Changes

PERC recently underwent a name change from "Political Econonomy Research Center", this at some point since April, 2003. According to Mediatransparency, PERC under its old name, received $603,600 from Bradley Foundation and $640,775 from Olin Foundation. Other funding has come from Sarah Scaife, JM, Lambe, McKenna, Earhart, Koch, Carthage and Castle Rock -- the guts of a force of roughly a dozen or so foundations that, since the 1960s, have coordinated their efforts toward forging national policy favorable to deregulation of industry and to privatization.   According to Mediatransparency's records, PERC received $4,175,875 from all funding sources combined from 1985 to 2002.