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Topic: U.S. Congressional Budget Office

Analysts say number of uninsured Americans to grow

AP News | 573 days ago

Without changes, ranks of uninsured to grow substantially over next decade

Without changes in federal policy, the number of Americans without health insurance will grow from about 45 million this year to about 54 million in 2019, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. Driving the increase will be health insurance premiums that rise faster than incomes. The CBO says premiums ...

What a Second Stimulus Should - and Shouldn't - Look Like

Huffington Post | 8 hours ago

Recounting the findings of a new study by the Keystone Research Center, the Denver Business Journal reports that "the unemployment rate would...

Almost Half Of All Americans Use Prescription Drugs Each Month

Medical News Today | 20 hours ago

Nearly half of all Americans used at least one prescription drug per month in 2008, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and...

Labor pains in Labor Day

Bemidji Pioneer | 22 hours ago

For most Americans, the Labor Day weekend will be a welcome reprieve from the 9-to-5 grind. But for nearly 15 million Americans, the day is little ...

[Mark Weisbrot] Congress must quickly pass a new stimulus

Korea Herald | yesterday

This is the worst Labor Day for American labor in decades, maybe since the Great Depression. Unemployment, as of July, was at 9.5 percent, and if...

Why we need a second stimulus

Boulder Daily Camera | yesterday

Our national debate about fiscal policy has become skewed, with far too much focus on the deficit and far too little on unemployment. There is too...

Repeal the health care law

Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota | 2 days ago

Let's take a trip back to 1988, when Congress enacted the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act to expand benefits for seniors. Unlike ObamaCare, it...

Boehner's runaway deficit spending plan

Daily Kos | 5 days ago

And here I thought Republicans actually cared about the deficit! An analysis by NDN shows otherwise: The Fiscal Impact of the Boehner Plan 1. Fully...

Budget analysts see 2010 deficit at $1.3 trillion

AP News | 18 days ago

Congressional budget analysts see 2010 deficit exceeding $1.3 trillion, just below 2009 totalCongress' budget analysts are estimating that this year's federal deficit will exceed $1.3 trillion, slightly below last year's total but still a huge ocean of re

CBO says climate bill would cut deficit by $19B

AP News | 61 days ago

Congressional Budget Office says Senate climate bill would cut deficit by $19B over 10 yearsCongressional budget experts say a climate and energy bill now stalled in the Senate would reduce the federal deficit by about $19 billion over the next decade, a

House votes for $30B small business lending fund

AP News | 81 days ago

House passes bill to increase lending by small banks as Senate defeats GOP jobless aid billA $30 billion government fund would be available to community banks to increase lending to small businesses under a bill passed by the House Thursday as congression