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“For most college students, the information that they have about college is largely in a black box,” explains Amy Laitinen, deputy director for Higher Education at New America Foundation. “They know what the football team is, they know what the dorms are like, but they don’t necessarily know what the likelihood is that they're going to graduate, that they're going to graduate on time, that they're going to graduate with a lot of debt, and what their earnings are going to be on the other side.” 

"Going back to the old system won't really affect whether students can take loans out," says Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. "It will affect the ...

“Counting that $1+ trillion towards claimed deficit reduction would be taking credit for policies already in effect and would therefore be a gimmick,” the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in a June report warning of possible budget games ...

According to a report from the New America Foundation, middle class jobs are vanishing. Those jobs, 30 years ago, made up more than half of the income in the US now it's closer to 40 %. Lower income jobs are now taking up more than 40% of the economy, ...

... "There is a book about improving poor countries called "Getting Better" by Charles Kenny... it's a fantastic way of looking at what has happened over the last 50 years, and really takes the debate about aid is totally good, aid is totally a waste and explains why its worked in some cases and how we can be smart about it. ...

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CRFB adds: “Unfortunately, the budget doesn't make any meaningful improvements to the largest problem areas of the budget,” including Medicare, Medicaid and ...

Anne Vorce of the New America Foundation on the biggest hurdles on getting to a consensus on taxes.

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“Some people estimate that the green sector is about 750000 [jobs] total,” said Sam Sherraden of the New America Foundation. ...

... a number of policymakers are taking that responsibility seriously," wrote Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

The portion of people covered by job-based and other private insurance declined and likely will continue to do so, placing more pressure on public programs, said Len Nichols, a health economist and director of the health-policy program for the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group in Washington.