Last night, the Senate passed legislation extending highway funding through December and offsetting the cost with a number of deficit reduction...

We have already released our analysis of the 2014 Social Security Trustees' report, which showed that the program's long-term finances are largely...

Note: CBO has issued a more detailed score of the bill. The table has been updated to reflect these numbers. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday...

With the release of the Social Security Trustees Report, CRFB held an event examining the trustees report on July 29, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency in...

Eugene Steuerle is the cofounder of the Tax Policy Center, a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, a columnist for Tax Notes Magazine, and a CRFB...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports provide a detailed projection of each program's finances over the next 75 years. In response, we...

The American Enterprise Institute held an event Thursdsay commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the War on Poverty. The event, “Expanding...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...

In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman argued that the focus on the national debt represented “an imaginary budget and debt crisis...