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Op-Ed: Nation Does Not Need Another Government Shutdown
The Hill | September 6, 2013 The last real government shutdowns occurred in the winter of 1995. Two funding gaps that winter resulted in a total of 26...
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Op-Ed: Now or Never on Debt Issue
The Hill | September 9, 2013 After an August in the countryside or their states or somewhere around the world or Martha’s Vineyard, the president and...
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CBO Takes a Look at the Pell Grant Program
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on Pell Grants which details the program and recent changes made to it, shows options to...
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$518 Billion? Inside the White House/Senate Negotiation's Math
Although Congress itself had been out of session prior to this week, some news last week came as the latest talks between the White House and a small...
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Carter and Weinstein: Look Beyond Ten Years
In an op-ed in POLITICO, former Senate Budget Committee staffer James Carter and Fiscal Commission adviser Paul Weinstein advised lawmakers to look...
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Looking Ahead: FY 2014 Issues Creating FY 2015 Uncertainty
When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...
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Comparing 2010 and 2013 Federal Government Spending
Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...
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Op-Ed: Neither The President Nor Congress Earned A Vacation This Summer
Forbes | August 21, 2013 Congress has left for its summer recess vacation at home. The President took his at Martha’s Vineyard. Based on legislative...
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Peterson Foundation Depicts the Long Term...Interactively
Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with projections of long term debt. But the Peterson Foundation has found an interesting interactive...
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Think Tanks Weigh In Before Budget Fights
Even though Washington slows down in August, several think tanks are staking out positions in advance of this fall's pending fight over the debt limit...
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Want to Protect Low-Income Individuals? Look Toward a Grand Bargain
Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...