Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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  Social Security, Medicare still face big challenge

  By Tom Raum  |  May 31, 2013

  Some answers should come today when trustees overseeing the two popular programs issue their annual report.

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  Hospitals could lose $500M in federal funds

  By Kelli Kennedy  |  May 14, 2013

  The loss will hit especially hard in states that decided against expanding Medicaid coverage.

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  Witness: Set tougher SSDI procedural rules

  By Allison Bell  |  March 20, 2013

  A former disability judge says claimants with professional representatives should be better prepared.

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  Lew nomination for Treasury sec likely

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  January 9, 2013

  Lew left a $237 billion surplus upon his departure from the Office of Management and Budget in 2001.

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  The Other Paul Ryan Plan: $800B in Medicaid Cuts

  By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press  |  August 27, 2012

  The federal government now accounts for 60% of spending on a program that pays many Americans' nursing home bills.

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  Health Accounts: Witnesses Clash on Value of FSAs, HSAs

  By Allison Bell  |  April 26, 2012

  Van de Water tells a Ways and Means panel that most of the savings go to high-income account users.

• How We Pay Taxes: 11 Charts (The Atlantic)

  By Staff Writer  |  April 18, 2012

  From who pays to knowing where all that money goes, toast the end of tax season with some graphs on taxes.

• Debate of the Century (The Hip-Hop Version)

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  March 7, 2012

  This poetic passage from “Fight of the Century,” a new economics hip-hop music video that kicked off an opening session of the Investment Management Consultants Association, held in New York City in January, encapsulated a key argument of one the session’s two presenters: that claims as to the effectiveness of...

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  Top 10 Hot Topics for the Upcoming NAIC Conference in NOLA

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  February 28, 2012

  Insurance regulatory policy takes shape in the Big Easy this week, and here are things to look for, from ORSA manual and model law development so the U.S. system can meet international solvency and scrutiny standards to that pesky AG 38 issue. Don't get lost!

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  Debate of the Century (The Hip-Hop Version)

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  February 24, 2012

  An economic debate taking the internet by storm counters the insights presented by a speaker at this year's IMCA conference. Who's right and who's wrong? The fate of the economy hangs in the balance!