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The Center for American Progress - New!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:43:00 GMT

This is what it means to be a progressive think tank. Find out more here: http://www.americanprogress.org

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Ask the Expert: Putting an End to "Don't Ask Don't Tell"

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:00 GMT

Why should Congress and the president repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell"? How would eliminating the policy now be different from Clinton's attempt in 1993? And what steps can the White House take to ensure a successful repeal?

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Action on Clean Energy

Tue, 19 May 2009 19:36:02 GMT

Daniel Weiss discusses the American Clean Energy and Security Act and President Obama's clean cars program, and how they will affect our economy and our environment.

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The Center for American Progress

Thu, 07 May 2009 22:15:00 GMT

This is what it means to be a progressive think tank. Find out more here: http://www.americanprogress.org/

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China & The Economic Crisis

Fri, 01 May 2009 20:29:01 GMT

Winnie Chen from the Center for American Progress discusses the imnplications and impact of the global recession on China in the latest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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How to Build an Effective Public Health Insurance Plan

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:44:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/03/public_plan.html Why do we need a public health insurance plan? What would an effective public health insurance plan look like? And how would this public health insurance plan help make health care more affordable for all? CAP's Peter Harbage answers these questions in the latest installment of ASK THE EXPERT.

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America Is Becoming More Progressive

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:40:03 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/progressivestudies Ruy Teixeira discusses changing demographic trends in the United States and what whether the nation will continue to become more progressive over the next 20 years.

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A Close Look at Payday Lending

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:31:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/recovery_reinvestment101_update.html What are payday loans and why do people use them? Who borrows from payday lenders? An why are policymakers focused on these loans in particular? CAP's Amanda Logan explains.

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Reel Progress: An Immigration Story

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:57:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/reelprogress/sin_nombre.html Reel Progress interviews "Sin Nombre" Director Cary Fukunaga.

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Medicare's Lessons for Health Reform

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:57:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/03/public_plan.html The Medicare program has successfully offered health insurance coverage to all Americans over age 65, as well as many people with disabilities, for more than 40 years. While the health reform debate has focused on changes to the health insurance market to offer a choice of private and public health plans, and Medicare exemplifies a universal, public approach to coverage, Medicare nevertheless offers a number of key lessons for health reform. According to a paper by Marilyn Moon, which will be released at the event, Medicare's successes and its shortcomings highlight promising directions and potential pitfalls for the nation's latest effort to control health care costs and provide affordable coverage for all. Featured Panelists: Marilyn Moon, Vice President and Director of the Health Program, American Institutes for Research Tom Scully, Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird Bruce Vladeck, Executive Director, Health Sciences Advisory Services, Ernst & Young Discussion Moderated by: Karen Davenport, Director of Health Policy, Center for American Progress

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National Clean Energy Project - BETA

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:10:00 GMT

http://nationalcleanenergyproject.org/ The Center for American Progress Action Fund and John Podesta hosted a forum entitled “National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy" on Monday, February 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the Honorary Chair. The half-day event will brought together a select group of high-level government, business, labor and advocacy group leaders with a focus on developing a plan and key guiding principles to lead the transformation of U.S. energy policy and to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Attendees included President William Jefferson Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), energy executive T. Boone Pickens, and leaders from government, business, labor, and the non-profit communities. The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit” sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy. This forum focused on modernizing and expanding the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy, and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil by examining short- and long-term solutions to replace foreign oil with domestic resources to fuel vehicles and trucks, including natural gas.

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What Is Cap & Trade?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:31:06 GMT

What is cap and trade? How does cap and trade figure into President Obama's budget? What effect will a successful cap-and-trade program have on the economy? Kari Manlove of the Center for American Progress explains the basics of cap and trade, including how a program would work, how it figures into Obamas budget, and how it will affect the economy.

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Imagining a Mortgage Finance System that Works

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:17:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/pdf/mortgage_finance_principles.pdf The bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting foreclosure epidemic have exposed major flaws in the U.S. housing finance system. All agree that significant reforms are necessary in all areas of mortgage finance—origination, primary lending, and secondary markets for mortgage-backed securities including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—but there is little consensus on what the system should look like when reforms are in place. Featured Remarks: Reform Considerations in the Housing Finance System Michael Barr, Counselor to the Director of the National Economic Council, White House Welcoming Remarks David Min, Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy, Center for American Progress Moderated Discussion: Defining Progressive Principles for Mortgage Finance Reform Michael Calhoun, President, Center for Responsible Lending Jonathan Miller, Democratic Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (subject to Senate schedule) Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Institute for Urban Research, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Kenneth Wade, Chief Executive Officer, Neighborworks Barry Zigas, Director of Housing Policy, Consumer Federation of America Moderated by: Sarah Rosen Wartell, Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress

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Sustainable Security in Afghanistan Requires Sweeping U.S. Policy Overhaul

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:54:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/swords_ploughshares.html While there have been many studies on the best military approaches to take in the Afghanistan conflict, there have been comparatively few efforts to examine how the United States and its allies should best use their foreign assistance resources to achieve success. The Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress commissioned an innovative scenario exercise to test how much “bang for the buck” the U.S. government could achieve in stabilization and reconstruction operations if it undertook many of the foreign assistance reforms advocated in previous CAP reports. Over the course of three days, we learned that robust foreign assistance reform should be seen as a key national security priority. Dr. Reuben Brigety and Dr. Patrick Cronin discuss this new approach to sustainable security in Afghanistan.

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President Obama's Education Priorities - ASK THE EXPERT

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:19:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/education_scorecard.html What does President Obama's budget say about his education priorities? What types of initiatives should we expect to see in the next year? And how will the budget affect the No Child Left Behind Act? Melissa Lazarn of the Center for American Progress explains what the budget blueprint reveals about what types of initiatives we should expect to see in the next year and how the budget will affect the No Child Left Behind Act.

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Sustainable Security: A New Afghanistan Approach

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:38:02 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/sustainable_security/index.html Merely reacting to global crises is a costly strategy in terms of both human lives and direct financial costs. In order to get out ahead and prepare itself to face the challenges of the 21st century, the United States should: 1. Fully integrate prevention into the national strategies that guide foreign policy formulation and implementation. 2. Build an integrated, interagency mechanism for long-range strategic planning that is tied directly to the allocation of resources. 3. Organize the government to support prevention and ensure coherence across the executive branch. 4. Invest intelligence, diplomatic, and economic resources in the most vulnerable areas and regions. 5. Re-engage with the international community, and improve and then support international treaties and norms. 6. Develop new tools and capabilities for crisis management. 7. Address the resource and staff shortages of civilian agencies, particularly the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development.

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Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:16:03 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/wired_for_progress.html What is a national clean-energy smart grid? Why do we need a national clean-energy smart grid? And how do we implement a national clean-energy smart grid? Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress explains what the national clean-energy smart grid is, why we need it, and how we can implement it in the latest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Stem Cell Research - Lifting the Ban on Science

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:53:00 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/obama_stem_cells.html Jonathan Moreno of the Center for American Progress, outlines the promise of stem cell research and explains the significance of President Obama's decision to lift the ban on federal funding for new stem cell research.

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President Obama's Priorities for the Economy--ASK THE EXPERT

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:03:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/ambitious_action.html What does President Obama's budget say about his administration's priorities? How does the budget balance economic recovery and the deficit? And is this a budget that Congress will be able to pass? Michael Ettlinger of the Center for American Progress answers these questions in the latest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:03:07 GMT

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/03/tauscher-end-dadt/ Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) proposed repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prohibits gay men and women from serving openly. Speaking at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Tauscher said that “there is one last, final barrier that we need to tear down.” “We need to end the `Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ policy,” she said. In an interview with ThinkProgress after her speech, Tauscher responded to skeptics who think that working to repeal the ban is a “knife fight” that “no president wants to get into,” saying that “times have changed dramatically” and that “a lot has happened since 1993,” when the policy was enacted: TAUSCHER: So, I think that there’s, a lot has happened since 1993 and I think that even though the atmospherics look the same, a brand new president, you know, at a time when the Republicans are critical of whatever he’s doing, I think that what our job is is to inform people about the current state of affairs. And that is that 75 percent of the American people believe that this is the wrong policy. And that we have a lot of people behind us. And I think Colin Powell, you know that we know that Colin Powell has changed his mind, so I think if we put our package together of information, we do a good job of doing that, I think that people will move along with it. We asked Tauscher if her legislation would be a “test” for Republicans like Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who said on ABC yesterday that “the Republican Party has to return to be one of inclusion, not exclusion.” Tauscher responded that “they’re tested every day,” but that she’s “not sure that they’re doing well.” She added that they’re locked in by their “their very rigid far r

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