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As the Senate Finance Committee looks to take up tax reform, one of the higher ranking members on the Committee who will likely shape the process is...

While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...

A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

As Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) continue their cross-country tax reform...

John Oliver, interim host of The Daily Show with John Stewart, opened last night's program with an update on tax reform. The segment is hilarious, but...

Yesterday in Phoenix, one of the hardest hit areas by the housing bust, President Obama gave a speech that laid out his plan to strengthen the housing...

As we've written many times before, the U.S. population is aging and in doing so putting increasing pressure on Social Security, Medicare, and to some...

Update: The Tax Policy Center has released a distributional analysis of the reducing the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent and...

Update: Post-sequester figures have been revised according to the most recent estimates. Another month has gone by, and while on paper the budget...

With both the Senate's and House's Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill stalled, it seems unlikely Congress will be...

Detroit's recent bankruptcy makes it the largest municipal bankruptcy in our nation's history as the city seeks to restructure $18 billion in debt...