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Do You Have Emergency Savings to Get You Through a Crisis? | National Journal
Half of Americans have no retirement assets, and those who do often neglect their rainy-day fund in favor of longer-term goals. Copyright 2014, Nat...
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The Gaza war has done terrible things to Israeli society | The Globe and Mail
Earlier this month, one of Israel’s most famous writers announced in his weekly newspaper column that he was packing up his family and moving to th...
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What's Different This Time | The Weekly Wonk
As Israel begins another day of Operation Protective Edge, its assault on Gaza, the country also faces an ending that’s going relatively unnoticed ...
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Education Dept. Will Test Use of Student Aid in Programs Not Based on Credit Hour | Chronicle of Higher Education
Amy Laitinen: ...policy makers want to dig deeper and see what—if anything—works, for whom it works, and under what conditions it works.
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Bill de Blasio has promised pre-K for all 4-year-olds. Can it get done? | Vox
Conor Williams: New York is trying in a matter of six months to build the entire system that DC's got twice or three times over. Don't get me wrong...
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Why Am I Moving to the Left? | Politico
In my late 50s, at a time of life when most people are supposed to be drifting into a cautious conservatism, I am surprised to find myself moving s...
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Israel's Ground Invasion of Gaza | Ian Masters Background Briefing
Lisa Goldman, the Director of the Israel-Palestine Initiative at the New America Foundation, joins us to discuss the apparent symbiosis between Isr...
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A Lose-Lose Game | CTV
Lisa Goldman is interviewed on why an Israel ground offensive could have terrible consequences
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Battle on Many Fronts to Get NYC Wired | City Limits
Those nodes use Commotion software deployed by New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI) to emit their signals and connect to one an...
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New Report: Child Development Accounts as an Early Childhood Intervention
Properly designed Child Development Accounts (CDAs) can have lasting, positive effects on children's educational development and can improve their ...
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All Aboard for Net Neutrality | In These Times
Seeta Gangadharan, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, says the FCC’s notice and comment period tends...
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Air Canada Cancels Flight to Tel Aviv over Safety Concerns | CTV
Air Canada is among the airlines that cancelled a flight to Tel Aviv Tuesday after reports a rocket exploded not far from the city’s Ben Gurion Int...
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Analyzing the Business Case for Youth Savings
CGAP spoke to about a dozen financial service providers (FSPs) worldwide who are leading an effort to offer financial services- savings in particul...
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Techno Sapiens: The Quantify This Edition
Welcome to the second episode of Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of...
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Sharp Divide Seen in Net Neutrality Comments on Rules for Mobile Broadband | Communications Daily
Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, said in a news release the revise...
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House Republicans Are Killing the Dream of Local High-Speed Fiber Internet | Motherboard
"This comes down to the issue of local choice. It's a matter of whether broadband services in an area meet the needs of the community," Patrick Luc...
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The 2014 Allied Media Conference MagicNet: Third Time’s the Charm
OTI works with Digital Stewards to construct this year's conference-wide network. At the 2014 Allied Media Conference, the Open Technology Institut...
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Common Core Goes To College
Each year, hundreds of thousands of American students graduate from high school and enter college without being adequately prepared to succeed ther...
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House Vote Threatens Local Broadband Initiatives
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a lot on its plate right now. While we at the Open Technology Institute differ with the FCC’s appro...
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Net Neutrality a Key Battleground in Growing Fight over Encryption
Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the government ways around it, but an e...