Up for Debate – Election 2012 is entering the final stretch and it is still up for grabs. The presidential contest has been marked more by missteps...

Tonight is the last presidential debate with questions focused on foreign policy, but it would be a mistake to forget about debt. Our foreign policy...

Some commentators have suggested that raising the retirement age would be regressive given that lower income recipients tend to have a lower life...

This blog has been cross-posted at FixTheDebt.org. It may not be as popular as Justin Bieber, but the fiscal cliff is getting plenty of notice as of...

This morning, the National Coalition on Health Care held a forum in the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Innovations in Health Care Delivery...

With Congress in recess until after the elections, a plan to replace the fiscal cliff with a comprehensive debt deal will have to get done during the...

Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle laments the presidential candidates' overpromising this election season, particularly on...

After we analyzed a part of it two weeks ago, Governor Mitt Romney's tax plan is back in the news, with a proposed deduction cap as the subject of a...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) yesterday released his " Wastebook" for 2012, a laundry list of government waste and inefficiency. Coburn finds 100 examples...

As with the previous two debates (one presidential and one vice presidential), we will take an opportunity to go back and fact check some statements...

Our colleagues Jason Delisle and Alex Holt of the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project have released a new paper "Safety Net or...