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Doom & gloom from the Economic Policy Institute
Wilmington News-Journal | Sept 6, 2004 | Editorial

Posted on 09/06/2004 12:48:39 PM PDT by RiteWingConspiracy

The local fishwrap's Labor Day editorial is an attack on President Bush dressed up as a doom & gloomer based on statistics from the Economic Policy Insitute.

I want to write a rebuttal letter and want to verify the EPI's non-partisan status.

It's a 501(c)3 that gets most of its funding from foundations. It doesnt list its benefactors. Is there an online source that lists funding information for 501(c)3's?

Man the barricades! and Thanks.

PS -- If you're interested, the editorial can be found at delawareonline.com/newsjournal/opinion/view/09062004.html


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 501c

1 posted on 09/06/2004 12:48:39 PM PDT by RiteWingConspiracy
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To: RiteWingConspiracy

Go get 'em!!


2 posted on 09/06/2004 12:50:29 PM PDT by grace522 (Let's not slander our intelligence to that degree)
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To: grace522

Thanks for the encouragement, but instead of that i need information:

Is there an online source that lists funding information for 501(c)3's?

Thanks, Grace522, for outpointing that I buried my request.


3 posted on 09/06/2004 12:58:29 PM PDT by RiteWingConspiracy
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To: RiteWingConspiracy
From its "about" page: EPI was founded by a group of economic policy experts that includes Jeff Faux, EPI's first president; economist Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University; Robert Kuttner, columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect; Ray Marshall, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at Brandeis University; and economist Lester Thurow of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

OK, so with founders like these we know they're very liberal. Nonpartisan as they claim ? Hardly likely.

4 posted on 09/06/2004 1:07:49 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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That's because these groups -- 501(c) organizations -- won't have to report any of their financial activity until the end of the year, long after the money they've spent has had its impact.

And they'll never have to list their individual donors.

From this aricle

Many exploit loopholes in finance law

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208637/posts


5 posted on 09/06/2004 1:09:52 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: RiteWingConspiracy
A good rebuttal to a previous EPI report can be found here.

As to what EPI really is, just go to their website:

EPI was established in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. Today, with global competition expanding, wage inequality rising, and the methods and nature of work changing in fundamental ways, it is as crucial as ever that people who work for a living have a voice in the economic debate.

EPI was founded by a group of economic policy experts that includes Jeff Faux; economist Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University; Robert Kuttner, columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect; Ray Marshall, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at Brandeis University; and economist Lester Thurow of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

EPI is a 501(c)(3) corporation. A majority of its funding (about 60% in 2001) was received through grants from foundations. EPI also receives support from individuals, corporations, labor unions, government agencies, and other organizations.

Labor unions, Robert Reich, a bunch of leftyliberalloons!

6 posted on 09/06/2004 1:32:47 PM PDT by Dick Holmes
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They redistributed the nation's wealth from lower- to higher-income people.

The left sure loves to play with that. Most folks with children in the lower brackets don't even pay income taxes. Besides, why should someone earning 20,000 a year "get back" the same as the highest income bracket, $63,000?

Yes for decades the top quintile has been getting more and more of the aggregate income distribution. See www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ie3.html

Has nothing to do with the President's tax cuts.

And what of the increasing number of poor? What do the editors think of ILLEGAL immigration? One county alone in Arizona stopped some 38,000 in one month -- imagine the number that get through and wind up being counted as poor, working poor in fact. To wit..

What do the editors think of the recent Pew Hispanic Center's study that showed that about 1/3 of the 1.4 million jobs created over the past year went to recent immigrants while established immigrants and citizens remained unemployed. The editors aren't against immigrants, are they? They're not "racists" are they?

7 posted on 09/06/2004 1:34:32 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
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JOBS... JOBS... JOBS... What are they talking about? If there are so many missing jobs then why is the unemployment claims number down to 5.4 percent and this number is lower than anytime during the Clinton years? Liberty's Century accounts for new types of jobs... Small Business, Home Business, etc... Those numbers are never reflected in the Non-Farm Payroll jobs... Get the economists out... have them tell the tale... What will repealing the tax cuts mean? Well Small Business will layoff the people it hired with the tax cut money and Home business will not get the tax breaks it currenlty gets.... What jobs will Kerry create? Call center and low wage jobs that were shipped overseas will be brought back to large corporations in Banking and Telcom sectors but those low wage costs will be pushed on consumers its called INFLATION Stupid.... Sorry for the rant but there are not enough economists talking about the difference between the Bush and Kerry JOBS plans...


8 posted on 09/06/2004 1:38:52 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (Do not let the UN make decisions for the protection of the United States... VOTE for George W. Bush)
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JOBS... JOBS... JOBS... What are they talking about?

An Economy That Turns American Values Upside Down

9 posted on 09/06/2004 1:43:43 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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