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Six Ways to Fight Inflation
Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation rose by 6.3 percent over the past year and 0.6 percent last month according to new data from the...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2022
Updated 7/5/22: For news on the appropriations process for the upcoming fiscal year, please see Appropriations Watch: FY 2023. The Senate passed a...
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Congress Needs to Stop Deeming and Start Budgeting
Today, the House of Representatives passed a $1.6 trillion “deeming resolution” to set the topline level for appropriations for Fiscal Year 2023. The...
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What's in the FY 2022 Omnibus Bill?
Last week, Congress passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 omnibus appropriations bill, which sets appropriations levels and allocations for the remainder...
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Congress' December Challenges Can't Wait
For Immediate Release As lawmakers continue to debate the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, they have a number of pressing deadlines and policy...
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UPDATE: Build Back Better Visualized
UPDATE 12/10: Since this analysis was published, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has issued a correction to their initial estimate of H.R. 5376...
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Build Back Better Visualized
Last week, the White House released a $1.75 trillion framework for the reconciliation bill currently working its way through Congress. When combined...
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Chartbook: Build Back Better for Less
Policymakers are apparently now targeting $1.5 trillion to $2.3 trillion of gross spending increases and tax cuts for their Build Back Better...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
This paper has been updated here. The new fiscal year (FY) will begin on October 1, 2021, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12...
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New Report Shows Troubling Outcomes for Short-Term-Education Programs
Yesterday, New America published a new report by Monique O. Ositelu measuring employment outcomes of students who obtained short-term-education...
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Pell Program Faces Funding Cliff in 2026
The Congressional Budget Office projects the Pell program will deplete its reserve fund by 2026 and face cumulative deficits of $18 billion by 2031...
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Now's Not the Time to Raid the Pell Surplus
With 2020 college enrollment down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pell Grant program may add more to its reserves than previously estimated...