Sentences with phrase «center think tanks»

«Carly Fiorina was the only one who didn't sound like she had time - traveled from the Reagan administration,» says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way, a left of center think tank.

In addition, he spent time at the Treasury Department and most recently, before coming to the Fed in 2012, served as a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

From 1997 to 2005 he was a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and focused on public debt dynamics while at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

«The various alternative tax options all highlight how complicated and difficult to implement they would be,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

«The IRS is highly unlikely to go along with this,» E.J. McMahon, research director of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank, said of Englebright's proposal.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center think tank, said the optional corporate payroll tax contained in the budget will have «extremely limited appeal.»

«The entire point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

«The payroll tax idea is not nearly as simple as it sounds,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

He's one of just a few top people who have worked under both Democratic and Republican governors noted E.J. McMahon, founder and research director at the Empire Center think tank.

The year «2017 will be a very big year when it comes to nuclear waste policy,» predicted Samuel Brinton, a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, D.C.

According to Michael Krepon, an arms - control expert and co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, D.C., that was because both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. realized how vulnerable their satellites were — particularly the ones in «geosynchronous» orbits of about 35,000 kilometers or more.

The latest evidence of this comes from a fascinating public opinion survey by the Los Angeles Times and the American Enterprise Institute, a right - of - center think tank.

«The longer we wait, the more draconian the solutions will have to be,» says former Sen. Kent Conrad, D - N.D., who co-chairs the Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings launched by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

Not exact matches

The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

«This is a classic example of union avoidance,» says Mark Price, a labor economist for the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Other analysts, such as Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by the FCC.

In an announcement Thursday, climate change think - tank the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) said the tropics now represented «a net source of carbon to the atmosphere,» roughly 425 teragrams each year.

But Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (GCBPP), an economic policy think tank, certainly thinks the case has merit.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«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.

Robert Puentes, CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a think tank in Washington, said the campaign appears to be aimed at discretionary travelers in the Northeast, where Amtrak has its strongest presence.

«If Trump really signs the order, that is a declaration of trade war with China,» said Wei Jianguo, former vice commerce minister and now an executive deputy director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a government - linked think tank.

The Email Privacy Act has received support and backing from groups like EFF but also think tanks like the Center for Democracy and Technology, which called it «common sense» legislation that both sides of the House can agree on.

* An earlier version of this entry mistakenly identified the paper's publisher as the Center for American Progress, a think - tank affiliated to the Action Fund and led by top Democrats, though it is officially non-partisan.

Figures published by the non-partisan think tank Pew Research Center estimates that annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have steadily declined over the past decade.

History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C. - based think tank Center for Global Policy Solutions.

Doing that would raise about $ 1.3 trillion over a decade, said the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

«There's more people willing to work than the unemployment rate would have you believe,» said Nick Bunker, a senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a liberal think tank.

«Mexico had [about] eight airlines that died in a five - or six - year period,» says Brendan Sobie, chief analyst for CAPA Center for Aviation Studies, an international think - tank.

Russia also has a long history of harassing American diplomats, a pattern that has intensified in Moscow since 2014, said Andrew Foxall, director of the Russia Studies Center at the Henry Jackson Society, a London think tank.

The ACA «is a big boon to small businesses and their workers, who care about health care insurance,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan policy think tank.

The number of Chinese who said they thought food safety was a major concern has more than tripled between 2008 and 2012, a report by private U.S. think - tank Pew Research Center shows.

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

A wealthy Republican lawyer and investment banker, Powell left the private equity world in 2010 to join the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C, think tank, where he quietly lobbied Congress to raise the debt ceiling, building consensus during the politically charged standoff in 2011.

Proxy Preview also highlights «a surge of proposals — some two dozen — largely filed by or coordinated by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative Capitol Hill think tank.»

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, a liberal think tank, said he «can't think of any way they were a factor at all.»

In recent days, groups like the libertarian think - tank Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Washington - based nonprofit Coin Center have moved to oppose the effort in subsequent filings.

Calling ether a security «would make a shambles of US innovation policy,» Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center, a blockchain - focused policy think tank, told the Wall Street Journal.

(The industry think tank Coin Center in Washington, D.C. promptly issued a statement that «ether is not a security,» rebutting Gensler's argument.)

«I think it's Snowden - era stuff, repackaged for resale now,» said James A. Lewis, a computer expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is «dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.»

A poll conducted by Islamabad - based think tank FATA Research Center in February last year found widespread support for merging FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Neeraj Agrawal, director of communications at the Washington, DC. - based think tank Coin Center, also reported having trouble with his account, although it is not banned.

In law school, Park also served as the Executive Editor of the Forum on Law, Economics and Finance (F - LEAF), a student companion to George Washington University Law School's financial and economic law think tank, Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C - LEAF).

Dr. Sands began his career as a policy research scholar, and is a nonresident Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) the Washington think tank where he was a resident specialist on Canadian affairs from 1993 until 2002.

His policy research has been published by think tanks in Canada and the United States including the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the C.D. Howe Institute, the Fraser Institute, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Migration Policy Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

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.

The Washington think tank announced that Yellen will be joining the institution's Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy as a distinguished fellow in residence.