Apr 30, 2013 | Health Care
Brookings's Framework to Bend the Health Care Curve
Yesterday, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings released a new report on reducing health care costs called "Bending the...
Blog | April 2013
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Apr 30, 2013 | Social Security
Marc Goldwein and Ed Lorenzen: Measuring Inflation Right is Both Fair and Accurate
In the past, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made adjustments to the Consumer Price Index without much controversy. But due to the method of...
Education Reforms in A Bipartisan Path Forward
Although most discussion of Erskine Bowles' and Al Simpson's Bipartisan Path Forward has focussed on its health and tax reforms, the plan also...
Apr 30, 2013
Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Confidence Index More Cause for Action
Today is the last day of April, and Peter G. Peterson Foundation has released the latest result of its Fiscal Confidence Index. The Fiscal Confidence...
Apr 29, 2013 | Social Security
An Update on Our Chained CPI Resources
With the chained CPI becoming a frequent topic among commentators, CRFB has put together a great deal of new analysis, which may be helpful in...
Discretionary Savings in the Bipartisan Path Forward
Over the past few years, lawmakers have made the most progress in discretionary spending in the deficit reduction effort. Additional opportunities...
Apr 29, 2013 | Budgets & Projections
Budget Enforcement Provisions in the Bipartisan Path Forward
As we have written before, key elements of the Bipartisan Path Forward focus on reducing the debt as a percentage of GDP over the long term. ...
Apr 29, 2013 | Budgets & Projections
MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson
Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), the two former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, have spent the last two and a half year...
Apr 26, 2013 | Social Security
Fact Checking the Harkin Resolution
This week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced a concurring resolution that would establish a sense of Congress that chained CPI should not be used...
How Simpson and Bowles Protect the Disadvantaged
Among the principles outlined by former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Senator Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles in their new plan A Bipartisan Path Forward...