Sentences with phrase «welfare policy by»

The live export industry performs a major retreat on animal welfare policy by endorsing a Labor proposal for an independent inspector to oversee the trade.

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Policy advisor Andrew Bremberg explained that the order seeks to promote «common - sense reforms» that «restore American prosperity,» by helping Americans move «from welfare to work.»

(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.

Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»

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.

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.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

They continue to advocate policies that increase GDP even when they do not increase economic welfare as measured by the ISEW.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

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.

Reagan - era populist conservatives showed that it was possible for the party to move «right» on taxes, welfare, and foreign policy and win over the persuadable voters that the establishment believed could only be won by moving left.

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.

Our animal welfare policy is guided by the Five Freedoms of animal welfare, and we expect all suppliers to implement practices and pursue continuous improvement consistent with these Five Freedoms:

The live export industry is considering a major retreat on animal welfare policy, by canvassing an idea put forward by Labor for an independent inspector to oversee the treatment of livestock.

The research has been spurred by changes in federal welfare policies that have emphasized moving families, often headed by single women, off public assistance.

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.

Ed's badly received conference speech, considered somewhere between impenetrable and irritating by most observers, angered the business lobby by dividing companies into goodies and baddies, while irritating the left by signing up to coalition policies on welfare.

Many of those who claim to be baffled by some Labour members» unwillingness to compromise on welfare wouldn't give way on other policies that might prove electorally popular.

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.

It appears that these traditionally conservative voters, made vulnerable by the recent financial recession, are beginning to rethink the structure of values endorsed by party politics, whose policies seem to communicate that profits, not people's welfare, are the bottom line.

The study, by welfare - to - work consultancy Policy in Practice, also suggests that the changes would leave recipients facing tax rates of 93 % on their additional earnings.

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.

Polling recently published by Policy Exchange shows that a Labour shift on immigration and welfare would be the single most important issues to win back Labour swing voters.

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.

And Mayor de Blasio is so ideological, and is really not focused on the needs of the people of New York City and is changing so many good reforms that were put in place by Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg [on] welfare, with respect to policing policies, and with respect to education,» he said.

It comes as by welfare - to - work consultancy Policy in Practice has found that two thirds of those who receive tax credits will be left worse off by the Government's planned cuts to the benefit.

The crisis in policy - making in health is perhaps matched only by that in welfare.

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.»

By supporting Grant Shapp's Right To Move policy, Iain Duncan Smith's proposals to end welfare dependency, George Osborne's raising of the personal allowance threshold, and Michael Gove's free schools - am I not supporting policies that will narrow the gap between rich and poor?

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.

It's not often that the whole cross section of the Lib Dems gets behind a policy, we've seen that this conference with issues such as welfare and airports, but by focusing on mental health Nick Clegg has got his party united on an important issue, and ready for what will be difficult months ahead.

Central to the idea of this site are the nuts and bolts of policies introduced by governments, presumably for the welfare of their citizens.

Bryne says that when Duncan Smith was in opposition, he said welfare policies should be judged by their impact on the poor.

Earlier on Monday, a report by Policy in Practice — a group that works with local authorities on welfare changes — revealed the impact on two - thirds of working tax credit recipients over the next five years, and suggested that the # 4.4 bn savings from the tax credits package would be partly offset by higher housing benefit and council tax support payments.

There was confusion among Corbyn spokespeople, but, by the end of the campaign, Corbyn's policy of continuing most of the planned draconian cuts to welfare was confirmed as still in place.

The governor, who arrived the state from Abuja where he had been since Sunday to attend PDP meeting, said no policy of the federal government that is inimical to the welfare of the people would be spared by his comments.

Nigel Farage will want the by - election to be about Europe, immigration and welfare and the Tories will probably select a candidate and trumpet policies that they think will «appeal» to Ukip voters, not realising that it's a political dead end.

Ed Miliband will attempt to fight back against his internal Labour critics today by unveiling new policies demanding more «responsibility» from the highest paid people and welfare claimants.

Tories fear Ukip could make capital out of any perception that England will lose out if Scotland gains the power to set its own spending, taxes and welfare policy — or so - called devo max — in return for staying in the UK, ahead of a potentially damaging by - election in Clacton next month.

As the prime minister pledged over the weekend to respond to the economic downturn by speeding up the reform of public services, the new campaign warned that a «draconian» welfare policy was not the right one in a recession.

The political landscape is wholly transformed by new dynamics of Brexit not only on issue of EU membership, but on immigration / race, welfare, education, policies of austerity, cuts and caps to public services..

The resignation of minister Brooks Newmark after a sting by a Sunday newspaper, coupled with the defection of Mark Reckless to Ukip, have meant new policies such as reducing the welfare cap have been largely overshadowed.

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.

The specific animal health and welfare policies as well as regulatory aspects used and followed by the participating mouse clinics are described in detail on their respective websites:

Murray's earlier books — Losing Ground in 1984, on welfare policy, and The Bell Curve (with Richard Herrnstein) in 1994, on the significance of differences in intelligence as measured by intelligence tests — aroused controversy, because, implicitly or explicitly, they focused attention on black Americans, who play a disproportionate role in welfare policy, and as a group score lower than whites on IQ tests.

Scott eventually signed the education policy bill into law, despite the massive campaign by opponents, who decried the legislation as a «monstrosity» and «corporate welfare.»

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.