New America in the News: 2012

Kevin Carey, of the Education Policy program at the New American Foundation, shares his thoughts on the concept of students earning free college credit for things they already know ...

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... Rendell, Honeywell CEO David Cote, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas, former Senator Sam Nunn, longtime deficit scold and funder of multiple catfood commissions Pete Peterson, Steve Rattner, Alice Rivlin, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, ...

“There’s panic,” said Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group. “Whether it’s senseless panic is unclear.” ...

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Civilian deaths due to drone strikes in Pakistan are falling rapidly, and the death rate is now close to zero – or so asserts a New America Foundation (NAF) report. The report was authored by Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland of NAF, a public policy think tank based in Washington DC. Bergen is the cable news channel CNN's national security analyst and a director of NAF, and Rowland is a programme associate. The report states that since 2004, there have been 310 drone ...

Peter Bergen is also a director of the New America Foundation, which for more than three years has run a database on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and produces estimates of numbers killed. That data is the most frequent source of statistics for the US media, ...

... is broken, and Washington is broken ... but there are so many people across the country and members of Congress who want to come together and work on this issue," said Maya MacGuineas, president of The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

"This is the right move for unemployed Ohioans," David Rothstein, Policy Matters' project director for asset building, said in a statement. "Unemployed workers cannot afford to have any part of their compensation siphoned off. It's critical that public dollars go directly to the families."

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He also ignored a more conservative estimate by the New America Foundation in February that put the civilian kill ratio from the drone strikes at 30%. Even that lower figure would be 50% higher than Shane's high-end figure of 20%. Meanwhile, nowhere in ...

“The FCC opening these white space channels should make it faster and cheaper in the short-term to increase connectivity by leveraging campuses and surrounding areas,” stated Michael Calabrese, Director of the New America Foundation's Wireless Future ...