PAST EVENT
Monday, March 31, 2008
Washington, DC
Some of the nation’s top economists and budget policy experts presented a new paper arguing that the first step toward establishing budget responsibility is to reform the budget decision process so that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—the major drivers of escalating deficits—are no longer on auto-pilot. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
April 2008, The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation
Unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous gap between projected federal spending and revenues. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Joseph R. Antos and Alice M. Rivlin, August 15, 2007, Opportunity 08
Americans are deeply concerned about paying their mounting bills for health care. This is true whether they have public (Medicare or Medicaid) or private insurance. And it’s certainly true for the 46 million people with no insurance at all. At the same time, the federal government’s health spending is clearly unsustainable. If current commitments are kept, other government services will have to be slashed or taxes increased drastically just to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Bixby, J. Robert Kerrey, Peter G. Peterson and Warren B. Rudman, 2007, Opportunity 08
PAST EVENT
Friday, March 07, 2008
Washington, DC
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and David Jackson, February 04, 2008, The Hartford Courant
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eloise Pasachoff, January 2008, CCF Working Paper
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube, January 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Thomas E. Mann, Brian Riedl and Philip Joyce, December 11, 2007, The Diane Rehm Show
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Andrew Reamer, October 22, 2007, The Brookings Institution
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, October 17, 2007, Child Trends Annual Kristin Anderson Moore Lecture
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Henry J. Aaron, October 03, 2007, The House Committee on Veterans Affairs
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Washington, DC