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  • The President’s Budget: Bad for Economic Growth and Bad for Jobs
    April 12, 2013 - In 2010, economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart completed a widely cited study that looked at the historical relationship between public debt and GDP growth and inflation in a variety of advanced and developing countries. The study used data from 44 countries and spanned roughly 200 years. It fou... More
  • The Facts About the President’s Budget
    April 11, 2013 - While there is no dispute that the President’s budget request never achieves balance, the President is making a variety of claims about the amount of deficit reduction that would be achieved if Congress adopted his budget request. As the House Budget Committee has explained before, claims about defi... More
  • The President’s Plan Takes More to Spend More
    April 10, 2013 - Their Budget Never Balances—Ever The House budget balances in ten years, but, like Senate Democrats, the White House says their budget never balances—ever. $8.2 Trillion in New Debt Accounting for the cost of eliminating the sequester and removing the budget gimmicks, net deficit reduction is only ... More
  • A Contrast in Visions
    March 15, 2013 - For the first time since 2009, the Senate Budget Committee met in open session and reported a budget resolution. Their effort this past week reveals why they went so long without a budget. Because they refuse to control spending, their budget imposes massive new tax increases on hardworking families... More
  • A Debt Crisis in America: What It Might Look Like
    February 22, 2013 - Key Facts The federal debt today is over $16.5 trillion. That’s larger than the entire U.S. economy. The government’s debt is set to skyrocket in the years ahead. This debt will cause pain for families today and greater hardship when a debt crisis hits. Once lenders lose confidence in the federal g... More
  • Spending is the Problem
    December 13, 2012 - VIEW AS: PDF JPEG PowerPoint Excel Data President Obama’s most recent budget called for $2 trillion of tax increases on families and job creators. He continues to call for tax increases that are bad for economic growth and bad for jobs. His tax increases won’t expand opportunity for the tens of mil... More
  • President Obama’s Record on Youth Employment
    October 18, 2012 - In the 2008 presidential election, President Obama received overwhelming support from young voters. The past four years has produced the following results and prospects for young Americans: Among 16 to 24-year-olds, the unemployment rate is 15.5%. After adjusting for the decline in the labor force p... More
  • The False Charge of a $5 trillion “tax cut” in the House Republican Budget
    October 3, 2012 - “You can go on their website, look at Congressman Ryan’s budget. The centerpiece of Governor Romney’s entire economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut, a lot of it going to folks like me, a lot of it going to the wealthiest Americans.” – President Barack Obama, August 18, 2012, Rochester, NH. Key P... More
  • Summary of OMB Sequester Transparency Act Report
    September 14, 2012 - On September 14, 2012, over a week after the statutory deadline, the Office of Management and Budget released a report detailing the impacts of the automatic sequester scheduled to take effect on January 2, 2013. The report provides details for the 897 accounts subject to sequester, a description of... More
  • The Arithmetic of the President’s $4 Trillion Deficit Reduction Claim
    September 7, 2012 - Despite claims that the President has a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan, the President’s own budget shows only a $2 trillion reduction in the deficit over 10 years, while the debt increases by $11 trillion. After removing gimmicks and using CBO data, the President’s budget shows only $577 billio... More

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