New America Appoints Brigid Schulte as New Breadwinning and Caregiving Director
New America is delighted to announce the appointment of Brigid Schulte as the new director of our Breadwinning and Caregiving program.
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The next Steve Jobs is just as likely to come from Lagos, Lahore, Monterrey or Mumbai as from Silicon Valley.
The 2016 Class of New America Fellows
New America is pleased to announce the appointment of the 2016 Fellows.
Tomorrow We Disappear
The talented residents of India's Kathputli Colony of street performers are fighting the modernization and gentrification of their home.
We Come As Friends
A new film by Hubert Sauper observes the precarious start of South Sudan from a tiny, homemade tin and canvas airplane.
A Second Chance Offers Powerful Possibilities
Mary Alice McCarthy and Patricia Hart on President Obama’s Second Chance Pell Pilot program.
Give Us the Ballot Podcast
On the heels of the Supreme Court's decision overturning a key part of the Voting Rights Act, is there a new struggle for voting rights?
New Report Examines Promising New Approach to Boosting Educational Achievement and Economic Mobility
A collection of reports exploring the potential of college savings and Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) to promote greater opportunity.
(Dis)Honesty
When we too often go to great lengths to rationalize the stories we concoct, why is it so hard for us to tell it like it is?
