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Student Loan Write-Offs Hit $3 Billion In First Two Months Of Year | Chicago Tribune

March 25, 2013

Groups such as the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute, have said the current student loan repayment system is too complicated for borrowers, and that an income-based repayment system could simplify the process. Some students ...

"Zero Dark Thirty" Entertaining But Inaccurate: Ex-CIA Agents | Chicago Tribune

January 26, 2013

In "Manhunt," the CIA search is juxtaposed with journalist Peter Bergen's own insight into al Qaeda. Bergen produced a CNN interview with bin Laden and correspondent Peter Arnett in 1997 that marked the first time the al Qaeda leader was profiled on U ...

Corner Office Calling | Chicago Tribune

October 26, 2012

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and David Cote, center, CEO of Honeywell and a member of the steering committee of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, ring the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock ...

Google Engineers Policing Governments Trying To Police Internet | Chicago Tribune

October 19, 2012

And Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN journalist and now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, wants to know what Google takes down on its own — without a government request. MacKinnon cited an example of hidden-camera videos taken by ...

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Working in America: The Myth of Men in Decline | Chicago Tribune

October 10, 2012

In "The Richer Sex," author Liza Mundy claims one in four women out-earn their spouses. A subtext of this narrative is that men lack the communications skills, flexibility and social intelligence that are the key ingredients for success in the new economy.

A Dream Debate | Chicago Tribune

October 2, 2012

So here's a goodwill offering: Ask the green-eyeshade folks at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. If my entire tax plan was in place, we wouldn't have ended a fiscal year on Sunday with a deficit of about $1.2 trillion. Instead it would ...

Drones Coming To A Town Near You | Chicago Tribune

May 4, 2012

According to a report released this week by the New America Foundation, there have been 296 American drone strikes in northwest Pakistan since 2004. In three and a half years, President Obama has authorized almost six times as many strikes as George ...

National Debt: The Game Let's You Try To Cut The Federal Deficit | Chicago Tribune

May 1, 2012

Maps 1899 L St NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Known as "Stabilize the US Debt," the game created by a bipartisan group of experts, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will never be as much fun as "Mortal Kombat Komplete," but serious gamers ...

Parents Also Must Avoid Crippling Student Debt | Chicago Tribune

April 27, 2012

The average single-year federal Parent PLUS loan was $12000 this school year, compared with $9850 in 2007, said Jason Delisle, director of the New America Foundation's federal education budget project. Gail MarksJarvis Bio | E-mail | Blog | Recent ...

Forty-five Medical Tests Patients and Doctors Should Question | Chicago Tribune

April 5, 2012

The upcoming Avoiding Avoidable Care summit, to be held on April 25 in Boston, will bring together more than 100 clinicians who will debate “the scope of the problem, its causes, the ethical dimensions, and its solutions,” said Shannon Brownlee, director of health policy at the New America Foundation and an organizer of the event.

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