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Hillary Clinton Releases Infrastructure Plan
Read moreThis blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
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2016 Presidential Candidates Need To Propose Debt Solutions
Read moreThe Brookings Institution's Center on Children and Families held an event this week highlighting eight big issues the presidential candidates need to...
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Does Significantly Less Than 10 Percent of Defense Spending Go to Fighting International Terrorism?
Read moreDuring the November 14th Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said “We're spending over $600 billion a year on the military and yet...
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Senator Rand Paul Releases Flat Tax Plan
Read moreThis blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
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Does the U.S. Spend More Per Person on Health Care Without Better Outcomes?
Read moreIn the November 14 Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the United States spends more per person on health care than any other major...
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Is the Real Unemployment Rate 10%?
Read moreIn the Democratic debate on November 14, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the real unemployment rate was around 10 percent. When Sanders says...
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Does the U.S. Spend More on Its Military Than the Next 10 Countries Combined?
Read moreDuring last night’s debate in an exchange between Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio on defense spending, Paul claimed that “we spend more on our...
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Has the Government Spent $2 Trillion on the Wars in the Middle East?
Read moreDuring the fourth Republican debate last night, Donald Trump suggested that we have spent $2 trillion on the wars in the Middle East. Between Fiscal...
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Would Cutting Spending by 1% Balance the Budget in Less Than Five Years?
Read moreDuring the November 10 Republican debate, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said when discussing balanced budgets, "I’m also in favor of a plan called the penny...
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Can the Budget Realistically Be Balanced Without Touching Social Security or Medicare?
Read moreDuring this election cycle, candidates may try to claim that it’s possible to bring the federal budget to balance without touching Medicare or Social...
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Does John Kasich Have a Plan to Balance the Budget in Ten Years?
Read moreDuring the November 10 Republican debate, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) touted his plan which he said would balance the budget by the end of his second term...
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Infographic Comparing Candidates' Tax Plans
Read moreFiscal FactCheck released an infographic comparing the costs of several GOP presidential candidates’ tax plans. So far, the Tax Foundation has scored...