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Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Line Items: Poolside Edition
Dive In – The pools have opened to provide relief from the summer heat and an opportunity to work on those tans. Congress is back in session this week...
A Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Overlapping Payments in UI and DI
Bipartisanship will be a crucial element when it comes to reforming Social Security and achieving other budget related reforms in the near future. In...
Reset the Fiscal Debate, But Towards a Comprehensive Fiscal Plan
In a new paper, the Center for American Progress's Michael Linden makes the case for resetting the fiscal debate. His main point is that given...
A Closer Look at the Medicare Actuary's Alternative Medicare Projections
Earlier this week, we discussed the new Medicare Trustees projections which project that the Hospital Insurance (HI, or Part A) trust fund will be...
Taking The Reformer For a Spin
CRFB's latest interactive tool " The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan. Users can select from a...
Event Recap: Challenges Facing Social Security
Update: The video has now been posted. Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Mercatus Center, and Third Way held an event...
MY VIEW: Marc Goldwein June 2013
The new Social Security Trustees Report leaves us another year closer to the trust fund's insolvency and the takeaway remains the same - we do not...
CRFB's Social Security Reformer
CRFB's latest interactive tool "The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan.
Gale on Deficit Optimism
As we've said before, while the new budget projections from the CBO are an encouraging sign, it is easy to be overly optimistic about what the...
Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Along with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
Senate Finance Committee Looks at Economic Security Provisions
Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...
Line Items: Grilling Edition
Grilling Time – It’s that time of year when the grills get fired up. There’s been grilling on Capitol Hill as well, with government officials being...