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At the same time, the campaign's leaders -- including Bowles and Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget -- met this week with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew and ...

That squares with the view expressed by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. But she would like to see specific measures earmarked in that long-term plan to pay for the stimulus over the next five to 10 years.

One student financial loan expert, Jason Delisle of the left-leaning New America Foundation, points out that there are programs already in existence that ease the repayment burden for unemployed and under employed graduates. He thinks the federal government can help more students in other ways -- such as maintaining funds for Pell Grants going to lower-income students.

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"It is tough to imagine this proposal gaining broad-based bipartisan support, which is what we need to move toward adopting a plan," said committee President Maya MacGuineas.

Indeed, a preliminary analysis by the independent Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released Thursday estimates that the three candidates' plans could add between $250 billion and $7 trillion of debt over the next nine years.

Another plus: On the tax front, Obama "identifies a number of specific revenue-raising measures to ensure that deficit reduction materializes regardless of whether or not tax reform does," CRFB president Maya MacGuineas said in a statement.

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, praised Obama for his "focus on deficit reduction" but said more must be done. "His proposals would barely stabilize the debt -- and at too high a level," MacGuineas said in ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says her group is putting together a "road show" featuring supportive Members of Congress and Simpson-Bowles commissioners. It will kick off Feb. 26 in Boston with an event ...

This is the same problem with Evgeny Morozov's recent proposal that Google should "flag" sites that might be spreading misinformation about vaccines or climate disruption. To add disclaimers to every result that might be controversial or offensive, ...

Evgeny Morozov(his Twitter bio: "There are idiots. Look around.") believes that Google and other search engines should slap warning labels on links to such ideas. The Internet has evolved, he laments at Slate, "with no or little quality control." This has yielded some good outcomes, like Wikipedia and Twitter. "But it has also spawned thousands of sites that undermine scientific consensus, overturn well-established facts, and promote conspiracy theories."