Joint Economic Committee investigates possible recession in Washington
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (L) watches as Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, testifies before a Senate and House joint Economic Committee hearing on a possible recession in America in Washington on January 16, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The increasingly visible influence of think tanks upon public policy may be turning these traditionally low-profile, intellectually rarefied institutions into t
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