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Work Within the VA System | St. Louis Beacon

March 16, 2011

The Department of Veterans Affairs is certainly not perfect, as the well-publicized problems at the John Cochran VA Medical Center point out, but as noted author Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation states, VA "is the best care anywhere. ...

As Libya Burns with Protests, Some Urge U.S. Action, Others Caution | St. Louis Beacon

February 22, 2011

Parag Khanna, a geo-strategist who is a research fellow at the New America Foundation, cautioned that "it's best to stand back a while" from Libya because "we'd have to be prepared for utter chaos" if Gadhafi would suddenly leave. ...

Will State's Poorest School Districts Be Shortchanged with Federal Stimulus Money? | St. Louis Beacon

April 2, 2009

These imbalances are very real for some districts, according to Jennifer Cohen, a researcher at the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington.

Cohen gives an example. Say a district has 200 students, and 150 of them are poor. It would receive more money per poor student than a district of 2,000 students with the same percentage of them poor... Original article

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