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At New America, our work spans across five issue areas—each essential to building a nation and a world where everyone can thrive.
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Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression
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For over 25 years, New America’s insights and policy solutions have helped usher in sweeping, long-term change. Discover how we have turned bold ideas into real-world impact.

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Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

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

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

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate
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For more than 25 years, New America has supported hundreds of fellows as they pursue ambitious work. Through our flagship Fellows Program and specialized fellowships, we back ideas rooted in depth, rigor, and lasting relevance.

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New America Fellows

The New America Fellows Program supports thinkers, creators, and storytellers whose work shapes public conversation on the defining issues of our time.
Us@250 Fellowship

Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) Fellowship

Future Security Fellowships
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Mar 23, 2026
Making Child Care Work for Student Parents

Making Child Care Work for Student Parents

Mar 26, 2026
Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release Webinar

Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release Webinar

Mar 31, 2026
The Understated Value of Regional Intermediaries for Workforce and Economic Development

The Understated Value of Regional Intermediaries for Workforce and Economic Development

Apr 1 – 2, 2026
The Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship Model

The Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship Model
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The Boom of For-Profit Child Care – And Where That Takes Us

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The Boom of For-Profit Child Care – And Where That Takes Us

Nov 7, 2022

Working Parents Still Haven’t Recovered From the Pandemic

Jill and Annie

Working Parents Still Haven’t Recovered From the Pandemic

Nov 7, 2022

Experiment No. 33: Work-Life Boundaries

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Experiment No. 33: Work-Life Boundaries

Nov 4, 2022

Why Care and Good Jobs are Central to the Future of Work and Wellbeing

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Why Care and Good Jobs are Central to the Future of Work and Wellbeing

Oct 19, 2022

Mapping the Road to a Better Future of Work and Wellbeing

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Report / In Depth

Mapping the Road to a Better Future of Work and Wellbeing

Meeting the challenges of automation, inequality, and care with shared responsibility for action.

Oct 11, 2022

Brigid Schulte, Molly G. Martin, Angela Moorman

Innovations for Universal Child Care

Report / In Depth

Innovations for Universal Child Care

Since the pandemic, private investment in child care has increased. What can we learn from these innovations?

Sep 30, 2022

Haley Swenson, Rebecca Gale, Ai Binh T. Ho

NEW! Better Life Lab’s Child Care Innovation Reporting Grants

NEW! Better Life Lab’s Child Care Innovation Reporting Grants

Sep 30, 2022

New America and The Intercept Announce “No Way Home” Podcast

New America and The Intercept Announce “No Way Home” Podcast

A four-part podcast produced by The Intercept and New America, “No Way Home” tells the stories of four Afghans in exile.

Sep 15, 2022

Gray Cash: How the U.S. and the Taliban Have Tried and Failed to Fix Afghanistan’s Informal Banking System

Gray Cash: How the U.S. and the Taliban Have Tried and Failed to Fix Afghanistan’s Informal Banking System

Sep 14, 2022

Qayoom Suroush

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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Book / In Depth

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv explores the fragile line between diagnosis and identity, showing how mental‑illness narratives can define—or trap—the self.

Sep 13, 2022

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