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Maya MacGuineas: Good Deeds Punished as Crossroads Dings Dems on Debt Plan
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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CRFB Analyzes CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Forecast
Read moreMoments ago, CRFB published a new 6-page paper summarizing CBO’s latest Budget and Economic Outlook. Under its current law baseline, CBO estimates...
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Newest Budget Projections Show Gloomy Fiscal Picture
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from April and economic projections from February...
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Report: Analysis of CBO's Updated Budget and Economic Forecast
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing today’s record-high debt...
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Is the 2014 Budget Meeting Expectations?
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is set to update its budget and economic projections tomorrow, laying out the fiscal picture for the next ten...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas August 26 2014
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Inversions Reduce Revenue, But Extenders Cost More
Read moreMany policymakers have expressed concern about "tax inversions," transactions where American companies move their headquarters overseas in order to...
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BPC Kicks Off Series on Delivery System Reform
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has kicked off a series of white papers on overcoming the obstacles to delivery system reform with an...
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Can Lawmakers Agree on Postal Reform?
Read moreThe Postal Service has been losing money in recent years and has needed to cut back on services and raise stamp prices. However, these latest...
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General Revenue & the Social Security Trust Funds
Read moreSocial Security is often portrayed in one of two ways, either as its own self-contained program (the “trust fund perspective”) or as part of the...
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Event Recap: "Can Simpson-Bowles Save Social Security?"
Read moreOn August 15, PublicSquare.net hosted a debate on Social Security featuring CRFB's very own Ed Lorenzen. The event, titled "Can Simpson-Bowles Save...
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The Story of Supplementals Since 2000
Read moreThe use of supplemental appropriations got some press last month as the Obama Administration requested $4.3 billion to address the Central American...