Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan new»

The Twentieth Century Fund, a nonpartisan New York City - based philanthropy devoted to «timely analyses of economic policy, foreign affairs, and domestic policy issues,» issued a report in October on the history and effectiveness of efforts to privatize the public schools.

The 2017 inauguration celebration hosted by the nonpartisan New York State Society at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington is part of a tradition every four years for groups to celebrate the best of their home state.

Blair Horner is executive director of the nonpartisan New York Public Interest Research Group.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

Not exact matches

An estimated 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under Republican legislation aimed at repealing Obamacare, a nonpartisan congressional agency said on Wednesday in the first calculation of the new bill's potential impact.

The average graduate school student has $ 57,600 in student - loan debt, according to New America, a nonpartisan public policy institute.

The adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in New York City, suggests looking at the stock market as a guidepost.

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

The average cost of child care is slightly under $ 10,000 per year per child, says Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab for New America, a nonpartisan think tank.

A new analysis from a nonpartisan thank tank showed that the Republican tax plan would do little to boost economic growth and would cause the federal deficit to balloon.

A 2013 analysis of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on average, than other U.S. residents.

A new tool from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., lets people dig into student loan information on a state — and even county — level.

In the House, the trade - offs took on new urgency after Congress's nonpartisan tax accountant found that changes made to the bill since its introduction mean it would add $ 1.57 trillion to the deficit over a decade.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the number of itemizers will fall from about 49 million to 10 million under the new tax law.

But a new research report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calls that analysis into question.

State and local candidates already have access to CRMs like Salsa (on the Left) and NationBuilder (nonpartisan), and now we have this new development.

Rice's campaign announced with some fanfare yesterday that she had signed three pledges distributed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising PAC that call for nonpartisan independent redistricting, budget and ethics reform.

These have long been left for well - meaning civic associations and nonpartisan groups, but were taken up again and pursued with considerable energy and finesse by the Bush campaign among conservative Christians in 2000 and 2004, and by the Obama campaign among African Americans, Latinos, and college students in 2008 on the basis of new forms of political targeting.

The federal government's annual budget deficit is set to widen significantly in the next few years, and is expected to top $ 1 trillion in 2020 despite healthy economic growth, according to new projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released yesterday.

The Republican tax law passed last fall will give the richest 1 percent of Americans an average personal income tax break of about $ 33,000, while the poorest Americans will receive an average personal income tax break of $ 40, according to a new study published this week by nonpartisan analysts.

And, yes, the governor must resume the fight on the remaining critical issues in the battle to reform Albany — overhaul of New York's campaign - finance laws and nonpartisan redistricting for the 2012 elections.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

Now that he has secured a pledge in support of independent, nonpartisan redistricting from all four gubernatorial hopefuls, former Mayor Ed Koch is looking for the same from New York's congressional delegation, who, along with members of the state Legislature, would be directly impacted by that reform.

A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge.

Koch, through his good - government group New York Uprising, released lists Thursday of how candidates responded to his call for legislative district boundaries to be drawn by a nonpartisan commission, tougher governmental ethics rules and a better budget process.

We need same - day registration, early voting, and nonpartisan elections to encourage voter participation in New York, which lags behind most states in America.

Lerner compared New York's flawed system with Los Angeles, which has a nonpartisan professional election administration that, she said, is responsive to voters and taxpayers.

, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

Meanwhile, another opponent is nonpartisan group Common Cause New York, which put out a statement saying with overall crime dropping in Dutchess County, legislators should seek lower - cost, creative alternatives.

Ten of New York's Democratic - held House seats were ranked as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report prior to the election; the 4th District was ranked likely Democratic; the 13th, 22nd and 25th Districts were ranked as lean Democratic; the 1st, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th were ranked as toss - ups; and the 29th District was ranked as likely Republican.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

A Cuomo aide cited the website Reclaim New York — which bills itself as nonpartisan and opines on public policy — which has promoted the petition on its site.

If nonpartisan elections were in effect then, New York may well have had Mayor Ferrer instead of Mayor Bloomberg.»

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

The No Hospital Downtown group is now getting some support from members affiliated with Reclaim New York, a nonpartisan group with conservative connections.

During the election, Skelos signed a pledge to support former Mayor Ed Koch's «New York Uprising,» a Political Action Committee that is calling for nonpartisan redistricting, among other reforms.

Matt Rothschild, new executive director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group, also is irate.

On a state primary day, and during a hotly contested presidential campaign, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday issued a somewhat nonpartisan message to New Yorkers: Vote — or don't complain about the results.

At his inauguration, Cuomo vowed to allow the people of New York to become more involved in government affairs while using nonpartisan measures to immediately address the state's gaping problems, including its $ 10 billion deficit.

NYC Votes is the nonpartisan voter engagement initiative of the New York City Campaign Finance Board and its Voter Assistance Advisory Committee.

«In November, the nonpartisan Research Alliance for New York City Schools presented findings from a rigorous analysis of school closures under Mayor Bloomberg, showing that graduation rates improved by 15 - points for students who left and attendance and graduation rates improved for those who remained during the transition.

Last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that enacting medical malpractice reform would, on average, reduce malpractice insurance costs by 10 percent nationwide, and probably more in New York, resulting in a more than $ 300 million of overall reduction in health care spending in our state budget.

Repealing «Obamacare» without a replacement could leave 18 million Americans without health insurance within a year and 32 million by 2026, according to a new estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

It's clear that New York will lose two House seats in the next round of redistricting — most likely one upstate and one downstate, as is the tradition, although if the push for a nonpartisan commission is successful (seems doubtful at this point), that could change.

«The New York League of Conservation Voters is proud of our nonpartisan nature — we are focused not on party labels but rather on results.

Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch was in a very good mood this morning following the release of a Q poll that found 59 percent of New Yorkers want candidates for state office to sign a pledge to support a nonpartisan independent redistricting entity.

An establishment of nonpartisan elections (open primaries) would be better for all of New York.

Rose Gill Hearn, chairwoman of the New York City Campaign Finance Board and a former federal prosecutor, plans to step down in December, leaving an opening at the helm of the nonpartisan agency ahead of next year's city elections.

Bhojwani's mission is to change the conversation by getting some of them into politics through the nonpartisan, New York - based New American Leaders Project.