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Political leadership from both parties is needed to take advantage of the window of opportunity that exists in the next few months to achieve a meaningful deficit-reduction plan. That was a common theme last week from federal budget experts, former…

Annual inflation increases are an important part of many government programs, including Social Security. Inflation protection is also provided in many parts of the tax code. But several advocates of fiscal reform – including the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal…

Opening Day for the baseball season has come and gone in Washington but for the budget season it comes on Wednesday, when the President officially unveils his Fiscal Year 2014 proposals. Will he get a hit or be sent back…

LITTLETON, Colo. – Colorado Fiscal Institute Director Carol Hedges, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, and former state legislators Norma Anderson and Penn R. Pfiffner will be among the speakers at a public forum this Saturday on solutions to the nation’s…

Congress received some solid advice from widely respected budget experts at a recent Joint Economic Committee hearing on solving the federal debt crisis. Alice Rivlin, a senior fellow at Brookings and a member of the Campaign to Fix the Debt…

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…

The House and Senate passed budget resolutions with largely partisan votes before leaving for a two-week recess. Resolving the two competing visions of fiscal policy in the weeks ahead will be difficult, though both parties should accept the challenge 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.…