RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Andrew Reamer, September 05, 2008, National Academy of Sciences
In a recent National Academy of Science workshop, Andrew Reamer reviews the array of mandates that Congress has given the White House Office of Management and Budget to maintain data repositories and publish reports on federal expenditures—including grants and contracts—by geography. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, July 02, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Isabel Sawhill presents leading presidential candidates' positions on issues of fiscal responsibility, including: taxes, government programs and budgetary process issues . This chart is part of a series of issue indices to be published during the 2008 presidential election cycle. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan J. Auerbach, Jason Furman and William G. Gale, May 08, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Alan J. Auerbach, Jason Furman and William Gale discuss the most recent Congressional Budget Office baseline projection, and use it to examine the causes of the fiscal decline since 2000 and the medium- and longer-term fiscal outlook. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins, April 07, 2008, The Washington Times
As the baby boomers begin to retire this year, the burden of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will grow relentlessly. With more people in the programs and more expensive benefits, the nation will quickly encounter a budget disaster. Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins say that dramatic reforms are needed to avoid budget chaos for future generations. 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
PAST EVENT
Monday, March 31, 2008
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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
VIDEO
Alice M. Rivlin and Martha Raddatz, March 25, 2008
Paying for Medicare threatens the solvency of the U.S. budget while meeting the needs of the aging Medicare population is a demographic battle. Senior Fellow Alice Rivlin says that, while difficult, our next president must control the costs while maintaining the program.
PAST EVENT
Friday, March 07, 2008
8:30 AM to 4:15 PM
Washington, DC
Panelists at this conference, co-sponsored by Brookings and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, considered why past efforts to contain health costs have failed and how America might achieve cost-sensitive health care reform in the future. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag offered remarks. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and David Jackson, February 04, 2008, The Hartford Courant
Though Washington is abuzz with talk of a short-term stimulus for the economy, very little is being said about the long-term challenges to American prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eloise Pasachoff, January 2008, CCF Working Paper
In a CCF working paper, Eloise Pasachoff argues that the federal government has an important role to ensure equal educational opportunity for all. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube, January 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution
The economic stimulus package before Congress may provide temporary relief in the short-term, but, ultimately, bolstering America’s long-term economic growth depends on the “three Is”- innovation, intellect, and infrastructure. Alan Berube, research director and fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings discusses America’s major metropolitan areas hold the key to economic health for the long haul. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Thomas E. Mann, Brian Riedl and Philip Joyce, December 11, 2007, The Diane Rehm Show
Efforts to pass a massive compromise federal spending bill collapsed Monday. Brookings senior fellow Thomas E. Mann appeared on The Diane Rehm show with Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation and Philip Joyce of George Washington University to discuss federal budget battles. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Andrew Reamer, October 22, 2007, The Brookings Institution
At a meeting of the National Grants Partnership, Andrew Reamer reviews the array of mandates that Congress has given the White House Office of Management and Budget to maintain data repositories and publish reports on federal expenditures—including grants and contracts—by geography. He identifies eight core mandates and discusses the current, and troubled, status of each.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, October 17, 2007, Child Trends Annual Kristin Anderson Moore Lecture
In the first annual Kristin Anderson Moore lecture for Child Trends, Isabel Sawhill discusses how future generations will have to deal with the challenges of globalization and low savings rates, and emphasizes the need for higher education and fiscal responsibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Henry J. Aaron, October 03, 2007, The House Committee on Veterans Affairs
Testimony by Henry J. Aaron (10/03/07) Read More