Budgets & Projections

Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...

With Congress back in session, the mid-term election right around the corner, and a looming expiration, the debate of the 2001-2003 tax cuts is...

Falling Into Pieces – Fall officially begins this week. A short congressional calendar and the quickly-approaching elections mean that the legislative...

Yesterday, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Jacob Lew’s nomination as the new head of the Office of Management and Budget, where he...

Nobody's breaking out the champagne for this anniversary. On this day two years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers turned an already bad-looking...

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the number of workers seeking disability benefits from Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program has...

Kick-off Time – Football season got underway this weekend, and the final legislative drive before the mid-term elections also commences this week. The...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday about the importance of taking action soon to ensure future fiscal sustainability, calling the...

A small controversy has been brewing in the blogosphere over the relative value of the higher-income 2001/2003 tax cuts and the Social Security...

Today, CRFB released a new policy paper showing a more probable fiscal outlook over the coming decade than what baseline budget projections would...

If lawmakers extended various current policies, as opposed to letting them expire as they are set to under current law, what would happen to economic...

Yesterday, CBO released an update on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (read our analysis of it here) impact on unemployment and job growth...