This one-woman brain trust is retiring Tuesday after almost three decades of leading The Research Bureau, a
public policy group founded in 1985.
Texas could, according to a report commissioned by Texas Impact, an interfaith
public policy group, spend $15 billion over the next 10 years and pull down $100 billion in federal funds as a result.
"In recent years the FDA has been repeatedly attacked for approving allegedly defective therapies, but this survey shows that the real threat to public health is that the FDA's approval process is already too long," claims Sam Kazman, general counsel of the CEI, which identifies itself as a nonprofit
public policy group.
Health care benefits are eroding in the manufacturing and service sectors, according to a report from the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit,
public policy group. Just 30% of the decline in employee coverage is due to the national shift away from manufacturing jobs--which have been more likely to offer health benefits over the last 20 years--and toward service industries.
In 1999, Fortune magazine ranked NRLC as the 8th most effective
public policy group in Washington.
"The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation has launched a series of ads, some which will appear in the Dallas area, to shore up support for the budget passed by Republicans in the House and Senate." - Conservative
public policy group launches ads pushing budget cuts, Trail Blazers
NEW ORLEANS -- This city's struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding is being tracked by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based research and
public policy group.
Three non-profit organizations -- the Child and Family Policy Center, Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, and State
Public Policy Group -- organized the meetings through a grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation with additional support from the Annie E.
"We are here to say that political gridlock should no longer be an option in dealing with America's 'uninsurance' epidemic," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a
public policy group that previously opposed tax credits.
The study, conceived and funded primarily by the Greater Des Moines Community Foundation and the United Way of Central Iowa, was conducted by the State
Public Policy Group, Inc.
Small class sizes in early grades, better academic instruction in the pre-kindergarten years and more money make a real difference, says the study, undertaken by the Rand Corporation, a
public policy group based in Santa Monica, Calif.
Public policy groups as divergent as the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and the NAACP Chicago ...