Sentences with phrase «welfare policies which»

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.

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(a) Schedule 2.7 (a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a list setting forth each employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement (including any «employee benefit plan» as defined in Section 3 (3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended («ERISA»)(«ERISA Plan»)-RRB-, including, without limitation, employee pension benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (2) of ERISA, multi-employer plans, as defined in Section 3 (37) of ERISA, employee welfare benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (1) of ERISA, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, bonus plans, stock purchase plans, fringe benefit plans, life, hospitalization, disability and other insurance plans, severance or termination pay plans and policies, sick pay plans and vacation plans or arrangements, whether or not an ERISA Plan (including any funding mechanism therefore now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise), whether formal or informal, oral or written, under which (i) any current or former employee, director or individual consultant of the Company (collectively, the «Company Employees») has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has had, has or may have any actual or contingent present or future liability or obligation.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

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.

Though it only has to apply to 10 percent of its purchases right now, the district is also following a Good Food Purchasing Policy which requires food to meet certain standards for animal welfare, fair labor practices, sustainability and support of the local economy.

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.

Then, as guest editor of the New Statesman in 2011, Williams lambasted the coalition for «radical policies for which no - one voted» and attacked its plans for health and welfare.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

There is a public appetite that I certainly would feel very strongly about which is that we have to end the policy of local corporate welfare in the city of Albany.

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).

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.

His staunch support for the coalition's welfare reforms, which the rebellious Lords continued to systematically take apart this week in two big defeats for the government, underlined the fact that much of the coalition's policy book is straight out of the Tory party manifesto.

Earlier this week Cable praised Sarah Teather's attack against the coalition's immigration and welfare policies, which the former minister cited as reasons for her decision to stand down from parliament at the next election, as «eloquent».

Barnardo's, which has previously been extremely critical of the Labour government's immigration policy, is being drafted in to ensure welfare standards once families have their lost asylum appeal.

We can quibble over policy and strategic details: the way in which the debate on immigration is following the welfare debate is becoming divorced from fact; the persistent failure of banking «reform» to get to the fundamental issues; and the possibility that the government's dearth of competence may be a weaker spot than their closeness to fat cat Britain.

It is what the Tories discovered in 2005 when Michael Howard built his campaign on policies that most voters loved — on immigration, crime, welfare and so on — but which, together, led millions of the very voters who backed those policies to conclude nevertheless that Howard was too right - wing.

So why is the leadership so scared of progressive, equality based policies like funding parents not schools, patients not hospitals and welfare reforms which address people's needs, not their means?

On Wintour and Watt, he writes that reports of Miliband's speech in yesterday's welfare debate have missed «the most significant aspect of his speech — an apparent attempt to reframe Labour's economic policy which is being run by his great rival Ed Balls.»

The Country report covered ten thematic areas which include: General measures taken to realize the rights and welfare of the child in the policies and law of the State party or in any other international convention or agreement in force in the state.

The European Union's Treaty of Lisbon, which came into force on 1 December 2009, recognises that animals are sentient beings and calls on member states to «pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals» in agriculture, fisheries, transport, research and development and space policies.

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.

School board policies and procedures must include standards for screening, hiring, and terminating instructional personnel and school administrators, as defined in s. 1012.01; standards of ethical conduct for instructional personnel and school administrators; the duties of instructional personnel and school administrators for upholding the standards; detailed procedures for reporting alleged misconduct by instructional personnel and school administrators which affects the health, safety, or welfare of a student; requirements for the reassignment of instructional personnel or school administrators pending the outcome of a misconduct investigation; and penalties for failing to comply with s. 1001.51 or s. 1012.795.

You can read our Position Statement which describes the Fox Valley Humane Association's view of many practices and policies related to animal welfare.

... reminds me again of some of the failings of the ways we have constructed «climate change» as the centerpiece of progressive environmental and welfare policy, in which science, energy and impacts are locked in tight embrace.

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

In March, the Heartland Institute released an update of its comprehensive welfare reform report card, which ranked each state's welfare reform policies and outcomes.

In order to protect our planet's climate system and vital natural resources on which human survival and welfare depend, and to ensure that young people's and future generations» fundamental and inalienable human rights are protected, government climate pollution policies must be based on the best available climate science.

HSI / India, which along with animal welfare and conservation groups had petitioned Jet Airways to end its role in the international trade in shark fins, applauded the policy.

It sets out to model carbon pricing scenarios, seeking to determine which policy design leads to the greatest aggregate social welfare under various political constraints.

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.

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.

6) Family Life Insurance — A policy which can be either a Term or Permanent life insurance policy and is intended to provide financial protection or a financial safety net for the welfare of the family to ensure the surviving family members are able to maintain their standard of living.

We offer legal and multi-disciplinary trainings for CASA volunteers which explain the Federal and state laws that guide the juvenile court in their decision making along with state child welfare regulations and policies.

NC Works to Engage, Consult, and Respond to Families on a Systematic Level North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program (2016) Describes the creation of North Carolina's Child Welfare Family Advisory Council, which helps guide policy and practice to provide ongoing consultation around child welfare goals in the State.

But to demand an apology and compensation for a policy which has yet to have been established to have been universal, without fair and judicious examination of what actually happened, is conducive to neither reconciliation nor the future welfare of Aborigines.

reference to all associated policies and procedures which promote children's safety and welfare eg with regards to: health and safety, anti-bullying, protection of children online, and photography

The Child and Family Practice Model Packet (PDF - 1,510 KB) Child & Family Policy Institute of California (2016) Describes a model being used in California that was developed as part of the Federal Permanency Innovations Initiative, which has formed pathways for partnering with the community in developing and supporting a culturally responsive approach to systems - level change in child welfare.

Quick Summary: HB 3881 amends the child Care Act providing that licensed child welfare agencies may adopt faith based policies and practices relating to the placement of children for adoption which provide for the placement of a child with a prospective adoptive parent who holds the same religious beliefs as those held by that religious institution.

For two - parent families, MFIP also eliminated the arcane work - history requirements and the «100 - hour rule,» a policy that limited the number of hours a primary earner could work and still receive welfare but which had the perverse, unintended effect of encouraging couples to divorce so they could remain eligible for welfare.

Policy debates about child poverty and welfare reform, which once focused almost exclusively on single mothers and their children, have in recent years begun to train the spotlight on fathers.

We offer legal and multi-disciplinary trainings for social workers which explain the Federal and state laws that guide the juvenile court in their decision making along with state child welfare regulations and policies.

An assimilationist, welfare - oriented foundation which has been challenged by the shift to the policies of Indigenous self - determination and self - management

It compared the potential of supporting governance and capacity strengthening with the more limited «mutual obligation» approach in respect of welfare reform - an approach which the Report concluded was overstretched in the Indigenous policy context and unlikely to produce the breadth of outcome and positive results hoped for.

In order to lessen these impacts, First3Years has started Safe Babies Tarrant County (SBTC), a pilot program in Tarrant County, Texas, which aims to change the policies and protocols in the child welfare system to be more developmentally appropriate for children under age 3 who are removed from their families due to neglect.