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Tune in now as the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security holds a hearing focusing on the use of the chained CPI to...

Included in the President’s FY 2014 budget proposal is a $400 billion package of health care savings. As we described in our analysis of his budget...

Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...

For the first time in a few days, Tax Day did actually fall on April 15, so hopefully the tax procrastinators out there were able to get their filing...

With the President proposing switching to the chained CPI to measure inflation, the attack dogs are out. We've written on the merits of moving to the...

Given the chained CPI is primary a technical adjustment to more accurately measure inflation, support for the change can be found among experts across...

A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...

Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles will be addressing the Associated Press at their annual meeting in Orlando today. The event is co-hosted by...

It's Tax Day, meaning that those who procrastinated spent their weekends trying to work through our overly-complex tax code. The federal code contains...

Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-term fiscal outlook, presenting both long-term projections and estimates of...

Much of the early debate surrounding President Obama’s FY 2014 budget concerns his inclusion of the chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI), a more...

As we mentioned on Wednesday, budget season can often be as confusing as it is clarifying. While it would seem that both chambers and the President...