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This week on Off the Charts, we focused on the federal budget and taxes, state budgets and taxes, the safety net, and health reform.
This week, we released our paper on why balancing the budget in ten years and with no new revenues are flawed goals. We updated our papers showing that low-income programs are not driving the nation’s long-term fiscal problems and that program spending outside Social Security and Medicare is already low in historical terms and is projected to fall further. We also updated our backgrounders on where our federal tax dollars go, where our federal tax revenues come from, federal tax expenditures, the legacy of the Great Recession, how many weeks of unemployment compensation are available, and Social Security Disability Insurance.
CBPP’s Chart of the Week – From Paul Van de Water’s blog post on Disability Insurance:
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A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts recently. Here are some highlights:
Can working families still afford UNC?
The News & Observer
March 10, 2015
Will Friday's Jobs Report Force Janet Yellen's Hand?
The Fiscal Times
March 6, 2015
States Are Slashing College Budgets and Raising Tuition
Bloomberg
March 5, 2015
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