In its new report, “ The Nation’s Fiscal Health,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) projects the national debt will rise to 251 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2056 under a...
The Medicaid program provides health insurance to roughly 70 million lower-income Americans and is jointly financed by states and the federal government. 1 The federal government covers about 65% of...
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas City Star, an excerpt of which is below. More than 70 million...