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The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) launched its Personal Savings Initiative at a press conference Wednesday featuring former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Jim Lockhart, former deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration.Lockhart and Conrad will chair an…

With dozens of Colorado residents assembled last week for “Principles and Priorities,” a federal budget exercise developed by The Concord Coalition, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis promised to take the results back to Washington."I will learn from your work," the Colorado…

Although the federal deficit has dropped significantly since the four-year string of trillion-dollar-plus shortfalls that began in 2009, under current law the deficits will start rising again soon.Sara Imhof, Midwest field director for The Concord Coalition, and Loren Adler, research…

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently projected that federal deficits under President Obama’s budget plan would total $6.6 trillion in the coming decade, a trillion dollars less than under current law.Under the President’s policies, CBO said, deficits this year and…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its fourth annual report detailing specific ways in which Congress and federal agencies can improve efficiency by reducing fragmentation, overlap and duplication.Politicians too often vaguely suggest that eliminating waste, fraud and abuse can…

A promising bipartisan proposal in the House would help lawmakers better assess the long-term benefits and costs of legislation they are considering.The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) typically projects the fiscal impact of legislation over 10 years. The Long-Term SCORE Act,…

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new projections Monday that show the federal deficit dropping to 2.8 percent of GDP in this fiscal year, nearly a third less than last year’s shortfall. Citizens and elected officials should remember, however, that…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week announced increases of about 0.4 percent in 2015 government payment levels for private insurance plans that some seniors use instead of traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare.Joshua Gordon, policy director for The Concord…