Budget deficits have declined sharply in recent years, down from about 10 percent of the U.S. economy in fiscal 2009, to a projected 3.2 percent in 2015.
Please mark your calendars and join us for an engaging discussion on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.
A balanced budget amendment was, is, and will remain a really, really bad idea.
The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
Senate Republicans are aiming to cut federal spending on social services while increasing the budget by at least $346 billion over the next four years ($86.5 billion annually) to fund the Pentagon and a disastrous and cruel mass deportation plan. Policymakers must step up to help struggling families, not tear families apart while enriching corporations and billionaires at the expense of working people.
