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Changes to Income-Based Repayment for Student Loans: "Safety Net or Windfall?"
Our colleagues Jason Delisle and Alex Holt of the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project have released a new paper "Safety Net or...
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Fact Checking The Debates: Round III
Tonight at 9 PM on the grounds of Hofstra University is the second presidential debate and the only debate with a town hall format. This will allow...
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MY VIEW: Tim Penny October 2012
Former Congressman and CRFB Board Member Tim Penny (D-MN) writes in today's The Hill that even with both parties laying out different plans this...
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Op-Ed: Agreeing on the Debt
The Hill | October 16, 2012 In representing the great people of southern Minnesota for 12 years in Congress, I witnessed my share of partisan...
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Social Security Adjustments Announced Today
With the release of September inflation numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Social Security Administration also announced its cost-of...
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Blahous: "The End of Social Security Self-Financing"
The Mercatus Center has released a new paper by Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous entitled "The End of Social Security Self-Financing." In the...
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Expanding on Our Live Fact-Checking
After live fact-checking the vice presidential debate on Twitter, we will take some time to go back and expand on some of our fact-checking and...
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New CRFB Paper Shows Tax Reform Can Reduce Rates and Deficits
Today, CRFB released a paper on individual income tax reform, showing how comprehensive reforms could lower both deficits and tax rates. The paper...
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JCT Report Does Not Conflict With Rate-Reducing Tax Reform
Today, a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation was released that some claim to show the near-impossibility of deficit-reducing, rate-reducing...
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AIG Drives TARP Estimate Lower
The CBO has released its newest estimate of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), showing that it would cost taxpayers a total of $24 billion...
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Fact Checking the Debates: Round 2
Vice President Joe Biden and Representive Paul Ryan (R-WI) will take the stage in Kentucky tonight at 9:00 PM E.T. in the Vice Presidential Debate. In...