Sentences with phrase «of nonpartisan research»
Jerilyn Perrine, a former city housing commissioner who is now executive director of the nonpartisan research group Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said the expiration of the program would be «very troubling.»
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«This is a classic example of union avoidance,» says Mark Price, a labor economist for the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
As a result, in the federal exchange's first week, only 1 percent of the 3.7 million people who tried to register were successful, according to the nonpartisan research firm Millward Brown Digital.
Nearly 4 million U.S. jobs have been lost since NAFTA took effect and since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
«This is a pro-business issue,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. «You have a lot of firms that lose workers; making child care accessible and affordable can increase the labor pool.»
«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.
Forty - three percent of founders of the 2017 Fortune 500 are immigrants or the children of immigrants, according to the Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE), a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization based in Great Falls, Virginia.
Being on a terrorist watch list is not «in and of itself a disqualifying factor» for people purchasing firearms and explosives, according to a 2013 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.
The ACA «is a big boon to small businesses and their workers, who care about health care insurance,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan policy think tank.
A strengthened and more independent Parliamentary Budget Office would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would force the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would promote a straightforward and more understandable and open budget process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan, it would provide research to all political parties.
A strengthened (more resources), and more independent (report to Parliament) PBO would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would strengthen credibility by encouraging simplification and forcing the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would improve the budget process by promoting a straightforward and more understandable and open process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan it would provide analysis and research to all political parties.
About one - third of tax filers currently itemize, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington.
Widely considered to be Canada's most influential think tank, the Institute is a trusted source of essential policy intelligence, distinguished by research that is nonpartisan, evidence - based and subject to definitive expert review.
«If you have to find a way to pay for it, you will,» says Dean Baker, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, an independent, nonpartisan think tank.
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Not to say that his analysis is wrong, but is there any other research from a more nonpartisan (or at least peer - reviewed) source on what sort of lag time is appropriate for evaluating a president's impact on the economy?
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.
Blair Horner is executive director of the nonpartisan New York Public Interest Research Group.
«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.
Ivanka Trump said that she and Sen. Bob Corker, a longtime deficit hawk, believe the tax cuts, combined with deregulation, will «ultimately eliminate» the country's debt, which flies in the face of virtually all nonpartisan research that shows the deficit will actually increase.
«Lending money to your own campaign lets you create a war chest that might or might not scare off potential opponents without having to raise the money from donors,» said Michael Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.
The institute is one of the nation's leading nonpartisan sources of research and analysis on employment trends in the U.S.
«The governor has a fair amount of latitude in insisting that certain spending take place,» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan fiscal research organization based in New York.
Elizabeth Lynam, assistant research director of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said a worst - case scenario would be a cap filled with exemptions and loopholes.
That means the fate of these and other research programs, although traditionally nonpartisan, will be shaped by larger forces — from Social Security to tax policy — stirring the political waters.
The research team, consisting of faculty and students from the departments of Communication and of Political Science and International Relations, created a Facebook page for a fictitious candidate using general and nonpartisan «information» about him.
Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.
A January 2014 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service does an excellent job of summarizing the history of the idea, including the work of an interagency panel, and the challenges that lie ahead.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research organization, estimates that the Trump proposal would result in the elimination of 250,000 rental vouchers.
However, activities related to the preparation and distribution of nonpartisan analysis, study or research are not lobbying activities.
About the CRPE: The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is a nonpartisan research and policy analysis center at the University of Washington Bothell developing system wide solutions for K - 12 public education.
I tried to leave a few times, but I quickly realized that there are a lot of policy and research organizations out there but few that are really doing path - breaking, nonpartisan, and really pragmatic work.
The media seem to see Jennings and the CEP as the voices of education research and reason, an enviable position at a time when nonpartisans are hard to come by.
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that focuses on a variety of policy areas, including education.
MassINC is a nonpartisan research organization whose mission is to promote the growth and vitality of the state's middle class.
In my early research into what happened in Montgomery County, I met John Hoven, then co-president of the Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County and now a national advisor to NYC HOLD (New York City Honest Open Logical Decisions on Mathematics Education Reform), a nonpartisan advocacy organization that provides information to parents, teachers, and others on math education issues.
Lisa Snell, director of education at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, said she thinks it will be «extremely difficult» to get the changes Vergara sought through the Legislature, especially considering its track record.
About AIR Established in 1946, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not - for - profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education and workforce produResearch (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not - for - profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education and workforce produresearch and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education and workforce productivity.
When asked what the bigger priority for schools should be, 80 percent of black parents chose raising academic standards and achievement, according to the survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public - opinion research firm in New York City.
To help fill this vacuum, CREDO (formerly known as the Center for Research on Education Outcomes), an independent nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School DResearch on Education Outcomes), an independent nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School Dresearch group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School District.
Paul Reville, director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank in Boston, reviewed many of the written responses from those who failed and bemoaned the high number of the commonwealth's teachers «who were college graduates and yet couldn't string a sentence together.»
MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST is a service of Michigan Education Report (http://www.educationreport.org), an online newspaper published by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (http://www.mackinac.org), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute.
Liv Finne is director of the Center for Education at Washington Policy Center, a nonpartisan independent policy research organization.
«These are not public schools,» says Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan K - 12 policy and research group in Raleigh.
Nonpartisan, accurate, unbiased and credible research on key issues, from school vouchers to Internet sales tax to better ways to finance highway construction to ideas for eliminating the blight of abandoned, tax - reverted properties in Michigan's older cities.
As a nonpartisan organization, we work closely with all members of the Illinois General Assembly to keep them up to date on education issues and help them make informed research - based policy decisions.
Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.
«There's nothing in there that was, unfortunately, surprising,» said Keith Poston, executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy and research group studying public education.