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Gene Steuerle: The 'Save Our Social Security Act of 2016': A Major Step Toward Reform
Without fanfare, a bipartisan group of Representatives has introduced a bill that could bring Social Security’s finances close to long-term balance.
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Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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PBS NewsHour Piece on CRFB's Latest Analysis
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a column that appeared in PBS NewsHour's Making Sen$e. It is...
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Maya MacGuineas: Social Security: focus on solvency first
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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Judd Gregg: The Silver Lining
Good news: There is today — right now — a bipartisan working group headed by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that is trying...
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Maya MacGuineas: George Voinovich's remarkable legacy of fiscal responsibility
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an opinion piece that...
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Maya MacGuineas: In Two Social Security Reports, Ways to Reduce Senior Poverty Without Broad Benefit Cuts
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Marc Goldwein: Alicia Munnell is wrong: Social Security needs a quick fix
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an opinion piece...
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Maya MacGuineas: Donald’s dangerous debt-deficit delusion
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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Alice Rivlin, Queen of Washington's Budget Wonks
n the interview, Alice Rivlin discusses why she became an economist, her early years in Washington, her time directing the Congressional Budget Office...
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Gene Steuerle: Opportunity for All Isn’t Gonna Happen on This Path
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...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Senator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...