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Clear nonpartisan analysis of fiscal and tax policy enables policymakers and the public to weigh competing theories on how to end the country’s economic crisis. Urban Institute researchers evaluated key components of the stimulus package and analyzed the tax proposals in the president’s budget. Warning decisionmakers about the unsustainable fiscal course ahead, our experts propose ways to control deficits and reform the entitlement programs that drive up spending. Read more.

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Preliminary Revenue Estimate and Distributional Analysis of the Tax Provisions in A Roadmap for America's Future Act 2010 (Research Report)
Joseph Rosenberg

The Roadmap for America's Future Act of 2010 is a detailed reform package that overhauls Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the U.S. federal tax system. In a January 27, 2010, report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzed the spending provisions of the plan. This paper presents the Tax Policy Center's estimates of the revenue and distributional impact of the Roadmap's tax provisions.

Posted to Web: March 09, 2010Publication Date: March 09, 2010

Social Scientists Decipher the Values Underlying the U.S. Social Safety Net (Press Release)
The Urban Institute

Strongly held but conflicting values have shaped the U.S. social safety net and the policy debates since its expansion in the 1960s. A new Urban Institute Press book disentangles these beliefs and shows how they have led to the patchwork of mostly uncoordinated programs the safety net is today.

Posted to Web: March 09, 2010Publication Date: March 09, 2010

Courage to Break Promises that We Can't Afford to Keep (Opinion)
John L. Palmer, Rudolph G. Penner

The chairs of a major study commission on our nation's fiscal future say it's time for political leaders and the electorate to come to grips with the tough choices and votes needed to put the country on a sound economic path.

Posted to Web: March 02, 2010Publication Date: March 02, 2010

Desperately Seeking Revenue (Audio Podcasts / First Tuesdays)
The Urban Institute

The numbers are, simply put, mind numbing. The federal deficit will total $6.7 trillion this decade under current law, the Congressional Budget Office projects. The figure will nearly double to $12.7 trillion if the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are not allowed to sunset as scheduled in 2011 and Congress, once again, "patches" the alternative minimum tax.

Posted to Web: March 02, 2010Publication Date: March 02, 2010

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