New America Foundation

Washington, DC

Bernard Schwartz serves on the board of directors of the New America Foundation, an independent, non-partisan public policy institute whose purpose is to bring exceptionally promising new voices to the public discourse. Through its fellowships and issue-specific programs, the Foundation sponsors a wide range of research, writing, conferences and public outreach on the most important global and domestic issues of our time, including educational policy, energy and foreign policy.


Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program

The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program supports talented journalists, academics and other public policy analysts who offer a fresh and often unpredictable perspective on the major challenges facing our society. Schwartz Fellows are selected on a highly competitive basis, and serve -- some full-time, some on an adjunct basis -- for one or two years. New America provides them with a non-partisan intellectual community where they can pursue their individual research projects. The Schwartz Fellows benefit from their engagement with each other, and with New America's various policy programs, while their presence adds to the intellectual verve of the institution and helps shape its longer-term agenda and focus. By investing in the career development of many of the best and brightest civic-minded writers of the day, Mr. Schwartz and the New America Foundation seeks to enrich the quality of America's public debate for years to come.
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Economic Growth Program

Bernard Schwartz supports New America's Economic Growth Program, a forum whose purpose is to develop an integrated strategy and a set of specific policy proposals to overcome problems such as inadequate investments in public infrastructure, the skills of our workforce, and research and development, combined with an unsustainable level of consumer debt.
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June 8, 2011

The Atlantic and Bernard Schwartz sponsor conference:  A Bank to Rebuild America featuring Sens. Kerry, Hutchison and Warner

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October 1, 2010

New America Foundation and Economists for Peace and Security: A Strategic Policy - Investment, Social Security and Economic Recovery

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July 7, 2010

CNBC: Schwartz Calls for $1 Trillion Multi-Year Jobs and Infrastructure Program

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March 23, 2010

Jobs, Investment and Energy: Meeting President Obama's Challenge

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February 23, 2010

The Case for an Infrastructure-Led Jobs and Growth Strategy

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October 20, 2009

The Jobs Deficit: The Challenge of Putting America Back to Work

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December 4, 2008

A Public Infrastructure-Led Economic Recovery Program

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July 29, 2008

An Economic Recovery Program for the Post-Bubble Economy

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