92% of Voters More Likely to Support Candidates Backing a Fiscal Commission
Significant majorities of voters across party lines agree that a commission would strengthen Social Security, lower borrowing costs, and improve our economic outlook.
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Significant majorities of voters across party lines agree that a commission would strengthen Social Security, lower borrowing costs, and improve our economic outlook.
CBO now expects that 3-month interest rates will peak at around 5.3 percent this year and only fall to 3.2 percent by the end of 2025.
Interest rates on U.S. Treasury securities have a significant influence on federal borrowing costs.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/07/higher-interest-rates-could-cause-the-national-debt-to-skyrocket
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Let's take a closer look at a few key characteristics of Treasury borrowing that can affect its budgetary cost.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/08/how-does-the-treasury-issue-debt
Interest rates on Treasury securities are rising faster than most economists anticipated earlier in the year, with potentially serious consequences for the nation’s fiscal position.
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced a decrease in the federal funds rate — the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/10/What-Does-the-Fed-Rate-Cut-Mean-for-the-Economy-and-National-Debt
For the first time in five years, the official poverty rate was higher than it was in the prior year, a result of the pandemic.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/12/poverty-rate-increased-for-the-first-time-in-five-years
These charts illustrate some of the biggest fiscal policy stories from 2017.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/12/ten-charts-that-sum-up-this-year-in-fiscal-news
After a promising decline in recent years, the number of Americans without health insurance is back on the rise.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/02/uninsured-rate-on-the-rise-again-as-nation-deals-with-covid