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FAQ's About the New Framework From Simpson and Bowles
Read moreOn Tuesday, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a framework that calls for an additional $2.4 trillion in...
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Poll Shows Economists Believe Grand Bargain Could Help Growth
Read moreYesterday, we highlighted the consensus between economists and leaders in both parties on the need to replace the sequester. Today, a USA Today poll...
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Democrats, Republicans, Economists All Want to Replace the Sequester
Read moreWith the March 1 deadline of sequestration only nine days away, lawmakers should work toward developing a plan that would replace the across-the-board...
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Op-Ed: Education Presidents And Governors: Ain't Gonna Happen
Read moreThe Government We Deserve | February 20, 2013 In last week’s State of the Union speech, President Obama put great emphasis on expanding early...
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Op-Ed: The Country Must Act to Address the Debt
Read moreUS News & World Report | February 20, 2012 My old pal Erskine Bowles and I were deeply disappointed by the failure to reach agreement on a long-term...
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Simpson and Bowles Release $2.4 Trillion Deficit Reduction Framework
Read moreToday, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs and Moment of Truth Project co-founders Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a new framework...
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Op-Ed: Obama, We Need Honest Dialogue on Debt
Read moreCNN | February 16, 2013 This week the president faced the American people to talk about, among other things, the budget. He said the right things...
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Op-Ed: Memo to Congress, White House: Get Serious on Debt
Read morePolitico | February 15, 2013 The continual fiscal brinkmanship of the past two years — in which policymakers go from crisis to crisis, avoiding...
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Third Way Calls for $1.9 Trillion of Deficit Reduction
Read moreToday, Third Way has released their analysis of the February CBO Economic and Budget Update, reaching a similar conclusion to our report on the new...
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The New Target: At Least $2.4 Trillion of Additional Deficit Reduction
Read morePresident Obama was recently quoted in the Washington Post as saying that an additional $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction would hit the $4 trillion...
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The CRFB Realistic Projections
Read moreAnalyses of the CBO budget baseline generally focus on the current law baseline, the one that CBO presents in most detail. In the past, we constructed...