New America Policy Papers: 2007

Papers and other formal publications from our policy programs are available below. To jump to another year in the archives, please use the links at right.

Promoting Tax Time Saving

  • By
  • Olivia Calderon,
  • New America Foundation
February 19, 2007

California should amend its state income tax forms to allow filers to purchase savings bonds -- for themselves or their children—with a portion of their refunds. By making it easier for Californians to save part of their hard-earned refunds, policymakers can help families build the personal safety nets they need to thrive in today’s economy. With this change, California would lead the nation in harnessing tax time savings to build families’ economic security.

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California Kids Accounts

  • By
  • Olivia Calderon,
  • New America Foundation
February 19, 2007

What difference would it make if every Californian grew up knowing that she or he had a nest egg to go to college or buy a home? What benefits would accrue to individuals, families, and California as a whole? California can find out by creating California KIDS accounts.

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Banking Development Districts

  • By
  • Olivia Calderon,
  • New America Foundation
February 19, 2007

To help un-banked Californians to open bank accounts and enter the financial mainstream, California policy makers should consider creating Banking Development Districts. New York State created these special districts to provide incentives to encourage banks to locate in communities that lack conventional financial institutions and offer enhanced products and services

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Wireless Net Neutrality: Cellular Carterfone and Consumer Choice in Mobile Broadband

  • By Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia University School of Law
February 15, 2007

Issue Update (2-21-2007): VoIP provider Skype has filed a petition with the FCC to ensure that Carterfone rules apply to commercial wireless networks, citing Tim Wu's paper on Wireless Net Neutrality.  

Below is an Executive Summary.  The full paper is linked below, in PDF format.  

 

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Budget Update --The President’s FY 2008 Budget

  • By
  • Maya MacGuineas,
  • New America Foundation
February 7, 2007

Our first impressions of the President’s just-submitted FY 2008 budget are:

We are pleased the president is embracing the goal of a balanced budget, but it is important to note the following:

While the budget shows the deficit declining in each year and reaching surplus in 2012, the net effect of the policies in the budget would worsen the fiscal picture by $474 billion over five years.

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Ten Big Ideas for a New America

February 2, 2007

The recent turnover in Congress, combined with a wide open presidential election cycle, creates a rare opportunity to bring new ideas into the political process. The spirit of this new era will be captured by those-from either party or no party-who embrace innovative yet pragmatic solutions to the foremost challenges facing our nation. We offer this collection of Big Ideas as fuel for an overdue bipartisan debate about how to update our national policies for the common good.

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Tax Consumption, Not Work

  • By
  • Maya MacGuineas,
  • New America Foundation
February 1, 2007

Click here for video clip Click here for a brief video discussion of this idea.

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Terrorism: A Brief for Americans

  • By Richard W. Vague
February 1, 2007

Introduction

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A Capital Budget for Public Investment

  • By
  • Sherle R. Schwenninger,
  • New America Foundation
February 1, 2007

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A Universal 401(k) Plan

  • By
  • Michael Calabrese,
  • New America Foundation
February 1, 2007

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