The mandates helped to ensure that patients could get care.
Refiners have been trading so-called ethanol credits furiously in an effort to meet federal environmental mandates, helping to significantly push up the cost of those credits — a jump to more than $1 from a few pennies in the last several days, and drivers are feeling the effects, experts say.
The prison guards' union, having swelled its well-paid ranks after voter mandates helped to produce a system where 750,000 Californians are either locked up, on parole or on probation, was upset at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for balking at their demands.
Some needed help getting food stamps, heating aid or cash welfare that had been wrongfully denied; some received help with evictions or home repairs; others got legally mandated help for children with learning disabilities.
The mandate helped insurers afford Obamacare's new regulations, which required that children be allowed to remain on their parents' plans until age twenty-six and that Americans with preëexisting medical conditions not be denied coverage.
State officials estimate that the federal mandate helps the state procure hundreds of megawatts of electricity from neighbors, enough to light hundreds of thousands of homes each day and, at times, to tip the balance between normal service and forced blackouts.
While the mandate helped to increase HCW influenza vaccination rates dramatically, the strict consequence of employment termination created negative feelings of coercion.
Federal mandates to help fluke recover from overfishing prompted the restrictions.
Such federal mandates may help some workers, but they discourage employers from hiring workers with limited skills and job experience.
For a time, the strategy seemed to be paying off as it won mandates to help local companies raise funds on international capital markets.
