Niko Karvounis

... will be hindered by the same," said Niko Karvounis, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington. ...

In recent weeks, new signs of an economic recovery have emerged in the form of stock market rallies, surprisingly high bank profits, and better-than-feared official unemployment and economic growth reports. But accompanying these so-called green shoots is worrying evidence of a recovery that could be compromised if not cut short altogether by high levels of unemployment and by a long period of unusually weak and uneven job creation.   Not only is actual unemployment more severe than is reflected in official measures, it is also concentrated in those

Recently, discussions around health care reform have begun in earnest among politicians and policymakers in Washington, D.C. and beyond. President Obama has spent the month of June hitting the trail and the airwaves making the case for reform,  and legislators are now aiming to pass a health care reform bill sometime this summer. With the possibility of comprehensive changes to health care on the horizon, it is important for leaders and policymakers—as well as citizens—to understand the full argument for… more

"There is a good economic argument to be made that the government has not done enough stimulus," said Niko Karvounis, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation who recently wrote a report warning that the economic recovery is likely to be tepid ...

Former Policy Analyst, Next Social Contract Initiative

Niko Karvounis was a Policy Analyst with New America's Next Social Contract Initiative before leaving to attend Harvard Business School in 2009. Prior to coming to New America, Mr. Karvounis was a Program Officer at the Century Foundation, where he researched and wrote on health care and social policy and… more