"Successful reform mandates the most expansive earned legalization provisions that would make eligible the largest number of undocumented persons," Stern says in a statement on the SEIU Web site, adding that guest worker programs aren't sufficient.
While prevention is the primary goal of today's health care reform mandates as well as the Pay4Performance initiatives, prevention and treatment should be part of a united effort to enroll the individual in a self-directed skill set to understand what they can do to take care of themselves, get well, or prevent further illness.
A number of reforms mandated by the federal government in the wake of the corruption scandal have now been completed.
It still nominally embraces the goal of joining the European Union, carrying out reforms mandated by the entry process that have made Turkey a far more liberal place.
The department is still trying to show a federal judge that it is serious about reforms mandated in 2003 in the wake of the Riders case, in which four rogue officers were found to have planted drugs on suspects.
The democratic civil reforms mandated by the 1996 peace accords, which put an official end to the country's 36-year-old civil war, are now threatened with complete irrelevance.
Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Ally Financial have until Wednesday to implement hundreds of "servicing" reforms mandated by the settlement, or face penalties of up to $1 million per occurrence.
Some of the reforms mandated by the 227-page consent decree with Baltimore include establishing a community-based task force to ensure adequate civilian oversight of police activities, developing outreach programs to heal broken trust with communities, and recording data on vehicle stops.
Voters elected Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Paterson with just such a reform mandate.
"It was a reform mandate," Mr. Cuomo said in an interview last week, speaking of his election last year.
