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“This inequality is destabilizing and undermines the ability of the economy to grow sustainably and efficiently,” she told a forum sponsored by the liberal New America Foundation. “All of these forces drag down maximum economic growth. ...

The gang joined a chorus of groups urging a home run solution, heartening Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “It's not often you get that many senators anywhere together pushing for something,” she said. ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Government, said the Oklahoma Republican was an important part of the group's dynamic. "Coburn, of all the members, has given the most articulate speeches as to why the debt is the ...

“The Gang of Six is going to have the best chance” at arriving at a deficit- and debt-reduction compromise, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Government. “With all the different efforts, in the end, ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ushered in the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament this year by telling the media that schools should only qualify for post-season play if they are on track to graduate at least 40 percent of their players.

... And --- especially in metro Atlanta --- commutes are long, said Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the Brain" and a fellow at the New American Foundation. ...

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"Quite honestly I think this is the group that may save the situation," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...

"Nobody should kid themselves into thinking this is the best stimulus we can get," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible ...

When Gov. Sonny Perdue, a free-trade Republican, heads a Georgia agriculture trade delegation to Cuba next week, what should he expect to accomplish? Until Washington gets out of the way, probably not much.

The Cuba embargo and its intended target, Fidel Castro, have now survived 11 U.S. presidents. Though Barack Obama relaxed nearly all restrictions on travel and remittances for Cuban Americans last fall, he has so far done little for U.S. agriculture interests looking to expand the Cuban market.

Last week, President Barack Obama delivered his first address before the United Nations General Assembly. "Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone," he insisted. "We have sought in word and deed a new era of engagement with the world."

Yet, there remains one obvious exception to this new era of engagement with the world: our continuing embargo of Cuba.