New America Events This Month

On June 27, 2008, Peter Gosselin, L.A. Times National Economics Correspondent, offered an atypical view of the economy that faces the average American family.  Rather than the usual top-down macroeconomic perspective, he talked about how the economy looks “out the front door”.  He was accompanied by comments from Ellen Seidman, Director of New America’s Financial Services and Education Project, to discuss Gosselin's new book, “High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families.”  In his prepared remarks Gosselin… more

On June 27th, the New America Foundation and the Century Foundation co-hosted “Making Sense of the Arab-Israel Nightmare”, an event which aimed to investigate the status quo, the future available to the Bush Administration, and a measure of “crystal ball gazing” into what one can hope for from the next Administration Special Assistant to Ambassador Morton Abramowitz at the Century Foundation, Jonathan Kolieb, hosted a Q&A-style session with three former practitioners in a lively discussion that explored the lessons to… more