Washington is starting Fiscal 2015 with “no budget, no decisions on how to spend taxpayer money wisely and no credible plan to avoid adding trillions of dollars to the federal debt in the coming decade.”That troubling critique came in a…
U.S. military leaders recently announced they would ask Congress for more funding to combat the terrorist organization ISIS, a reminder of how unexpected developments can make continuing efforts to restrain defense spending more difficult.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently said the…
A new report says many patients are not receiving the care they want in the final stages of their lives and are undergoing costly and unnecessary tests, procedures and hospital visits.Commissioned by the Institute of Medicine, which provides information on…
In recent years the U.S. government increased its debt more sharply than most other large, wealthy countries did. The non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) warns in a new report that the federal government’s “unsustainable long-term debt trajectory” threatens future…
