Understanding the CBO Baseline

Key Takeaways Several times each year, the Congressional Budget Office publishes a baseline – a policy-neutral snapshot of ...

Harold Janeway: A Friend of the Future

  We are deeply saddened by the news of Harold Janeway's passing. If there was one thing that characterized ...

Congress Punts, POTUS Plays and We Pay

Avid readers of The Lookout will notice that my missive today is unlike any of my previous entries. ...

Jobs Data Reflects Mostly Re-Hiring from Temporary Layoff

In a much-anticipated jobs report, the Department of Labor released data today showing continued hiring in July despite ...

Republican deficit hawks come off endangered species list

  “Doing anything about the deficit and debt is always a heavy lift, and it gets even heavier when ...

Guest View: The looming battle over pandemic unemployment insurance

Coronavirus slams Social Security trust fund, speeds depletion

“If we were to suffer a recession identical to the Great Recession again, Social Security’s trust fund would ...

New Paper Released by The Concord Coalition and the Global Aging Institute: "The Case for Longer Work Lives"

Media Contact: Tyler Sweeney E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: (603) 325-8556WASHINGTON – A new paper jointly released by The Concord Coalition and ...

Double Dose of Economic Data

The economic picture painted by a double dose of economic statistics released Thursday reveals a US economy struggling ...

Comparing Major Provisions of the House and Senate Pandemic Relief Packages

More than two months after House Democrats passed their version of the next installment of pandemic relief for ...

Health Coverage for All: What Does that Mean and What are the Implications?

On July 29, more than 100 people participated in a Zoom webinar on the topic of “health coverage ...

Latest Jobless Claims Reverse Downward Trend

The Labor Department released new data today on initial unemployment claims by laid-off workers. For the week ending July 18, new claims ...