Sentences with phrase «leading conservative think tank»

The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nation's leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.

The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nation's leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.

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In recent months, START - UP NY, a central part of Cuomo's massive economic development arsenal, has been vilified by some state legislators and conservative think tanks after it was reported the program created just 408 jobs across the state since 2014, leading the critics to question whether the $ 53 million spent on advertising and marketing was worth it.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social issues.

Equally startling was the study's source: the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank funded in large part by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation's leading backers of school choice.

«It's really hard to find many examples of state takeovers that have led to dramatically different performance,» said Michael Petrilli, vice president of the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank.

It's part of the Hoover Institution, a conservative and pro-business think tank funded in part by the Walton Foundation, and in partnership with Pearson, a leading developer of standardized testing materials.

«The Obama action on the Common Core really transformed it from a state - led initiative we could all agree on to something that was much more politically charged,» said Michael Brickman, the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank that supports the standards.

Some of the individuals who pursued CRU scientists for access to data in the months leading up to Climategate may be seen in this light; they had no connections with the oil industry or conservative think - tanks.

Either by design (the researchers found conservative think tanks prefer «global warming» to «climate change») or because of how our minds processes the terms («global warming» seems to lead to an expectation of noticeably higher temperatures here and now), the concept of «global warming» meets significantly more resistance than «climate change.»