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Debt Will Rise Under the Next President
Read moreOur recent updates and analyses of the fiscal policies of Secretary Clinton, Senator Sanders, and Donald Trump show that debt would rise from today’s...
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Millennials: Your Next President Should Be Concerned About the Debt
Read moreIn a recent op-ed in TIME, Michael A. Peterson, the president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, outlined why millennials need the next...
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Adding Up Secretary Clinton's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreNOTE: This version of this analysis is now out of date. The most current version of the analysis can be found in our paper "Promises and Price Tags: A...
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Event Recap: Fixing the Budget Process
Read moreAs part of our Better Budget Process Initiative, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill called...
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Nine Social Security Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
Read moreSocial Security is a vital program for tens of millions of seniors, dependents, and workers with disabilities, and it has been a hot topic of...
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CRFB Mentioned in Three Presidential Debates
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been mentioned by name in three presidential debates over the past few months. This is a good sign...
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Tax Day 2016: Charts to Explain our Tax System
Read moreToday is Tax Day! Our partners at Fix the Debt have republished their annual chartbook to explain federal taxes – including who pays them, what they...
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Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative Recommendations Release
Read moreOn Wednesday, April 6, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative released its final recommendations and book of policy proposals dedicated to...
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Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for March recently, so we now have data for the first half of Fiscal Year (FY...
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Maya MacGuineas: Our Debt Problem Needs Action—Not Empty Promises: 5 questions for candidates on balancing the budget
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an article that appeared...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening the Budget Resolution
Read moreOne of the key elements of the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 (Budget Act) was the provision to adopt a budget resolution...
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Fact Sheet: How much money could Medicare save by negotiating prescription drug prices?
Read moreHow much does Medicare Part D cost? Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs for the elderly, spent $62 billion last calendar year. With...