Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, says an exchange helps reduce costs for people who buy insurance on the individual or small group markets. "You cannot expand coverage greatly ...
Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to secretary of State Colin Powell and is a frequent critic of the George W. Bush administration, said Obama and Clinton were delivering long-overdue candor. "What a refreshing moment it is to have a president ...
Ellen Seidman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, says local lenders have been having a tougher time getting funding under the Community Reinvestment Act as big lenders have merged or pulled back. Though CDFIs must normally raise private ...
World population will hit 7 billion by 2012, according to a recent United Nations report. Given that we just hit the 6 billion mark in October 1999, it is easy to conclude that there are just too many people in the world. How are we ever going to overcome global warming, feed the masses, get that beachfront property, let alone find parking, if the population keeps jumping by nearly one billion per decade?
"When you get to the point that you're pleased to be able to achieve a half a trillion (dollar) deficit when the economy gets going again, you're in rough shape," says Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
Finland recently launched a war -- on household savings. The campaign warns Finns to lay off the piggy bank, pleading: "Don't feed the recession." The rhetoric there is quite similar to reports we've seen here from economists and Wall Street forecasters nervous at signs that U.S. consumers are starting to save.
... can get their favorite tax cuts or spending snuck into the budget," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
"The goal is to let consumers see what's under the hood of their Internet connection," said Sascha Meinrath, a wireless expert at the New America Foundation ...
Brown University historian Ted Widmer, editor of American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton. called Obama's language "a ...
... "it's the second two years when it's not so fun to be president," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
