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A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

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The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

In 2007, one of the think - tanks responsible for climate science misinformation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, began reiterating one of the main refuted claims about Carson.

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

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

On Jan. 11, Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty and his colleagues from the Equality of Opportunity Project spoke at a conference held by the Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings Institution about new findings on who becomes inventors in the U.S.

«What we don't know about Perry is whether he has gone to school since then, and done his homework,» says Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the policy think tank Brookings Institute.

If you think about the difference between running a marathon in a cotton t - shirt versus a performance tank top, it doesn't seem so crazy.

The RAND Corporation, a think tank, estimated in 2016 that there were between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender personnel in the active component of the military (out of about 1.4 million) and about 1,510 in the reserves.

The State Department and a number of Washington think - tanks have long indicated that the real story about Keystone XL is a lot less exciting than most of its supporters and opponents seem to believe.

Over the last two months, everyone from IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have warned that a vote to leave would hit financial markets, while President Barack Obama and others, supported by a stream of studies from think - tanks banks and universities, have warned about the long - term damage to the U.K.'s economy.

The winning photographers receive a THINK TANK camera bag and trophy, but the contest is about more than just the prizes.

EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

Jonathan Hilliman, a fellow with the Washington - based think tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said that while Brussels was concerned about China's investments in central and eastern Europe, Beijing was unlikely to find it easy to get a solid foothold.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

Doing that would raise about $ 1.3 trillion over a decade, said the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.

«Mexico had [about] eight airlines that died in a five - or six - year period,» says Brendan Sobie, chief analyst for CAPA Center for Aviation Studies, an international think - tank.

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.

24 July 2012, Globe & MailA think tank founded to advance Jack Layton's social - democratic ideals is asking Canadians to share their thoughts about how the former NDP leader's final message...

«That was honest - to - God college beer money that I gave up to be associated with Cato, so you know about my commitment to the cause of liberty,» he said during a forum at the think tank last year.

We also think spending is being supported by the impact of cheaper gasoline, since the average Canadian household is spending about $ 600 less per year to fill their tank.

Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, said would - be interns should think twice about agreeing to work without pay, even to get a foot in the door.

Well now, I'm convinced (by some fine reportage and think - tank deep thought) it's all about aggression and expansionist totalitarian theological insanity, how» bout youse?

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, will also hold meetings about the issue with Facebook executives, Axios reports.

Late last year, Mr. Anders publicly mused about starting his own conservative think - tank once his 17 - year career as an MP ends in 2015.

Like Trump, Bolton seems particularly worried about Iran and North Korea, but so are most members of Congress and much of the think tank world in D.C., too.

SCL's main offering, first developed by its affiliated London think tank in 1989, involves gathering vast quantities of data about an audience's values, attitudes and beliefs, identifying groups of «persuadables,» and then targeting them with tailored messages.

Supporting her and her ruling Socialist party is a network of deconstructionist think tanks (like the ominously named Terra Nova) that draft white papers about how to purge machismo, heterosexism, Eurocentrism, and nostalgia wherever such toxins may lurk.

Conducted for Theos, a think tank working in the area of religion and society, the poll found that 83 % of British people think that «Christmas is about spending time with family and friends.»

Speaking with Premier, Paul Bickley from the Christian think - tank Theos said that while the results could mean different things, it demonstrates for the most part what the nation thinks about leadership.

You think they want bunch of posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger kids to misbehave in schools across the country?

Just about every aspect of the Olive Garden restaurants was developed from consumer research conducted in a corporate think tank by the General Mills Corporation.

A younger team with no interesting in tanking — hello, Nets — should think about making a play.

I think that I ended up with about four or five of the nursing tanks.

It's normal to leak or even spray milk — this tends to happen right before a feeding (when the tank is getting full), when you think about your baby, even when you hear another baby cry.

Now that I got all that off my chest, I really want to know: What do you think about nursing tanks and tees?

Everything you know about the environment is probably wrong, or at least over-simplified, according to a report Monday from a Dallas think tank.

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?

It isn't saying anything about the merits of any issue to point to the difficulty is that both blogs and think - tanks lack capacity to respond to all breaking stories, and don't add much value if we try to.

Think tank launches get lots of publicity and speeches pour out about creating «informed citizens» and much more.

The think tank asks the most fundamental questions about Britain's negotiating position and its ultimate objectives.

While details remained sparse, the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank that follows state spending, calculated that the raises would cost about $ 445 million over the life of the deal.

There's more to come: the think - tank is shortly to produce recommendations about self - build.

The amount according to policy think tank IMANI Ghana, would enable him to implement about 75 percent of the promises.

About 265,000 immigrants would get licenses if the law is signed, including about 2,500 in Buffalo, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported last mAbout 265,000 immigrants would get licenses if the law is signed, including about 2,500 in Buffalo, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported last mabout 2,500 in Buffalo, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported last month.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

President of Policy think tank IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has said that President Nana Akufo - Addo needs about $ 2 billion to revive the country's rail sector.

«It was irresistible for state and local officials to say, «Let's pocket that money and use it to replace our contributions so everyone can feel good about it,»» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a Manhattan - based liberal think tank.

Clegg's response that the attainment gap between the poor and their wealthier classmates was narrowing, came in response to questions about a recent analysis by the think tank DEMOS, which seems to contradict this.