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Washington, D.C. — American Airlines and US Airways announced today a $11 billion deal to merge that if approved would create the world’s largest airline and leave four national carriers controlling around 70 percent of U.S. travel. Experts from the New America Foundation’s Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative (MERI) are available today to give reporters context for the proposed merger and its implications, which could include higher fares and less service in parts of the country.
 

What about robber barons? We don't talk much about monopoly power these days; antitrust enforcement largely collapsed during the Reagan years and has never really recovered. Yet Barry Lynn and Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation argue, ...

Phillip Longman, from the New America Foundation, argues in The Washington Monthly, that monetary policies need to include every American...Phillip will join The Daily Circuit on Tuesday to discuss how parents can rebuild and help their children be more prepared for the future.

Washington, DC - To support long-term financial security, the United States should open savings accounts for every child, New America Senior Research Fellow Phil Longman told MSNBC yesterday afternoon.

"American Stakeholder Accounts" would improve prospects for college attendance, homeownership and a secure retirement, which were damaged by the Great Recession, Longman explained on MSNBC's "The Cycle."

Never before in history has the great American middle class obsessed so much over financial planning as during the last forty years or so. In the 1970s, this obsession fueled the growth of hot new magazines like Money and TV shows like Louis Rukeyser’s Wall $street Week. By the 1980s, it had led to the creation of personal finance sections in almost every newspaper, and to myriad radio talk shows counseling Americans on what mutual funds to buy, how much they should put into new savings vehicles like Individual Retirement Accounts or Keoghs, and how to manage their new 401(k) plans.

America’s air transport system is vital to the economic health of the nation, and to the well-being of every region of the country. Yet across much of America, the air transport system is breaking down as the few surviving airlines simultaneously jack up fares and slash service. This means citizens can’t get where they need to go. And it means large and vibrant cities – including St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Memphis – are having trouble keeping what businesses they have, let alone attracting new investors.

“In Seattle,” adds Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation, “there are nearly 45 percent more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19 percent more kids than dogs.” Projections show secularism losing momentum and beginning to ...

Phillip Longman, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is one of the report's authors. Longman and Eberstadt both contributed to Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics, which shows why fertility decline is causing ...

Mergers and a focus on loyalty programs for business passengers on high-volume routes have bypassed major cities, including St. Louis, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, forcing companies to relocate because of deteriorating air service, said Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation, a nonprofit Washington think tank. His recent article in Washington Monthly spurred Tuesday's discussion on whether it is time to "re-regulate" the airlines.

... including St. Louis, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, forcing companies to relocate because of deteriorating air service, said Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation, a nonprofit Washington think tank that hosted the panel discussion.

In a USA Today column, Phil Longman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, reminds us that fares were actually falling more rapidly in the decade before 1978 than the decade after. And the legacy of deregulation continues to plague the ...

Some people like to back handedly refer to large portions of America as flyover country. The wide expanses that separate the hustle and bustle of modern cities that line the coast and dot America's interior. But trends in the Airline industry are cutting more and more large metropolitan areas off from the rest of the country. Places like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh where by some measures, roughly half of air service has disappeared in recent years. And according to Phillip Longman, the consequences are far more significant then higher ticket prices for leisure travelers.