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Former Senators Say that Entitlement Work Remains Unfinished
Over the long term, the country's debt is projected to grow to unsustainable levels. This outlook has not changed for the last two decades, according...
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Happy Halloween From CRFB
Happy Halloween! For the spookiest day of the year (though some might argue that's April 15th), CRFB is thinking about scary costumes and wondering...
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A Bad Deal on Extenders
As soon as the election is over, the lame duck Congress will be pressed to deal with several pieces of must-pass legislation before the end of the...
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Another Way to Look at the Medicare Slowdown
A recent Health Affairs piece from CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg showed that the prescription drug benefit, Part D, has been responsible for a...
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Do Americans Really Favor a Revenue-Only Approach to Social Security Reform?
The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a survey last week ( see video of CRFB President Maya MacGuineas at the release event)...
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CBO Report Parses the Reasons for Part D's Slow Growth
The last few months have seen a number of new ideas to save money in Part D of Medicare by encouraging more efficient use of drugs by prescription...
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Erskine Bowles: Urgency of Federal Deficit Remains
Erskine Bowles is a former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an...
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McCarthy Suggests Increased Focus on Long-Term Budgeting
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tells Politico that his priorities for the next Congress include the budget process, and in particular...
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Social Security is A Little Bit Harder to Secure
Social Security's finances are far from secure, and every year that Congress waits before addressing the problem makes it harder to fix. This week...
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Why the 40-Year Average is a Poor Benchmark
In response to Howard Gleckman's piece on the FY 2014 deficit where he noted that the budget had returned to "normal," Donald Marron wrote that the...
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CAP Report Warns Against Turning War Spending Into a Slush Fund
The Center for American Progress' Katherine Blakeley and Lawrence Korb recently issued a report recommending how lawmakers should wind down war...
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Coburn Publishes Wastebook 2014
Year after year, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) refuses to simply give lip service to "wasteful government spending" and has instead called out...