Missouri's Catch 22
September 20, 2006Michael DannenbergSeptember 20, 2006Missouri’s pending plan to sell its student loan non-profit’s assets in order to pay for $350 million in college construction is doomed to fail....
View ArticleGet Out of the Way, Drivers
December 21, 2006Steven Hill Dmitri Iglitzin, lecturer, University of Washington School of Law December 21, 2006You might think that holiday shoppers driving on the nation’s highways would have enough...
View ArticleSt. Louis Post Dispatch Quotes Michael Dannenberg on MOHELA Deal
January 10, 2007Twenty-five years ago, far-sighted Missouri officials recognized that a college education gave people more control over their destinies, more options to improve their own lives, even...
View ArticleStudent Loan Scandal
June 25, 2007 Taxpayers' Financial Aid Should Benefit Students, Not Big Banks Lindsey LuebchowJune 25, 2007Student loan banks and their allies are trying to spin away the public’s outrage over the...
View ArticlePlan for a New Missouri Nuclear Weapons Plant is Premature
December 3, 2007William D. Hartung Andrew Heaslet, Peace Economy Project December 3, 2007Late in October, plans by the U.S. Department of Energy to construct a new, $500 million nuclear weapons plant...
View ArticleSteve Burd in St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 'Loans Feeling Credit Crunch'
February 3, 2008Student loans feeling credit crunch, too (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Those students, though, paid interest rates of up to 20 percent to finance their educational dreams. Stephen Burd,...
View ArticleLisa Margonelli in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 'Hot Air and Energy'
August 6, 2008Lisa Margonelli isn't impressed. "The current dialogue is profoundly depressing and fake," she told me. "I think both candidates need to be more honest about our options." Margonelli is a...
View ArticleEven a Critic is Expecting MOHELA to Survive | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 5, 2009Jason DeLisle, research director for education policy at the New America Foundation, thinks Bayer's optimism may be warranted. DeWild favors elimination of the private-sector loan...
View ArticleWe Can Save Medicare without Cutting Benefits | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 23, 2009 Still, the New America Foundation expects the overall cost of Medicare Part D to increase 11.1 percent each year between now and 2018. Cost saving measures still are needed. Congress also...
View ArticleSome See Iran as Ready to Strike Nuclear Deal | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 18, 2009"I think the Iranians are simply in no mood to accept any serious limits on the expansion of their program," said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran Project at the New America...
View ArticleOne Group Finds a Purpose a Continent Away | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 7, 2010The group connected with Namulonge through Fred Ssewamala, a native of the village, who studied for master's and doctorate degrees at Washington University ...Feed: In the News...
View ArticleColleen Carroll Campbell: The Real Population Bomb | StlToday.Com
August 4, 2011But as demographers such as Phillip Longman and Nicholas Eberstadt have noted, that growth will be driven by declines in mortality and an increase in elders, not children. And it will not...
View ArticleAuthor Sees Many Nations of U.S. | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 29, 2011In that book, Joel Garreau— like Woodard, a journalist — tossed out the notion of states and regrouped North America into nine cleverly named "nations," like the Breadbasket and the...
View ArticleGetting More Traffic at Lambert
April 4, 2012Lina KhanApril 4, 2012Every St. Louisan knows the story. A decade ago, the metropolitan region enjoyed some of the best air service in America. But since 2001, the city has seen the number...
View ArticleBank Accounts Key to Helping Needy Families | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 28, 2012Last week, organizations ranging from the New America Foundation think tank to the U.S. Department of the Treasury met in St. Louis to develop strategies to reduce the number of people...
View ArticleConsumers Took a Beating in the Great Recession | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 10, 2013William Elliott, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Kansas, said households with student loans accumulate wealth more slowly than those who didn’t borrow for...
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