At nearly $500 billion a year, Medicare is the costliest piece of the federal health care budget. As we’ve discussed before, Medicare spending and...

A recent op-ed from Joe Scarborough in Politico has brought back attention to the stimulus vs. deficit reduction debate. Some commentators like Paul...

In an interview with Forbes contributor Henry Doss, former Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles explains just how our unsustainable debt...

In the past few weeks, we have made the case for putting debt on a downward path as a percent of GDP as a goal for the next round of deficit reduction...

Dropping the Puck – The NHL season is finally underway, and it only took the Washington Capitals five games to get a win. Things are similarly getting...

Today in an op-ed in The Patriot News, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Pennsylvania Fix the Debt Co-chair Thomas Rippon call for bipartisan...

In a report released today, the New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program offers a proposal to overhaul the federal financial aid system with...

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation has released a new report on the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) and its effect on the long-term outlook...

Today, Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) unveiled a new feature on her Committee's website called MyBudget, which allows constituents...

A recent editorial from the Washington Post takes on the "new school of thought on deficits" that believes that we do not have to go too much further...