Sentences with phrase «nonprofit research group»

Ranking Digital Rights, a nonprofit research group that works out of nonpartisan think tank New America's Open Technology Institute, released its annual study yesterday looking at how the biggest tech companies around the world fare when it comes protecting freedom of expression and how transparent they are about privacy policies and what they do with user information.

Half of Americans said they do work in their free time to meet employers» demands, according to a study from Rand Corp., a nonprofit research group.

«The pace of change has been so fast and housing supply has not kept up and the transit system has not kept up,» said Alan Durning, executive director of Sightline Institute, a nonprofit research group in Seattle focused on sustainability.

In other words since about 2008, North Korea imports about $ 1 billion more annually from China than it exports, said Bruce Bennett, senior defense analyst at the RAND Corp., a nonprofit research group.

«This has great appeal because it is a way to reach more people who need the program and to get more bang for the buck for taxpayers, «said Robert Greenstein, director of the center, a nonprofit research group funded by foundations.

In Illinois, 15.8 percent of children between 10 and 17 are considered obese, placing the state 14th in the nationwide roster of risk, according to a report released in August by the nonprofit research group, Trust for America's Health.

* From a best - case scenario prepared by the International Energy Agency, a nonprofit research group whose members hail from 28 countries.

Dean Karlan is a professor of economics at Yale University and president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action, a nonprofit research group.

The study was issued by the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research group based in Washington.

A nonprofit research group, The Milwaukee Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, recently discovered that these corporate - sponsored classroom materials often subtly steer class lessons in directions advantageous to the sponsor.

The Families and Work Institute, a New York City - based nonprofit research group, plans to repeat the...

MassInsight Education, a nonprofit research group, is on the right track in its current effort to build a network of math coaches in five midsized urban districts.

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

Daniel McCaffrey, a senior statistician at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research group, argues that peer effects can make a difference, however.

They can't attract teachers,» says Tracie Rainey with the Colorado School Finance Project, a nonprofit research group.

An analysis of recent Education Department civil rights data by the nonprofit research group Child Trends found that 54 percent of black students in mostly black middle schools and high schools have school - based law enforcement or security officers.

«E-books were this rocket ship going straight up,» said Len Vlahos, a former executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a nonprofit research group that tracks the publishing industry.

According to Eli Lehrer, president of the nonprofit research group The R Street Institute, another reason for the state - by - state variation comes down to differences between individual regulatory environments across the country.

The review was ordered after the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit research group, pointed out previously undisclosed financial ties between a leader of the report, Charles Groat, and a drilling company.

Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries (at least for a few more decades), the growth in the United States has added significance for climate projections, said Leiwen Jiang, senior demographer at Population Action International, a nonprofit research group.

Stephen J. Hall, director general of the Worldfish Center in Penang, Malaysia, a nonprofit research group working on improving fisheries and aquaculture, wrote this:

Since 2002, Shellenberger has been president of The Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit research group focused on propelling environmental and social progress.

In a fresh post, Darrene Hackler summarizes conclusions from a new report she wrote with Robert D. Atkinson (they both hail from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonprofit research group) that rebuts 10 prominent strategies for avoiding dangerous human - driven climate change.

Coal has steadily lost its share of European electricity generation in recent years, falling to just over 21 percent of the E.U.'s total generation in 2016, according to the nonprofit research group Sandbag.

«I have no idea why the section on the contrarians would have been deleted,» said Mr. O'Keefe, now chief executive of the Marshall Institute, a nonprofit research group that opposes a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

On Wednesday Heartland — a nonprofit research group that focuses primarily on anti-environmental regulation, according to its website — was dropped by the United Services Automobile Association.

According to Eli Lehrer, president of the nonprofit research group The R Street Institute, another reason for the state - by - state variation comes down to differences between individual regulatory environments across the country.

It is a nonprofit research group that did reports for the Pulse shooting in Orlando and the 2015 shooting attack in San Bernardino, Calif..