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- Some analysts declare end to the U.S. steel import crisis.
- Since tonnage of steel imports dropped in January for the fifth time in six months, economist Greg Mastel at the New America Foundation says, "the worst of the so-called steel import crisis has passed." Since tonnage of steel imports dropped in January...
- Research articles 2000-04-06
- How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: the Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina
- It's a common observation that crises such as wars, recessions, stock market meltdowns, ethics scandals, and natural catastrophes often drive the public policymaking process. A crisis reveals a problem and then a public consensus emerges that policymakers must do something about it. The policy debate then centers on the best...
- White papers 2006-08-30
- The Vanishing American Consumer
- Have Americans given up "retail therapy" for good? A permanent shift could be good for many strapped households — but would spell bad news for the recovery. American consumers have awakened, bolt upright, with belated sticker shock (“I bought what!? I spent how much!?”), from a shopping spree that’s...
- Articles 2009-09-15
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- A Brookings Institution-New America Foundation Forum: Employment- Based Health Insurance: A Prominent Past, but Does it Have a Future?
- News Advisory: WHAT: A Brookings Institution-New America Foundation Forum: Employment-Based Health Insurance: A Prominent Past, but Does it Have a Future? WHEN: Friday, June 16, 9 a.m. b 12 p.m. WHERE: Falk Auditorium, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC WHO: Panel One: Moderator: HENRY AARON, senior fellow,...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- Foundation funds programs to improve businesses.(Contractor News)(New Horizons Foundation )(Brief Article)
- CHANTILLY, Va. -- The New Horizons Foundation will fund three research projects, totaling $228,000, that will focus on ways sheet metal and HVAC contractors can improve their business operations. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Awad Hanna, Ph.D., will investigate how contractors can become more efficient...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- More than 300,000 Students Received the Gift of Reading from Capital One & The Heart of America Foundation®; Value of Books More Than $3.5 Million
- WASHINGTON -- To get more books into the hands and homes of children at risk, Capital One and The Heart of America Foundation distributed 710,000 brand new, age appropriate books to more than 300,000 at-risk students over the past four years. The books, valuing more than $3.5 million, were provided...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust
- In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani’s involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Pru Faces Higher Fla. Plaintiff Demands In Interest-Sensitive Suit.(Prudential Insurance Company of America)(Brief Article)
- Thirty Florida residents say they will fund a new charitable foundation with 90% of any punitive damages over $2 billion that they win from Prudential Insurance Company of America. Thirty Florida residents say they will fund a new charitable foundation with 90% of any...
- Research articles 2001-05-28
- Ford Foundation Launches International Fellowships Program Largest Single Grant In Its History
- The Ford Foundation today announced a major international graduate fellowships program and a complementary undergraduate initiative to help prepare a new generation of future leaders for the challenges of the 21st century. The $330 million commitment features a new Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program IFP that will provide $280 million...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You
- The bills moving through Congress could have a bigger impact on your financial future than any legislation in a long, long time. Here's all you need to know to follow the key issues. ...
- Articles 2009-08-07
- Health Wonk Review: Crunch Time For Health Reform
- As Congress faces America’s healthcare demons again, I have the honor of hosting this biweekly review of some of America’s best healthcare bloggers. They include Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters, who helms a subsection of this Health Wonk Review devoted to initial reactions to Bob Laszewski’s unusual reform proposal....
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- What now? A discussion on the way forward for the Democrats
- In the aftermath--and there's no better word for it--of the election, Democrats all over the country fell into despair-ridden support-group-like conversations with their friends about what had happened and what to do next. We gathered some of ours last month in a conference room at the Kaiser Family Foundation. They...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today's Terrorists
- Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today's Terrorists, edited by Karen Greenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 257 pages, including index. $60.00, hardcover. Thomas R. Maftair, independent author and consultant This volume is based on a one-day seminar convened in December 2004 by the New America Foundation and the Center on Law and...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Paper Says White Spaces Make Productive Use Of TV Bands
- Unlicensed access to currently unused or under-used broadcast-TV spectrum known as "white spaces" would constitute the most productive deployment of such bands and would help meet a range of technology, market, end-user and policy goals, according to a new "working paper" just released by the New America...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- In Brief
- Edwards on Israel in Silver Spring Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) will hold a "Community Conversation on Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" on Monday, 6:30-8 p.m., at White Oak Middle School, 12201 New Hampshire Ave., in Silver Spring. Edwards, who returned recently from her participation in a congressional delegation with...
- Research articles 2009-06-25
- Levitt Leaves a Heritage of Controversy
- Like the proverbial prophet without honor, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt leaves office amid controversy and criticism. "The investment community will be much better off without Arthur Levitt," said Tony Broy, chief executive at Hill Thompson Magid & Co., in Jersey City. One business scholar disagreed....
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Critics say Washington neglecting 'battle of ideas' with radical Islamists
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is neglecting the all-important "battle of ideas" in combatting radical Islam around the world, American experts in the war on terrorism said. "Many people in the Islamic world have come to believe that the United States is in some way evil," Richard Clarke,...
- Research articles 2005-02-11
- Licensees should buy at auction, pay rent to help the public good.
- WASHINGTON--Rather than auctioning the RF spectrum with free license renewals, the Federal Communications Commission should auction the spectrum but then charge rent for renewing those licenses, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Public Assets Program of the New America Foundation. "While...
- Research articles 2001-03-19
- Withdrawal pains: looking for a unified Democratic position on leaving Iraq? Here it is: each individual Democrat takes whatever position he or she wants.(Dispatches)
- RICHARD CLARKE, THE FORMER National Security Council counter-terrorism chief whose book criticizing the Bush administration--and the White House's ferocious counterattack--briefly dominated public debate in summer 2004, doesn't seem to have enjoyed the experience. At a lunch in Washington organized by Steve Clemons, director of the...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Corrections.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Correction Notice)
- Jason Vest's "Pray and Tell" [July] misidentified Peter Bergen as a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. Due to a typographical error, Robert Kuttner's response in last month's "Correspondence" section put Representative...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
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