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S&P Revises Current Outlook
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services confirmed today its AA+ long-term sovereign credit rating on US debt, where it has been since the August 2011...
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Washington Post Makes the Case for Fiscal Space
When the financial crisis began at the end of 2007, it soon became clear that the government would need to run higher deficits in response. Tax...
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Line Items: Poolside Edition
Dive In – The pools have opened to provide relief from the summer heat and an opportunity to work on those tans. Congress is back in session this week...
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A Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Overlapping Payments in UI and DI
Bipartisanship will be a crucial element when it comes to reforming Social Security and achieving other budget related reforms in the near future. In...
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Reset the Fiscal Debate, But Towards a Comprehensive Fiscal Plan
In a new paper, the Center for American Progress's Michael Linden makes the case for resetting the fiscal debate. His main point is that given...
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A Closer Look at the Medicare Actuary's Alternative Medicare Projections
Earlier this week, we discussed the new Medicare Trustees projections which project that the Hospital Insurance (HI, or Part A) trust fund will be...
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Event Recap: Challenges Facing Social Security
Update: The video has now been posted. Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Mercatus Center, and Third Way held an event...
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Taking The Reformer For a Spin
CRFB's latest interactive tool " The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan. Users can select from a...
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MY VIEW: Marc Goldwein June 2013
The new Social Security Trustees Report leaves us another year closer to the trust fund's insolvency and the takeaway remains the same - we do not...
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Op-Ed: Reforming Social Security is Easy — But It Won't Be for Long
The Hill | June 4, 2014 The latest Social Security Trustees report, released last week, shows a program in peril. Within three years, the Social...
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Gale on Deficit Optimism
As we've said before, while the new budget projections from the CBO are an encouraging sign, it is easy to be overly optimistic about what the...
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Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Along with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...