Everything about The National Center For Policy Analysis totally explained
The
National Center for Policy Analysis (
NCPA) is an
American non-profit
conservative think tank. NCPA states that its goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes,
Social Security, welfare, education and environmental regulation.
The NCPA was founded by its current president,
John C. Goodman, in 1983. Its first offices were at the
University of Dallas. It now has a Dallas office and a Washington, D.C. office. Its revenue in 2006 was $5.1 million. The NCPA website says that 62% of its income comes from foundations, 21% from corporations, and 17% from individuals. Its foundation sponsors include the
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the
Sarah Scaife Foundation, the
Earhart Foundation and the
Armstrong Foundation.
In 2007, the NCPA compiled a point-by-point rebuttal to Michael Moore's film
Sicko.
The NCPA received media attention recently for its promotion of encouraging automatic enrollment into companies'
401(k) plans. NCPA President John Goodman also recently partnered with
Wall Street Journal editorial writer Kim Strassel to author a book,
Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws (ISBN 0742545458).
NCPA was a member organization of the
Cooler Heads Coalition, which described itself as "an alliance of some two dozen non-profit public policy groups concerned about the implications of the
Kyoto Protocol for consumers," and which was generally skeptical of the anthroprogenic global warming theory . NCPA has also recently (as of January, 2007) undertaken to debunk claims of
Peak Oil.
Leadership
As of 2006, the leadership of the NCPA includes:
Funding
The NCPA web site states that it "receives 70% of its funding from foundations, 20% from corporations, and 10% from individuals." According to
Greenpeace it has received roughly $400,000 from
ExxonMobil over the last 10 years. Expenditures in 2001 were $5.2 million.
Characterization by others
The NCPA has been characterized as a "right wing think tank" by organizations such as
People for the American Way, which noted that NCPA funding has come from foundations with a conservative orientation:
Bradley,
Scaife,
Koch,
John M. Olin Foundation,
Earhart Foundation, Castle Rock, and JM Foundation.
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