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Time to Improve

New America’s Melissa Tooley and Laura Bornfreund offer recommendations for a new federal approach to addressing current issues with educato

Mar 24, 2014

Melissa Tooley, Laura Bornfreund

Uncontrolled Global Surveillance: Updating Export Controls to the Digital Age

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Uncontrolled Global Surveillance: Updating Export Controls to the Digital Age

Findings show that export control regulations have become out-dated and have not kept up with new technology.

Mar 24, 2014

Tim Maurer, Edin Omanovic, Ben Wagner

Rebalancing the Scales

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Rebalancing the Scales

The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty naturally prompts reflection on how much progress has been made and how to chart a path forward.

Mar 19, 2014

Rachel Black

Methodology for Identifying and Addressing Urban Areas with Low Broadband Adoption

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Methodology for Identifying and Addressing Urban Areas with Low Broadband Adoption

This brief describes the different phases of research to prepare for planning and managing broadband interventions at various scales.

Mar 13, 2014

Joshua Breitbart

College Blackout

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College Blackout

Students, families, and policymakers are finding their questions can’t be answered—because the higher education lobby has fought to keep it

Mar 11, 2014

Clare McCann, Amy Laitinen

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?

Mar 11, 2014

Brigid Schulte

Key Questions: Education Policy in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget

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Key Questions: Education Policy in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget

The Education Policy Program at New America has reviewed the president’s proposals and generated a list of key questions

Mar 4, 2014

The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

The Bright Continent calls for a necessary shift in our thinking about Africa.

Mar 4, 2014

Dayo Olopade

The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession

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The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession

The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 plunged the U.S. economy into a serious crisis, leaving American households with huge debt.

Mar 4, 2014

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Samuel Sherraden

The Financial Health Check

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The Financial Health Check

Redesign financial education and counseling to close the gap between intention and action.

Mar 3, 2014

Antoinette Schoar, Piyush Tantia

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Thriving Families

What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National Parent Survey

New America Celebrates 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

The Care Disconnect: Americans Misjudge Care Realities, But Know Families Need Help

A Model for Associational Party Building

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

New America Fellows

Ten Lives

Amy J. Nelson’s The Arms Control Paradox

Community Colleges as Cultivators of Civic Life

Assembling in the Age of AI

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Time to Improve

Uncontrolled Global Surveillance: Updating Export Controls to the Digital Age

Rebalancing the Scales

Methodology for Identifying and Addressing Urban Areas with Low Broadband Adoption

College Blackout

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Key Questions: Education Policy in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget

The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa

The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession

The Financial Health Check