Sentences with phrase «top policy priority»

Sam Magavern, executive director of the Partnership for the Public Good, said their 264 partner organizations have made lead poisoning prevention their «top policy priorities for 2017».

Cuomo also got his second top policy priority: Paid Family Leave, for which New Yorkers will be eligible starting in 2018 after working for six months at a job.

Today's Siena poll finds New Yorkers share two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo top policy priorities — ethics reform and a property tax cap — and will hold chiefly the Senate Republicans to blame if either fails to pass this week — the last full scheduled work week of the 2011 legislative session.

In a Pew Research Center poll last month, global warming came in second from the bottom on a list of Americans» 23 top policy priorities for 2015.

Securing their release is one of the Prime Minister's top policy priorities, and he may suggest to Trump that if Kim is willing to do so it would be a sign that he is willing to negotiate in good faith.

But at a time when the president has identified climate change as one of his top policy priorities, an application that started as a routine regulatory matter has taken on outsize political importance in the United States.

But it's no secret that the biggest sticking point of all was the minimum wage increase, which the governor made clear for weeks leading up to the April 1 deadline was his top policy priority.

Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.

With time running out, Congress today easily approved a short - term spending bill that would prevent a partial federal government shutdown over the weekend, but departed in advance of the president's first 100 day milestone (tomorrow) with addressing two of his top policy priorities: health care and a year - long budget deal.

In the days leading up to today's combined State of the State / budget address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced no fewer than 12 initiatives and leaked out a handful more, aiming to ensure some of his top policy priorities get the coverage he believes they deserve.

He continued: «Our top policy priority is to deliver the necessary effective action on climate change and transport.

Everyone will be waiting to hear what the governor has to say, and he'll be traveling around the state in advance of his speech to play up some of the highlights — making sure his top policy priorities get covered by the media and aren't lost in the shuffle.

Everyone will be waiting to hear what the governor has to say, and he'll likely be traveling around the state in advance of his speech to play up some of the highlights — making sure his top policy priorities get covered by the media and aren't lost in the shuffle.

The Business Council and the governor are currently at odds over Cuomo's two top policy priorities — the $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and Paid Family Leave — both of which Briccetti and others have warned will have a negative impact on businesses, particularly small businesses, in New York.

About a month ago, Democrat Cynthia Nixon made marijuana legalization the top policy priority in her bid to unseat Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Queens is pleased that the Mayor is placing this as a top policy priority for his administration and has included emerging neighborhoods like Long Island City and Flushing West.

In 2009, Democrats failed to muster even all 32 of their members to approve the bill, losing one of their top policy priorities.

Even on his top policy priority of campaign finance reform, he wrestled with his words and had to be pulled back twice by debate moderator Errol Louis of NY1 when he strayed to attack de Blasio in the middle of explaining his proposal.

State plans show widespread inclusion of early learning in state priorities, while a few states even integrated early learning as a top policy priority throughout the state's plans.

Getting students out of those schools should be a top policy priority.

He calls on our state to make public education its top policy priority, and points to his plan as a framework for making California's public schools among the very best in the nation.

Maintaining maximum affordability and choice should be a top policy priority for regulators an legislators.

Funding and personnel have been the top policy priorities, yet other barriers to success remain.

This is a not an easy transition and a significant task for the world's second largest economy, however, progress is being made and the development of these new growth sectors is among the top policy priorities of the government.