Sentences with phrase «at nonpartisan»

The carried - interest tax break dates to the 1920s, when Congress first set up a preferential rate intended for the sale of capital assets such as farms and mineral properties, according to a 2013 paper by Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

It depends on the definition of «default,» but many economists — including those at nonpartisan and bipartisan groups with ties to former economic advisers of Republican leaders — warn Paul's narrow definition underplays how the marketplace would react to any default of payments, whether to bondholders or others.

Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (S. 1053) is expected to pass by a large, bipartisan majority, said Albert H. Teich, head of the Directorate for Science and Policy Programs at the nonpartisan, nonprofit AAAS.

«For New York City, I think this is one of the worst budgets that it's seen in a long time,» Maria Doulis, a budget analyst at the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission, told Politico.

During the roundtable discussion, which was led by Rep. Stefanik, Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness at the nonpartisan Oneonta Vets Club in Oneonta, Faso emphasized the need to strengthen our military, modernize our weapons systems and ensure our forces are well equipped around the globe — while also streamlining expensive and burdensome procurement procedures.

«So, what used to happen was every year or two years there would be an extender that would go to the governor and put police and firefighters back in tier 2, but Paterson vetoed it in [20] 09,» said Maria Doulis, director of City Studies at the nonpartisan Citizens» Budget Commission.

Not exact matches

The report from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that while Americans at all income levels would, on average, get a tax cut form the final version of the tax bill, the benefit would be skewed towards people at the upper range of income earners.

An estimated 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under Republican legislation aimed at repealing Obamacare, a nonpartisan congressional agency said on Wednesday in the first calculation of the new bill's potential impact.

Nearly 4 million U.S. jobs have been lost since NAFTA took effect and since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

«Ending the cost - sharing payments would be a clear signal from the Trump administration that they are not aiming to run the ACA marketplace effectively, so insurers would likely just throw up their hands and leave the market,» said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in New York City, suggests looking at the stock market as a guidepost.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said the increase would be even smaller, at 0.002 points a year.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

«They won't liberalize dairy very much,» said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a former U.S. Treasury international trade official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C. «They might do some token stuff on ice cream but it won't amount to anything.»

But it came at a cost, said Larry Levitt, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank.

All in all, the Trump tax plan would wastefully increase deficits by at least $ 3.5 billion over ten years — with half of all tax cuts going to the top 1 % — while actually raising taxes on nearly half of all families with children, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's (TPC) analysis.

A 2013 analysis of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on average, than other U.S. residents.

«We are a nonpartisan group, but small businesses just don't benefit at all from tax breaks on in the upper bracket, and they don't benefit from large corporate loop holes,» says Arensmeyer, adding that not addressing this now just means Washington will have to deal with it later.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

Matthew Chinman is a senior behavioral scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

To get a better sense of the dynamics at play in this relationship, I spoke with Ely Ratner, an expert on US - China relations and East Asia policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.

Peter Thiel speaks during a news conference on «nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to economic research and innovative public policies for the 21st century» at the National Press Club in Washington October 3, 2011.

Career, nonpartisan SEC staff identified at least 26 items of concern related to the substantive content of the proposed rule, and the Labor Department declined to fully resolve all of the concerns.

«The Chinese will retaliate,» William Reinsch, a trade expert at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank, told me in an interview in January.

The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), a leading nonpartisan think tank located at Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, seeks a full - time Visual Designer to help communicate the latest indepth economic research through graphics, data visualizations, videos, and other digital products.

The risks posed to the Canadian economy by overindebted consumers are now «elevated, absolutely,» said Glen Hodgson, chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada, a nonpartisan think tank in Ottawa.

Amazon wants something for nothing,» said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think tank.

But technology transfers and investment restrictions are not conventional trade, says Dean Baker, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan think tank.

Luis Lugo, director of the Washington - based, nonpartisan Pew Forum, noted that at least a quarter of the world's 2 billion Christians are estimated to be Pentecostal and charismatic believers.

Editor's note: Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and public life.

I'm in Ethiopia at the kind invitation and expense of The ONE Campaign, a nonpartisan, advocacy organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

Not to say that his analysis is wrong, but is there any other research from a more nonpartisan (or at least peer - reviewed) source on what sort of lag time is appropriate for evaluating a president's impact on the economy?

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

At the same time, he's attempting to strike a more nonpartisan tone, such as backing gun control measures.

Even as generic congressional ballot polling has indicated that Republicans are making up some ground ahead of 2018 midterm election, Democrats are widening their targets and a nonpartisan analysis shows that more GOP incumbents might be at risk.

A reasoned estimate by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute sets the figure at $ 26 to $ 41 million per year.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

At 10 a.m., CUNY students and NYPIRG organizers coordinate a large - scale nonpartisan voter registration ahead of the 2016 elections, E. 4th Avenue entrance / Union Square, Manhattan.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's push for nonpartisan redistricting has gained significant Republican support, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich signing on to his amicus brief at the Supreme Court and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court brief.

The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the ballot).

Ed Koch fired back at Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for his suggestion yesterday that the former NYC mayor's push for redistricting reform is motivated by politics and not a desire to create a truly independent and nonpartisan system.

A nonpartisan redistricting commission's remap of district lines mixed with an aging delegation and a rush of ambition is resulting in an unusually competitive election cycle in a state largely uncontested at the presidential or Senate levels.

At 8:30 p.m., NYC mayoral candidates Massey, Sal Albanese, Robert Gangi, Michael Tolkin and Nicole Malliotakis participate in a «faith over fear» nonpartisan mayoral forum, First Corinthian Baptist Church, 1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr..