often, the principle of independent scrutiny was then taken by the government, or the hard - pressed leadership in a particular area of public life where standards were said to be inadequate, to imply formal enforcement by an external body.

In the United Kingdom, thanks to the powerful influence of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, we tend to see public ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevPublic Life, we tend to see public ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevpublic ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevented.

Let me offer three reasons why standards issues continue to trouble us so much, despite the many years of good work by the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

It is the actions of politicians that determine standards in public life.

We find that public pensions are vital to ensuring a decent standard of living for black retirees: the poverty rate among black retirees without public pensions is nearly 20 percent higher than the poverty rate among black retirees with public pensions — almost double the difference in poverty rates between all retirees with and without public pensions.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

Mark Carney should take heed of public anger over lower living standards or risk losing the Bank's independence, says former foreign secretary

«The public will rightly take a very dim view of the Labour frontbench joining arm in arm with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg and other Brextremists to vote for a Brexit which will cost jobs, damage living standards and leave our public services with less investment.»

This provides a sad commentary on the current state of the political system and standards in public life.

* 17th October 2017, Committee on standards in public life: Intimidation of Parliamentary candidates: roundtable transcript Speaker: Tim Bale (pdf)

Labour's campaign is correctly focussed on housing and public transport, two of Londoners» most pressing concerns about living standards.

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.

Working class living standards are set to face an onslaught with the deepest public service cuts since the Second World War and the weakening of pay and working conditions of millions of people.

It would also look at «the necessity of urgent new legislation to balance those provisions» with recommendations made in a report from the committee on standards in public life on the «big donor culture» in politics.

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledge their support for the recommendations of the chairman of the committee on standards in public life

It would mean a lower standard of living for future retirees, reduce the ability to recruit individuals who see public service as a career and create a mercenary mentality where the commitment to public service no longer exists.

«When women are engaged in public life, the standard from which they start from in terms of how society view them is that they are incompetent but the man by just being a male gender is seen as competent until they prove that they are incompetent.

Patrick Diamond on what the left can do in an era of less growth, less public spending and lower living standards; Sarah Mulley on Labour's immigration challenge; Stuart White and Martin O'Neill on the «New Labour that wasn't» and the lessons for «one nation» Labour today.

Michael Dugher, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on a committee on standards in public life report on the funding of British political parties:

Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, said the meeting appeared to be a breach of the ministerial code.

The prime minister's spokesperson comments on a committee on standards in public life report on the funding of British political parties:

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

Here's what the committee on standards in public life has to say about its lessons learned from overseas models: «The importance of the prize — political office — is such that the temptation for avoidance or, in some cases, evasion is considerable.»

Last November the committee on standards in public life put forward a proposal to cap individual donations at # 10,000 and increase the amount of funding of political parties paid for by the state.

Bell is a class act as a journalist and a consistent champion of higher standards in public life.

In evidence, Sir Christopher Kelly, the chairman of the committee on standards in public life, told the committee he believed Cameron had probably broken the ministerial code in not using Mawer.

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

The code requires members to act in the public interest and in accordance with the seven general principles of conduct identified by the committee on standards in public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

Labour MP John Mann, a member of the Treasury select committee, said Theresa May was behind a campaign to shift the focus of public anger at the likely fall in living standards to Threadneedle Street.

Earlier the chairman of the committee for standards in public life said banning MPs from hiring relatives «could be the right thing to do».

Immigration has cast a shadow over the legal standards of British public life.