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In both cases, pressures from the Republicans as well as from centrist Democrats helped to pull the Clinton Administration onto the correct track: supporting free trade despite powerful protectionist allies in the Democratic Party; supporting budget deficit reduction instead of large fiscal spending programs.
His administration shaped the regulatory environment to achieve rapid adoption of internet-based activities and championed government programs to help get schools and libraries connected to the internet.
Third, Clinton pushed expansion of various programs to support higher education.
Measures such as carbon taxes and fees, emissions-trading programs and other pricing mechanisms, and removal of inefficient subsidies can give businesses and households the certainty and predictability they need to make long-term investments in climate-smart development.
The Group is leveraging its experience and global reach for learning and knowledge exchange through programs like the Partnership for Market Readiness.
A wide range of policies and practices that support positive relationships and quality learning experiences – at home, in early care and education programs, and through targeted interventions – can have a positive impact if based on solid evidence and matched to the specific needs they are expected to address.
In advanced countries, programs that screen for adversity and respond to the specific health and developmental needs of individual children and families can yield benefits that far exceed their costs.
And the US Department of Agriculture’s farm bill programs could provide increased support for free-range livestock operations, in order to encourage more sustainable approaches to meat production.
Before new members are admitted, more decisions will have to made by majority rule, otherwise enlargement will explode existing EU programs.
Phare programs ought to encourage this by being more competitive, opened to all who qualify, and, whenever possible, regional in scope.
The eurozone, on the other hand, is governed by the officially unofficial Eurogroup, which comprises the member states’ finance ministers plus representatives of the ECB and, when discussing “economic programs in which it is involved,” the International Monetary Fund.
Other spending is split between the annually appropriated amounts (known as non-defense discretionary spending) and the programs in which spending follows from established rules that are not subject to annual review (known as the “mandatory” spending programs, primarily Social Security retirement benefits and health-care spending).
It is the mandatory programs that have grown rapidly, driving up the deficit.
The mandatory programs’ share of GDP, only 4.5% in 1966, is now 13.3% and projected to reach 15% in 2026.
These programs are largely benefits for middle-class seniors and not welfare programs targeted at the relatively poor.
That’s why most experts agree that slowing the rise in these so-called “entitlement” programs has to be part of reducing future deficits.
This family-oriented, or “tribal,” business culture is the result of a long history of inefficient commercial judicial systems, arbitrary nationalization programs, and a lack of effective corporate governance.
The linkage between politicians’ unwillingness to fund domestic programs and the imperiled commitment to “the long war” might elude those in US foreign-policy circles, but it is not lost on the rest of the country.
Opinion surveys suggest that Americans want to maintain many of the “discretionary” domestic programs – schools, hospitals, transportation infrastructure, recreational parks, etc. – that are now on the chopping block in budget negotiations.
Sophisticated computer programs are becoming quite good at grading middle-school essays, if not quite up to the standards of top teachers.
The tightrope turns that characterized the last several years of his encounter with the West (threats of sanctions for non-cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, holding back Western assistance – EU aid programs, Partnership for Peace, etc.) reflect this bitter antagonism.
Given traditional Republican priorities, reflected in President-elect Trump’s cabinet choices, federal government programs (with the notable exception of the military) are likely to be slashed.
Ironically, spending cuts for health, education and training, and the environment, along with large regressive personal and business tax reductions, will further enrich the “elite” while undermining programs that benefit the majority of households.
But the major social and economic challenges addressed by federal programs will not disappear.
Welfare-to-work programs in Michigan and Wisconsin served as the model for federal welfare reform under President Bill Clinton, and Obamacare is based on Massachusetts’ health-care system, introduced under Republican Governor Mitt Romney.
Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.
In response, HIV programs have evolved to offer services shaped by the preferences of patients.
Second, HIV programs succeeded in part because they established goals for the entire “cascade of care” – from diagnosis to treatment.
As a result, many programs now offer new options to reach these groups, such as confidential workplace testing and self-testing.
For example, it would be useful for programs to monitor how many people with high blood pressure have been diagnosed and placed on treatment, what proportion of those on treatment have achieved blood-pressure control, and what treatment level would be required to reduce premature deaths by the desired target.
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