With official unemployment in the US hovering around 10 per cent,
and actual levels much higher when the underemployed and discouraged
are counted, the most urgent priority is job creation. But efforts to
get America working again must be informed by the striking fact that
most employment growth in the past decade has been concentrated in
three sectors: healthcare, education and government, mostly state and
local public services.
On Sept. 18, Irving Kristol died. On Feb. 27, 2008, William F. Buckley Jr. passed away. Kristol was known as "the godfather of neoconservatism," while Buckley was the founder of the "movement conservatism" of Goldwater and Reagan. The intellectual conservatism that they, in different ways, sought to foster had passed from the scene before they did.
“We're all headed for a health care train wreck if things don't change,” says Shannon Brownlee, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of ...
"Had the world economy collapsed, and there was a reason to believe it
could have, the leaders of this country and others may have been forced
to take hugely dramatic steps," says Douglas Rediker, a former investment banker now running the New America Foundation's Global Strategic Finance Initiative. ... Original Article
On September 21, 2009,
author and economist Pat Choate discussed his new book, Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong,
at the New America Foundation. In a conversation with Michael Lind, Policy
Director of the Economic Growth Program at New America, Choate offered his
perspective on the ongoing economic crisis and outlined his book's comprehensive
policy prescription for recovery and sustainable growth.
As demographer Phillip Longman observes, young white men since the 1970s have seen a 40% decline in income relative to their fathers--for young black men the ...
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... but also of the public," said Michael Lind, director of the economic-growth program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. ...
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The bursting of the housing and credit bubble has left the United States with a large debt overhang. America’s total debt is at a historical high of 373% of GDP and has more than doubled since 1980, when it stood at 161%. Household and financial sector debt has accounted for the lion’s share of the increase.
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