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Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Read moreSince faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
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Blahous Tells it Like it is with Social Security
Read moreVoters say they want a candidate that “tells them like it is,” but as Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous describes, that may mean facing...
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Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
Read moreIn a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
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Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
Read moreIn a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”
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Katherine Gehl & Maya MacGuineas: Debt and deficits rising: Who has courage?
Read moreKatherine Gehl, former president & CEO of Gehl Foods, Inc., and a member of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and...
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CBO's New One-Stop Shop for Federal Spending on Health Insurance Coverage
Read moreCBO's March baseline is typically a brief update of budget projections for the next decade, but this year CBO has provided a new comprehensive look at...
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Sanders's Paid Family Leave Plan, Explained
Read moreDemocratic Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a Family Values Agenda built upon current legislation that calls for mandatory...
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Breaking Down CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the FY 2017 President's budget yesterday, a document that includes a 16-page report...
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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2017 Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s FY 2017 budget, using its own economic and technical assumptions to...
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CBO Releases Its Own Take on the President's Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of the Fiscal Year 2017 President's budget, finding that under the President's...
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Provider Tax Limits Should Be On The Table for Medicaid Reform
Read moreRecently, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) criticized the House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee for proposing to limit abuse of...