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Effective Federal Tax Rates
The U.S. tax system is progressive, with higher-income taxpayers facing higher tax rates.
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The U.S. tax system is progressive, with higher-income taxpayers facing higher tax rates.
While the recession has technically ended, our economy is still suffering and far from completely recovered.
NEW YORK — The Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s final Fiscal Confidence Index for 2013 shows that American voters hold deep concerns about the nation’s long-term fiscal health, continuing a consistent 12-month trend.
The Senior Director will engage with a range of research organizations from across the ideological spectrum to initiate new ideas, refine existing ones, and promote the combination of those most likely to address America’s long-term fiscal challenges.
https://www.pgpf.org/about/careers/senior-director-fiscal-policy
Federal trust funds bear little resemblance to their private-sector counterparts.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-explainer-what-are-federal-trust-funds
The national debt has risen dramatically over the past year.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0322_debt_projection_next_year
The growing debt is caused by a structural mismatch between spending and revenues.
Most notable and controversial among the reforms were movements to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, and the full retirement age from 65 to 67 by 2023.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/retirement-reform-in-france-2010
Michael A. Peterson releases a statement about the Congressional Budget Office's long-term budget outlook.
While proposals to raise the retirement age are intended to improve the financial health of the Social Security program, GAO finds that such changes could produce an opposite result, while also having an adverse impact on some of society’s most vulnerable members.