2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997-1990 Two Tax Cuts Primarily Benefiting Millionaires Will Start Taking Effect January 1; Congress Declines to Rethink These Tax Cuts As It Proposes to Cut Aid to Low-Income Families Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman, and Aviva Aron-Dine 12/28/05 HTML, PDF, 5pp. Congressional Leaders Misrepresent Why Energy Assistance Funds Were Stripped In Senate: Hastert, Santorum, Gregg, Grassley Make Incorrect Statements Robert Greenstein 12/23/05 HTML, PDF, 2pp. Press Release: Congressional Leaders Drop Extra Low-Income Energy Assistance: Move Is Unnecessary and Means Poor Will Receive No Extra Help Against High Home Heating Costs This Winter 12/22/05 HTML, PDF, 2pp. Senate Cuts LIHEAP Funding: Despite Claims, There Is No Legitimate Connection Between ANWR and LIHEAP James Horney 12/22/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. Budget Agreement Likely To Discourage Charitable Giving By Seniors Judith Solomon 12/21/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. Conference Agreement Imposes Expensive New TANF Requirements On States And Will Result In Loss Of Child Care For Working Poor Sharon Parrott Revised 12/19/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. Budget Conference Agreement Contains Substantial Cuts Aimed at Low-income Families and Individuals Edwin Park, Sharon Parrott, and Robert Greenstein 12/18/05 HTML, PDF, 5pp. CBPP Statement: House Leadership Seeks To Invoke "Martial Law," Forcing Members To Vote On Key Budget Bills Without Full Knowledge Of What They Are Voting On: Move Represents Erosion of the Democratic Process Robert Greenstein 12/18/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. New Bush Administration Decision Makes States Base Food Stamp Benefit Levels For This Winter On Last Year’s Heating Costs: Increased Hardship Likely To Result Dottie Rosenbaum and Stacy Dean 12/14/05 Full Report: HTML, PDF, 5pp. Press Release: HTML, PDF, 2pp. Funding for Home Heating in Reconciliation Bill? Right Idea, Wrong Vehicle Aviva Aron-Dine and Martha Coven Revised 12/14/05 Full Report: HTML, PDF, 6pp. Press Release: HTML, PDF, 2pp. Medicaid Provisions of House Reconciliation Bill Both Harmful and Unnecessary Senate Bill Achieves Larger Savings Without Reducing Access to Care Victoria Wachino, Leighton Ku, Edwin Park, and Judith Solomon 12/9/05 HTML, PDF, 18pp House Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Harm People With Disabilities Eileen Sweeney and Sharon Parrott 12/8/05 HTML, PDF, 7pp. Have Domestic Appropriations Exploded? Claims Of Runaway Costs Not Supported By The Data; Growth In Defense Funding Far Outpaces Domestic Funding Growth Richard Kogan, Katharine Richards and Robert Greenstein 12/8/05 HTML, PDF, 8pp. What Would Across-The-Board Cuts Mean For Domestic Appropriations? Arloc Sherman and Richard Kogan 12/8/05 HTML, PDF, 28pp. Key Questions for Judging the Outcome of House-Senate Reconciliation Negotiations Isaac Shapiro, Sharon Parrott, and Robert Greenstein 12/8/05 HTML, PDF, 12pp. More House Tax Cuts, Total to Exceed $90 Billion Joel Friedman 12/7/05 HTML, PDF, 2pp. Out in the Cold: How Much LIHEAP Funding Will Be Needed to Protect Beneficiaries from Rising Energy Prices? Richard Kogan and Aviva Aron-Dine Revised 12/7/05 Full Report: HTML, PDF, 10pp. Press Release: HTML, PDF, 2pp. House Reconciliation Bill Targets Food Stamp Program For Cuts Dorothy Rosenbaum, Stacy Dean, and Zoë Neuberger Revised 12/6/05 HTML, PDF, 12pp. Cuts In House Budget Bill Aimed At Low-Income Families Reduced By Only 2%; Other 98% Of Cuts Remain Changes Made Before the Vote Were Very Small Robert Greenstein and Sharon Parrott Revised 12/5/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. CBO Information Shows Passed House Budget Bill Would Hit the Poor Hard Robert Greenstein, Sharon Parrott, and Isaac Shapiro Revised 12/5/05 24K-HTML, 41K-PDF, 2pp. House Budget Reconciliation Bill Includes Highly Flawed TANF Provisions That Have Repeatedly Failed To Garner Support Sharon Parrott Revised 11/30/05 HTML, PDF, 14pp. House Reconciliation Bill Targets Key Low-Income Programs In Ways And Means Committee’s Jurisdiction Sharon Parrott Revised 11/30/05 48K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 11pp. A Brief Guide to TANF Reauthorization Issues in 2005 Revised 11/29/05 Summary: 6K-HTML Full Report: 25K-PDF, 4pp. Senate and House Reconciliation Tax-Cut Packages Flawed Joel Friedman Revised 11/29/05 48K-HTML, 85K-PDF, 5pp. The House Reconciliation Bill’s Provisions On Medicaid Co-Payments and Premiums: Are They Mild or Harsh? Leighton Ku, Vikki Wachino and Robert Greenstein Revised 11/22/05 32K-HTML, 97K-PDF, 7pp. Congressional Budget Office Estimates Reveal Severity of Medicaid Cuts in House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Edwin Park Revised 11/22/05 HTML, PDF, 4pp. President Bush Embraces House Budget: Official "Statement Of Administration Policy" Raises No Concerns About Cuts In Programs For Low-Income Families 11/18/05 HTML, PDF, 2pp. The House Reconciliation Bill’s Provisions On Medicaid Co-Payments and Premiums: Are They Mild or Harsh? Leighton Ku, Vikki Wachino and Robert Greenstein Revised 11/14/05 32K-HTML, 97K-PDF, 7pp. House Agriculture Committee Reconciliation Package Targets Food Stamp Program for Cuts 11/10/05 14K-HTML, 43K-PDF, 2pp. Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families: More Than Six Million Children on Medicaid Could be Subject to Dramatically Higher Premiums and Cost-Sharing Under the House Budget Bill Cindy Mann and Jocelyn Guyer 11/10/05 238K-PDF, 3pp. Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families: House Budget Bill Would Eliminate All Current Federal Medicaid Benefit Standards for Six Million Children and Other Vulnerable People Cindy Mann and Jocelyn Guyer 11/10/05 256K-PDF, 3pp. House Agriculture Committee Reconciliation Package Targets Food Stamp Program for Cuts Stacy Dean and Dorothy Rosenbaum Revised 11/8/05 35K-HTML, 44K-PDF, 7pp. House Budget Bill Undermines Goals of Promoting Work and Responsibility Sharon Parrott Revised 11/8/05 26K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 2pp. Unshared Sacrifice: Who’s Hurt, Who’s Helped, and What’s Spared Under the Emerging House Budget Reconciliation Plan Sharon Parrott and Isaac Shapiro Revised 11/2/05 44K-HTML, 75K-PDF, 9pp. Fact Sheet: 46K-HTML, 10K-PDF, 1pp. Ways and Means Reconciliation Package Targets Key Low-Income Programs Sharon Parrott Revised 11/2/05 48K-HTML, 35K-PDF, 11pp. Health Opportunity Accounts for Low-Income Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Risky Approach Edwin Park and Judith Solomon Revised 11/1/05 48K-HTML, 58K-PDF, 8pp. What Are the Effects of Cutting Domestic Appropriations Another Two Percent? Richard Kogan, Arloc Sherman, and Bradley Hardy 10/31/05 44K-HTML, 165K-PDF, 33pp. State-by-State Tables: 50K-PDF, 22pp. Energy and Commerce Committee Bill Imposes New Costs On Low-Income Medicaid Beneficiaries Victoria Wachino 10/28/05 23K-HTML, 80K-PDF, 4pp. Cost-Sharing Provisions in the Energy and Commerce Medicaid Proposal: Key Issues for Children and Families Jocelyn Guyer and Cindy Mann Revised 10/27/05 188K-PDF, 4pp. Ways and Means Committee Proposes Deep Cuts in Child Support Funding Vicki Turetsky 10/25/05 35K-PDF, 4pp. Larger Reconciliation Cuts in the House Would Put Low-Income Programs at Greater Risk James Horney, Robert Greenstein, and Sharon Parrott Revised 10/24/05 45K-HTML, 63K-PDF, 8pp. Impact Of Additional Entitlement Cuts: A State-By-State Analysis Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman 10/21/05 145K-HTML, 51K-PDF, 4pp. Out in the Cold: How Much LIHEAP Funding Will Be Needed to Protect Beneficiaries from Rising Energy Prices? Richard Kogan and Aviva Aron-Dine Revised 10/20/05 Full Report: HTML, PDF, 10pp. Press Release: HTML, PDF, 2pp. Critical Choices: Will Congress Secure Health Care Savings by Targeting “Weak Claims” or “Weak Clients”? Sharron Parrot 10/12/05 63K-HTML, 92K-PDF, 13pp. Adopting MedPAC Recommendations to Reduce Excessive Medicare Managed Care Plan Payments Could Yield Large Budget Reconciliation Savings Edwin Park 10/12/05 HTML, PDF, 6pp. Getting Serious About Deficits? Calls To Offset Hurricane Spending Miss The Point; Balanced Set Of First Steps Toward Fiscal Discipline Needed Robert Greenstein 10/6/05 HTML, PDF, 11pp. The House Republican Study Committee's Proposals to Offset the Costs of Hurricane Relief James Horney and Robert Greenstein 10/5/05 HTML, PDF, 15pp. CBPP Statement: Statement by Robert Greenstein on Proposed Katrina-Relief Budget Package Presented by Republican Study Committee 9/21/05 HTML, PDF, 1pp. What the New CBO Report Finds About Social Security "Grow Accounts" Jason Furman 9/21/05 HTML, PDF, 3pp. Another Round of Economic Stimulus? Hurricane Reconstruction and Relief is the Right Medicine Richard Kogan and Aviva Aron-Dine 9/20/05 HTML, PDF, 6pp. Katrina Relief and Federal Spending and Deficits Jim Horney, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan Revised 9/19/05 13K-HTML, 51K-PDF, 2pp. Reconciliation Bills Would Increase the Deficit and Favor the Well-Off James Horney 9/8/05 45-HTML, 52-PDF, 6pp. CBPP Statement: Statement of Robert Greenstein on Challenges Facing Congress and the Nation in the Wake of the Devastation of Hurricane Katrina 9/6/05 10K-HTML, 50K-PDF, 2pp. What The New CBO Report Shows: Budget And Economic Outlook Has Not Improved James Horney, Richard Kogan 8/16/05 46K-HTML, 140K-PDF, 7pp. Revenue Collections In 2005: What Does The Recent Increase In Revenues Signify? Richard Kogan and Isaac Shapiro Revised 8/16/05 43K-HTML, 54K-PDF, 6pp. CBPP Statement: CBO Sees Essentially No Improvement in Outlook For the Future James Horney 8/15/05 8K-HTML, 40K-PDF, 1pp. The Impact of The President's Proposal On Social Security Solvency And The Budget James Horney and Richard Kogan Revised 8/2/05 Summary: 17K-HTML, 78K-PDF Full Report: 209K-PDF, 44pp. OMB’s Mid-Session Review: Does an Increase in Revenues this Year Really Mean Future Deficits are Under Control? James Horney and Richard Kogan 7/13/05 27K-HTML, 56K-PDF, 5pp. The Impact of The President's Proposal On Social Security Solvency And The Budget Jason Furman 5/10/05 74K-HTML, 63K-PDF, 10pp. Assessing the Conference Agreement on the Budget Resolution James Horney Revised 5/6/05 27K-HTML, 55K-PDF, 5pp Despite Claims By Its Supporters, Congressional Budget Plan Increases The Deficit James Horney 4/29/05 21K-HTML, 43K-PDF, 3pp. CBPP Statement: Statement by Robert Greenstein Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, on the Budget Resolution Conference Agreement Revised 4/28/05 8K-HTML, 40K-PDF, 1pp. House Budget Resolution Would Require Much Deeper Cuts In Key Low-Income Programs Than Senate Budget Plan Sharon Parrott, Arloc Sherman, and Bradley Hardy Revised 4/7/05 Full Report: 800K-HTML, 119K-PDF, 21pp. Press Release: 19K-HTML, 56K-PDF, 3pp. Appendix: HTML State Data: HTML Assessing The Budget Proposal Adopted By The Senate James Horney, Joel Friedman, Richard Kogan, and Isaac Shapiro Revised 4/1/05 27K-HTML, 60K-PDF, 5pp. Element of Medicare Trustees' Report Could Spell Trouble For Beneficiaries In Future Years Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, Edwin Park Revised 3/31/05 36K-HTML, 66K-PDF, 7pp. With Bunning Amendment, Senate Budget Would Move Up Medicare Insolvency By Four Years and Increase Deficits By More Than $200 Billion Robert Greenstein Revised 3/25/05 27K-HTML, 50K-PDF, 4pp. New Enforcement Mechanism In Senate Budget Plan Would Favor Tax Breaks And Distort Policy Debates James Horney 3/22/05 14K-HTML, 44K-PDF, 2pp. What the President’s Budget Shows About the Administration’s Priorities James Horney, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan Revised 3/18/05 55K-HTML, 49K-PDF, 9pp. Assessing the Budget Plan Approved By the House of Representatives Richard Kogan, Joel Friedman, James Horney, and Isaac Shapiro Revised 3/18/05 19K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 3pp. House Budget Resolution Cuts Key Low-Income Programs: Yet Budget Finds Room For Further Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Sharon Parrott and Isaac Shapiro Revised 3/18/05 171K-HTML, 66K-PDF, 8pp. Press Release: 17K-HTML, 71K-PDF, 4pp. Appendix with State Data: HTML The Senate's Cuts in Medicaid and SCHIP Substantially Exceed Those the Administration Proposed Victoria Wachino Revised 3/14/05 12K-HTML, 24K-PDF, 2pp. The House Budget Committee's Proposed Medicaid and SCHIP Cuts Are Larger Than Those the Administration Proposed Victoria Wachino Revised 3/10/05 13K-HTML, 24K-PDF, 2pp. CBO Finds the President’s Budget Would Increase Deficits by $1.6 Trillion Over Ten Years James Horney 3/8/05 87K-HTML, 29K-PDF, 3pp. Administration’s Budget Proposes To Cut the Food Stamp Program Stacy Dean 3/4/05 30K-HTML, 25K-PDF, 4pp. Would An Entitlement Cap Be A Wise Idea? Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, Sharon Parrott, and James Horney 3/2/05 64K-HTML, 41K-PDF, 6pp. Assessing The Administration's Five-Year Appropriation "Caps": Administration's Five-Year Caps On Appropriations Would Lead To Substantial Reductions In Important Domestic Programs James Horney and Richard Kogan Revised 3/1/05 83K-HTML, 68K-PDF, 8pp. Where Would The Cuts Be Made Under The President's Budget? An Analysis Of Reductions In Education, Human Services, Environment, And Community Development Programs Sharon Parrott, Jim Horney, Isaac Shapiro, Ruth Carlitz, Bradley Hardy, and David Kamin Revised 2/28/05 Press Release: 16K-HTML, 47K-PDF, 3pp. Report: 74K-HTML, 94K-PDF, 16pp. State-by-State Tables: 408K-PDF, 26pp. Report with State-by-State Tables: 502K-PDF, 42pp. Local Effects Of Voucher Funding Shortfalls Barbara Sard, Peter Lawrence, and Will Fischer 2/18/05 Report: 23K-HTML, 30K-PDF, 4pp. Appendix: 25K-HTML, 33K-PDF, 5pp. Press Release: 16K-HTML, 25K-PDF, 2pp. State-by-State Links to Local Data Medicaid Budget Proposals Would Shift Costs To States And Be Likely To Cause Reductions In Health Coverage: Administration’s Proposal Also Implies Cap On Federal Funding Victoria Wachino, Andy Schneider and Leighton Ku 2/18/05 131K-HTML, 61K-PDF, 11pp. Unpublished Administration Budget Documents Show Domestic Cuts Would Significantly Reduce Funding For Most Public Services Sharon Parrott, Isaac Shapiro, David Kamin, and Ruth Carlitz Revised 2/14/05 77K-HTML, 45K-PDF, 7pp. Quick Overview: Assessing President Bush’s New Budget Proposal Robert Greenstein, James Horney and Isaac Shapiro Revised 2/14/05 14K-HTML, 23K-PDF, 2pp. Administration Proposals To Change Budget Process Have Strong Ideological Cast: Proposals Would Skew Policy Debates, Exempt Tax Cuts From Fiscal Discipline Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein Revised 2/9/05 21K-HTML, 30K-PDF, 4pp. Two Tax Cuts That Benefit Only High-Income Households —Primarily Millionaires — Slated To Start Taking Effect In 2006: Will These Tax Cuts Be Implemented While Basic Programs For The Working Poor And Other Families Are Cut? by Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman, and Isaac Shapiro Revised 2/9/05 35K-HTML, 37K-PDF, 5pp. Cuts to Low-Income Programs May Far Exceed the Contribution of These Programs to Deficit’s Return Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein 2/4/05 Press Release: 22K-HTML, 32K-PDF, 4pp. Full Report: 169K-HTML, 258K-PDF, 26pp. CBO Data Show Tax Cuts Have Played Much Larger Role Than Domestic Spending Increases In Fueling The Deficit Ruth Carlitz Revised 1/31/05 13K-HTML, 28K-PDF, 2pp. "A Broken Federal Fiscal Policy…and How to Fix It" Robert Greenstein and Peter Orszag 140K-PDF, 24pp. The Simple Story: Tax Cuts Lose Revenues Richard Kogan 1/25/05 13K-HTML, 28K-PDF, 2pp. Apparent Improvement In CBO's January Budget Projections Is Largely Artificial Richard Kogan 1/24/05 13K-HTML, 27K-PDF, 2pp. President Portrays Social Security Shortfall As Enormous, But His Tax Cuts And Drug Benefit Will Cost At Least Five Times As Much Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein Revised 1/10/05 27K-HTML, 42K-PDF, 5pp.