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30 Under 30: Law & Policy | Forbes

December 20, 2011

Marc Goldwein, Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 26. Runs policy shop at top budget think tank, was Associate Director of Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission.

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So, What Do We Do About Those Poor Black Kids? | Forbes

December 16, 2011

Even the preferred tactic of the filmmakers—stripping back the education bureaucracy, and enabling more school choice—has failed to prove effective in minimizing the racial gap. Dana Goldstein documents how the legacy of Michelle Rhee, the movement's ...

How Surfing Explains the World? | Forbes

October 12, 2011

A couple of years back, Franklin Foer's excellent bestseller, How Soccer Explains the World, took readers on a global cultural ride into the connections between the world's most widely played (and most boring to watch) sport, ...

What Is the Creative Economy, Really? | Forbes

October 8, 2011

This is an important question because, reading this weeks' Bloomberg Businessweek researchers point out, in an article by Charles Kenny, that most job growth actually comes from large companies as does real economic efficiency. ...

Libertarians and the Urban Planning Culture War | Forbes

August 30, 2011

I share the skepticism of other libertarians, such as Megan McArdle, about the viability of the various intercity rail projects now under consideration. And it's not hard to find examples of light rail projects that come nowhere near to passing a basic ...

How Congress Can Cap Tax Breaks | Forbes

August 11, 2011

The third broad cap on tax breaks is based on a plan designed by Harvard economist Marty Feldstein, Dan Feenberg at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Maya MacGuineas of the New America Foundation. While they would have capped the value of ...

The World's Fastest-Growing Cities | Forbes

October 7, 2010

Instead, our list focuses on emerging powerhouses like Chongqing, China, (population: 9 million), which Christina Larson in Foreign Policy recently described as "the biggest city you never heard of." ...

The Open Internet Guy | Forbes

October 6, 2010

Columbia Law professor Tim Wu believes private enterprise poses as much of a threat to free expression as government censorship. ...

Net Neutrality: It All Depends On What You Fear | Forbes

September 2, 2010

Columbia law professor Tim Wu published a paper in 2003 using the term "network neutrality" to describe various notions of non-preferential or equal ...

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How to Kill the American Job

  • By
  • Reihan Salam,
  • New America Foundation
July 7, 2010 |

The American jobs machine is broken. That much isn't in dispute. The June labor market report saw the creation of a paltry 83,000 private sector jobs. Over the same four weeks, an extraordinary 652,000 people left the workforce, swelling the ranks of the discouraged. Millions of potential workers are living on the margins of the mainstream economy. And this sad fact isn't just a product of our recent economic woes.

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