Sentences with phrase «leaning think tank»

Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the left - leaning think tank Center for American Progress, disputed Cheney's prescription.

The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW.

No surprise that the Broadbent Institute — a newish left - leaning think tank that counterbalances the rightish Fraser Institute — has concluded in its report Double Trouble that only the «rich» would benefit from the promised doubling of annual contribution limits for Tax - free Savings Accounts (TFSAs.)

The left - leaning think tank says the impact in all three cases is very unequal, while the cost to Canadian governments would be substantial.

Wealthier borrowers also rely less heavily on student debt to finance college, according to left - leaning think tank Demos.

We got to thinking about the standards to which Indiana's education colleges hold prospective teachers after our Monday post (you know, the one where the right - leaning think tank lambasted educators for setting the bar too low).

Jonathan Simons, head of education at the right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said: «Given all the candidates have mentioned the importance of social mobility and improving life outcomes, and given Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.»

In the week following the AP story, however, at least one right - leaning think tank called for Bennett's to step aside and condemnations of his actions were quick to come.

«Even with all the noise and bombast,» said Michael J. Petrilli, an education analyst at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right - leaning think tank that supports the standards, «40 - plus states are still standing with the Common Core.»

CAP, a neoliberal leaning think tank, sums up Their report with this quote, «How bad are school vouchers for students?

The study from the left - leaning think tank based in Washington D.C. profiles four high - performing charter schools: El Sol Science and Arts Academy in Santa Ana, California; the Raul Yzaguirre School for Success in Houston, Texas; YES Prep Gulfton in Houston, Texas; and International Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Halley Potter, who studies potential policy solutions for addressing educational inequality, is a fellow at The Century Foundation, a left - leaning think tank based in New York, and a member of the governing board of the National Coalition of Diverse Charter Schools.

«There's not as much money, so there may not be as much enthusiasm for it,» said Michael Petrilli, an education expert at the right - leaning think tank Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

But Jonathan Simons, head of education at right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said the «principle of school choice» should not be «fashionably dismissed».

«It reflects this soft bigotry of low expectations around student effort and student behavior,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, a right - leaning think tank.

Even a conservative - leaning think tank in New York acknowledges the harmful impact.

EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank The Empire Center, likened the first items to a big box delivered from Federal Express or UPS.

Ron Deutsch, with the left - leaning think tank Fiscal Policy Institute says there's nothing positive in the tax overhaul plan for New Yorkers.

Ron Deutsch is with Fiscal Policy Institute, a progressive leaning think tank in part funded by the unions.

«The governor is spinning a false narrative,» said E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a right - leaning think tank.

Beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, Cuomo has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says E.J. McMahon, with the conservative - leaning think tank the Empire Center.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

That's nearly 9 percent of all earners in the county, according to the institute, a left - leaning think tank.

«All of this stuff is classic pork,» said E.J. McMahon a fiscal analyst for the Manhattan Institute, a conservative - leaning think tank.

Cuomo beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank the Empire Center.

The conservative - leaning think tank The Empire Center is analyzing the tax overhaul plan, and also concludes that it won't be good for New York.

Civil servants should be made accountable for their decisions under a radical programme of reform, a left - leaning think tank argues today.

But public policy hasn't caught up, argues Sarah Jane Glynn, senior policy adviser at the Center for American Progress, a left - leaning think tank in the nation's capital.

The left - leaning think tank has been putting out a survey of Canada's CEO earnings since 2005 in an effort to highlight how incomes at the top end of Canada's economy have run away from the pack.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

-LRB-...) The paper was written by Jim Parrott, a former housing advisor in the Obama White House who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a left - leaning think tank, and Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.

The left - leaning think tank said the finding was «worrisome» because Toronto and Vancouver have seen some of the biggest increases in cost of living over the same period, with the price of houses, in particular, skyrocketing by 37 per cent in Toronto and 62 per cent in Vancouver.

«Trump campaigned on the negative impacts of trade and trade deals like NAFTA on working Americans, but here instead he is intervening not to help working people but to help American investors and American multinational companies,» Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Economic Policy Institute, a left - leaning think tank, told me in an interview in the runup to the investigation announcement.

The left - leaning think tank wants Canadian businesses and the federal government to put up $ 670 million each a year to create new jobs, internships and training positions that would guarantee employment to those under the age of 25.

The left - leaning think tank uses the figures to highlight the gap between what the average Canadian makes compared to C - suite executives.

The Montreal Economic Institute, a right - leaning think tank, also points out that the total annual pay to the top 100 CEOs, at slightly under $ 1 billion total, is tiny compared to the size of the economy overall and in comparison to the size of the federal government.

For, away from the daily focus of the Westminster media, Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a way they haven't for years.

A former Bush appointee at the Education Department, iNACOL president Susan Patrick traverses right - leaning think tanks spreading the gospel of virtual schools.

Starting with vouchers, a creation of libertarian Milton Friedman in the 1950s, the ideas for education reform, with few exceptions, have come from right leaning think tanks like Pacific Research Institute, Hoover Institution, Goldwater Institute, Reason Foundation, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, etc..

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

The standards still enjoy a wide coalition of proponents, which included teachers unions and right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas Fordham Institute.

Right leaning think tanks that deny AGW.

For much of the 2000's, left - leaning think tanks sprang up around the nation with a common mission — to dream up strategies for countering the Bush administration with progressive policy solutions, and answer the loud horde of rightwing think tanks (just as this site has so powerfully done on global warming).

UPDATE 7/18: The #WebOfDenial cabal mentioned 116 right - leaning think tanks by name, with The Heartland Institute being mentioned more than any other.

(Geoengineering is popular among right - leaning think tanks; as are the views — which Thernstrom does not share — that climate change isn't caused by human activities, or that our contribution is overhyped and may not be the primary cause.)

Not exact matches

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

A number of commentators, led by the right - leaning C.D. Howe Institute think tank, have argued the government should scale back CMHC's role in the mortgage - insurance market.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.