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“The federal government is saying, maybe we should be paying for learning rather than time,” said Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a prominent think tank. “I don't want to be too hyperbolic about it, but ...

The cost to the government to implement the plan would be $25 billion in the first five years and would save $15 billion over 10 years, according to Jason Delisle, director of the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, a ...

How to measure improved security will be a contentious element of the congressional debate, said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of state-based business groups that advocate rewriting immigration laws. ''That trigger is ...

Role reversal Author Liza Mundy predicts that within a generation, more households will be supported by women than men (our question: Will they also be frying that bacon?). At “Are Women the Richer Sex?” she will talk about her book “The Richer Sex ...

Glaeser uses Jason DeParle's article in the New York Times about three young women who failed to achieve upward mobility by attending college as anecdotal evidence; I offer my own anecdotal evidence drawn from teaching at a Massachusetts community ...

But as reporter Jason DeParle writes, “four years later, their story seems less like a tribute to upward mobility than a study of obstacles in an age of soaring economic inequality.” Two dropped out of school. None has a degree; two have crushing debts.

But Jason Delisle, who has written extensively about the income-linked repayment programs as director of the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, points to an Office of Management and Budget effort that took a stab at it.

It's called “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer” (Bloomsbury, 2007), and it's by the excellent health care writer Shannon Brownlee. Most doctors are “paid for how much they do, not how well they care for their patients ...

Among federal fiscal experts, the assertion that the GOP candidate’s plan would shift the tax burden downward is hardly controversial. “I think any nonpartisan analyst looking at Romney’s plans is going to reach the same straightforward conclusion,” says Jeff Vanke, senior policy analyst at the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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