Other Spending

The Senate may soon move forward on reconciliation instructions to allow for the enactment of $3.5 trillion in new spending and tax breaks (on top of...

Note: (7/6/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes updated estimates...

Twenty-six states have announced that they are ending the expanded federal unemployment benefits in the American Rescue Plan prior to their technical...

A bipartisan group of senators has apparently reached agreement on a plan with $579 billion of new infrastructure spending. Meanwhile, President Joe...

UPDATE 8/5: We have published a new summary of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act based on a recently published score from the...

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing last month titled “ Funding and Financing Options to Bolster American Infrastructure,” covering the need...

New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the month of April shows that disposable personal income (DPI) was 12.0 percent above pre...

Last year, we estimated that fully canceling student debt would produce eight to 23 cents of economic activity for every dollar of cost and speculated...

The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill. The bill...

Last week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local aid funds in the American Rescue...