Sentences with phrase «what think tanks»

When asked why Senators cut funds for Hunt, Senator Barefoot explained he had no idea what the think tank even does.

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

«[The Brandon facility] is what you would call a U.S. - style plant,» says Kevin Grier, senior market analyst at the George Morris Centre, an independent agrifood think - tank in Guelph, Ont.

«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.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

The left - leaning think tank uses the figures to highlight the gap between what the average Canadian makes compared to C - suite executives.

Interestingly, the article's author outlined what a basic - income initiative would look like stateside, using political scientist Charles Murray (of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank) as a guide.

PopTech is a three - day think tank in Camden, Maine, at which you're likely to hear a discussion on «what it means to be human» before heading off to Cappy's Chowder House for lunch.

It's even what the oil companies want, for heaven's sake: Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa - based think - tank, recently surveyed 10 major energy companies, including Shell and Suncor, and found all of them were already incorporating a «shadow carbon price» into their decision - making, under the assumption they will contend with such regimes in the near future.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

Action is what differentiates NELP from think tanks that focus only on research and analysis.

«Essentially, what this does is it wipes out the last remaining option for U.S. coal exporters to get their products off the northwest coast to Asia,» said Williams - Derry, who works for the Sightline Institute, an energy think tank based in Seattle.

«The fact that he can register what looks like a massive drop and still collect a massive number shows there was something wrong with the original plan,» says Stefan Stern, director of the High Pay Centre, a U.K. think tank focused on pay.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

«There was a feeling that it was not the right time to do this, given what Trump was doing essentially in the opposite direction, that it would be sending mixed signals,» said William Reinsch, a foreign trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

In a series of colorful emails they discussed a pattern of activity conducted by Cohen under the Google Ideas aegis, suggesting what the «do» in «think / do tank» actually means.

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.

Going by the Chelsea performance you would think he still had something in the tank, but he's a huge man so I think what he said is his honest feelings.

Look at what he did for Beasley and besides that, I don't think his tank is on E yet, he could fit another ring on his hand..

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

What are we seeing in our country today?It is no secret that plans are being made in right wing think tanks and some law firms, within the elephants media and among Npp leaders to bring back to life the 18th century notion that the heavenly prescribed duty of the opposition is to obstruct government business and to incite the public against the establishment.

What role do think - tanks and the arms industry lobby play?

This stems from the fact that already they made it obvious that the two gentleman ought to be deported to the USA where they came from and I believe strongly the clergy and other religious bodies as well as Think - tanks which have become Water - tanks are watching closely what the next step of the Commander - in - Chief of the GAF will be.»

In her 2015 review of attitudes towards the illegal wildlife trade, Felbab - Brown, of the US think - tank Brookings Institution, cautioned against the «over-securitisation» of the problem, resulting in a militarised and inappropriate response to what are instead problems of organised crime and corruption.

Miliband worked closely with the think tank Policy Network on the concept of predistribution as a means to tackle what he described as «the growing crisis in living standards».

«This is the opposite of what somebody might call a smart economic development investment,» said Frank Mauro, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal think tank.

While no one really knows what that means, one health care analyst with a prominent Albany think tank said New York could be billions of dollars in the hole as a result.

Well that's pretty much what all the main political parties are doing in the run - up to the general election — thanks to the rise of unelectable and unaccountable think - tanks.

When we created the Civic Movement it was actually a group of people who were part of a think tank on what to do after the crisis.

But without going off and working for a think tank for a fraction of what I earn now... I'd find it very boring, anyway.

Fred Floss, director of the union - backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than two percent a year, would result in what his group calls a decade of austerity that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, is of the view that government's decision to set up what it calls a Nation Builders Corps (NBC), which seeks to employ over 100,000 graduates with a budgetary allocation of Ghc600 million, is just a duplication of the mandate of the National Service Scheme.

The Empire Center, an independent think tank based in Albany, compiles «What They Make» each year based on payroll data supplied to the state by municipalities.

The first, from think - tank New Economics Foundation (NEF), asserted that it is surprising that the single largest transport investment in UK history, HS2, has only been assessed on its own merits rather than against what the # 33 billion cost could achieve if more evenly spread across the transport network.

Cameron's loyal energy minister was addressing a rather plush underground bar in the Mayfair offices of the Legatum Institute - what must be one of the swankiest of British politics» independent think tank brigade.

What people don't want to partake in is the infantile tit - for - tat between parties (and even think tanks).

It's not about Andrew Cuomo the man, it's about what his priorities are, and when our priorities align, we will work together to move the ball down the field,» said Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank.

Better still, as the businesses that fund you and your think tank to make up their minds what story they want you to tell.

The think tank ditched # 11bn of the # 52bn on the grounds that the party has overestimated what it will get from taxing the rich and hitting tax avoidance (see below).

But that's not what the UK's leading hard Brexit think tank is calling for.

While no one really knows what that means, one health care analyst with a prominent Albany think tank says New York could be billions of dollars in the hole as a result.

Fred Floss, director of the union backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than 2 % a year, would result in what his group calls a «decade of austerity,» that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

I think it ultimately gets down to jobs and the economy and how you feel about the next paycheck, the next month, the year from now about your family, your future, what it costs to fill up the van with a tank of gas.

«Would there be greater value to the community,» asked Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank, «if Corning were just paying what they should be paying, like almost every other business?»

«The self - proclaimed progressive Cuomo administration is now cozying up to the same ultra-conservative Tax Foundation that a year ago it bashed as a right - wing think tank that manipulates data — which seems to be exactly what the Cuomo administration is trying to do,» said Ron Deutsch, executive director of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness.

Daniel Hannan has launched the Institute for Free Trade: pretty much what you'd expect, it appears to be a bog - standard right - wing think - tank.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation, a think tank based in London, points out that the environment does not much care who is doing what where.