Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, DC that is primarily geared toward public policy.
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Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, DC that is primarily geared toward public policy.
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Heritage Foundation has had significant influence in US public policy making.
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Heritage Foundation was founded on February 16,1973, by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors.
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Later, under president Frank J Walton, the Heritage Foundation began using direct mail fundraising and Heritage's annual income grew to $1 million per year in 1976.
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In January 1981, Heritage Foundation published the Mandate for Leadership, a comprehensive report aimed at reducing the size of the federal government, providing public policy guidance to the incoming Reagan administration, including more than 2,000 specific suggestions to move the federal government in a conservative direction.
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Ronald Reagan later said that the Heritage Foundation was a "vital force" in the successes during his presidency.
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Heritage Foundation was influential in developing and advancing of the so-called "Reagan Doctrine", a Reagan administration foreign policy initiative in which the US provided military and other support to anti-communist resistance movements fighting Soviet-aligned governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and other nations during the final years of the Cold War.
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Heritage Foundation advocated the development of new ballistic missile defense systems for the United States.
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Heritage Foundation became involved in the culture wars of the 1990s with the publication of "The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators" by William Bennett.
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Heritage Foundation continued to grow throughout the 1990s and its journal, Policy Review, hit an all-time-high circulation of 23,000.
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Heritage Foundation was an opponent of the Clinton health care plan of 1993.
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In 1995, Heritage published the first Index of Economic Freedom, co-authored by policy analyst Bryan T Johnson and Thomas P Sheehy.
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In 1994, Heritage Foundation advised Newt Gingrich and other conservatives on the development of the "Contract with America", which was credited with helping to produce a Republican majority in Congress.
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Heritage Foundation had a major influence on Donald Trump's presidential transition and administration.
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In 2014, the Heritage Foundation began building a database of approximately 3,000 conservatives who they trusted to serve in a hypothetical Republican administration for the upcoming 2016 election.
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In 2021, after Trump lost re-election, the Heritage Foundation hired Chad Wolf, Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan, all three of whom played a prominent role in the immigration policies of the Trump administration.
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In 2021, the Heritage Foundation shifted from its traditional style of conservatism to firebrand, Trump-style conservatism.
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Heritage Foundation has been considered one of the world's most influential think tanks.
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Heritage Foundation published a 1981 book of policy analyses, Mandate for Leadership, that offered specific recommendations on policy, budget, and administrative action for all Cabinet departments.
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The Heritage Foundation publishes The Insider, a quarterly magazine about public policy.
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Until 2001, the Heritage Foundation published Policy Review, a public policy journal; the journal was then acquired by the Hoover Institution.
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Internationally, Heritage Foundation publishes the annual Index of Economic Freedom, which measures a country's freedom in terms of property rights and freedom from government regulation.
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In 2002, Heritage Foundation began publishing its annual "Index of Dependence" report on federal government programs in five areas that, in its view, constrain private sector or local government alternatives and impact the dependence of individuals on the federal government.
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The 2010 Heritage Foundation report concluded that each year the number of Americans who pay nothing in federal personal income taxes had increased, while the number who rely on government services increased.
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In 2005, Heritage Foundation established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom in honor of the former British prime minister.
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Heritage Foundation is an associate member of the State Policy Network.
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The Heritage Foundation is one of many climate change denial organizations that have been funded by ExxonMobil.
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Hans von Spakovsky who heads the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation has played an influential role in making alarmism about voter fraud mainstream in the Republican Party, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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In 2021, the Heritage Foundation said that one of its two priorities was to push Republican-controlled states to ban or restrict critical race theory instruction.
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The Heritage Foundation sought to get Republicans in Congress to put anti-critical race theory provisions into must-pass legislation such as the annual defense spending bill.
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In 2022, the Heritage Foundation published a study, without peer review, alleging that transgender youth healthcare is associated with increased suicide rates among trans youth.
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In 1973, businessman Joseph Coors contributed $250,000 to establish The Heritage Foundation and continued to fund it through the Adolph Coors Foundation.
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Heritage Foundation is a grantee of the Donors Trust, a nonprofit donor-advised fund.
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Fiscal year ending December 31,2011, Charity Watch reported that Edwin Feulner, past president of The Heritage Foundation, received the highest compensation in its top 25 list of compensation received by charity members.
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