One area of controversy in the last election was the percentage of American households that pay no federal income tax, often cited as 47 percent. The...

The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...

This is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...

While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...

This is the third post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...

Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...

Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...

The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) conducted its semi-annual survey recently, surveying 220 economists on questions of fiscal...

On Friday, we discussed the President's recent speeches on his policy proposals for higher education. With most K-12 schools and university funding...

The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...

When Congress returns from recess in early September, they will have to address two major upcoming challenges: pass appropriations for next year...

As part of an ongoing series of economic speeches entitled A Better Bargain for the Middle Class, President Obama spoke yesterday at the University of...