Note: CBO has issued a more detailed score of the bill. The table has been updated to reflect these numbers. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday...

With the release of the Social Security Trustees Report, CRFB held an event examining the trustees report on July 29, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency in...

Eugene Steuerle is the cofounder of the Tax Policy Center, a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, a columnist for Tax Notes Magazine, and a CRFB...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports provide a detailed projection of each program's finances over the next 75 years. In response, we...

The American Enterprise Institute held an event Thursdsay commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the War on Poverty. The event, “Expanding...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...

In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman argued that the focus on the national debt represented “an imaginary budget and debt crisis...

This week, the Senate agreed by unanimous consent to consider the House-passed highway bill, H.R. 5021. The agreement allows for the consideration of...

In its release this week of the economic effects of the President's budget, CBO found it would increase the size of the economy, mainly due to...

In our series on the long-term budget outlook, we covered how debt projections would change if some of CBO's economic and technical assumptions turned...