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Reducing Private Health Care Costs
Read moreErica Socker and Mark Miller of Arnold Ventures last week penned a blog post in Health Affairs on the need to contain the costs of employer-provided...
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Congress Should Pay For the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Senate is continuing to work on the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 this week, a bill aimed at boosting...
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RSC Releases Its FY 2022 Budget Proposal
Read moreThe Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of over 150 House Republicans, released its annual budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 on...
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What Would it Take to Stabilize the Debt?
Read moreFederal debt held by the public is now larger than annual economic output and is on track to reach 113 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2031...
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Interest Payments in the Federal Budget
Read moreAt a projected cost of over $300 billion this fiscal year, interest payments are a significant part of the federal budget. Net interest is currently...
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State & Local Aid is On Its Way, But Is It Needed?
Read moreLast week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local aid funds in the American Rescue...
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Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local...
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Spending in the American Jobs Plan vs. the 2018 Senate Infrastructure Plan
Read moreLast month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
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CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Read moreToday the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...
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Introducing ‘Budgeting for the Future’
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Committee launches new suite of online games to educate and crowdsource views on federal budget priorities A majority of...
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New Poll Finds Americans Worry About the Debt and Want the Budget More Balanced Between Generations
Read moreA new Ipsos poll finds that a strong majority of Americans are concerned about the national debt and want federal spending to be more balanced between...
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Congress Should Spend Responsibly and Invest Wisely
Read moreBetween the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, President Biden has proposed roughly $4.45 trillion of new spending and tax breaks. The...