As this week’s New York Times vignettes from teachers themselves show, school funding debates in states across the country must include an important ... Read more
Programs such as Social Security, Medicare, national defense, and veterans’ benefits could be cut by an average of one-fifth under a constitutional amendment before the House this week to require a balanced budget in every year. Read more
House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte’s proposed constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, which the House will vote on tomorrow, has many serious drawbacks: It ... Read more
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections show that the budget outlook has deteriorated significantly, but that doesn’t justify unwise spending cuts or an ... Read more
The problems with a constitutional balanced budget amendment, which the House will vote on this week, go far beyond the significant economic harm ... Read more
Some congressional Republicans want to force votes to cut (or “rescind”) billions of dollars in non-defense spending from the 2018 government funding bill Congress passed ... Read more
The President has proposed funding cuts and spending requirements in the TANF block grant that will reduce the federal government’s commitment to providing assistance to our country’s poorest families. Read more
The Trump Administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census will not only reduce responses by immigrants and thereby make ... Read more
A balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution would be an unusual and economically dangerous way to address the nation’s long-term fiscal problems. It would ... Read more
