Budgets & Projections

Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...

Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...

The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...

Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...

With Congress back in session, the mid-term election right around the corner, and a looming expiration, the debate of the 2001-2003 tax cuts is...

Falling Into Pieces – Fall officially begins this week. A short congressional calendar and the quickly-approaching elections mean that the legislative...

Yesterday, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Jacob Lew’s nomination as the new head of the Office of Management and Budget, where he...

Nobody's breaking out the champagne for this anniversary. On this day two years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers turned an already bad-looking...

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the number of workers seeking disability benefits from Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program has...

Kick-off Time – Football season got underway this weekend, and the final legislative drive before the mid-term elections also commences this week. The...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday about the importance of taking action soon to ensure future fiscal sustainability, calling the...

A small controversy has been brewing in the blogosphere over the relative value of the higher-income 2001/2003 tax cuts and the Social Security...