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Amid widespread concern about the rapidly rising national debt, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation held its ninth annual “Fiscal Summit” Thursday in Washington to spotlight the risks and challenges that such debt entails. “This year the theme of our fiscal…

The Central States Pension Fund is warning the 400,000 retirees and workers it covers that it will be insolvent by the start of 2025 and is urging them to push Congress to pass legislation to protect their benefits. This warning…

As lawmakers start to move forward on spending legislation for the Fiscal 2019, it seems increasingly likely that they will skip an essential first step in the congressional budget process: Passing a budget resolution. If they skip it, they will…

The United States has earned a dubious distinction, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF): It is the only economically advanced country in the world that plans to dig itself deeper into debt over the next five years. The IMF…

Plans are in the works for a House vote this month on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a project that is hard to take seriously after Congress in recent months has approved large, deficit-financed tax cuts and…

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks across the health care systems of the 10 highest-income countries around the globe to examine what makes our system uniquely inefficient -- spending almost twice as much per…

A new joint congressional committee on the budget process held its first meeting Thursday amid bipartisan hopes that the panel would be able to suggest helpful reforms late this year. Certainly there is room for improvement. Year after year the…

The Trump administration unveiled its long-awaited infrastructure plan with great fanfare last month. While the nation has many infrastructure needs, however, the plan seems to be generating little interest in Washington. It’s not hard to see why. While the administration…