The 2008 recession substantially altered the enrollment and operations of many government programs, particularly those providing financial benefits...

Early this month, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate penalty in the Affordable Care Act for...

Last week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...

Today, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted a panel discussion featuring Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senior Fellow Jared Bernstein...

Heading for the Exits – This is the final week before Congress begins its five-week August recess. Lawmakers have a lot baggage to pack up before they...

The tax reform debate is heating up and many groups are weighing in on what tax provisions should be kept and what the broad revenue and...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a report detailing the projected economic effects of repealing the sequester starting August 1. The...

Readers of The Bottom Line know that we talk frequently on the subject of tax expenditures, the deductions, credits, and other tax preferences which...

Is Social Security a distributionally regressive system overall? Some people may have this conception due to a few features of the program: higher...

In the midst of our slow economic recovery, both the public and our Congressional leaders alike can too easily narrow their field of vision to solely...

Senators John Thune (R-SD), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Chris Coons (D-DE) have introduced the Intergenerational Financial Obligations...

A recent New York Times editorial gets it wrong by opposing a bipartisan student loan deal that would lower interest rates for all new students today...