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Fixing a Broken Marketplace
Tax time is supposed to be a "golden moment" for asset building for low- and moderate income families. It is often said that, thanks to the EITC, t...
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| February 09, 2015
New America
We can make planet-wide, always-on, high-speed(ish) Internet communications a reality for everyone. In other words, a universal Internet is possibl...
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Featured Report
Elizabeth Blume
A new report on whether online learning offerings can lead to lower tuition prices was recently released by Harvard University. The report finds th...
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The Budget This week President Obama released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Budget. The proposal contained few surprises, as most of its content was ro...
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New America
It's been a big week for net neutrality. After a over a year of vigorous debate about the best way to protect the Open Internet, Federal Communicat...
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| February 05, 2015
Lenore Skenazy
The Nationwide Super Bowl ad featured a somber moppet riding a trike, getting his first kiss, and sitting forlorn at a child wedding in a forest, d...
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| February 05, 2015
New America
President Obama released his proposed budget for 2016 this week. Among its biggest and most talked-about elements are suggested changes to policies...
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| February 05, 2015
This piece is part of “From Moment to Movement,” a conversation and essay series on race and policy in America in collaboration with Howard Univers...
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If you were a prospective father 20 years ago, getting paternity leave was almost universally a tricky business, no matter where you lived or worke...
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Why the FCC Outlawed Hotel Wi-Fi Blocking
Smartphones, tablets, wearables and a mushrooming variety of mobile devices are now a fundamental part of life in America. According to surveys by ...
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| February 05, 2015
Joel A. Tarr
What do you think of when you think of Pittsburgh? Throughout its history, the Pittsburgh region has been closely identified with energy sources th...
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Last week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to pass rules that will require mobile phone carriers to provide emergency ...
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| February 02, 2015
Why We May Need a Data Detox
New America
Acording to a 2014 report from the White House, “Big data will become an historic driver of progress, helping our nation perpetuate the civic and e...
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College Savings Plans In a Slate piece this week, the Asset Building Program’s own Justin King challenged recent media coverage of President Obama’...
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| January 29, 2015
Latifa Lyles
As a mother of a young child today, I know much has changed for mothers in the workforce since my mother and her mother had children. But there’s o...
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| January 29, 2015
Greeshma Somashekar
The abortion debate has largely fallen off the front page these days, but even though the abortion rate in the United States is at a 40-year low, o...
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| January 29, 2015
Anya Kamenetz is very clear when she says she didn’t set out to write about standardized testing. A 2014 New America Fellow and lead education blog...
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| January 29, 2015
A decade ago, Philadelphia’s outdated sewer system—like much of the nation’s infrastructure—was crumbling, causing a nasty brew of storm-water, raw...
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| January 29, 2015
With the deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris earlier this month, pundits are again questioning a commonly-cited motive for radicaliza...
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Within the space of a week, President Obama delivered a message in the State of the Union that wealth should be taxed to ease the burden on the mid...
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MacKinnon testifies before the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
This week, I testified at a hearing titled The Evolution of Terrorist Propaganda: The Paris Attack and Social Media convened by the House Foreign A...
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The high price of broadband service, lack of choice in broadband offerings, and uncertainty about the possible benefits and harms of digital partic...