I recall Peter Bergen, who knows as much about al-Qaeda as any US analyst, predicting that it would cease to exist within the next five years. ...
A prominent critic, Michael Cohen, a defense analyst at the New America Foundation, has been blogging for months a feature called “Afghanistan Mission Creep ...
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... “More and more people are questioning the underlying assumptions of the
whole thing,” observed Michael Cohen, a New York-based scholar with the
New America Foundation who began running a feature on a progressive
foreign-policy blog, Democracy Arsenal, called Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch. ...
“The No Child Left Behind Act is a civil rights law that triggers government action based on the status of racial groups,” said Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and former senior education counsel to Sen. ...
Public policy think tank New America Foundation pointed out in an online article Kanjorski's personal interest in keeping this lending powerhouse healthy; earlier this month, it shifted several hundred jobs into his eastern Pennsylvania district. ...
April 30, 2009
“Paul Ryan is a real force in that conference,” said Len Nichols, the director of the Healthy Policy Program at the progressive New America Foundation, ...
As Congress debates a roughly $825 billion economic stimulus
package, many interest groups want to make sure their pet programs get a piece
of the action. The education community is no exception.
Various advocates are urging Congress to use the stimulus to
fund universal pre-k, expanded after-school programs, education technology, and
new teacher compensation packages, among other education initiatives.
Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who studies the financial services industry, said friends she knew worked for Cisneros sometimes thought “blow ...
The question crossed my mind after New America Foundation’s Ellen Seidman described as “really inept” a news conference on Tuesday by Treasury, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to announce a new program to streamline loan modifications. Seidman said Treasury completely oversold the plan, to make it seem like it would cover more mortgages than the plan actually called for. Then, to make it worse, the Treasury spokesman ran out of the briefing room to avoid answering questions. LINK
Tuesday night, I checked in with Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who specializes in the financial services industry, to find out her reaction. Seidman, who closely follows loan modifications, said that people don’t really understand that the Fannie and Freddie plan is aimed at heading off foreclosures among prime borrowers — the next segment of homeowners in danger of defaulting on their mortgages. In that sense, the program has some merit. LINK
