About half of all U.S. hospitals are designated as “charitable” nonprofit institutions by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Time is running out to save the Social Security retirement trust fund from insolvency in less than six years and ...
Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towards a ...
Today, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the PROMISE Act, legislation to establish a process ...
The Pell Grant program helps low-income students to fund their education by offering them up to $7,395 per year to fund tuition and other expenses. Funding for these grants come mainly from annual ...
With Social Security’s 90 th birthday approaching, The New York Times (NYT) published an article this week alleging “6 myths about it that won’t go away." Unfortunately, the article does more to ...
The Social Security retirement trust fund is now less than six years from insolvency, according to CRFB’s Insolvency Countdown Clock. Without action from policymakers, beneficiaries will face a deep ...
We have published an abbreviated update of this analysis, incorporating additional legislation. We now find the COVID-19 response to be larger than the response to the Great Recession as a percentage ...
We recently estimated that former President Trump and current President Biden approved $8.4 trillion and $4.3 trillion of new ten-year borrowing (or $4.8 trillion and $2.2 trillion excluding various ...
Over the four years of President Biden’s term – from January 2021 through January 2025 – we estimate that he approved $4.7 trillion in new ten-year debt through legislation and executive actions. The ...
Lawmakers recently approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – the third and most expansive package designed to address the public health and economic crisis brought on ...