Sentences with phrase «liberal think tank in»

-- Separately, other filings show that the Turkish government paid a liberal think tank in Ohio that opposed the Gülen - linked charter schools in that state, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

A report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank in Washington, found that if Trump is successful in lowering the top marginal tax rate to 33 %, Fortune 500 CEOs would stand to save $ 196 million on income taxes they would otherwise owe if they withdrew from their nearly $ 3 billion in special tax - deferred accounts.

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In 1965, CEOs earned about 20 times what a typical worker brought home, according to research by theEconomic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

«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.

Pierre Bessard is president and executive trustee of the Liberal Institute, Switzerland's independent research and educational think tank founded in 1979, which he joined in 2007 and has helped expand with a new team since then.

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.

This process took place in Congress, in think tanks, and at colleges — but also on the street, where liberal citizens took an interest in the issue and demanded answers from their politicians.

Nick, But when do ex-jihadis (about 29 years old), who have written of how they were close associates of the jailed Glasgow bomber, and who have never contacted the Fabians or IPPR, become experts on liberal - left think - tanks in the view of columnists for a major liberal newspaper?

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who served 14 terms in office and is now a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Demos, wrote a recent article for the Huffington Post on Cuomo's emergence to the national scene as a possible presidential candidate.

The third such attack on the Green fiscal outlook arrived from Tom Papworth of the liberal think tank Centre Forum in the New Statesman.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

«In retrospect, it seems strange that so many liberals bought into an idea that emanated from conservative think tanks and conservative thinkers,» education scholar and anti-privatization activist Diane Ravitch wrote.

What it is: The Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy think - tank, this week released a report titled «The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform,» which looks at new teacher - evaluation systems in New Jersey and five other states as they continue to evolve under new state and national mandates.

The think tank says that although the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats are all proposing to spend more on 16 to 18 education over the course of the next parliament, only Labour's spending plans will result in a real - terms increase.

It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry - funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative» think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

I also blogged on that last week in a piece on a study by a liberal U.K. think tank showing concerns about overheated press coverage there, which they labeled «climate porn.»

Obama transition chief John Podesta promoted a similar idea earlier in his role as president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank.

I don't know much about the Brookings Institution - «American think - tank» is not a phrase that inspires confidence in me - but it appears to be relatively liberal in outlook and reasonably credible.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / RepubLiberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republican).

Meanwhile, the «ecomodernists» behind the manifesto — a cadre of environmentalists, many of whom are associated with the Breakthrough Institute, a center - left think tank — have faced accusations of apostasy from their liberal and environmentalist brethren for endorsing nuclear power, criticizing the idea that we can live in harmony with nature, and generally rejecting the ecological orthodoxy that we need limits on growth.

Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, an Ottawa - based think tank, said the federal Liberals are in a «no - win» situation.

In an interview last year, George Lakoff, a fellow of the liberal Rockridge Institute think tank, argued that use of the phrase «tort reform» is part of the way conservatives have «cleverly framed the public discussion.»

He is also an Associate Director at CentreForum, the liberal think tank, but writes here in his own capacity.