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Debt and Deficit

Budget deficits have declined sharply in recent years, down from about 10 percent of the U.S. economy in fiscal 2009, to a projected 3.2 percent in 2015.

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Open Community Forum this Friday

Nora Ranney |

Please mark your calendars and join us for an engaging discussion on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.

Balanced Budget Amendment: Three Reasons It’s A Colossally Bad Idea

Lindsay Koshgarian |

A balanced budget amendment was, is, and will remain a really, really bad idea.

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Recent Publications

10 Terrible Ways the GOP Budget Causes Harm

Lindsay Koshgarian

The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.

Trump & GOP Stack the Deck Against Struggling Americans to Build a War and Mass Deportation Machine

Hanna Homestead

The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.

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