In the past week The Concord Coalition joined with a diverse group of policy experts to release and discuss two new papers as part of our new project on fiscally responsible economic growth. On Thursday, September 19 we released “Promoting…
In a follow-up to the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections, the CBO released a report last week analyzing the effect that select policy alternatives would have on budget deficits and federal debt. CBO also produced an “alternative scenario”…
There are some promising recent developments on health care policy in Congress and in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that are worth highlighting, despite the recent vote in the House of Representatives to eliminate the “Cadillac Tax.”…
We often talk in broad strokes about how “mandatory spending” -- spending that happens automatically based on eligibility criteria set into law by Congress -- is growing as a share of the budget and as a share of GDP in…
