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American Enterprise Institute
Conservative think tank
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a conservative think tank that has received funding from the Koch Foundation and other Koch-connected donors along with the fossil fuel industry. It has a history of peddling misleading research about the effects of minimum wage increases and denying the scientific reality of climate change.