New America in the News: 2009

New America staff and fellows appear regularly on radio and television, and are frequently quoted in media outlets of all types. A selection of that coverage is available below.

Obama's Vow to Halve Deficit Puts Focus on Budget Plan | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

February 23, 2009
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget at the New America Foundation. And Robert Greenstein heads the Center on Budget and Policy priorities. And since all three of you were involved in the breakout ...
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Faces of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit | BusinessWeek

February 23, 2009
A number of vocal deficit-hawks are in attendance, including Robert Greenstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
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US to Give $900 Million in Aid to Gaza | New York Times

February 23, 2009
But even if the bulk of the money goes to Gaza, it will do little good unless Israel first opens the border crossing into the territory, said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a research organization in Washington. ...
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Obama Turns to Deficit-Cutting | Forbes

February 23, 2009
Whether it will actually accomplish anything is another matter entirely. Budget watchdog groups are cautiously optimistic. “The summit is the first step toward action,” says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
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Obama Moves to Next Priority: Health Care | CQPolitics.com

February 23, 2009
Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, and a senior adviser in the Clinton administration during its failed health overhaul efforts in the early 1990s, said by spotlighting health ...
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Obama Strives for Long-term Fiscal Fix at Summit | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

February 23, 2009
They will be joined by representatives that span across a range of organizations and think tanks including the AARP, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and American Enterprise ...
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US to Give $900 Million in Aid to Gaza | International Herald Tribune

February 23, 2009
But even if the bulk of the money goes to Gaza, it will do little good unless Israel first opens the border crossing into the territory, said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a research organization in Washington. ...
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Washington Pushes for Easy-To-Understand Financial Disclosure | Bloomberg

February 23, 2009
Two rules issued late last year, one on mortgages and one on credit cards, show that Washington is shifting from the idea that disclosure alone is enough to protect consumers, said Ellen Seidman, a fellow at the New America Foundation and a former head ...
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Big Stimulus Bill Sparks Long-Term Fiscal Fears | McClatchy Newspapers

February 23, 2009
In addition, noted the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan fiscal research group, the bill will "have a permanent impact on the deficit through higher interest payments on additional public debt." As Kenneth Thomas, a lecturer in ...
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Acting President Asks Political Forces to Unite at One Platform | Associated Press of Pakistan

February 22, 2009
Citing an account by US investigative journalist Steve Coll, to be published in The New Yorker magazine’s latest edition, the paper reported that the negotiations, which began in 2004, produced the outlines of an accord that would have allowed a ...
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The Cost of 'Free' Internet Access | Parade Magazine

February 22, 2009
Public Wi-Fi will likely expand only with help from local or federal funds. "A model that relies on advertising is not going to be successful," says Ben Lennett of the nonpartisan New America Foundation. "Governments will have to finance this service if citizens want it." Original article
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Earmark Reform? 2009 Spending Bill Contains 9000 of Them | McClatchy Newspapers

February 22, 2009
Earmarks have come under fire because of those that seem to provide what Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, calls "laugh lines," such as Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" or North Dakota's Lawrence Welk Museum. ...
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US-RUSSIA: Kinder, Gentler Tone, Same Policy Tradeoffs | Inter Press Service

February 21, 2009
"Unfortunately...a truly multilateral foreign policy is alien to the Clinton/Albright school of diplomacy - from which Obama has drafted many of his top advisers," realist foreign policy analyst Anatol Lieven wrote in the Nation in January. ...
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Secret India-Pakistan Talks Cited | Washington Post

February 21, 2009
The peace initiative is described in an article by investigative journalist Steve Coll, who writes in New Yorker magazine that the two sides had "come to semicolons" in their negotiations when the effort lost steam. The attempt ultimately failed, ...
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America Yields in Battle for Nato Troops | The Times Online

February 21, 2009
“I think he was going through the motions,” said Steven Clemons, a foreign policy expert at the New America Foundation in Washington. Gates was obliged to appeal to America’s allies to help with more “soft power” projects such as rebuilding roads, ...
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Obama Wants to Overhaul Health Care; Can He Do It? | The Associated Press

February 21, 2009
They intend to plow ahead," said health economist Len Nichols of the nonpartisan New America Foundation. "Health reform is seen as essential to balancing the federal budget and economic recovery in the long run." People in the US spend $2.4 trillion a ...
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Hard-Liner Netanyahu to Become Israeli Prime Minister | World Focus

February 20, 2009
Daniel Levy, the director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savidge to discuss how Netanyahu’s rise will impact the peace process and Israel-US relations, the kind of government he will be able to put together ...
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Holder's 'Cowards' Comment Rekindles Race Debate | NPR

February 20, 2009
... Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, and Andres Martinez, of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation explore Holder's remarks and discuss why race remains subject many wish to ignore.
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How Much Government Spending is Ahead? Stay Tuned | McClatchy Newspapers

February 20, 2009
"The very fact that the White House is having a summit just before putting out a budget blueprint tells you they're serious about long-term plans," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which studies ...
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Real Reaganites Raise Taxes | National Journal

February 20, 2009
"I'm going to say spending is never going to go below 21 percent again in this country," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. At the Brookings Institution, Isabel Sawhill, an economist and a ...
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