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The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge in submitting reply to opposition to petition to deny comments ...
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New America
New America and the Assets team are going offline to celebrate the holidays. We’ll be back the first full week in January. This is a great time for...
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Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap According to new analysis from the Pew Research Center "The wealth gap between America’s high income gr...
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Retirement Justin King and Elliot Schreur of New America’s Asset Building Program posited a question: “Could 2015 be the year that marks a turning ...
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Featured Report
Elizabeth Blume
The Institute for College Access and Success published its ninth annual report on the cumulative student loan debt of recent graduates from four-ye...
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The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge in submitting opposition comments to the Federal Communications...
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| December 18, 2014
Gary Barker
Mary Robbins
Rodrigo Neves wasn’t expecting a fight. After the city council of Niteroi, Brazil passed a new law earlier this month extending Brazil’s nationally...
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| December 18, 2014
New America
Despite increases in access to education in Pakistan, the country still has the third highest out-of-school population in the world. And, with even...
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| December 18, 2014
Here we go again. Another year, another inconclusive climate change summit. The grim reality haunting the talks that recently wrapped up in Lima is...
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| December 18, 2014
Ari Ratner
It was Sunday morning, and I was in church. Being Jewish, this is not how I typically spend my weekends, but attending Washington, DC’s Nineteenth ...
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| December 18, 2014
Whether you’re Christmas shopping at the last minute or looking to ring in 2015 with a good book, New America’s got you covered with a cornucopia o...
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Lucy Mullany
You’re 70 years old, and you have a choice. Do you pay your heating bill– or for prescription drugs? Do you stay in a home you can no longer afford...
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| December 18, 2014
Maano Ramutsindela
Should we re-draw our borders? This question keeps coming up whenever societies or groups of people face existential national threats or serious ch...
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| December 18, 2014
Alaa Murabit
I am an arms dealer in Libya, but my weapons reduce violence and last longer than a bullet. As the founder of the Voice of Libyan Women (VLW), a wo...
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Victoria Ndolo
The theme for the final multi-stakeholder meeting held on October 23, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya was “Promoting Youth Financial Capability to Unlock Su...
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New America
Today OTI joined a coalition of 17 privacy advocates, including Public Knowledge, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology...
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Inequality A report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) called for redistributive fiscal policy to disrupt inequali...
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New America
Fellow Hao Wu is a documentary filmmaker whose projects explore the complexities of modern China. In The Road to Fame, he tells the story of the go...
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Featured Report
The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a new report this month that looks at the increasing reliance of public college students on student...
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| December 11, 2014
National Public Radio host Michelle Norris has run The Race Card Project for the past four years. Participants are asked to distill their “experien...
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| December 11, 2014
Georgia Keohane
“How does revolution happen?” asked Janine Wedel. “Maybe it doesn’t,” mused Lawrence Lessig, evincing a mild case of political resignation that the...
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| December 11, 2014
“Okay, Rebecca, it’s your turn to find the bomb.” That’s what Tech Sergeant Edward Canell at Buckley Air Force Base said to Rebecca Frankel, a jour...