It's September and that means we've entered the final month of the FY 2013 continuing resolution. While the threat of a possible government shutdown...

In an op-ed in POLITICO, former Senate Budget Committee staffer James Carter and Fiscal Commission adviser Paul Weinstein advised lawmakers to look...

Naturally, lawmakers are diverting their attention to resolving sequestration, the debt ceiling, and the expiring continuing resolution, but another...

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey on health costs, prompting a wide range of reactions from " Health Care Costs Rise...

When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations to...

One area of controversy in the last election was the percentage of American households that pay no federal income tax, often cited as 47 percent. The...

The broad outlines of tax reform have always been clear. Lawmakers trim or eliminate certain tax expenditures and use some or all of the additional...

This is the fourth post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. The...

While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...

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...

Late last week, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a piece claiming that "big government is mostly unchanged" since 2010, when...

Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...