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Five-Year Highway Bill Could Be a Costly Mistake
Read moreAs the House and Senate are conferencing their highway bills, a debate has broken out over how to spend the $78 billion of offsets. Setting aside the...
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Seven Reasons to Pay for Tax Extenders
Read moreBy the end of the year, lawmakers will likely to try to revive the “ tax extenders,” a set of more than 50 tax breaks that expired at the end of 2014...
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The PREP Plan: Paying for the Tax Extenders to Set Up Tax Reform
Read moreBefore the end of the year, Congress will again consider renewal of the “tax extenders,” a collection of more than 50 expired tax breaks for...
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2016 Presidential Candidates Need To Propose Debt Solutions
Read moreThe Brookings Institution's Center on Children and Families held an event this week highlighting eight big issues the presidential candidates need to...
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Does Significantly Less Than 10 Percent of Defense Spending Go to Fighting International Terrorism?
Read moreDuring the November 14th Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said “We're spending over $600 billion a year on the military and yet...
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A Biennial Approach to Better Budgeting
Read moreBiennial budgeting was the subject of a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing, the second in a series on budget process. Testifying were Senator...
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Senator Rand Paul Releases Flat Tax Plan
Read moreThis blog is part of a series of " Policy Explainers" for the 2016 presidential election, where we explain some of the candidates' policy proposals...
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Does the U.S. Spend More Per Person on Health Care Without Better Outcomes?
Read moreIn the November 14 Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the United States spends more per person on health care than any other major...
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Is the Real Unemployment Rate 10%?
Read moreIn the Democratic debate on November 14, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the real unemployment rate was around 10 percent. When Sanders says...
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Debate Roundup: Fiscal FactChecking the Fourth GOP Debate
Read moreThis blog is part of the “ Fiscal FactCheck” series designated to examine the accuracy of budget-related statements made during the 2016 presidential...