"If you're doing something, and someone tells you a new era in US-Latin American relations has dawned, don't necessarily drop what you're doing," said Michael Lind, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Mr. Obama faces the most urgent ...
"I can't see any politically palatable spending level that would allow Republicans to cut taxes this much and reduce the budget deficit," said Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah had some interesting observations on the Israeli-Palestinian issue this morning at the New America Foundation's fabulous new downtown offices, during a conversation hosted by Steve Clemons. ...
Steve Clemons at The New America Foundation alleges a serious problem for Paulson and Rubin, but I'm not sure exactly what the allegation is. Or rather in the case of Clemons' allegation that Paulson knew last fall that Goldman was in bigger trouble ...
America's society is -- and always has been -- completely dependent "on both the quantity and quality of other people's children," say Phillip Longman and David Gray, who study work and family issues at the New America Foundation think tank. ...
The [liberal] groups will be outspent again, but it won't be as bad," said Len Nichols, director of health policy at the New America Foundation, a centrist Washington think tank.
But Mr. Nichols added that the winning side wouldn't necessarily be the one that spends the most money.
The problem is this -- America's "social contract" has gotten wildly out of balance, says Phillip Longman, senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank...
The next generation is already "highly encumbered by poverty, family
break-up, a rising national debt," Mr. Longman and David Gray write in
their November report, "A Family-Based Social Contract."
"This president simultaneously inherited the worst national security and economic portfolios in modern memory," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. Mr. Obama may begin to pivot Tuesday when he ...
... decline as stimulus programs lapse, the economy undergoes a rapid recovery and the Treasury raises taxes on high-income earners, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan budget watchdog group. ...
“The point of this in the budget is to make a statement that the president is willing to commit a lot of resources to this,” said Len Nichols, director of health policy that the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. ...
