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Five Reasons to Pay for New Investments
Read moreCongress and the Administration are currently negotiating and developing legislation to invest in physical infrastructure, education, and other areas...
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True Cost of Budget Plan Could Exceed $5 Trillion
Read moreThe Senate may soon move forward on reconciliation instructions to allow for the enactment of $3.5 trillion in new spending and tax breaks (on top of...
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ARCHIVE: How Long Before Cancelled Student Debt Would Return?
Read moreNote: (7/6/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes updated estimates...
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Over Half of States Ending Federal Unemployment Benefits Early
Read moreTwenty-six states have announced that they are ending the expanded federal unemployment benefits in the American Rescue Plan prior to their technical...
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There Are Plenty of Offsets for Infrastructure Package
Read moreA bipartisan group of senators has apparently reached agreement on a plan with $579 billion of new infrastructure spending. Meanwhile, President Joe...
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What's In the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan?
Read moreUPDATE 8/5: We have published a new summary of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act based on a recently published score from the...
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Committee is Encouraged by Discussions of Offsets
Read moreFor Immediate Release A bipartisan group of senators appears to be close to reaching an infrastructure spending deal that would be fully paid for with...
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Senate Finance Committee Hearing Highlights Need to Secure Highway Trust Fund
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee held a hearing last month titled “ Funding and Financing Options to Bolster American Infrastructure,” covering the need...
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COVID Relief Continues to Bolster Personal Income
Read moreNew data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the month of April shows that disposable personal income (DPI) was 12.0 percent above pre...
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Partial Student Debt Cancellation is Poor Economic Stimulus
Read moreLast year, we estimated that fully canceling student debt would produce eight to 23 cents of economic activity for every dollar of cost and speculated...
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Bipartisan Senate Highway Bill Needs Offsets
Read moreThe Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill. The bill...
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Congress Should Pay For the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Senate is continuing to work on the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 this week, a bill aimed at boosting...