Sentences with phrase «policy centers on»

His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level educational improvement strategies.

President - elect Donald Trump's «America first» philosophy rejects the traditional Wilsonian approach to foreign policy centered on US - backed international alliances and institutions and instead sees multilateral institutions and international affairs as transactional.

We've yet to find one that truly compares to OA&FS in terms of policies centered on kindness, self - reflection, dedication to openness, and respect for parents and families considering planning an adoption for their child.»

Funding the Next Generation presents this webinar recording in collaboration with the California Budget and Policy Center on understanding county budgets and the budgeting process in order to track investments in young people.

Funding the Next Generation presents this webinar recording in collaboration with the California Budget and Policy Center on understanding county budgets and the budgeting process for the purposes of tracking investments in young people.

State leaders have created truly effective and organic programs and policies centered on school choice as opposed to setting national goals with little flexibility or sensitivity to specific state needs.

In the Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting.

The Islands are politically very stable with a democratically elected government and a strong fiscal policy centered on their growing tourism industry.

After all, car insurance policies all center on protecting the motorist and the vehicle.

We've yet to find one that truly compares to OA&FS in terms of policies centered on kindness, self - reflection, dedication to openness, and respect for parents and families considering planning an adoption for their child.»

Not exact matches

The report from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that while Americans at all income levels would, on average, get a tax cut form the final version of the tax bill, the benefit would be skewed towards people at the upper range of income earners.

The campaign plan expected «proposals on trade, regulatory and energy policy would raise economic output and revenues» to offset most of the remaining shortfall, as cited by the Tax Policy Center anapolicy would raise economic output and revenues» to offset most of the remaining shortfall, as cited by the Tax Policy Center anaPolicy Center analysis.

In 2017, that was 22 states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, including at least 10 that voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.

Industries including banking, healthcare and auto manufacturing «see themselves on the cusp of a new era of deregulation, and they do not want to do anything that would offend the new emperor,» said Cornelius Hurley, director of Boston University's Center for Finance, Law & Policy.

WHAT THEY DID: While the Senate bill would cut tax rates for all income groups, on average, higher earners would receive the largest benefits, according to the Tax Policy Center, an independent Washington Policy group.

American Institute Fellow, James Pethokoukis and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senior Fellow Jared Bernstein discuss the short and long term consequences of the GOP tax bill.

The Ethics Resource Center is an Arlington, Virginia - based non-profit that provides among other things, updates on federal policy connected to business ethics, surveys on topics such as how the recession is impacting ethics, and links to other resources around the web.

While the standard deduction on federal tax returns was nearly doubled to $ 12,000 for individuals, the average SALT deduction on federal returns for New Yorkers in 2015 was $ 22,000, according to the Tax Policy Center.

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

A tax cut on pass - through entities would likely benefit the most successful enterprises, said Gleckman of Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, right, talks to Adolofo, center, Miranda and Emilio Martinez, as Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, D - Ill., listens, before the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 14, 2015, on the House Republican's immigration policies.

The bill would reduce taxes by about $ 1,600 on average in 2018, with the biggest benefit going to households making between $ 308,000 and $ 733,000, according to a recent analysis by the Tax Policy Center.

All in all, the Trump tax plan would wastefully increase deficits by at least $ 3.5 billion over ten years — with half of all tax cuts going to the top 1 % — while actually raising taxes on nearly half of all families with children, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's (TPC) analysis.

He is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of the forthcoming book «Missing OPEC: The History and Future of Boom - Bust Oil Prices,» from Columbia University Press, 2016.

Friday, April 20 CHICAGO - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans speaks on current economic conditions and monetary policy before the Graaskamp Center Spring Board Conference - 1340 GMT.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

Elaine Maag, a senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, thinks that Ivanka's position likely changed as she became more educated on the issue and realized that the child tax credit reaches many more families than a child care credit could.

«This would suggest that hedge funds are fully convinced that Trump's economic policy, centered on protectionism and fiscal stimulus, will work out well for US small - cap companies.»

«What we've seen is that the economic climate has had a huge effect on people being willing to take vacations,» says Karen Sumberg, vice president and director of projects and communications at the Center for Work Life Policy.

Trump was the topic of 41 % of all news stories, according to the report released Thursday from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Merkel's «welcome policy» — a huge shift to the center for what is notionally Europe's largest conservative party — left a gap on the right wing that has been filled by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

From 1997 to 2005 he was a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and focused on public debt dynamics while at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

Separately, some Republican senators were questioning the repeal of a 40 percent inheritance tax levied on estates worth more than $ 5.5 million, or $ 11 million for married couples — a tax paid only by the wealthiest American taxpayers, or about 0.2 percent of Americans, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research and policy instPolicy Priorities, a research and policy instpolicy institute.

An analysis of how taxpayers would be impacted by the bill from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center issued on Monday was later withdrawn due to an error.

But given his anti-regulatory, anti-science rhetoric, we're on high alert,» said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.

Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The president's extraordinary criticism of Amazon has also centered on the company's policy of not collecting state and local taxes from the vast majority of its third - party sellers.

Blog postings by CEPR staff and updates on the latest briefings and activities at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Jason Bordoff is a professor and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International Affairs.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such loans.

Join us for a tax reform Q&A with economist Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, on September 29 at 2 PM in The Weeds Facebook group.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

Detailed distributional analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax Brain, an open source tax model from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.

The plan is almost identical to the final plan Trump released on the campaign trail, a plan which would have cost $ 7.2 trillion and concentrated its benefits on the richest Americans, per the Tax Policy Center.

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

But the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has run the numbers on the compromise bill.

The models used by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the US Treasury Department (unless it has just now been directed to do otherwise), and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center all assign the vast majority of the burden of the corporate tax to shareholders or investors more generally, not to workers.

Annual U.S. economic growth has averaged 2.1 percent since the economy began growing again in 2009, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Greg is on the boards of directors for CarGurus, Inc., a publicly traded online automotive marketplace, the Woodland Park Zoo and Seeking Alpha and is a Policy Advisory Board Member for Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.