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Lew: 'We Must Put Our Nation Back on a Sustainable Fiscal Course'
Read moreYesterday, 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...
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A Not So Happy Anniversary
Read moreNobody's breaking out the champagne for this anniversary. On this day two years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers turned an already bad-looking...
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Disability Insurance Program Seeing Increased Applicants... and Increased Trouble
Read moreThe Washington Post reported Tuesday that the number of workers seeking disability benefits from Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program has...
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‘Line’ Items: Football Edition
Read moreKick-off Time – Football season got underway this weekend, and the final legislative drive before the mid-term elections also commences this week. The...
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Hillary Clinton Says National Debt is a Real 'National Security Threat'
Read moreSecretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday about the importance of taking action soon to ensure future fiscal sustainability, calling the...
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It Depends on What you Mean by 'Equal'
Read moreA small controversy has been brewing in the blogosphere over the relative value of the higher-income 2001/2003 tax cuts and the Social Security...
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CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines
Read moreToday, CRFB released a new policy paper showing a more probable fiscal outlook over the coming decade than what baseline budget projections would...
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Current Policy Extensions and Growth
Read moreIf lawmakers extended various current policies, as opposed to letting them expire as they are set to under current law, what would happen to economic...
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CBO Reports on ARRA's Continued Impact
Read moreYesterday, CBO released an update on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (read our analysis of it here) impact on unemployment and job growth...
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Economic Projections in CBO's Budget Update
Read moreSince economic assumptions have such a big effect on fiscal projections, we have compared their new assumptions in the Updated Budget and Economic...
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CBO Releases Update on Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreToday, CBO released an update to its economic and budget projections for the coming decade, originally reached in February and March. Under its...
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Fannie and Freddie and the Budget
Read moreThe Obama Administration held a conference yesterday discussing how to fix federal housing programs, with the goal of submitting a comprehensive...