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Even northern California would be hard to ... blanket with the kind of battery changing stations that we need," said Lisa Margonelli, director of energy policy at New America Foundation. "We have, like, 150000 gas stations in the United States.

... “When you really get down to it, more nutritious meals cost more money,” said Jennifer Cohen, a senior education policy analyst at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. “And as long as we are in a situation where they are pushing for fiscal austerity in federal government, it’s unlikely that we are going to see a push for these nutritional awareness movements in school lunches.” ...

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$1.5 trillion in cuts? That's "peanuts," says Simpson, at a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget press conference.

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... Some of the most ambitious and wide-ranging ideas can be found in "A Vision for Economic Renewal: An American Jobs Agenda." The plan is the handiwork of Sen. Tom Harkin,D-Iowa, Reps. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, and a task force co-chaired by Leo Hindery, Jr., chairman of the Economic Growth/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. ...

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... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal has what is billed as $1 trillion in cuts to military spending. However, as Committee for a Responsible Budget Policy Analyst Jason Peuquet points out, these cuts are based on the troop drawdown that President Obama announced in June. Reid is putting cuts that are already expected to occur in his plan for spending cuts going forward, essentially counting them twice. ...

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The United States is finding ways to get internet access to rebels.

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Steve Clemons discussed the continuing criticism of Pakistan with Jim Sciutto on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer.

Explained Steve Coll, author of the book "The Bin Ladens," "She was a very young woman by the account of the bodyguard who brought her to meet bin Laden from the tribal family that had presented her to bin Laden, presented her to bin Laden for marriage ...

... "You are going to have progressives saying you are cutting all these important programs that really help people, conservatives saying you are not cutting nearly enough, and deficit hawks saying this doesn't do nearly enough to fix the overall budget situation," says Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan group. ...

... "I think this is indicative of the 'same old, same old' approach being taken, which itself is ultimately doomed," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator and now at the New America Foundation in Washington. ...

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