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Premiums for employment-based health insurance this year will average about $6,400 for single coverage and $15,500 for family coverage, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation. In a new report, the CBO…

House Speaker Paul Ryan is urging Republican lawmakers to respect the 2017 spending levels set in last fall’s budget deal, but continuing opposition from some conservatives has raised the possibility that Congress might not pass a budget resolution this year.…

With the presidential primary season underway, voters should ask themselves which candidates are offering credible solutions to deal with the nation’s difficult fiscal challenges. “Whoever becomes the next president will face an unsustainable rise in the debt that threatens to…

The administration unveiled a proposed budget Tuesday that would lower projected deficits and keep the debt stable as a share of the economy over the next 10 years. But the plan has no chance of winning approval from a Republican…

In its spending bill for Fiscal 2016, Congress seemed to acknowledge that medical research had been cut too deeply for over a decade. The legislation will boost that funding in the coming months. “But without reforms to address the basic…

Voters are hearing promises of big tax cuts from the Republican presidential candidates and big spending increases from the Democrats. But Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby points out that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week released…

On the campaign trail, voters are hearing promises of big tax cuts from the Republican presidential candidates and of big spending increases from the Democrats. Meanwhile, back in Washington last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new…

WASHINGTON -- A new assessment of 2016 presidential candidates by First Budget, a joint initiative of the Campaign to Fix the Debt and The Concord Coalition, finds that while all candidates in both parties say the rapidly growing national debt…