New America in the News: 2011

New America staff and fellows appear regularly on radio and television, and are frequently quoted in media outlets of all types. A selection of that coverage is available below.

Iraq Syndrome | Truthout

October 27, 2011

“If any good comes of the Iraq war,” Michael Lind wrote recently in Salon, “it will come in the form of an Iraq syndrome, like the Vietnam syndrome that made Americans wary of large-scale military intervention abroad from the fall of Saigon in 1975 ...

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Inflation Likely: Bullish for Gold and Silver | Seeking Alpha

October 27, 2011

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), once a country reaches a debt to GDP ratio of 90%, interest payments quickly rise and impede the country's ability to grow and pay back debt. Without a drastic change, more and more ...

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White House Rolls Out Relief for Millions of College Debt Owners | The Washington Independent

October 26, 2011

Using a more comprehensive metric, a report issued (PDF) by the New America Foundation found that 15 percent of graduates defaulted, while 21 percent were delinquent on their payments. But despite the costs and risks of falling behind in payments, ...

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Debt Panel To Meet in Public, But Few Signs of Progress Yet | McClatchy Newspapers

October 25, 2011

... armies of Washington-watchers used to seeing every budget nuance debated on Capitol Hill, it's crucial to the mission's success, said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group. ...

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Time Is Tight for 'Supercommittee' and for the Financial Future if Republic | Chicago Tribune

October 25, 2011

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says President Barack Obama's proposal to the supercommittee, despite his stated desire that it Go Big, "fails to put the debt on a clear downward path as a share of the economy" and "is ...

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Tax Holiday Could Return $20B in Overseas Profits | Minnesota Public Radio

October 25, 2011

One recent study by the Washington-based New America Foundation estimates a tax holiday could create between 1.3 and 2.5 million jobs. Politicians from both parties have sponsored tax holiday bills in the House and Senate. No member of Minnesota's ...

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Books Are Like the News — It's Better When They Are Social | GigaOm

October 25, 2011

Megan Garber wrote a post at the Nieman Journalism Lab recently that looked at the ongoing debate between Jarvis and fellow author and foreign-policy writer Evgeny Morozov over the relative merits of Jarvis's new book Public Parts, which deals with the ...

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Democrats Offer Sizable Deficit Plan | Congressional Quarterly Today

October 25, 2011

... In a report last week, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated the joint committee might find $100 billion to $200 billion in discretionary cuts in a package that reduced the deficit by $600 billion to $800 billion over a decade. ...

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Keen On… Parag Khanna: How To Run The World | TechCrunch

October 24, 2011

According to Parag Khanna, the author of How To Run The World: Charting A Course For The Next Renaissance, we live in a world of perfect storms and crises which requires management by what he calls “creative capitalism.” I caught up with Khanna last ...

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Are Banks To Blame for the Global Economic Downturn? | Al Jazeera

October 24, 2011

Financial journalist Kat Aaron will be in the studio to discuss the state of the global economy. Joining the show via Skype are Brazilian financial journalist Patricia Campos Mello and Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and host of the ...

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Calls For Debt Panel To 'Go Big' Get Louder | The Washington Times

October 24, 2011

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that advocates for fiscal responsibility, says in a report released Friday that the deficit panel must find savings “two or three times as much” in order to set the country “on a path ...

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Wealthy Corporations With a Trillion Dollars Stashed Offshore Lobby for a ... | The Center for Public Integrity

October 24, 2011

In a paper for the nonpartisan New America Foundation, economist Laura D'Andrea Tyson and two Berkeley associates estimate that 74 percent of the money brought back to the US in a tax holiday would be distributed to shareholders in the form of dividend ...

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How Much Does Your ISP Shape Your Downloads? | MyBroadband

October 24, 2011

“Thanks to an initiative known as the Measurement Lab (MLab), supported by Google, the New America Foundation and the PlanetLab Consortium, the Glasnost test allows end users all over the world to test whether their ISP is blocking or throttling ...

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Americans Spend More Money on Gasoline Than Taxes, Healthcare | KYTX

October 24, 2011

The report, by the Nonpartisan Group New America Foundation, finds rising gasoline prices are playing a big part in the results. The survey shows this year, Americans are on track to spend over $490 billion on gasoline. Which is $100 billion more than ...

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Americans Trapped By High Gas Prices | Treehugger

October 24, 2011

According to Energy Trap, a study from the New America Foundation, people are indeed trapped, by older gas guzzling cars, long commutes from houses they can't sell or to multiple part-time jobs. And surprise, it hurts the 99% a lot more than it hurts ...

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Immigrants Find Legal Paths to U.S. Long, Difficult | USA TODAY

October 24, 2011

"You can wait six years, 15 years or 20 years to come on a family visa," said President Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA, a coalition of pro-immigration business groups. "For a young, able-bodied man to look for work, he'd apply when he's 18 and ...

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We Pay More To Drive Than We Spend on Taxes | TIME Magazine

October 24, 2011

These are the main findings of “Energy Trap,” a new study conducted by the non-partisan New America Foundation. Generally speaking, consumers scale back on purchasing products and services as they get more expensive. What we've seen over the past few ...

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Americans Spending More on Driving Than on Taxes or Health Care: A New Survey ... | KSPR

October 24, 2011

The nonpartisan group, New America Foundation says higher gasoline prices are playing a big part in the findings. The survey shows this year, Americans are on track to spend over 490-billion dollars on gasoline. That's 100-billion dollars more than ...

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Craig Venter: Algae Fuel That Can Replace Oil Will Not Come from Nature | GigaOm

October 23, 2011

... will have to be synthesized and will not come from nature, said controversial genomics scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter last week at a conference on the future of energy at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC (see video below). ...

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Wealth Divide Might Stifle Jobs | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

October 23, 2011

“This inequality is destabilizing and undermines the ability of the economy to grow sustainably and efficiently,” she told a forum sponsored by the liberal New America Foundation. “All of these forces drag down maximum economic growth. ...

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