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Innovation: Doing More with Less | CNN

August 3, 2011

Journalist Dayo Olopade tells Inside Africa that advanced economies can learn from Africa's innovative spirit.

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Studies Highlight Troubles Low-Wage Workers Face, the Effects on Their Children | The Washington Independent

July 11, 2011

Those out-of-school variations were highlighted during a discussion at the New America Foundation last week. The particular struggles of low-wage hourly workers were examined, demystifying some of the quotidian challenges families of low-income ...

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Dads Work More — Not Less — Than Other Men, Survey Finds | USA TODAY

June 30, 2011

"People are working in different ways," says David Gray, director of the Workforce and Family Program at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. "I do a lot of work in the evenings," says Gray, the father of four under age 5, ...

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Jeffrey Leonard on "The Colbert Report" | Comedy Central

February 18, 2011

New America board member Jeffrey Leonard appeared on the Feb. 17 "Colbert Report" to discuss his recent Washington Monthly article on the way large corporations are effectively demanding free loans from small businesses. A clip of the interview is available below.

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Heroic, Female and Muslim | The New York Times

December 15, 2010

An American freelance journalist, Eliza Griswold, visited Dr. Hawa's encampment in 2007 and 2008 and was stunned that an unarmed woman had managed to create ...

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Treadmill Religion | World Magazine (Subscription)

December 3, 2010

National Public Radio fired Juan Williams for reporting trepidation from seeing Muslim-garbed groups on planes; NPR execs should read Eliza Griswold's The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a ground-level examination of skirmishes in Africa and eastern Asia. ...

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Up Front: Eliza Griswold | The New York Times

November 5, 2010

As the daughter of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Eliza Griswold brought along some unusual personal baggage when she set out to research “The Tenth Parallel,” her recent book about the clash between — and within — Islam and Christianity ...

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Eliza Griswold on the Muslim-Christian Divide | PBS

October 15, 2010

Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold wanted to learn about the conflict for herself up close and personal by talking to real people in the midst of it all. ...

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'Tenth Parallel' Looks at Religion, Violence | Chicago Tribune

October 8, 2010

"No," Eliza Griswold replied, "he's God's best friend." A reasonable response from a little girl who practiced reading with the Bible at the lectern and ...

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Eliza Griswold's 'The Tenth Parallel': Where Christianity and Islam Meet | The Seattle Times

October 2, 2010

Eliza Griswold's "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam" examines the land along the line of latitude 700 miles ...

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