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As part of an ongoing series of economic speeches entitled A Better Bargain for the Middle Class, President Obama spoke yesterday at the University of...

Last week, we noted that it was the 78th birthday of the Social Security program, but cautioned that reform was needed before we could count on...

This is the second post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which discusses tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last-in...

With President Obama set to give a speech in the coming weeks on retirement security, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a report...

It's the dog days of August and with Congress in recess, we can do nothing but wait to resolve some of the upcoming fiscal challenges that lie ahead...

Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with projections of long term debt. But the Peterson Foundation has found an interesting interactive...

Even though Washington slows down in August, several think tanks are staking out positions in advance of this fall's pending fight over the debt limit...

This is the first post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...

Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...

We've written many times before about the $1.3 trillion of tax breaks currently littering the code, urging policymakers to focus on paring back tax...

A New York Times piece today lays out a possible "mini-bargain" to move past the debt ceiling and expiration of government funding. The piece, "...

In his column in today's Wall Street Journal and an accompanying audio clip, David Wessel takes on the question before Washington: Is the budget...