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Jun 8, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Other Spending| Economics

COVID Relief Continues to Bolster Personal Income

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Jun 3, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Other Spending| Economics

Partial Student Debt Cancellation is Poor Economic Stimulus

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Feb 23, 2016 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

David M. Walker: Transforming Federal Financial Reporting and Auditing

David M. Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ,...
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Feb 22, 2016 | Blog Paper Press Release | Taxes| Economics

Senator Ted Cruz's Tax Reform Plan

Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a “Simple Flat Tax Plan” that would dramatically overhaul and simplify the...
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Jan 25, 2016 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Economics

Report: Analysis of CBO’s January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its January Budget and Economic Outlook, today, adding more detail to a brief summary released on...
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Jan 12, 2016 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

#SOTU Means It's Time to Play Debt-O!

President Obama's final State of the Union address is tonight at 9 p.m. ET. In preparation for his speech, we've brought back our State of...
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Nov 14, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Is the Real Unemployment Rate 10%?

In the Democratic debate on November 14, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the real unemployment rate was around 10 percent. When Sanders...
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Nov 10, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Follow Along with Our @FiscalFactCheck of the #GOPDebate

It's hard to believe that two weeks have already passed by and the next #GOPDebate is upon us. Tonight we will continue to keep the candidates...
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Oct 28, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Launching Fiscal FactCheck & Live-Tweeting the #CNBCGOPDebate

We are pleased to launch the Fiscal FactCheck series, a project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Beginning during tonight’s...
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Oct 23, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: National debt solutions noticeably absent from debates

Senator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...
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Oct 18, 2015 | Blog Paper Press Release | Economics

Will Immigration Reform Increase Annual Wages by $250?

One claim made by former Gov. Martin O' Malley (D-MD) during last night’s debate is that immigration reform will "make wages go up in...
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