While much has changed in the past 25 years, this fundamental reality has not: Federal budget policy remains ...
A group of prominent economists and experts on the federal budget warned at The Concord Coalition's 25th Anniversary ...
WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that updated projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) underscore the ...
Congress has a curious way of doing financial business: It agrees to spend money and then periodically threatens ...
A new report by Charles Blahous and Robert Reischauer, who up until last year were the public trustees ...
The United States tax system is inefficient, overly complex and does not raise enough revenue to keep pace ...
The United States health care system is larger than the gross domestic product of all but five other ...
The official federal budget process was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The ...
Federal spending falls into two basic categories: mandatory spending and discretionary spending. Programs such as Social Security and ...
WASHINGTON -- It’s late June and Washington has no budget, no agreement on health care reform, no sign ...
Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly income to over 60 million ...
The federal government’s financial problems are so large that all parts of the budget -- from entitlements to ...
