Budget Battles
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Shocking Health Care Statistic of the Day
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Ready to Rumble: How Pelosi’s Drug Bill Sets Up Dems for 2020
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Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
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Congress Really Wants to Get Something Done on Drug Prices. It May Fail Anyway
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Surprise Deal to Protect Patients From Surprise Medical Bills
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Obamacare Back at the Supreme Court — With Billions for Insurers on the Line
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The Rising Tide of Health Care Costs
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Chart of the Day: Record Low Poverty Rate
By Michael RaineyThe extensive array of government assistance programs — including Social Security, unemployment insurance, veterans’ benefits, nutritional aid, rental assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit —...
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Democrat's New Taxes Wouldn't Hit Just Billionaires
By Michael RaineySome Democratic tax proposals are focused on making millionaires and billionaires pay more, but other households would be affected as well. Neil Irwin of The New York Times points out Tuesday that...
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How Mitt Romney Wants to Save Social Security and Other Trust Funds
By Michael RaineyA bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney introduced legislation Tuesday that would create new congressional committees focused on the fiscal health of federal trust...
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Number of the Day: $23 a Month
By Michael RaineyThe Social Security Administration on Thursday said the cost-of-living adjustment for 2020 would be 1.6%. That translates to a bump of about $23 on the average monthly benefit of $1,460. The 2020...
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The Case for Giving Social Security to Children
By Michael RaineyUS social welfare programs reduced poverty by about two-thirds overall in 2018, according to an analysis of Census data by Matt Bruenig of the left-leaning People’s Policy Project. Bruenig offers a...
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Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Expand Social Security
By Michael Rainey and Yuval RosenbergElizabeth Warren released a plan Thursday to expand Social Security and raise benefit payments. Warren’s plan would: Immediately increase benefit payments by $200 a month. If enacted, Warren’s plan...
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More Progress in Tackling Poverty, but Meager Gains for the Middle Class
The poverty rate fell for the fourth straight year in 2018, dropping to 11.8%, the lowest level since 2001, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. In all, some 38 million people were living in poverty...
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Op-Ed of the Day: Fighting the Next Recession Now
By The Fiscal Times StaffJason Furman, the former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama, has some advice for Congress: Start preparing for the next recession now. In a Wall Street...
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Americans Are Missing Out on Trillions in Social Security
By The Fiscal Times StaffAmericans will lose out on $3.4 trillion in benefits by claiming Social Security too early, according to a new report from United Income, an investment management and financial planning company...
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Growth of US Debt Slows, but Record Levels Still Ahead
By Michael RaineyThe national debt will reach “unprecedented levels” over the next 30 years, according to the new long-term budget outlook released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office. Federal outlays will...
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Chart of the Day: Americans Using Government Programs
The federal welfare program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families delivers cash aid to about 2.5 million people, or less than 1 percent of the U.S. population — “far smaller than the share...
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A Growing Problem for Seniors: Bankruptcy
The New York Times reports on new research that suggests a growing problem for seniors: “The rate of people 65 and older filing for bankruptcy is three times what it was in 1991, the study found, and...
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US Interest Costs Will Match Social Security Spending by 2048, CBO Says
The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday confirmed what we already knew: The U.S. faces a rising tide of red ink, with the national debt as a share of the economy projected to nearly double over...
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Why the Social Security Disability Fund Is Looking Healthier
By Michael RaineyThe Social Security trustees’ report released earlier this month estimated that the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds will run out of reserves in 2032, four years later than expected. The...
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Do Deficit Hawks Have a Snowball’s Chance in Hell in Today’s Politics?
By Michael RaineyWhen Starbucks founder and executive chairman Howard Schultz announced his retirement earlier this week, he set off a round of speculation about a possible presidential run in 2020. Schultz has never...
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