Research -- New America Foundation

December 17, 2009  (more)

et me say how grateful I am to Mark Schmitt for taking my argument seriously and responding to it so thoughtfully. He is one of the smartest DC political junkies around.Incipient totalitarianism? Hardly. I though I had a catchy title with “All Power to the Choice Architects.” (more)

Probably the most distinctive innovation in the Obama Administration’s brand of liberalism is its interest in behavioral economics and the power of modest incentives–the “nudge,” as administration official Cass Sunstein calls them–as an instrument of policy. The theory, sometimes called  (more)

December 15, 2009  (more)

Congress completed the fiscal year 2010 appropriations process on Dec. 13, 2009, finalizing annual funding for nearly all federal education programs through September 2010 at $63.7 billion, up $1.1 billion from the prior year, excluding economic stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (more)

In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court took a then-unprecedented step. It ordered the state to provide high-quality pre-Kindergarten programs to all 3- and 4-year-old children in 31of the state’s highest poverty districts, also known as Abbott districts after the long-running  (more)

A growing chorus, including President Obama, now believes that a prosperous future for our country will depend on the creation of a save-and-invest economy that will enable all Americans to accumulate savings and assets. While in the short-term, public investment should be expanded in order to  (more)

President Obama’s December 3rd jobs summit has drawn attention to the debate over policy options for job creation. The case for intelligent and aggressive public policy to promote job creation, in addition to the helpful but inadequate stimulus package, is overwhelming. The official unemployment rate is currently (more)

As the saying goes, “A penny saved is a penny earned,” but does that penny saved
translate into greater economic mobility? Movement up the income ladder is fairly
limited for children of low-income parents—42 percent of children born to parents
on the bottom rung of the income ladder remain on the bottom rung a generation (more)

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