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... go bankrupt" because of your medical costs, said Elizabeth Carpenter, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation, a center-left research center. ...

As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget put it in a release, the COLA was indexed to inflation in 1975 to help seniors keep their purchasing power ...

"It's going to give the Cheney crowd some bragging rights," said Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation, ...

This summer, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been outlining the seriousness of that debt. It now is around $11 trillion, not counting in ...

(The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget also insists the plan be truly paid for.) Sure, we would be punting this problem down the road, but we're also staring at $34 trillion in unfunded promises to Medicare. How do we add more debt to our ...

Len Nichols, a health care economist who worked on the Clinton administration's failed reform effort, said the reform emphasis now was less about ideas like pay-for-performance than ways to implement them. "None of these are new ideas," he said. ...

"The notion that something has to be done to update the statute, I think, is absolutely right," said Ellen Seidman, financial services policy director for the New America Foundation. "There will be a lengthy conversation over ... what form the extension should take ...

The New America Foundation has set up a blog to monitor the eduction side of Obama's economic recovery plan.

Yesterday, the "nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute" examined the stimulus estimates by district, looking specifically at funding per student...Original article

This month marks 20 years since al-Qaeda was founded in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar by Osama bin Laden and a handful of veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the group is more famous and feared than ever. But its grand project – to transform the Muslim world into a militant Islamist caliphate – has been, by any measure, a resounding failure.

...In their thoughtful and important new book, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, young conservative journalists Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam point out that while Democrats are clueless about why cultural values can produce material suffering, Republicans fail to grasp how economics can affect cultural decline.