FISCAL BLOG

The decline in purchasing power has important implications for the federal budget and our nation's infrastructure.

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The pandemic has caused a public health crisis as well as substantial economic disruption. So far, lawmakers have enacted six separate pieces of legislation.

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Three sets of stimulus checks have been issued to eligible recipients as part of the pandemic relief. Each set of payments have been slightly different.

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The report highlights the structural misalignment in the country’s budget and the resulting unsustainable fiscal trajectory.

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Setting a higher minimum wage would affect family incomes in a variety of ways, including increasing earnings for most low-wage workers and lifting some families out of poverty.

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After a promising decline in recent years, the number of Americans without health insurance is back on the rise.

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The debt growing to double the size of GDP is, in many respects, a symbolic milestone — but it is a clear indicator of the monumentally unsustainable path of our fiscal trajectory.

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The CBO released new baseline projections today, which show that the nation will face daunting fiscal challenges over the next decade resulting from the existing structural mismatch between revenues and outlays as well as the enormous amount of borrowing necessary to address the pandemic and its economic effects.

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As of January 29, 2021, the Department of the Treasury disbursed over $34 billion of the total $48 billion allocated to air carriers through the PSP1 and PSP2.

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As lawmakers continue to explore policies to help the nation recover from the economic damage caused by the pandemic, a key part of the discussion is how stimulus checks should be structured and targeted for maximum effectiveness. Looking at recent spending and saving trends offers some clues.

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Solutions Initiative 2024

Seven think tanks from across the ideological spectrum all agree that we are on an unsustainable fiscal path, and we need to change course.

National Debt Clock

See the latest numbers and learn more about the causes of our high and rising debt.