New America in the News: 2010

"They represent thousands personal stories," said Micah Weinberg, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. But whether California can muster ...

...it's absolutely ludicrous to think that this is the time to pile on trillions of dollars of new debt," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

Michael Lind of the liberal-leaning New America Foundation, said the simplicity of the proposed payroll tax credit would make it easy for employers to ...

Len Nichols, health policy director at the New America Foundation, added: "If you believe that much medical care is unnecessary, as I do, then it is criminal that we are spending so much.

CNNMoney.com asked 6 budget experts to size up the president's budget when it comes to reining in debt. Maya MacGuineas, the president of Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group of leading budget experts, said "The administration's plan succeeds in making the deficit and the huge federal debt a political issue. ..."

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Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget joins WFED's Francis Rose on In Depth to discuss the President's budget.

You can download an MP3 recording of the interview to the right or listen to it on WFED's website website.

"This year's cuts seem no more ambitious, and in fact seem a little less ambitious, which is not what I would have hoped," said Marc Goldwein, policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

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"If you take those Medicare cuts and apply them to creating a new entitlement before you fix Medicare, how are we going to fix Medicare program?" said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

... the partisanship that goes on right now would kill all those ideas,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...