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Gale on Deficit Optimism
Read moreAs 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
Read moreAlong with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
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Line Items: Grilling Edition
Read moreGrilling Time – It’s that time of year when the grills get fired up. There’s been grilling on Capitol Hill as well, with government officials being...
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Report: Analysis of the 2013 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreThe event "Challenges Facing Social Security," which featured CRFB's " The Reformer" tool, was held on June 4. Read a recap of the event here.
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Senate Finance Committee Looks at Economic Security Provisions
Read moreLast week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...
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Social Security Trustees Release Latest Projections
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports with projections of the finances of both programs. The bottom lines of...
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WATCH: Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release Their Reports
Read moreAt 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...
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An Update of the Fiscal Speed Bumps on the Horizon
Read moreEarlier today, CRFB took a look at two of the biggest "fiscal speed bumps" remaining for the year, the exhaustion of extraordinary measures to advert...
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CRFB Looks Toward the Upcoming Fiscal Discussions
Read moreOn May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...
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Report: What We Expect From the Upcoming Fiscal Discussions
Read moreNote: The FY 2013 post-sequester numbers in Figure 1 have been corrected from the original version of this paper.
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CBO Releases Analysis of the Distributional Impact of Tax Expenditures
Read moreThe CBO released a paper today analyzing the distributional impact of major tax expenditures on the individual side of the tax code. Considering the...
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Tyson on Retirement Savings and Tax Provisions
Read moreToday, in a Project Syndicate piece, Laura Tyson examines the state of retirement saving in the U.S. and argues that many retirement saving tax...