A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

John Oliver, interim host of The Daily Show with John Stewart, opened last night's program with an update on tax reform. The segment is hilarious, but...

As Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...

As we've written many times before, the U.S. population is aging and in doing so putting increasing pressure on Social Security, Medicare, and to some...

Yesterday in Phoenix, one of the hardest hit areas by the housing bust, President Obama gave a speech that laid out his plan to strengthen the housing...

Update: Post-sequester figures have been revised according to the most recent estimates. Another month has gone by, and while on paper the budget...

Update: The Tax Policy Center has released a distributional analysis of the reducing the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent and...

Detroit's recent bankruptcy makes it the largest municipal bankruptcy in our nation's history as the city seeks to restructure $18 billion in debt...

As of Wednesday's GDP report, GDP for fiscal year 2012 was revised upward by roughly $560 billion to a total of $16.2 trillion. This almost Houdini...

Updated 8/2/2013: Newly released submissions to the Finance Committee have been added. The deadline for Senators to make their arguments for what tax...

As we have written before, the recent downward turn in the growth of health care costs is an encouraging development, but one that may not last in the...

Yesterday, the House Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill was removed from floor consideration, showing a lack of...