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Blog | June 2021

Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.

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Jun 9, 2021 | Other Spending

Senate Finance Committee Hearing Highlights Need to Secure Highway Trust Fund

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing last month titled “Funding and Financing Options to Bolster American Infrastructure,” covering the need...

Jun 8, 2021 | Other Spending| Economics

COVID Relief Continues to Bolster Personal Income

New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the month of April shows that disposable personal income (DPI) was 12.0...

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Jun 7, 2021 | Budgets & Projections

Maya MacGuineas: Biden's Budget Reflects His Priorities, but Leaves Debt Unchecked

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an ...

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Jun 4, 2021 | Social Security

Time is Running Out to Save Social Security

Social Security, the nation's largest and arguably most important government program, is only a few years from insolvency. Economists Jeffrey...

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Jun 4, 2021 | Budgets & Projections

Breaking Down the Proposals in the President's FY 2022 Budget

Last week, the Biden Administration released its first full budget, laying out its proposals for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 and the subsequent decade...

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Jun 3, 2021 | Budgets & Projections| Other Spending| Economics

Partial Student Debt Cancellation is Poor Economic Stimulus

Last year, we estimated that fully canceling student debt would produce eight to 23 cents of economic activity for every dollar of cost and...

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Jun 2, 2021 | Other Spending

Bipartisan Senate Highway Bill Needs Offsets

The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill...

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