Budgets & Projections

Last month after the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised their GDP numbers going back to 1929, we decided to take the intiative and project what the...

It is now three weeks and counting until the start of FY 2014, when lawmakers will have to pass a bill funding the government or incur a shutdown...

As Congress returns to Washington today, the clock is ticking to September 30, the end of the government's fiscal year and the date after which the...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on Pell Grants which details the program and recent changes made to it, shows options to...

Although Congress itself had been out of session prior to this week, some news last week came as the latest talks between the White House and a small...

In an op-ed in POLITICO, former Senate Budget Committee staffer James Carter and Fiscal Commission adviser Paul Weinstein advised lawmakers to look...

When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...

Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...

The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...