Anyone familiar with the federal budget outlook knows that, along with interest on the national debt, the growing cost of health benefit programs is the main driver of long-term budget deficits. According to the CBO, the cost of Medicare, Medicaid,…
It seems that immigration is never out of the news these days. There is of course the crisis triggered by the surge in asylum seekers arriving at the southern border. There is the backlog of refugee applications. And there is…
It is increasingly clear that the U.S. is not going to get the V-shaped recovery many economists predicted when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a substantial shutdown of the economy in March. While there were some hopeful signs in May and…
This op-ed by Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby argues that both the tax bill passed Thursday by the House and legislation under consideration in the Senate fall short of true reform. The column originally appeared this week in…