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The Tax Break-Down: Preferential Rates on Capital Gains
This is the third post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform...
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Comparing 2010 and 2013 Federal Government Spending
Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...
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Disability Insurance and the Great Recession
Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...
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Economists' Survey: Long Term, Not the Short Term, Should Be the Focus
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) conducted its semi-annual survey recently, surveying 220 economists on questions of fiscal...
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Taking a Broader Look at Federal Support for Education
On Friday, we discussed the President's recent speeches on his policy proposals for higher education. With most K-12 schools and university funding...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...
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MY VIEW: Jim McCrery
When Congress returns from recess in early September, they will have to address two major upcoming challenges: pass appropriations for next year...
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The President's Higher Education Proposals
As part of an ongoing series of economic speeches entitled A Better Bargain for the Middle Class, President Obama spoke yesterday at the University of...
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Report: Social Security Reform and the Cost of Delay
Update 8/11/15: We've updated this report with the new data available in the 2015 Trustees report in our blog .
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The Long-Term Cost of Delaying Social Security Reform
Last week, we noted that it was the 78th birthday of the Social Security program, but cautioned that reform was needed before we could count on...
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The Tax Break-Down: LIFO Accounting
This is the second post in a new CRFB blog series The Tax Break-Down, which discusses tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Last-in...
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CAP's Proposal to Improve Retirement Accounts
With President Obama set to give a speech in the coming weeks on retirement security, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a report...