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Infrastructure “Payfors” that Won’t Pay For Much

Jul 1, 2021

Earlier this year, The Concord Coalition mused whether fiscal watchdogs should fear bipartisanship. Bipartisanship can mean everybody gets what they want – no trade-offs, no sacrifices, no tough choices – just tax cuts and spending increases for everyone, leaving…

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It’s Infrastructure Week….Again

Jun 17, 2021

Like the boy who cried wolf, the political media has declared this to be “Infrastructure Week” in the halls of Congress…again. The president has been abroad meeting with leaders of NATO, the EU, the G-7 and Russia, but term…

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What’s Up with Falling Birth Rates?

May 14, 2021

Last week the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released provisional birth data for 2020.(1) Most of the media coverage focused on the fact that the number of births (3.6 million) was the lowest since 1979, and the general fertility…

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Census 2020 – Slowest US Population Growth Since Great Depression

Apr 30, 2021

Earlier this week the US Census Bureau released the “Apportionment Results” from the latest decennial census conducted in 2020.[1] These results provide a count of the resident population for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as…

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Biden Goes Big But Questions Remain

Apr 30, 2021

This week, President Biden continued to roll out an ambitious policy agenda with release of the American Families Plan (AFP), described as “an investment in our children and our families.” Major new initiatives in the plan include universal preschool for…

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Vaccines and Stimulus Payments Boost the Domestic Economy

Apr 30, 2021

On Thursday, the Department of Commerce released its preliminary estimate of U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter of 2021. Real GDP grew 1.6 percent over the previous quarter (2020 Q4), fueled by federal stimulus payments and an aggressive…

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Don’t Off The Offsets

Apr 21, 2021

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan is noteworthy for two things. First, it greatly expands the definition of “infrastructure,” and second, it’s eight years of proposed spending is designed to be paid for with increased corporate taxes over 15…

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President Biden’s Ultra-Skinny Budget

Apr 13, 2021

After a one-week delay, on April 9th, the Biden administration finally released a peek at their FY 2022 budget. In it, the president proposes to spend $1.5 trillion on base (regular) discretionary programs next fiscal year, an increase of $118…

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Good Friday is Good for Jobs Data

Apr 2, 2021

On this Good Friday, the March jobs report was indeed good. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs last month, vastly exceeding consensus expectations of 675,000, and almost double the gain of the previous…

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Biden Plans Still Need a Budget

Apr 2, 2021

After enactment of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and the unveiling this week of the roughly $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, it is easy to forget that President Biden hasn’t actually put out a budget. In fact we’re…

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GAO Warns on U.S. Fiscal Health

Mar 25, 2021

For understandable reasons, the focus in Washington over the past year has been on the nation’s physical health, and its resulting consequences for the near-term economy, rather than on our longer-term fiscal health. A new report by the Government Accountability…

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Sequester Redux x2

Mar 25, 2021

Sequestration is making headlines once again in Washington as federal lawmakers work quickly to avoid untimely reductions in Medicare reimbursements to healthcare providers – in the middle of a viral pandemic. And if one sequester wasn’t enough trouble, Congress must…

Blogs

Infrastructure “Payfors” that Won’t Pay For Much

It’s Infrastructure Week….Again

What’s Up with Falling Birth Rates?

Census 2020 – Slowest US Population Growth Since Great Depression

Biden Goes Big But Questions Remain

Vaccines and Stimulus Payments Boost the Domestic Economy

Don’t Off The Offsets

President Biden’s Ultra-Skinny Budget

Good Friday is Good for Jobs Data

Biden Plans Still Need a Budget

GAO Warns on U.S. Fiscal Health

Sequester Redux x2

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