Economics

Recently, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) estimated the economic impact of Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's tax plans, finding that both plans would...

We are in the midst of a slow and anemic economic recovery. Productivity, which drives any effective period of economic growth, has stagnated.

Last week, we estimated that Donald Trump's policies would increase ten-year deficits by $5.3 trillion, resulting in debt held by the public reaching...

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced significant revisions to his tax plan that would reduce its cost by about half, a change CRFB...

By far the biggest revision to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) latest ten-year budget projections are the lower projected interest rates...

Public investment has the potential to significantly increase economic growth, but only if its paid for – that's the key finding of a recent report...

In our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...

Over the past 30 or 35 years, income and government spending per household have both about doubled, but working- and middle-class Americans have seen...

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made waves in a CNBC interview when he seemed to indicate that he would seek to renegotiate...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote a commentary that...

Since faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...