Current Openings At New America

The New America Foundation is seeking a communications professional with 4–8 years experience to manage, expand, and improve our wide range of public policy events. The ideal candidate will have a love of public policy and the DC media world, and the proven ability to conceive and organize successful, substantive events. If you're a people person and a policy wonk, with the desire to work closely with talented colleagues across a wide range of issue areas, this is a job worth… more

The New America Foundation is seeking a communications professional with 4–8 years experience to manage, expand, and improve the visibility of our ideas and individuals. The ideal candidate will have a love of public policy and the DC media world, and the proven ability to turn complex issues into compelling media coverage. more

Our nation’s current approach to taxation and spending is inefficient, insufficient and unfair. Our tax system punishes work and savings, raises revenues far short of what we spend, and has become less progressive at a time of widening income inequality. Our complex tax code also suffers from an overall lack of transparency and a failure of coordination between different levels of government. The purpose of the Fiscal Policy Program is to reframe the national debate through concrete reform proposals—such as… more

The New America Foundation is seeking a new media professional with 4-8 years experience to help improve and expand our online presence. The ideal candidate will have a love of both journalism and online innovation, and be keenly interested in politics and public policy. If you have a sharp eye for news, an innate feel for what works on the web today, and the desire to work closely with talented colleagues across a wide range of issue areas, we’d… more

The Asset Building Program, launched in 2002, has established itself as a leading voice on innovative, market-oriented public policies to enable low-income families in the U.S. and around the world to (a) accumulate savings; (b) access wealth-building financial services and financial education; (c) better manage their debts; and (d) build and protect lifelong, productive assets—a home, an education, a small business, investments, and a nest-egg for retirement. The program is among the world’s leading policy experts and advocates for universal… more

The Asset Building Program, launched in 2002, has established itself as a leading voice on innovative, market-oriented public policies to enable low-income families in the U.S. and around the world to (a) accumulate savings; (b) access wealth-building financial services and financial education; (c) better manage their debts; and (d) build and protect lifelong, productive assets—a home, an education, a small business, investments, and a nest-egg for retirement. The program is among the world’s leading policy experts and advocates for universal… more

The New America Foundation seeks a California-based Policy Analyst for the Asset Building Program. The program, launched in 2002, has established itself as a leading voice on innovative, market-oriented public policies to enable low- and moderate-wealth families in the U.S. and around the world to (a) accumulate savings; (b) access wealth-building financial services and financial education; (c) better manage their debts; and (d) build and protect lifelong, productive assets—a home, an education, a small business, investments, and a nest-egg… more

The New America Foundation seeks a Policy Analyst to provide research and analytical support to senior staff and Fellows working on the broad range of topics covered under our Next Social Contract Initiative, which was launched in early 2007. This Initiative, which brings together our core domestic policy programs, is designed to advance a new meta-narrative, organizing principles, and detailed policy proposals attuned to the 21st century. Overall, the Initiative seeks to inform and shape key social policy debates, especially… more

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (www.crfb.org) is a bipartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact. The Committee is housed at the New America Foundation. Currently, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has an immediate opening for a Policy Director. more

The New America Foundation seeks a Congressional Liaison for the Asset Building Program. The program, launched in 2002, has established itself as a leading voice on innovative, market-oriented public policies to enable low- and moderate-wealth families in the U.S and around the world to (a) accumulate savings; (b) access wealth-building financial services and financial education; (c) better manage their debts; and (d) build and protect lifelong, productive assets—a home, an education, a small business, investments, and a nest-egg for retirement.… more

The New America Foundation seeks a dynamic, visionary, and entrepreneurial Director for the Asset Building Program. The program, launched in 2002, has established itself as a leading voice on innovative, market-oriented public policies to enable low- and moderate-wealth families in the U.S and around the world to (a) accumulate savings; (b) access wealth-building financial services and financial education; (c) better manage their debts; and (d) build and protect lifelong, productive assets -- a home, an education, a small business, investments,… more

New America launched the California Program in late 2004 to bring its proven approach to California, the nation’s leading policy laboratory. Its purpose is to nurture a new generation of public policy writers and thinkers in California; to generate creative new policy solutions about the state’s most pressing problems; and to improve California’s public debate via frequent events and publication of articles and commentary in the state’s leading media outlets.

New America’s Asset Building Program in California

In today’s economy, economic mobility… more

The New America Foundation is seeking full-time Research Associates who are interested in pursuing careers in the fields of public policy research, journalism, or related areas. Research Associates will support the work of New America’s Fellows and Policy Programs. This is a six-month position. more