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With Deficits Falling, Our Debt Problems are Behind Us
Read moreSince the Great Recession, the deficit has fallen by about two-thirds, from $1.4 trillion in 2009 to $485 billion in 2014, a fact that some have used...
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Gene Steuerle: Why Health Cost Growth Increases after Estimators Say it’s Slowing: Observer Effects and Feedback Loops
Read moreDr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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Chicago Tribune Praises First Budget for Forcing Candidates to Confront the Debt
Read moreThe Chicago Tribune Editorial Board recently highlighted First Budget -- an initiative co-sponsored by the Campaign to Fix the Debt and the Concord...
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Rattner Discusses Economic Problems Facing Millennials
Read moreSteven Rattner wrote an article in yesterday's The New York Times discussing the financial problems facing millennials. Rattner writes that...
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Watch the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
Read moreThe McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is holding its SSDI Solutions Conference today from 8:45 AM to 5 PM. The conference features opening...
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How Lawmakers Have Added to Deficits This Year
Read moreThe beginning of the 114th Congress was marked by a great deal of rhetoric about fiscal responsibility and passage of a budget resolution promising a...
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Jim McCrery and Earl Pomeroy: Social Security disability reform: An issue that can’t wait
Read moreFormer U.S. Representatives Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) are the co-chairs of the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, a project...
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Maya MacGuineas: Let's debate getting our fiscal house in order
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Mr. Sandy Cutler, chairman and CEO of Eaton Corp., wrote a...
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Charlie Stenholm: A simple pledge to tackle our exploding debt
Read moreCharlie Stenholm is a former member of Congress from Texas and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a commentary...
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Key Takeaways from the New Health Care Spending Outlook
Read moreThe Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its latest National Health Expenditure (NHE)...
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Loren Adler: Medicare at Middle Age
Read moreLoren Adler, Research Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog . It...
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Trustee Blahous Says Time is Running Out to Fix Social Security
Read moreCharles Blahous, one of the public trustees for Medicare and Social Security, has released a Guide to the 2015 Social Security Trustees Report. The...