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public policy

[ puhb-lik pol-uh-see ]

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noun

1. the body of laws and other measures that affect the general public:
  These officeholders are creating public policy on important issues including affordable housing and the environment.
2. the underlying principles, values, or objectives that inform these laws and other measures: In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
  The Institute participates in shaping public debate and public policy through inquiry and dialogue.
  In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
Law. the principle that injury to the public good or public order constitutes a basis for declaring an act or transaction illegal or invalid:
The principle of public policy requires that we judge the tendency of the contract at the time when it was entered into.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of public policy¹

First recorded in 1775–85

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“California is a much bigger state, and that makes a difference,” said Jesse Rothstein, professor of public policy and economics at UC Berkeley.

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However, the majority of transgender students live in states without such a ban, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, a think tank that conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.

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The plan, if approved, would represent a fundamental retraction of the federal government’s longtime role in helping families with young children have a healthy start in the critical early years of life, said Elisabeth Wright Burak, who studies child health policy at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

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The report, commissioned last year by the public policy group Southern California Leadership Council, comes as economists and business owners alike raise alarm about the toll an escalating trade war could take on the U.S. economy.

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Rather than saving money, dismantling the agency will create more inefficiencies, said William Resh, associate professor of public policy and management with USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

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