This year’s Economic Report of the President cheers 2014 as a “breakthrough year” for the country’s recovery and advocates policies that the administration says will encourage further growth and strengthen the middle class. “The unemployment rate plunged to its lowest…
The 114th Congress convenes today with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate for the first time in President Obama’s presidency, underscoring the importance of bipartisanship in dealing with the nation’s key fiscal challenges. These challenges remain significant, despite the…
A recent Des Moines Register poll shows that Democrats and Republicans have very different opinions on the relative importance of the federal deficit versus unemployment and jobs. Among likely Iowa caucus-goers, 23 percent of Republicans ranked the deficit as the…
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…
