A majority of young Americans do not believe the country is headed in the right direction, and more than a quarter identify economic factors like inflation as their primary concern about our future. [1] Millennials (born 1981 to 1996) are…
The latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ reports released earlier this week appear to contain a modicum of good news. The trust fund exhaustion dates have been delayed a year for Social Security (2035 instead of 2034) and five years…
Last week, Congress enacted the remaining six annual discretionary appropriations bills for FY 2024, finally concluding the “regular” appropriations cycle for the current year (which is already 6 months underway). Combined, this second 6-bill “minibus” (H.R.2882, The Further Consolidated Appropriations…
While appropriators haggled this week over how to fund the government before the next set of deadlines, the two chairmen of the tax writing committees in the House and Senate: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,…
