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Chartbook: Promises and Price Tags
Read moreBelow is a new chartbook with the key figures and graphs from our paper, Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election.
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House GOP Sketches Out Details on Tax Reform
Read moreThe House Republicans continue to rollout several policy proposals/frameworks, recently releasing a tax reform plan that aims to reduce tax rates and...
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Social Security May Be In Worse Shape Than Trustees Suggest
Read moreThe Social Security Trustees made their projections last week showing the program's sizeable shortfall and its trust fund's insolvency date, but there...
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Medicare Trustees Show Need for Reform
Read moreThe Medicare Trustees released their latest report last week, along with the companion Social Security Trustees' report. The report estimates that...
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PBS NewsHour Piece on CRFB's Latest Analysis
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreMaya 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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Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election
Read moreNOTE: This is an old version of this analysis and contains out-of-date estimates with policies proposed through June 24, 2016. It has been updated...
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Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Fiscal Commission Bill
Read moreSenators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced legislation that would create a bipartisan National...
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A Quick Take on the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their respective programs. With regards to Social...
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Analysis of the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of each program. The projections show that both...
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Prescriptions for Controlling Health Care Costs: Statement by Maya MacGuineas on House Republican Health Care Release
Read moreHouse Republicans took an important step today in issuing their recommendations for health care cost control in the proposal they released as part of...
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Judd Gregg: The Silver Lining
Read moreGood 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...