Budgets & Projections

The President's Fiscal Commission is holding its second public meeting, which is being webcast live on the White House's website. We've embedded the...

Yesterday CBO issued a very interesting report on the budgetary impact of the Federal Reserve's actions to address the economic and financial crisis...

The U.S. Census Bureau came out with with a report this month on aging in the United States. Not to anyone's surprise, the report found that between...

CBO and JCT have released updated cost estimates of the most recent version of the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act (H.R. 4213), a bill...

Little Resolve for Budget Resolution – Leaders in the House have yet to make a final decision on moving forward with a FY2011 budget resolution. But...

Inspiration can come from the most surprising places. Take Portugal, for instance. (Granted, there are major differences between the U.S. and...

Today in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein took the " Deficit Challenge", proposing his own plan on how to reduce future deficits through a...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its Monthly Budget Review late last week. CBO reports that the federal government incurred a deficit of...

The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...