Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Growing Health & Interest Spending to Overwhelm Flat Revenue
CBO's recent budget projections show debt growing in the latter half of the decade as deficits widen. Entitlement spending will continue to grow as a...
Interest Rates Continue to Fall in CBO's Forecast
CBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of legislation...
Bipartisan Policy Center Publishes SSDI Recommendations
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) recently convened a Disability Insurance Working Group and released their recommendations to address the upcoming...
Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Our recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...
CRFB Breaks Down the Newest CBO Budget Projections
CRFB has released its analysis of CBO's latest ten-year budget projections, detailing the important facts from the report and how it has changed from...
CBO Still Shows Unsustainable Debt in its August Baseline
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from March and economic projections from January...
Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative hosted its SSDI Solutions Conference, presenting the 12 papers commissioned...
Immigration Reform Drives Positive Economic Effects of the President's Budget
CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...
Judd Gregg: Ensuring Social Security’s Future
Social Security faces very serious financial challenges, and its own trustees estimate that its deficits will lead to trust fund insolvency by 2034.
Mitch Daniels: Could income-share agreements help solve the student debt crisis?
Mitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University, a former governor of Indiana, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co...
A Preview of the Potentially High-Stakes Fall
Lawmakers have dealt with several Fiscal Speed Bumps – budgetary deadlines – throughout the year, but quite a few will appear over the next few months...
Gene Steuerle: Reforming Disability Policy: Tough Choices Required
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...