EIN: 13-1945157
Hudson Institute, Inc.
Washington, DC 20005
The Hudson Institute, based in Indiana, received large grants [in the NCRP 1997 study that covered grants over a three year period] from two prominent foundations: from the Olin Foundation, $125,000 in 1993 and $300,000 in 1994; from the Bradley Foundation, $600,000 in 1994. The Institute is a hard-right activist think tank that advocates the abolition of government-backed Social Security and an end to corporate income taxes.
Also the author of W-2, Wisconsin's national welfare reform model. According to the March 2, 1997 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Hudson Institute is "a private group that helped design" Wisconsin's welfare reform program, "Wisconsin Works," or "W-2."
May 21, 2016
Hudson Institute at SourceWatch.org
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Hudson_Institute
ThinkProgress.org
March 1, 2006
President of Prominent Conservative Think-Tank Urges Military Strike on Iran
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/02/president-of-prominent-conservative-think-tank-urges-military-strike-on-iran/
Herbert London, the president of the conservative Hudson Institute, has published a commentary urging the Bush administration to use “an American military strike to knock out Iran’s uranium processing capacity”...
Unfortunately for people like London, who are always thinking up new ways for U.S. soldiers to be sent into harm’s way, there is wide agreement among U.S. military analysts and Iran experts that no good military options exist for Iran...
Editor and Publisher
January 12, 2006
SHNS Drops Fumento in Latest Payola Pundit Scandal
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001843914
Scripps Howard News Service (SHNS) announced Friday that it severed its relationship with Michael Fumento -- a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute -- for taking payments in 1999 from agribusiness giant Monsanto. The payola was revealed by BusinessWeek Online, which also broke the story that columnist Doug Bandow had accepted bribes from Jack Abramoff. Copley News Service subsequently dropped Bandow.
MediaMatters.org
September 29, 2004
MSNBC yanks GOP "pollster" Frank Luntz
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409300003
Upon hearing that MSNBC planned for Republican pollster Frank Luntz (Hudson Institute adjunct fellow) to conduct on-air focus groups as part of the cable network's debate coverage tonight, David Brock of the media watchdog group Media Matters sent MSNBC executive Rick Kaplan a letter of complaint. It looks like Kaplan listened.