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Long-Term Jobless Lose Out in Senate Struggle | San Francisco Chronicle

June 29, 2010

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget, a moderate think tank, said the United States can extend benefits without enlarging ...

UC Business Dean Tyson Gives Grim Jobs Outlook | San Francisco Chronicle

June 24, 2010

... the effect of the nearly $800 billion federal stimulus enacted last year, she said at a luncheon sponsored by the center-left New America Foundation. ...

If You Can't Budget, You Can't Govern | San Francisco Chronicle

June 21, 2010

As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget noted last month, "The very reasonable push to reduce some discretionary spending has left the House ...

Dems See Gulf Oil Crisis as Chance for Change | San Francisco Chronicle

June 15, 2010

This is one of those 9/11 opportunities where you can rally the country to move in a different direction," said Lisa Margonelli, energy director of the center-left New America Foundation in Oakland. ...

Prop. 15 Calls for Public Funding of Elections | San Francisco Chronicle

May 23, 2010

Prop 15 has been endorsed by a host of government reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, California Common Cause and the New America Foundation. ...

Greek Crisis Leads to Positive Steps

  • By
  • Steven Hill,
  • New America Foundation
May 14, 2010 |

Contrary to what the doomsayers have been saying, Greece's debt crisis may turn out to be one of the best things to happen to the European Union.

While the situation has been messy, it also has signaled a badly needed wake-up call to Europe about a flaw at the heart of its monetary union. That in turn has resulted in a move toward reforms that have the potential to lead to sensible financial regulation and transparency, as well as to strengthen Europe's union. These reforms include:

National Debt Seen Heading for Crisis Level | San Francisco Chronicle

April 5, 2010

That will cost $2.5 trillion, said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Obama also escalated the war in Afghanistan. And he joined Republicans in ...

Panel: After Google, Others Should Reconsider China Business | San Francisco Chronicle

January 20, 2010

Some of the Web companies operating in China have "very limited self-awareness that they are actually media companies," he said at a New America Foundation ...

Feinstein, Boxer Lash Out at Governor's Demands | San Francisco Chronicle

January 9, 2010

... among the state's leaders in Washington, said Joe Mathews, a senior fellow in Los Angeles for the New America Foundation, a center-left think tank. ...

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