Jonathan Cowan, president of centrist think tank Third Way, hailed AARP's apparent reversal, per the Journal story.
Even the self-styled center-left think tank Third Way, which in 2013 criticized proposals to expand Social Security as "populist political and economic fantasy," has recently been promoting a "universal private retirement program".
Dave Kendall, a health care expert at the left-leaning Third Way think tank, says lawmakers will probably try to find a way to make the Senate's 40% excise tax on "Cadillac plans" with generous benefits palatable to opponents, like many labor unions.
Meanwhile, about 13percentt went to social welfare nonprofits such as the Democratic-aligned Third Way think tank and the Republican Main Street Partnership.
"Everyone in that room agrees that absent the Comey letter and absent WikiLeaks, [Clinton] wins," said Jon Cowan, president of the Third Way think tank.
Jon Cowan, president of the ardently centrist Third Way think tank, was among the most prominent panelists, alongside Hillary Clinton confidante Maya Harris, "Morning Joe" regular Harold Ford and even embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. .
I would say we have frankly not been very good at weaving the narrative" and sticking to "one message," Connolly told reporters at a breakfast Wednesday sponsored by the progressive Third Way think tank.
A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the condition of anonymity, called the firings "an example of the way that funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that lobbying and funding campaigns is.
"Think Tank" is conceived as a way to do something more productive with these folders, or what's in them.
Paying for the conference meeting, organized by Conservative-linked think tank Policy Exchange, is one way of keeping that relationship ticking over.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a well-respected liberal think tank, describes the Ryan budget this way: The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature.
