On May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...

The CBO released a paper today analyzing the distributional impact of major tax expenditures on the individual side of the tax code. Considering the...

Today, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...

On Friday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees will issue their latest report, showing the finances of the two programs and their related trust...

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a small step in the process to replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula -- Medicare's...

Notwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...

The revenue debate in DC is one that is often focused on the individual income tax system. But one option to raise revenue is to use new taxes that...

In recent weeks, a number of competing proposals from the parties in each chamber of Congress to reform the interest rates charged on student loans...

Yesterday, the CBO released its latest estimate of the subsidy cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The estimate serves as a...

As we have written before, the CBO recently released updated projections that show an improvement in the fiscal climate. Based on CRFB’s realistic...