WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Senators J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth today released an update of a 1994 commission report on entitlement and tax reform and called on Americans -- particularly presidential hopefuls -- to quickly address the nation’s…
Last year saw the slowest growth in national health care spending since 1960, when such data was first recorded, according to a new report by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Spending grew by 3.6 percent,…
Lawmakers are unfortunately focusing on renewing several expired tax provisions, mainly benefiting businesses, without offsetting the lost revenue. Initially, lawmakers were negotiating a much larger deal that would have made several expired provisions permanent while extending many others for one…
Lawmakers are now focusing on extending a series of tax provisions mainly benefiting businesses for one year after a much larger deal that would have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit collapsed last week. (more…)
