• An amendment to the constitution of the US state of Ohio, which passed in a referendum on November 7, 2023, does not allow abortion through the full term of a pregnancy , contrary to what is claimed by posts on social networks. (yahoo.com)
  • Partial Decentralized Paddy Procurement planned for smoother operations in Bongaigaon and Biswanath districts during KMS 2023-24. (indiatimes.com)
  • While both institutions support President Juncker's priorities: investment, structural reforms and growth-friendly, fiscal consolidation - both are reminding the social objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and push to better include them in this year's Semester. (age-platform.eu)
  • Both Parliament and Council emphasise social inclusion and the fight against poverty to be part of structural reforms. (age-platform.eu)
  • The BNP in its 27-point outline, "The structural reforms of the state", also said it would ensure a balance of power between the PM and president. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Department of Health and Social Care now requires the Council to publish our Annex B reports, which provide the outcomes of the exercise and more information on the approach, methodology and the final calculations. (buckinghamshire.gov.uk)
  • US President Joe Biden expressed his support for a reformed United Nations Security Council (UNSC) with India as a permanent member during his bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (indiatimes.com)
  • Yesterday, Mike Bloomberg went to Washington and spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on the topic of immigration reform. (avc.com)
  • While the Parliament and the Council welcome the proposed Investment Plan for Europe, both highlight the relevance of the 2013 Social Investment Package in supporting social dimension. (age-platform.eu)
  • For the Council, active labour market policies should be linked to social protection to avoid loss of human capital. (age-platform.eu)
  • While fiscal consolidation is supported both by the Parliament and by the Council, it has been highlighted by the two institutions that the inclusiveness and fairness of social protection should not be lowered. (age-platform.eu)
  • The Council of Infill Builders hosted a half-day conference today on reforming L.A.'s parking policies. (streetsblog.org)
  • This report presents the status of UN reform as at the end of March 2019, recognizing that some policy decisions by the UN Sustainable Development Group and the Economic and Social Council have yet to be taken. (who.int)
  • An opportunity to define and promote school readiness indicators was facilitated by collaborative relationships with a strong emphasis on data among First 5 LA, the Children's Planning Council, and the Los Angeles County Public Health Department, and other child-serving organizations. (cdc.gov)
  • Economic and Social Council. (who.int)
  • The present thesis examines the Secretariat from its beginnings up until about ten years later, when it was relocated to the Swedish Council for Planning and Co-ordination of Research (Forskningsrådsnämnden), thus losing its ties to the political planning process. (lu.se)
  • For decades now, the federal government's own official reports have been showing that Social Security would not be able to pay all promised benefits to the baby boomers without dramatic, unsustainable tax increases. (theacru.org)
  • Under what the government's actuaries call intermediate assumptions, those deficits will continue until the Social Security trust funds run out of money to pay promised benefits by 2037. (theacru.org)
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled today his government's plan to reform funding of the social care system. (carers.org)
  • The latest programme supports the Indian government's urban sector strategy, with a focus on urban reforms that are aimed at making cities not just liveable but also centres of economic growth "through provisioning of inclusive, resilient and sustainable infrastructure", according to a statement. (indiatimes.com)
  • Social Welfare Law Reform and. (kildarestreet.com)
  • I am pleased to introduce this, the second of two Bills intended to implement the €1.12 billion social welfare package announced in budget 2006 by the Minister for Finance. (kildarestreet.com)
  • It brings the projected level of social welfare expenditure in 2006 to over €13.5 billion, which is double what was spent in 2000. (kildarestreet.com)
  • The reforms are to help many of the 80,000 lone parents, caring for 130,000 children, who want to escape from welfare traps and start out on the paths to training, education and work. (kildarestreet.com)
  • With fuel subsidy reforms, success will be measured not only in fiscal savings, but also in the degree to which governments can navigate a tricky political course and minimize welfare loss, particularly for the poor. (cgdev.org)
  • From changes to unemployment insurance to welfare reform, lawmakers clearly prioritized the state's budget. (ksmcpa.com)
  • FRANCE is to embark on a complete reform of the funding of its social welfare programmes. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Yet, due to diverse complexities of domestic socioeconomic, political and cultural circumstances, the peculiarities of the differing welfare regimes and the MSs' reluctance of further extending EU powers, resulted in the creation of soft law as a regulative response to support the MSs balancing economic, employment and social issues. (lu.se)
  • The thesis situates the Secretariat for futures studies between the welfare state expansion and planning optimism of the late 1960s and the breakthrough of neoliberal ideas and decline of the welfare state of the early 1980s. (lu.se)
  • This was manifested in a utopian view of the future, more particularly one in which Swedish welfare society was ascribed the ability to shape its own future, and to some extent even that of other parts of the world, by means of planning and large-scale reform. (lu.se)
  • In this project, we acknowledge the spaces of the People´s Parks and their development as something happening before we had the notion of a strong welfare state and a Social Democratic Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Duhamel joined Association President Frank Valeri on Capitol Hill in late January for the first round of serious discussions on WEP reform to take place since Democrats gained control of the House earlier in the month. (massretirees.com)
  • Democrats, in turn, used their own projections to minimize the Social Security problem, and the worst-case numbers to illustrate the impact of any benefit cuts. (brookings.edu)
  • As expected, Republicans said the best way to rescue Social Security was to reduce benefits, while Democrats sought to give the program breathing room by raising taxes. (brookings.edu)
  • As of the coalition agreement, it is up to us to name a district elder for Nõmme so that the district of Nõmme will be led by Social Democrats for the next four years," Kaljulaid said. (err.ee)
  • If we are to reduce reoffending and continue to cut crime, Liberal Democrats believe we must reform the use of prison in our justice system. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • One of the reasons that reform is difficult is because if either Democrats or Republicans advance a Social Security reform bill, it is easy for the other party to oppose it for political advantage. (senate.gov)
  • having gained a solid majority of the public's trust on that most basic issue (and set themselves in sympathetic contrast to the GOP on it), the Democrats might have then convinced voters to follow them down the path of health care reform and new environmental rules, among other urgent matters. (nybooks.com)
  • Yet again, congressional Democrats are trying for immigration reform through a partisan social spending bill, and it's a long shot. (wuky.org)
  • Democrats have pitched immigration reform plans twice to the Senate parliamentarian. (wuky.org)
  • At the outset, Swedish futures studies were influenced by the ideological heritage of the Swedish Social Democrats. (lu.se)
  • I'm in favor of reforms," Franchot said in an interview after a July 13 campaign event in Dundalk. (marylandreporter.com)
  • And if you agree with the Mayor, do everyone a favor and call your elected officials in Washington and tell them you are also for intelligent immigration reform (as opposed to comprehensive immigration reform). (avc.com)
  • The Bill represents another important milestone in a wide-ranging programme of reforms of social policy in this country. (kildarestreet.com)
  • The development and subsequently the execution of the Twelfth General Programme of Work 2014-2019 and its associated programme budgets are an essential means of advancing the WHO reform process. (who.int)
  • Social policy objectives, and most importantly the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, should be better included into the European Semester. (age-platform.eu)
  • The wave of economic reform that has swept through Oman since 2020 to rein in budget deficits spinning out of control enters a consolidation phase . (al-monitor.com)
  • Progress report on the actions from the health and social care delivery plan, published in December 2016. (gov.scot)
  • He also outlined his Social Security plan in a fireside chat with the Bipartisan Policy Committee. (senate.gov)
  • The new analysis examines the primary factors driving this growth in debt and provides a number of policy suggestions that would help plan beneficiaries and taxpayers. (117u2.org)
  • Some California officials have discussed pushing the state's pension funds to incorporate environmental, social, and governance goals (ESG) into public pension investment strategies in order to help the state reach its policy goals in areas such as climate change. (117u2.org)
  • Whereas Bill and Hillary Clinton presented a plan to Congress that gave the key legislators comparatively little opportunity to collaborate on health policy or to take credit for it, Obama did the opposite to a fault. (nybooks.com)
  • But there has been no public vetting of whether the former Jesuit seminarian's new reform is a sound public policy or even good for disadvantaged students. (calwatchdog.com)
  • Gov. Brown has preached a "preference for the poor" in social policy while practicing ruinous policies against the poor when it comes to economic policy. (calwatchdog.com)
  • The Cato Institute held a policy forum on "Progressive Price Indexing for Social Security. (c-span.org)
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The conference was accompanied by the release of a new report, Wasted Spaces: Options to Reform Parking Policy in Los Angeles . (streetsblog.org)
  • [2] This paper applies these lessons to the specific issue of fuel subsidy reform, a policy option under consideration to manage mounting fiscal pressure in countries as diverse as Sudan and Lebanon. (cgdev.org)
  • In this study, the cases of the German Elterngeld reforms are applied to scrutinise the influences of these three strategies on domestic policy- making. (lu.se)
  • Europeanisation and its concomitant social, policy and political learning mechanisms. (lu.se)
  • These bodies provide direction for the development of policy documents and operational guidance to advance the different streams of UN reform (see paragraphs 17-19 below). (who.int)
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed into law in July, 1990, is one of the catalysts prompting legal and policy reforms in the area of disability. (cdc.gov)
  • Indicators are powerful tools to support planning, community engagement, policy, and advocacy on behalf of children and families. (cdc.gov)
  • Public policy and social conditions. (who.int)
  • A grandfathered plan is an individual health insurance policy purchased on or before March 23, 2010. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A new corporation, the OMERS Sponsors Corporation, is established to oversee the design and governance of the OMERS pension plans. (ontario.ca)
  • Last year, for the first time since President Reagan saved the program in 1983, Social Security began running a cash deficit. (theacru.org)
  • Reform of the 1983 federal law is a top priority of Congressman Richie Neal (D-MA), who now serves as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. (massretirees.com)
  • The $168 billion package eased the program through a turbulent period, and 1983 marks the last time Congress cut Social Security benefits, raised taxes and lived to tell about it. (brookings.edu)
  • It came as MPs rejected an amendment to the Health and Care Bill by 61 votes that would have obliged the Government to regularly publish an assessment of health and social care workforce numbers in England. (medscape.com)
  • The clause , proposed by Jeremy Hunt, chair of the cross-party Commons Health and Social Care Committee, would also have forced the Health Secretary to explain to parliament how workforce numbers would meet the population's health and care needs for the next 5, 10, and 20 years. (medscape.com)
  • NHS Providers said that Trust leaders would be disappointed that MPs voted down the clause that would have provided a 'robust system' for long-term workforce planning. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, it is suggested to revisit input based payment approaches and health workforce plans in such cases. (who.int)
  • A workgroup developed school readiness goals and indicators based on recommendations of the National Education Goals Panel and five key domains of child well-being: 1) good health, 2) safety and survival, 3) economic well-being, 4) social and emotional well-being, and 5) education/workforce readiness. (cdc.gov)
  • Unpaid family carers were not mentioned once in the Prime Minister's announcement, and it was some time before social care was mentioned. (carers.org)
  • If the BNP is voted to power, it will implement reforms so that no prime minister or president can serve more than two back-to-back terms, the party has said while unveiling its set of state restructure plans. (thedailystar.net)
  • After a two-day round-table conference of business, union and local authority leaders, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said 'France was in a difficult economic and social position' and its social partners needed to be creative with ways to get it back to work. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Social Security operates as a pure tax and redistribution system, with no real savings and investment anywhere. (theacru.org)
  • For too long, successive governments have failed to deliver a plan to fix our broken social care system, despite a rapidly ageing UK population and a steep rise in demand for social care. (carers.org)
  • We are concerned, however, that the plans put forward today will not go far enough in fixing social care, nor do enough to address the chronic challenges of those affected most by our broken social care system - unpaid family carers. (carers.org)
  • It was hardly surprising, therefore, that Carers Trust research found only one in eight carers felt they got enough support from the social care system. (carers.org)
  • We look forward to engaging our local services for carers, and carers themselves, so we can work with government to ensure that what unpaid carers really need from a reformed social care system is represented in plans as they move forward. (carers.org)
  • Our agents can help tenants and landlords understand their rights and responsibilities - only by learning from what already works well can we make informed decisions about how a reformed system should operate. (safeagents.co.uk)
  • They also discussed the need to strengthen and reform the multilateral system and reiterated their support for building resilient global semiconductor supply chains. (indiatimes.com)
  • It said a "judicial commission" would be formed to reform the existing judicial system and a separate secretariat would be created under the Supreme Court. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is continued and is composed of the OMERS pension plans and any retirement compensation arrangements that provide benefits for members and former members of the OMERS pension plans. (ontario.ca)
  • He closed the meeting by saying he would announce a reform to the Smic minimum wage by the end of 2012 and launch talks on reforming the retirement system by the beginning of 2013. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Racism is "a system [of power and oppression] of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call "race") that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources" (1). (cdc.gov)
  • The new health system reform will imply making important decisions on, among others, how to operationalize the purchasing of services, the selection of provider payment mechanisms and the prices to be paid to healthcare providers. (who.int)
  • We propose a global approach targeting the agri-food system, offering innovative social and technical interventions on antimicrobial usage, adapted to family farmers. (cdc.gov)
  • Health Care Reform , Health System Plans by Editor Equity/Equidad - DB . (bvsalud.org)
  • Health Care Reform, Health System Plans, 4. (bvsalud.org)
  • In my view, attempting comprehensive health care reform during Obama's first year with a very bad (and weakening) economy was asking a lot of the American people. (nybooks.com)
  • But the proposals set out today seem to prioritise rescuing a post-pandemic NHS over fixing social care. (carers.org)
  • The two Congressmen and their respective staffs have since crafted a series of proposals specific to WEP reform. (massretirees.com)
  • The previous proposals centered on two aspects of reform. (massretirees.com)
  • The Prison Reform Trust in partnership with leading think tanks is providing platforms for the three main political parties to outline their justice proposals in the pre-election period. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • In a welcome move, two new proposals have advanced the Social Security reform debate. (csmonitor.com)
  • Normally, members of Congress have their Social Security proposals scored by the nonpartisan Social Security Administration Office of the Chief Actuary , but this proposal was introduced in a campaign context rather than a legislative one, hence the private analysis. (ff.org)
  • We have invited only the political parties with which we had talks on state reform proposals," BNP leader Zahir Uddin Swapan told The Daily Star. (thedailystar.net)
  • At the NRSA sitting on Tuesday, members of the reform assembly deliberated the report on social media reform, which was submitted by the corresponding committee. (pattayamail.com)
  • In presenting the report, which focuses on amendments to the Computer Crime Act, the committee on mass communications reform said that a regulatory mechanism is needed to oversee all agencies involved in the use of online media and internet operators, as such a new form of media is still untested and is increasingly popular throughout the community. (pattayamail.com)
  • The committee said that any unscrupulous use of social media could also affect national security. (pattayamail.com)
  • With Neal Committee Chairman and Congressman John Larson (D-CT) serving as Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee, the specifics of a new proposal are now a work in progress. (massretirees.com)
  • Reps. Bill Archer (R) of Texas, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R) of Florida, Social Security Subcommittee chairman, unveiled a plan for overhauling the program without raising taxes or lowering benefits. (csmonitor.com)
  • Revolution and reform in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : the global development impact, views and recommendations of the Committee for Development Planning. (who.int)
  • Committee for Development Planning. (who.int)
  • I just read the whole thing and I'm encouraged and excited that the chorus for intelligent immigration reform has gotten louder. (avc.com)
  • Mike lays out a sensible and intelligent way to reform immigration laws without getting into the contentious issues that have held back immigration reform for many years. (avc.com)
  • Getting your voice into the chorus on intelligent immigration reform would be helpful too. (avc.com)
  • The following interview with Leah Durant, Executive Director of Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), was conducted by Social Contract contributor Peter Gemma. (thesocialcontract.com)
  • Leah Durant is the Executive Director of Progressives for Immigration Reform, a 501(c)(3) organization which seeks to examine the unintended consequences of U.S. immigration policies and strives to enhance the working conditions of people world-wide. (thesocialcontract.com)
  • What is your background and what brought you to a position of leadership in the immigration reform movement? (thesocialcontract.com)
  • Prior to my time at Justice, I served as an attorney for FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. (thesocialcontract.com)
  • In response to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of (IRCA) of 1986, the NAWS was commissioned by the DOL to examine shortages of seasonal agricultur al services workers while simultaneously observing wages and working conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • This is yet another amendment to the Labour and Social Security legislation within the framework of the reforms marathon that began in 2012. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • In particular, the aim is to improve results- based management and accountability through a simplified and robust planning framework that serves as an effective tool for accountability and transparency, programming and resource mobilization. (who.int)
  • First 5 LA incorporated the indicators into the results-based accountability framework for its strategic plan and developed a community-oriented report designed to educate and spur school readiness-oriented action. (cdc.gov)
  • As of the end of the second quarter of 2017, four more of the 100 biggest public pension plans crossed. (plansponsor.com)
  • Due to strong market performance during Q1 2017, the funded status improved for the 100 largest public DB plans in. (plansponsor.com)
  • For years, unpaid carers have had to take on more and more vital care for family members as services collapsed under the weight of cuts to social care. (carers.org)
  • He also outlined his "Big Idea" to address the majority of the Social Security shortfall, which would stave off those impending benefit cuts. (senate.gov)
  • Biden and Trump's plan to do nothing means automatic cuts, we need something better. (senate.gov)
  • The Parliament points out that the reforms of the last years did not succeed to create investment and growth and regrets the negative impact of the cuts in social transfers on the increase of inequality, poverty and long-term unemployment. (age-platform.eu)
  • The only real reform will be deep & permanent cuts to numbers, salaries and especially pensions. (irisheconomy.ie)
  • Oman appears to 'pause' on fiscal reforms. (al-monitor.com)
  • Facing macroeconomic stressors on top of a fragile peace, many countries found themselves balancing precariously between tipping points, knowing that interventions that might ease economic tension may push dangerously close to a political precipice, while those designed to alleviate social unrest may drive the country deeper into fiscal crisis. (cgdev.org)
  • California Gov. Jerry Brown's recently proposed radical public school financing reform -- the so-called "Local Control Funding Formula" -- reflects the Catholic Jesuit social doctrine of 1968 called "the preferential option for the poor. (calwatchdog.com)
  • Nonetheless, his package of reforms reflects radical Catholic social teachings dating back to the 1960s. (calwatchdog.com)
  • WHO's transformation agenda reflects the goals of UN reform. (who.int)
  • Using racially informed, life course-anchored practice models may help assure equitable service delivery to older adults whose current health reflects culturally structured, race-related stress accumulated in social institutions during sensitive periods, developmentally significant social transitions, or ubiquitously over a lifetime (28-31). (cdc.gov)
  • School readiness is therefore an important outcome that reflects health and developmental influences early in life but also reaches far throughout the life course ( 8 ) as the numerous positive health, social, and economic benefits associated with educational attainment are conferred ( 9 , 10 ). (cdc.gov)
  • References to reform of the private rented sector in the speech itself were brief, but media is reporting that plans for a renters reform bill will evolve during this session. (safeagents.co.uk)
  • That is why we plan to do everything we can, whereas we (Reform Party MPs - ed.) can also use obstruction, to make sure the bill does not become law in its current form that spells massive spending," Kallas said. (err.ee)
  • A Planning Practice story by Bill Lennertz - with a sidebar by Jeff Speck. (planning.org)
  • I'm confident that we'll see the details of a new WEP reform bill come together over the coming weeks," said Valeri. (massretirees.com)
  • WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) penned an op-ed in the National Review highlighting President Biden and Trump's "Do Nothing" plan, which results in an automatic 24% cut in Social Security benefits in nine years. (senate.gov)
  • The administration finally announced its own reform principles on February 22, long after both houses of Congress had passed different versions of a bill. (nybooks.com)
  • GRISALES: Well, the current social spending bill includes work permits for any immigrant in the United States before 2011. (wuky.org)
  • It is why the common theme running through the Bill is reform. (kildarestreet.com)
  • The Bill is about reforms that will help us meet the impending pensions challenge, which brings threats of pensioner poverty. (kildarestreet.com)
  • The Bill gives legislative effect to a range of reforms, improvements, incentives and increases, and includes important measures to reinforce protection and extend investigative powers in the pensions area. (kildarestreet.com)
  • The bill creates a new 401(k)-style defined contribution plan with an automatic employer contribution of 4% of the employee's salary. (plansponsor.com)
  • House Bill 8 - a tax reform package that includes a plan to phase out individual income tax, increase taxes on certain services, and eliminate sales tax exemptions for a wide range of industries - was originally vetoed by Gov. Andy Beshear. (ksmcpa.com)
  • Reform legislation is the best chance at putting money in retirees pockets," added Valeri. (massretirees.com)
  • Congress has not passed a piece of major progressive social legislation for many years. (nybooks.com)
  • That is why studies show that for most young workers today, even if Social Security does somehow pay all its promised benefits, those benefits would represent a real rate of return of around 1% to 1.5% or less. (theacru.org)
  • Workers could be allowed to save and invest what they and their employers would otherwise pay into Social Security in personal savings, investment and insurance accounts. (theacru.org)
  • Those accumulated funds would pay all workers at all income levels much higher benefits than Social Security even promises, let alone what it could pay, two to three times as much, and possibly even more. (theacru.org)
  • Connecticut teachers are outside of Social Security, while state and municipal workers participate. (massretirees.com)
  • The Parliament recognises older workers as the population group which is most likely to be long-term unemployed and that older people are more vulnerable to the effects of reduced social expenditure. (age-platform.eu)
  • Regarding pension reforms, the Parliament highlights the need to develop employment opportunities for older workers for pension reforms to succeed. (age-platform.eu)
  • Then workers would turn them over to Social Security, which would pay a monthly annuity based on the funds in the account. (csmonitor.com)
  • Social Security replacement rates for low-income workers are already above the level Sen. Warren cites financial advisers as recommending, so they cannot be further increased without causing these Americans' standards of living as workers to be much lower than they would later be as beneficiaries. (ff.org)
  • Only 76 percent of surveyed pension plans paid their full actuarially determined contributions in 2019, according to new Census Bureau data. (117u2.org)
  • Instead of admitting their public pension plans are adding more debt by falling short of investment return expectations, Kentucky, Vermont, Hawaii, and some other states are downplaying this year's subpar investment returns by claiming they are hitting other "investment benchmarks. (117u2.org)
  • Yes, pension plans could have performed even worse during the pandemic and recession, but, unfortunately, their unfunded liabilities continue to grow. (117u2.org)
  • Any retirement compensation arrangements that provide benefits to members or former members of the OMERS pension plans are continued with the same terms and conditions. (ontario.ca)
  • The employers who participate in the OMERS pension plans are described in sections 5 and 6. (ontario.ca)
  • Specified classes of employers are required to have the consent of the Sponsors Corporation in order to terminate their participation in the OMERS pension plans. (ontario.ca)
  • Sections 9 to 15 set out restrictions on the terms and conditions of the OMERS pension plans. (ontario.ca)
  • The Administration Corporation is required to amend the OMERS pension plans to provide optional increases in benefits to members of the primary pension plan who are employed as members of a police force or as firefighters or paramedics and to establish the contribution rates for those benefits. (ontario.ca)
  • Its objects, powers and duties are described in sections 24 to 31 of the Act, and they include the power to make decisions about the design of the OMERS pension plans and the power to set the contribution rates under the plans. (ontario.ca)
  • The Sponsors Corporation may require the Administration Corporation to reimburse it from any pension or other fund for costs that may be paid lawfully out of the fund and may impose a fee on employers and members of the OMERS pension plans to fund any of its costs that may not be paid lawfully out of a pension fund. (ontario.ca)
  • Most pension plans have diverse communication programs that utilize traditional reports and social media. (plansponsor.com)
  • Before drawing too much inspiration from this history, however, we should recognize that this rescue was anything but assured when Mr. Conable and the other members of the bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform began work under the leadership of Alan Greenspan in February 1982. (brookings.edu)
  • Cassidy is leading a working group with U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) and a bipartisan group of colleagues to preserve and protect Social Security. (senate.gov)
  • He questioned U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the Biden administration's lack of a plan to address Social Security at a Senate Finance hearing and delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling on President Biden to honor his pledge to protect Social Security and meet with a bipartisan group of senators currently discussing options to save the program. (senate.gov)
  • It is a truism, therefore, that Social Security reform must be bipartisan. (senate.gov)
  • The sad reality is that the political consensus needed for real reform remains the victim of an arms race between the two largest parties on who can sound toughest on law and order. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • Oral diseases and conditions are influenced by social determinants of oral health, which comprise the social, economic and political conditions that influence oral diseases, including access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene. (who.int)
  • Over the past 20 years, Richie Neal has been among the staunchest advocates in Congress for WEP reform. (massretirees.com)
  • Now the president and Congress must overcome their distrust and negotiate a Social Security reform package. (csmonitor.com)
  • Next year the baby boomers begin to retire on Medicare in earnest, and the year after that on Social Security. (theacru.org)
  • They were lent to the federal government and spent on other government programs, from foreign aid to bridges to nowhere, with the Social Security trust funds receiving only internal federal IOUs promising to pay the money back when it is needed to pay benefits. (theacru.org)
  • That is effectively what Social Security is for many people today. (theacru.org)
  • Moreover, on our present course, that is what Social Security will be for everyone in the future. (theacru.org)
  • Mass Retirees officials continue to work with key Congressional leaders to pass a reform of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). (massretirees.com)
  • With Ways and Means having purview over Social Security, Neal is well positioned to shape and drive the debate. (massretirees.com)
  • We remain committed to reform of Social Security and will not falsely lead our members to believe that a full repeal is possible. (massretirees.com)
  • Connecticut teachers, like their Massachusetts counterparts, do not participate in Social Security and are therefore affected by the WEP and GPO laws. (massretirees.com)
  • While the WEP and GPO primarily impact the 6 non-Social Security states, there are groups of public employees in all 50 states working outside of Social Security. (massretirees.com)
  • The first would be to provide a rebate or Social Security benefit adjustment for those impacted by the WEP prior to 1/1/2025. (massretirees.com)
  • This would provide a cash increase to retirees' monthly Social Security checks. (massretirees.com)
  • Future retirees (those eligible to Social Security after the new law's effective date) would retire under a brand-new Social Security formula that would proportionally calculate Social Security benefits based on covered service. (massretirees.com)
  • Covered service refers to employment covered by Social Security vs. non-covered service from employment outside of Social Security, such as public sector work in Massachusetts. (massretirees.com)
  • It is almost 22 years to the month since Representative Barber Conable Jr. strode to the floor of the House to defend a carefully constructed plan to save Social Security. (brookings.edu)
  • Then as now, a president was ready to invest his political capital in Social Security reform. (brookings.edu)
  • Despite his best efforts to convince the public that Social Security was going broke, Ronald Reagan got exactly nowhere. (brookings.edu)
  • Americans view Social Security as a sacred trust. (senate.gov)
  • Today, however, if pronouncements that the Social Security Trust Fund is going broke continue to be ignored, that trust may well be broken. (senate.gov)
  • Policymakers have tools at their disposal to reform Social Security and make sure the program remains viable for future generations. (senate.gov)
  • In March, the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds moved up the Social Security insolvency deadline a full year. (senate.gov)
  • In February, the Congressional Budget Office updated its estimates saying Social Security is heading toward a financial cliff in 2032. (senate.gov)
  • They found Medicare and Social Security spending rapidly outpacing federal tax revenues further hastening the insolvency deadlines. (senate.gov)
  • Social Security needs reform, and without it, the results for many will be calamitous. (senate.gov)
  • Under their "Do-Nothing" plan, Social Security will be insolvent in nine years. (senate.gov)
  • Society looks very different today than when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935. (senate.gov)
  • And this trend is likely to continue: U.S. fertility rates are at record lows and 10,000 Boomers become eligible for Social Security every day. (senate.gov)
  • A payroll tax split evenly between the employee and the employer pays for Social Security benefits. (senate.gov)
  • Under the Archer-Shaw plan, the government would establish individual Social Security Guarantee Accounts for each worker using a refundable tax credit of 2 percent of earnings - capped at a current maximum of $1,452 a year. (csmonitor.com)
  • If the account is large enough to pay more than the normal Social Security benefit, the individual would get the heftier check. (csmonitor.com)
  • It keeps Social Security solvent for at least 75 years. (csmonitor.com)
  • It creates a new entitlement program funded out of general revenues, whether there's a non-Social Security surplus or not. (csmonitor.com)
  • 2001-12-12T06:28:37-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZWI1XC8yMDAxMTIxMjA2MjkyMDAwMi5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Commissioners talked about a series of three recommendations to reform Social Security, all of which allowed some degree of personal investment of payroll taxes. (c-span.org)
  • Commissioners talked about a series of three recommendations to reform Social Security , all of which allowed some degree of personal investment of payroll taxes. (c-span.org)
  • Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts and candidate for president, recently released a Social Security plan that would exacerbate many of the program's existing problems while also creating several new ones. (ff.org)
  • While the proposal contains several substantive flaws, it serves the simple rhetorical message of promising higher Social Security benefits for all. (ff.org)
  • This is particularly important to bear in mind when reviewing a Social Security plan such as Sen. Warren's. (ff.org)
  • Problem #1: Misunderstanding Social Security benefits and replacement rates. (ff.org)
  • For someone who worked their entire adult life at an average wage and retired this year at the age of 66, Social Security will replace just 41% of what they used to make. (ff.org)
  • The 41% percentage cited by Sen. Warren comes from a Social Security Administration (SSA) Actuary's office memo , and is not actually a percentage of what a retiree "used to make" while working. (ff.org)
  • The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported that Social Security will provide the average retiree born in the 1960s a benefit equal to 55% of the average inflation-adjusted value of their own career earnings. (ff.org)
  • When Sen. Warren's mistaken interpretation of Social Security replacement rates is corrected, her foundational case for an across-the-board benefit increase disappears. (ff.org)
  • Even middle-income Americans are already in a situation where Social Security is crowding out much of the saving they could or would otherwise do on their own for retirement. (ff.org)
  • Unless we want to have Social Security displace nearly all long-term saving done by the lion's share of Americans, the across-the-board benefit increase specified in Sen. Warren's proposal runs counter to widely-expressed societal objectives for Social Security-namely, to provide a base of income protection underlying other retirement saving. (ff.org)
  • However the modification that has caused the most controversy is the one related to social security. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • In this sense, as with other items such as marriage allowance, working clothes, and wear and tear of tools in 2012, the Royal Decree-Law has included in the social security contribution base several items that, so far, were exempt. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • However, due to the stir generated, some implications of this increase in the social security contribution base have not been straightforward nor understood by all collectives, leading to misunderstandings. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • In order to help clarify, it is important to first of all recall that these modifications will not affect employees whose annual gross salary exceeds €43,164 due to the fact that social security contributions in Spain are capped. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • These concepts didn't use to be included in the social security basis, but will have to be from now on ─ as opposed to those benefits that were given in lieu of salary by detracting a proportional part of the remuneration which were already subject to contributions. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • The administration addresses the matter by arguing that the reform aims to confront the overuse of exempt items by companies trying to lower social security contributions. (iberianlawyer.com)
  • Any decision of the Sponsors Corporation to change benefits for members, to change a contribution rate or to establish or change a reserve to stabilize contribution rates under an OMERS pension plan must be made in accordance with the requirements set out in section 26 of the Act. (ontario.ca)
  • Still, the underlying economic landscape remains fragile as diversification plans struggle to take shape. (al-monitor.com)
  • The BNP proposed forming an "economic reforms commission" to ensure economic justice and to eliminate disparity between the poor and the rich. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Department of Social and Family Affairs has a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the fruits of our economic growth benefit all, particularly those who are most in need of supports, encouragement and life-enhancing opportunities and solutions. (kildarestreet.com)
  • Governments choose to subsidize fuel prices for a variety of reasons-economic, social, and political. (cgdev.org)
  • Based on fairly similar domestic political and socioeconomic developments affecting work-family reconciliation issues, the MSs advocated an extension of EU competencies in social, economic and employment matters. (lu.se)
  • Prenatal and early life exposures to environmental toxins (e.g., lead, pollution), substance abuse, and chronic economic and social stress (e.g., poverty, parental depression, violence) can have profound effects throughout childhood and adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • Indeed, improved data quality and accessibility at the national and state levels during the past 2 decades have prompted the widespread development of report cards and indicators to gauge progress in public health and other social, environmental, and economic areas ( 13 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The World Bank, IMF, and UN can each support aspects of the reform agenda, but to ensure success of the whole, coordination among the three in their interactions with government will be essential. (cgdev.org)
  • Rs 100 crore for Assam Tea Corp. Reforms in land settlement, prosecution service, and free rice eligibility criteria under NFSA also greenlit. (indiatimes.com)
  • So the fact that the government is finally putting forward a plan for long-term funding of health and social care is to be welcomed. (carers.org)
  • But the government will ultimately only heap more pressure on the NHS if it fails to take this opportunity now to properly fix social care. (carers.org)
  • And if the government really wants to fix social care once and for all, it needs to commit a lot more to social care than just £5.4 billion of the £36 billion to be spent overall. (carers.org)
  • Since this planned social shift, Australia has seen changes in political and government leadership that aim to interfere with this reform, such as a shift towards a conservative-leaning government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The second half of the Tallinn city government coalition - the Social Democratic Party (SDE) - announced its candidates for Nõmme district elder and three deputy mayor positions on Thursday. (err.ee)
  • It said the national government would implement the 27 reforms in the executive, judiciary, and legislative branches. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Swedish Secretariat for futures studies was formed in 1973, on the initiative of the Social Democratic government. (lu.se)
  • They enable basic functions such as social media sharing. (carers.org)
  • BANGKOK - The National Reform Steering Assembly has approved a report on the reform of the country's social media. (pattayamail.com)
  • How social media and web-based tools are increasing the capacity for involvement. (planning.org)
  • Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer reactions to the Republican tax reform plan. (c-span.org)
  • It said a "media commission" would be created with former Supreme Court judge, media professionals and experienced and acceptable media personalities for comprehensive reforms of the media. (thedailystar.net)
  • Social media platforms deployed tracking systems with the hope of reuniting families following natural disasters. (cdc.gov)
  • Keep an up-to-date, forward facing photo of your child on your smartphone, on a social media page, and in your wallet. (cdc.gov)
  • 2018 (http://www.who.int/sdg/global-action- plan/Global_Action_Plan_Phase_I.pdf, accessed 11 April 2019). (who.int)
  • Thus, it was decided to use a two phase data collection plan with a series of disability questionnaires. (cdc.gov)
  • 5.7 We have developed a new approach to recruit, retain, develop and manage talent within Health and Social Care in Scotland to ensure the very best and most able leaders reach boardrooms. (gov.scot)
  • These reforms are about liberating, empowering, balancing rights and responsibilities, activation and encouragement and, above all, striving to ensure that the potential of no individual is overlooked and that nobody's contribution is written off. (kildarestreet.com)
  • Work with your community to ensure reunification plans are in place and educate residents about how to use the plans and follow protocols in the event of a disaster. (cdc.gov)
  • With planning, they or their employers could make additional contributions to the accounts over the years to finance more benefits in that earlier retirement. (theacru.org)
  • And even if health reform does pass, its putative benefits-insuring 30 million more people, lowering premiums, controlling costs-won't go into effect until 2014. (nybooks.com)
  • The Kolbe-Stenholm plan, like others, includes such personal accounts, which would offset lower minimum benefits. (csmonitor.com)
  • One or more supplemental plans may be established for the purpose of providing optional benefits to members of the primary pension plan who are members of a police force or employed as firefighters or paramedics, or to other members and former members of the primary pension plan. (ontario.ca)
  • No assets of the primary pension plan may be used to pay optional benefits or to fund other liabilities of a supplemental plan. (ontario.ca)
  • Always check your health plan benefits to be sure what type of coverage you have. (medlineplus.gov)
  • No insurance plan can reject you, charge you more, or refuse to pay for essential health benefits for any condition you had before your coverage started. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Under this right, insurance companies can't set a limit on the money spent on essential benefits the entire time you are enrolled in the plan. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Essential health benefits are 10 types of services that health insurance plans must cover. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Check your health plan benefits to see what your plan covers. (medlineplus.gov)
  • and the support provided to local health and social care systems for delivering services at a regional basis. (gov.scot)
  • Patients seeing the right healthcare professional at the right time is one of the key aspects of primary care reform. (gov.scot)
  • There is genuine consensus in the country that social care reforms and greater investment are long overdue. (cbi.org.uk)
  • Pension payment, medical care, insurance, health insurance and social integration during your retirement abroad. (admin.ch)
  • Local Authorities were required to undertake a Fair Cost of Care exercise as preparation for the Social Care Reforms. (buckinghamshire.gov.uk)
  • The outcome of the Fair Cost of Care was submitted to the Department of Health and Social Care in October 22 in two documents called Annex B (one for Home Care and one for Care Homes). (buckinghamshire.gov.uk)
  • This plan is focussed on 65+ Care Homes and 18+ Home Care and outlines the current challenges across this provision and actions to maintain a sustainable market over the next 2 - 3 years. (buckinghamshire.gov.uk)
  • It's chastening to think back to the predictions being made last summer about health care reform, and the assumptions that were widely shared in Washington at the time (certainly by me). (nybooks.com)
  • Health plans must cover certain types of care to adults and children without charging you a copayment or coinsurance. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This care must be provided by a doctor who participates with your health plan. (medlineplus.gov)
  • You have the right to choose a primary care provider (PCP) from the health plan network. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Across the Census Bureau's sample of pension systems, the total actuarial determined contribution requirements were $149.3 billion in 2019, while the actual contributions made to those plans totaled just $144.2 billion. (117u2.org)
  • At the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in 20182 and the Executive Board at its 144th session in January 2019,3 the Secretariat updated Member States on UN reform and its relationship to WHO's transformation agenda, and on the implications for WHO's work. (who.int)
  • This will be an important factor in how Chairman Larson approaches WEP and GPO reform. (massretirees.com)
  • BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman made the introductory speech on the reforms via videoconference and Mosharraf unveiled the reforms in details afterwards. (thedailystar.net)
  • Nor has there been any discussion of whether such reforms may eventually lead to the erosion of support by rich suburban counties for Brown's package of school financing changes. (calwatchdog.com)
  • It is common for public figures to release plans accompanied by analytical findings that appear to support the proposed policies. (ff.org)
  • As COVID-19 rewrites playbook on social safety net, majorities support idea of basic income up to 30K. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Now we have greater clarity on legislative plans, it's time for the whole sector to come to the table and shape how that will work in practice. (safeagents.co.uk)
  • Now on view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, "Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform" explores the social impact of these four individuals through large-format urban plan drawings and documentary photographs. (wbur.org)
  • Joosep Vimm will take up the position of Tallinn deputy mayor for entrepreneurship, Kaarel Oja will be the deputy mayor for culture with Natalie Mets assisting him in nightlife questions and Madle Lippus will be the deputy mayor for urban planning. (err.ee)
  • I have a background in Human Geography and History and I did my PhD in history but writing about urban planning. (lu.se)
  • This project was very much my introduction to urban planning, where the planning subject was essentially a way for me to study a phenomenon that I found very interesting- and since then I have been working mostly with planning related issues but in a quite varied way. (lu.se)
  • There are people working on projects that are much in line with urban studies and more related to urban geographies, like the people working on housing or social movements and public space- dealing with gentrification and displacement and so on. (lu.se)
  • Social health insurance schemes, including the rural cooperative medical scheme, urban employee-based health insurance scheme, and urban resident-based health insurance schemes, have reached universal population coverage. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Parliament states that investments from the Juncker's plan should not only generate financial returns, but positive social spillovers. (age-platform.eu)
  • Finally, the Parliament highlights at several points the need to invest in human capital and skills, especially on life-long learning and focuses on social spending as investments with a positive impact. (age-platform.eu)
  • Feminist language reform or feminist language planning refers to the effort, often of political and grassroots movements, to change how language is used to gender people, activities and ideas on an individual and societal level. (wikipedia.org)
  • PRT believes there is scope for political consensus on prison reform. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • The fact that the leading candidates of both our political parties endorse this Do-Nothing plan should be cause for concern. (senate.gov)
  • Liberation theology is essentially an anti-capitalism movement that promotes political activism for social justice and the eradication of poverty. (calwatchdog.com)
  • In the professional domain social capital refers to «resources,» or the options at our disposal through interpersonal relations, contacts and our position in a corporation. (ekathimerini.com)
  • Though Bowin expects parking requirements to remain largely unchanged in single-family areas, she sees innovation in several community plans. (streetsblog.org)
  • Starting in 2014, Neal and Brady have been working together with our national coalition to pass a reform of the WEP law. (massretirees.com)
  • So, while proud of the reforms that we have delivered, I will be very honest with you: I am disappointed that it has not been possible to move forward across the Coalition on a more fundamental rethink of our use of prison. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • 5.4 Much of the work taken forward through regional collaboration is particularly focused on supporting actions to deliver the outcomes required by our Waiting Times Improvement Plan during the next 18 months, and in the longer term. (gov.scot)
  • We have reformed the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act to remove barriers which prevent ex-offenders from getting into work. (prisonreformtrust.org.uk)
  • Validating prior learning, learning at the work place and quality assurance, that is assessing learning outcomes at work places in real working situations, are also emphasised in the reformed qualifications. (europa.eu)