
Happy Fiscal New Year 2017! Looking Back and Ahead
While the last minute passage of a continuing resolution avoided a government shutdown, the relief may be only temporary.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2016/10/happy-fiscal-new-year-2017
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While the last minute passage of a continuing resolution avoided a government shutdown, the relief may be only temporary.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2016/10/happy-fiscal-new-year-2017
Projections of federal healthcare spending have improved but are still climbing as a share of the economy.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0200_healthcare_share_econ_proj
Medicaid provides health insurance to low-income Americans. Children make up nearly half of the program’s enrollment, but most spending is directed towards the elderly and disabled.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0093_medicaid_demographics
CBO projects that, on our current path, deficits will reach $1 trillion by 2023 and total $9.4 trillion over the next ten years.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/01/CBO-warns-deficits-will-reach-1-trillion-in-2023
Elderly and disabled beneficiaries make up a majority of Medicaid spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0094_spending_medicaid_beneficiaries
What does reinstating the debt ceiling mean for federal policymaking and the economy?
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/03/the-debt-ceiling-reinstated
The President's budget has a worthy goal of deficit reduction. However the economic assumptions underlying the president’s budget are optimistic.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/05/analysis-of-the-presidents-fy-2018-budget
On our current path, CBO projects that deficits will reach $1.0 trillion by 2022 and total $10.1 trillion over the next ten years.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/06/cbo-unsustainable-deficits-threaten-future-economic-growth
Using its own economic and technical assumptions, CBO finds that the budget would not reach balance in 2027 as the administration projects — but instead the deficit would grow from $693 billion in 2017 to $720 billion in 2027.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/07/cbo-debt-remains-high-under-presidents-budget