Most fiscal reform plans assume that younger workers will pay more of their own retirement costs than previous generations have paid. But Washington already favors older generations in many ways, and younger Americans face a number of financial hurdles and…
President Obama is back home after a diplomatic mission to the Middle East in which he exhorted the Israeli people, particularly young Israelis, to ignore the competing claims of extremists and take the push for peace into their own hands.…
This week the Senate began considering appropriations legislation to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year and prevent a government shutdown. The bill is the result of a compromise reached between Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Barbara Mikulski…
Among budget wonks, there is something of a consensus that the projected upward trajectory of our debt is caused primarily by projected growth in federal health care programs. The short-hand version: The nation’s fiscal challenge is really “just a health…
