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The first threat was abuse. Some for-profit schools enrolled students who paid tuition with government-guaranteed loans, never finished and stiffed taxpayers. "Every bad thing you read about happened in an accredited institution," says Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the nonpartisan New America Foundation.

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"It worries me the degree to which the president has such a tiny inner circle that has been unchanged for so long," said Rosa Brooks, who worked at the Pentagon from 2009 to 2011 and now teaches law at Georgetown University. "The potential for danger ...

Public universities "are creeping toward the private, nonprofit model, where everybody pays market rates rather than subsidized rates," notes Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the New America Foundation, a think tank. The ...

The main problem is Indian banks and other financial service providers haven’t found a way to serve poor customers located in far-flung areas and still make a profit, shows a study by the New America Foundation.

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... inspired by Erskine Bowles, a Democrat and former Clinton White House chief of staff, and Alan Simpson, a retired Republican senator from Wyoming, and was spawned by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan antideficit group.

Atavist was founded by journalists Evan Ratliff and Nicholas Thompson, along with developer and Web designer Jefferson Rabb, in 2009 as a way of delivering long-form content in the digital age. It has since attracted investment from Silicon Valley ...

A study by the International Federation of Health Plans found that U.S. fees for an MRI were about 80% higher than Germany's. Those prices may not last, however. "Everyone has gotten used to this overheated market," said Shannon Brownlee, acting ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, makes the case for raising the eligibility age. Arguing to leave it unchanged is Aaron E. Carroll, the associate director of Children's Health Services Research at Indiana ...

"No outside effort is going to be big enough to make this happen on its own, but the momentum this campaign will provide will improve the chances for success tremendously," says one of the leaders, Maya MacGuineas of the nonpartisan Committee for a ...