Research and Commentary

How to Avoid Another FAA Fiasco

May 8, 2013, Clifford Winston

Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs?

May 3, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

Fund - Don't Cut - U.S. Soft Power

April 30, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

How to Build a Better Health-care System

April 18, 2013, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin

On the Budget, Obama's Opening Bid Was Reasonable

April 16, 2013, Ron Haskins

Rethinking the Federal Budget: Build Your Own Deficit Reduction Plan

April 12, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

Brookings Expert Roundtable on President Obama’s Federal Budget Proposal for FY 2014

April 11, 2013, Ron Haskins, Isabel V. Sawhill and Bill Frenzel

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Entering the National Conversation: President Obama’s 2014 Budget

April 11, 2013, William A. Galston

Around the Halls: The Obama Administration's Budget Release

April 10, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, Isabel V. Sawhill and Bill Frenzel

Short-Term Congressional Budget Fixes Only Prevent Total Disaster

March 27, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Do Budget Commitments to the Old Shortchange the Young?

March 26, 2013, Gary Burtless

A Balanced Budget Should Take a Backseat to Real Reforms

March 14, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Growing the Economy and Stabilizing the Debt

March 14, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin

The Ryan Budget: DOA But Driving Fiscal Debate

March 12, 2013, William A. Galston

Payments to Elders Are Harming Our Future

March 8, 2013, Harry J. Holzer and Isabel V. Sawhill

As 'Devastating' as Sequester is, not 'Immediate Catastrophe'

March 3, 2013, Thomas E. Mann

Five Myths About the Sequester

February 28, 2013, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

Fiscal Fatigue: Tracking the Budget Outlook as Political Leaders Lurch from One Artificial Crisis to Another

February 28, 2013, William G. Gale and Alan J. Auerbach

A Bad Sequester Is Worlds Better Than No Budget Deal At All

February 26, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Sequester Was Intended To Be Bad Policy, Let's End It

February 26, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin

Inaction on the Budget: The American People Are Partly to Blame

February 25, 2013, William A. Galston

Preparing for Sequestration: What to Expect

February 25, 2013, William A. Galston and Michael E. O'Hanlon

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15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget

February 2013

Real Specifics: 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget

February 20, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney

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Obama Should Use the State of the Union to Refocus Economic Policy on Equitable Growth and Full Employment, Not Deficits

February 8, 2013, Elisabeth Jacobs