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Mandatory Christmas Music? | San Francisco Chronicle

She told New America Foundation: "We were having Christmas without Jesus." The problem is, the draft doesn't explain the difference between a Christmas song ...
November 3, 2009

Public Option Gains Traction | San Francisco Chronicle

"Those are all elements that one could easily fashion into an outcome that would seem to be elegant," said economist Len Nichols of the New America Foundation ...
Len Nichols | October 15, 2009

What Are We Not Asking About Health Care reform? | San Francisco Chronicle

Today, US Budget Watch released detailed summaries of the health care reform bills under consideration by Congress, and explained how the goals of reform ...
Maya MacGuineas | September 28, 2009

UN Security Council Adopts Nuclear Resolution | San Francisco Chronicle

Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the New America Foundation, said the UN resolution would represent significant international support for Obama's ...
Jeffrey Lewis | September 25, 2009

Four Stimulus Breaks Due to Run Out at Year End | San Francisco Chronicle

... stimulus provisions, but not without "real macroeconomic risks," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
Maya MacGuineas | September 5, 2009

Clear, Nonpartisan Analysis from Budget Office | San Francisco Chronicle

... more than three-quarters would do the opposite, says Marc Goldwein, policy director with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
Marc Goldwein | August 8, 2009

Lifetime Savings Accounts Plan Could Liberate Future Generations | San Francisco Examiner

What if every child started out in life with his or her own personal savings program for college, for first-time home purchases and for retirement?

A savings program started at birth has more years to earn and accumulate interest, resulting in a bigger nest egg through time. Granting every child such an opportunity would result in broader and more equal ownership of savings and capital for each citizen. Such widespread capital ownership would empower and liberate every American in their personal… more

July 17, 2009

Newsom Raids Public Financing Fund to Help Balance Budget | San Francisco Chronicle

And worse, Newsom's opaque accounting amounts to "budgetary jujitsu," said Steven Hill, an avocate of reform in elections who works for the New America Foundation. He said he's skeptical the money will be paid back. "You don't undermine the ...
Steven Hill | June 9, 2009

Bay Area Dems Invited to White House for Swiss Cheese Paygo | San Francisco Chronicle

"This is like quitting drinking, but making an exception for beer and hard liquor," said Maya MacGuineas, head of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The exemptions increase the deficit by at least $2.5 trillion over ten years, ...
Maya MacGuineas | June 9, 2009

Pop-Up: a Magazine, a Party, Both or Neither? | San Francisco Chronicle

As conceived by writer and New America Foundation fellow Douglas McGray (billed as editor in chief), Curiosity Shoppe owners Derek Fagerstrom and Lauren Smith (creative directors), designer Maili Holiman (design director) and New Yorker contributor ...
Douglas McGray | April 24, 2009