The Politics of Entitlement Reform and the Budget Deficit
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Brookings Institute
11/17/2010
In Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill, director of Budgeting for National Priorities at Brookings, and Greg Anrig, vice president for policy at the Century Foundation, debated the pros and cons of major entitlement reform. On November 17, following the release of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force report, the Budgeting for National Priorities project hosted a reprise of the Sawhill-Anrig debate. A diverse panel of experts offered commentary on the report, as well as broadened the issue to consider whether the new Congress will be able to reach the compromises necessary on revenues and spending to reduce the deficit.
