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Alice Rivlin To Receive 2013 Robert M. Ball Award
CRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin is somewhat of a legend in the budget world, with a long line of work spanning from...
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NPR Takes a Look at Disability Insurance
In a recent story called “Unfit for Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America,” Chana Joffe-Walt of NPR's Planet Money takes an in-depth look...
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Durbin Voices His Support for Entitlement Reform
In a Wall Street Journal breakfast yesterday, Senate Majority Whip and former Fiscal Commission member Dick Durbin (D-IL) reiterated his support for...
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Updated Report: The Case for the Chained CPI
Earlier this month, we reported on CBO’s updated cost estimate for switching to the chained CPI to provide a more accurate measure of inflation for...
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Steuerle on Why Retirement Age Increases are Not Regressive
When considering raising the retirement ages for Social Security or the eligibility age for Medicare, some critics usually argue that change would...
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Alter: Why Entitlement Reforms Are Essential
Friday at 11:59 PM, sequestration officially began, triggering sharp across-the-board cuts without much progress on bipartisan replacement plan. Our...
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Chained CPI Estimated to Reduce Deficit by $340 Billion
We've written extensively on the chained CPI, which represents both a more accurate measure of inflation and a policy change which would result in...
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Brookings Rethinks...Disability Insurance
We have been working our way through the “15 Ways to Rethink the Budget” report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. Previously, we...
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Line Items: Hockey Edition
Dropping the Puck – The NHL season is finally underway, and it only took the Washington Capitals five games to get a win. Things are similarly getting...
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Why We Can't Wait to Act on the Debt
Last week, Paul Krugman took issue with Tom Friedman's comparison between climate change and the debt situation, but unfortunately missed the mark...
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Op-Ed: Our Imperfect Work
The Government We Deserve | January 23, 2013 “We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect,” Barack Obama proclaimed in his second inaugural...