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Health Plan's Effect on Costs May Be Slight | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:24:00 -0400

Len Nichols, a health economist for New America Foundation, said perfection is unrealistic, but the plan not only begins most of the necessary work toward ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan Testimony | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:33:00 -0400

Lodhi, Milt Bearden, who served as the CIA station chief in Pakistan during the 1980s, and Steve Coll of the New America Foundation, said the Obama ...

The Right Stuff | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:12:00 -0400

Echoing scholar Michael Lind, Tanenhaus assails the party of Lincoln as tragically metamorphosing into a “Republiconfederacy,'' with only the Deep South and ...

Democrats Seek cuts in Medicare Advantage | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:12:00 -0400

... Medicare by 14 percent over seven years in the mid-1990s, said health economist Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, a Washington research group. ...

State Predicts Bright Future for Jobs in Solar Energy | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:06:00 -0400

Samuel Sherraden, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan New America Foundation in Washington, DC, said the industry is too new to benefit from job creation ... and more »

China’s Bright Future--and Filthy Present

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:02:00 -0400

Right now is a great time to be an environmentalist in China--especially if you're a foreigner. The politicians here care, at last, about your issues.

Using Student Loans to Slow Tuition Growth

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:56:00 -0400

It's back-to-school time for college students, which means big tuition bills. Most will defer large out-of-pocket costs until after college through the use of student loans. No one is happy about the explosion in student loan debt to pay rising tuition, but there is a silver lining: We can use student loans to slow tuition growth.

The Bill for Health Reform | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:36:00 -0400

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, taxing benefits of those earning more than $250,000 would generate $40 billion over 10 years.

The Next Conservative Thinkers | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:41:00 -0400

...According to Reihan Salam, that might not be such an irredeemably bad thing. Salam, a journalist, commentator, and fellow at the New America Foundation, is one of a few conservative thinkers outlining what a new big-government conservatism might look like. He wrote a 2008 book, “Grand New Party,” with the columnist and blogger Ross Douthat, another rising star among young conservatives and the New York Times’ newest political columnist.

Banking "Broken," Consumers Need Help: Watchdog | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:00 -0400

Ellen Seidman, a former bank regulator who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank, expressed support for the new agency in her prepared remarks for the committee. But she said bank regulators should retain consumer ...