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Bipartisanship and "Temporary" Payroll Tax Holidays

…would nudge investment from resource-intensive enterprises toward labor-intensive ones. This wouldn’t be just a tax adjustment. It would be an environmental program, an anti-global-warming program, a youth-employment (and anti-crime) program,…

Geithner, Summers, and guiding principles…next week

…transition team office in downtown Washington with Lawrence H. Summers and other senior economic advisers to hash out a new approach that would expand the program’s aid to municipalities, small…

CBO: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security

…the baby boomers become eligible for retirement benefits. Absent legislative changes, spending for the program will therefore climb substantially and exceed the program’s revenues. CBO projects that the 75-year actuarial…

Who is minding this store?

…state the fact that many of those contractors are the technical side of the program management office. The program staff needs government contracting personnel with their warrant, but their warrants…

GAO-08-782T

…procurement with more than $335 billion invested specifically in major defense acquisition programs. Given the size of this investment, poor outcomes in DOD’s weapon system programs reverberate across the entire…

Did Part D Work?

…average effects varies across drugs as predicted by economic theory. Even though they were only using one year’s worth of data—or perhaps because of it—they concluded that the program has…

Tiny Savings in Modest but Important Budgets

…2005, the Food Stamp program will provide approximately $26.3 billion in benefits to 24.9 million people. The Federal Government will provide an additional $4.1 billion for State administrative costs, job…

…mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations. [emphasis mine] I’ve long been painfully amused by the administration’s substitution of “WMD Program”…