Sentences with phrase «independent policy groups»

As companies were left to walk their own path, Exxon shifted money toward independent policy groups.

A combination of funding cuts, tougher visa restrictions on researchers, and growing science programs in other countries is threatening the United States» position of scientific supremacy, reports the National Science Board, an independent policy group that advises the president and Congress.

Not exact matches

WHAT THEY DID: While the Senate bill would cut tax rates for all income groups, on average, higher earners would receive the largest benefits, according to the Tax Policy Center, an independent Washington Policy group.

The SBA invested $ 6 million a year into 10 groups of businesses for two years starting in 2010 and commissioned economic policy analysis research - and - consulting firm Optimal Solutions Group to perform an independent review.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

The changes wrought by the proposed legislation will have a much bigger effect on some groups — especially those who get insurance through their employers and those on Medicaid — than estimated by recent analysis from independent healthcare policy experts such as the Brookings Institution and credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings

If such independent expenditures are made, groups of corporations within an industry may form coalitions or use existing trade associations to support candidates favorable to policy positions that affect the group as a whole.

When it comes to carrying out government policy, that «should be left to properly resourced independent agencies,» the group says, such as the Ontario Energy Board and Independent Electricity System Operator, which can be held to account by the provincial lindependent agencies,» the group says, such as the Ontario Energy Board and Independent Electricity System Operator, which can be held to account by the provincial lIndependent Electricity System Operator, which can be held to account by the provincial legislature.

Hosted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and supported by the Government of Ontario and Export Development Canada, this independent forum brings together a prestigious group of senior business leaders and government policy - makers from across Canada and the Asia Pacific.

On Thursday 24 November, Professor Corinna Hawkes, Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report's Independent Expert Group and Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, will join Jonathan Dimbleby and other panellists to discuss the economics of nutrition.

The Albany - based think tank and fiscal watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy launched in 2005 as a project of the Manhattan Institute is being «re-launched» as an independent organization, the organization's president E.J. McMahon announced.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school support.

Cuomo has decried money in politics and cash from independent groups seeking to influence policy in Albany and state and national elections.

Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican control of the State Senate by failing to use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy as part of the minority.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senator Jeffrey Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who often collaborate with the Republicans, also signaled their willingness on Tuesday to tighten policies against workplace sexual harassment.

«All of this makes clear that the Supreme Court was wrong in Citizens United when it unleashed big money in our elections with the promise it would be independent of candidates and office holders,» said Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.

They conclude that «economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass - based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.»

A study by the Tax Foundation, an independent tax - policy research group, shows...

Mr. Peralta's defection does more than siphon power from the Democratic conference; it puts the independent group in position to expand its sphere of influence, pulling Republicans toward the political middle and offering John J. Flanagan, the Senate's Republican leader, an unbreachable bulwark against liberal policies favored by the Democrats who dominate the State Assembly.

A dozen independent owners of medallions not affiliated with a taxicab fleet and an advocacy group which supports these owners slapped the city and top Taxi & Limousine Commission honchos on Wednesday with a Manhattan federal court lawsuit seeking to overturn the longstanding policy.

As part of a compromise with the Assembly, the governor is also bolstering an independent nonprofit group that is being set up to lobby for policy changes for people with disabilities.

The first formal assessment of how successful Eureka has been was presented in Paris by a group of independent academics and industrialists, led by Erkki Ormala of Finland's Science and Technology Policy Council.

This policy brief is based on findings from a two - year study of how L.A. County residents eligible for Cal MediConnect made their decisions, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in partnership with the Westside Center for Independent Living and a community advisory group of five consumers and five stakehopolicy brief is based on findings from a two - year study of how L.A. County residents eligible for Cal MediConnect made their decisions, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in partnership with the Westside Center for Independent Living and a community advisory group of five consumers and five stakehoPolicy Research in partnership with the Westside Center for Independent Living and a community advisory group of five consumers and five stakeholders.

Deeply suspicious of the reform groups whom he says «exploited» failing schools, critical of ed - school policy experts, and antagonistic toward the independent research shop set up at the University of Chicago, Vallas seems to have been focused on political and managerial rather than educational priorities.

• A diverse, bipartisan, and independent board should be appointed to oversee NAEP policy, «buffered from manipulation by any individual, level of government, or special - interest group in the field of education.»

The Commission on No Child Left Behind, an independent, bipartisan group formed early this year, ventured onto the battlefield of the policy wars with its hearing in Connecticut, a state that last year sued the federal government over the requirements of the school...

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

Two other independent groups — Florida TaxWatch and the Collins Center for Public Policy — issued similar findings.

Some of the money goes to ostensibly independent research groups, such as a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice (which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding), a $ 255,000 grant to the Economic Policy Institute, a reliably pro-labor «think tank,» and a $ 50,000 award to Phi Delta Kappa, which publishes a journal highly protective of union interests.

An independent study by SRI International, a nonprofit science and public policy research institute based in Menlo Park, California, evaluated two separate groups of students who were taught the same subject by the same instructor — one group of students taught face to face, and the other via the VHS method.

Researchers with Mathematica Policy Research, an independent group, found positive effects both for the combination of KIPP pre-K and KIPP early elementary grades and for KIPP pre-K programs alone.

That's because the expenditures are listed in NEA's financial disclosure report as expenses for «media,» going to Independent Strategies, one of Rakis and Varoga's groups, for «generalized message, program expenses,» or «membership communication development,» or «legislative policy development.»

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From her office in Washington, D.C., Henderson now works as a senior consultant for the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University and as an independent consultant with parent and community groups, school districts, foundations, and national organizations.

After the NRC issued its report, a group of education advocates and public policy researchers gathered in 2016 to discuss creating an independent think tank to evaluate D.C. education policies.

Over the past thirty years, I served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives under a Democratic Governor and a Republican / Independent Governor and worked with a variety of progressive and liberal groups, including unions, as we advocated for policy changes under two different Republican governors.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a science - based nonprofit group working for a healthy environment and a safer world and combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

The group's commercial policies are not compatible with those of an independent bookseller.»

The Policy is subject to independent oversight and control by the Remuneration Committee (the «Committee») for Standard Life Aberdeen plc (the «Company»), which is the ultimate parent company of the Standard Life Aberdeen group of companies (the «Group&raqgroup of companies (the «Group&raqGroup»).

Of all the groups surveyed, millennial renters were the least likely to purchase a policy from an independent agent.

Sales staff or financial advisers will also have to state if they are really independent, or restricted to just selling the policies of particular financial groups.

A new group called the Developers Union has penned an open letter to Apple encouraging the company to change its App Store policies to help independent app makers earn a living.

Open Secrets: Nonpartisan, independent, and nonprofit; nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.

Cato is a political advocacy group for free - market / pro-industry policies and not an independent academic or scientific institute.

Three local NGOs filed a complaint in 2013 with the World Bank's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)-- the independent grievance office which holds the World Bank Group accountable to its own policies.

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

The Independent revealed that a number of inter-related groups, many with direct connections to the «Brexit» ovement, all share a 55 Tufton Street address with the Global Warming Policy Foundation: [75]

He previously researched carbon markets at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and consulted for the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group on CO2 emissions.

«I am Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and the founder and president of The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) in Fairfax, Virginia, a non-partisan, non-profit research group of independent scientists....

Foundation - funded, independent research group, incorporated in 1992, to advance environment and health policies through sound science.