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Public Assets Institute is a left-of-center non-profit advocacy organization based in Vermont that focuses on issues such as healthcare, education, and taxes in Vermont. 1 The organization receives funding from multiple foundations and groups including the
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Economic Progress Institute is a left-of-center public policy advocacy group in Rhode Island.
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The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) is a left-leaning advocacy and labor union activist organization focusing on the San Diego, California, metropolitan area. 1 CPI
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Bell Policy Center is a left-of-center state-level think tank based in Colorado. It is known for its support of efforts to raise state taxes and increase state spending; the group opposes the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). It also focuses on other economic issues with a self-described emphasis on
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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Arise Citizens’ Policy Project is a left-of-center think tank and policy advocacy group focusing on Alabama state issues. It maintains a lobbying arm (Alabama Arise) and is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network of state-level policy groups associated with the labor union-aligned Economic Policy Institute.
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Not to be confused with Fiscal Policy Institute, a left-of-center public policy advocacy organization focusing on New York State. The DC Fiscal Policy Institute is a left-of-center research institute and long-time project of the national left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) which advocates for increased budgetary
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The Oklahoma Policy Institute is a left-of-center policy research and advocacy organization focusing on the state of Oklahoma. The organization is a member of two left-of-center state-level think tank associations: the State Priorities Partnership of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Analysis and Research Network
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The Economic Security Project (ESP) is a left-of-center initiative that advocates for the federal government to distribute “unconditional cash for Americans” through a universal basic income program. 1 It is housed within the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3)
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a nonprofit journalism institution located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It owns and controls Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Tampa Bay Times and previously published Congressional Quarterly. Poynter operates the controversial left-of-center PolitiFact fact-checking organization, which was launched by its subsidiary St. Petersburg
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The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (Tax Policy Center, TPC) 1 2 is a left-leaning economic
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Women’s Congressional Policy Institute (WCPI), formerly known as Women’s Policy Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public policy organization which focuses on global and domestic women’s issues. The WCPI focuses on gender equality in career fields, the gender wage gap, economic security for women, and domestic violence.
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE Justice or CLUE) is a religious-oriented advocacy group that supports pro-labor-union causes such as increasing wages of hourly workers, while also campaigning for open immigration to the U.S. The Anaheim Observer in 2018 described Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice as
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New Jersey Policy Perspective is a left-of-center policy advocacy organization focused primarily on state-level issues in the state of New Jersey. The organization advocates for left-of-center positions on racial and economic issues, immigration policy, and climate change.
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Not to be confused with DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities focusing on the District of Columbia. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is a labor union-supported think tank based near Albany, New York that advocates pro-labor union and other left-of-center policies
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The California Budget and Policy Center (formerly California Budget Project) 1 is a labor union- and left-of-center-foundation-funded policy advocacy group focusing on the state of California.
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Advanced Energy Institute (AEI), formerly the Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI), is a branch of the left-of-center Advanced Energy Economy (AEE). AEI performs research to support its advocacy for environmentalist policy in coordination with AEE.
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The Congressional Black Caucus Institute (CBCI), also called the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, engages in voter outreach and trains aspiring political leaders to advance left-of-center causes, particularly those that it claims will benefit Black voters. The institute is affiliated with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), an
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NOI is defunct. For its successor, see Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) New Organizing Institute Education Fund (NOIEF) was the charitable arm of New Organizing Institute (NOI), a progressive nonprofit that trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party. The organization, described by a Washington
