Economic Recovery Measures

Yesterday, the President announced two new plans for economic growth. Responding to pressure to deliver more job creation in a critical election year...

A Lot of Work Ahead – The end of the long Labor Day weekend heralds the effective end of summer: the pools are closed, the kids are back at school...

CRFB board member Laura Tyson makes the argument for additional economic stimulus in a recent New York Times op-ed. At the same time she mirrors CRFB...

The FDIC has just released its Quarterly Banking Profile (QBP) for the second quarter of 2010, showing improvement in bank balance sheets since last...

At the Federal Reserve meetings in Jackson Hole, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas, commented on fiscal policy and the need for a credible debt reduction...

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...

The Obama Administration held a conference yesterday discussing how to fix federal housing programs, with the goal of submitting a comprehensive...

Yesterday, the House passed the $26 billion bill that would extend increased Medicaid matching to states and education funding to prevent teacher...

Gone and Back – The Senate has left for its August recess, the House will return this week (for a day). Congress will be back in session after Labor...

The Wall Street Journal reports that a package of tax extenders might have a harder time getting by the PAYGO regime. Since the planned offsets were...

CRFB has been calling for policymakers to set fiscal targets for some time. Apparently we haven’t been clear enough on what that means. Unfortunately...

Finally, the Senate got it right: we have a deficit-neutral stimulus. In fact, the bill would even slightly reduce deficits by $1.4 billion over the...