Niskanen Center - Wikipedia

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 American moderate think tank founded in 2015 
 

 Niskanen Center Formation 2015 &#59; 11 years ago  ( 2015 ) [ 1 ] Headquarters Washington, D.C. , U.S. President Ted Gayer Revenue $7,075,571 [ 2 ] (2022) Expenses $7,598,252 [ 2 ] (2022) Website NiskanenCenter.org 
 The Niskanen Center is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that advocates market-oriented principles regarding environmentalism , [ 3 ] immigration reform , civil liberties , and an effective welfare state . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Named after William A. Niskanen , an economic adviser to Ronald Reagan and former chairman of the Cato Institute , it states that its "main audience is Washington insiders", [ 6 ] and characterizes itself as moderate , [ 7 ] with others calling it centrist . [ 8 ] The organization has been credited with fostering bipartisan dialogue and promoting pragmatic solutions to contemporary political challenges on issues such as family benefits, climate change, and criminal justice reform. [ 9 ] Though founded as a libertarian think tank, the center has since publicly rejected libertarianism [ 10 ] and supported proposals such as universal health coverage [ 11 ] and increasing state capacity. [ 12 ] 

 
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 The Niskanen Center was founded in early 2015 by Jerry Taylor . [ 13 ] At its launch, the center was composed primarily of former staffers of the Cato Institute who departed in the wake of a 2012 leadership struggle pitting Ed Crane against the Koch Brothers for control of the libertarian think tank. Taylor [ 14 ] and vice president Joe Coon [ 15 ] publicly aligned themselves with Crane during the dispute. Both departed shortly after Crane was replaced by John Allison as Cato's president as part of the settlement with the Kochs.

 Funding for the center includes donors who seek to counter libertarian-conservative hostility to measures against global warming . [ citation needed ] North Carolina businessman Jay Faison , a Republican donor, made an early contribution to the Niskanen Center to spur public climate education [ 16 ] but has ceased all ties to the organization in recent years. [ citation needed ] Other donors include the Open Philanthropy Project , which supports the center's work to expand legal immigration, [ 17 ] the Linden Trust for Conservation , which provided the Niskanen Center with a grant "to develop and analyze a potential economy-wide carbon tax", [ 18 ] and the Hewlett Foundation , which provided the Center with a $400,000 operations grant. [ 19 ] 

 In 2018, the Center published its political manifesto,

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