At this AEI event, Sweden's minister of finance, Anders Borg, will explain Sweden's consolidation efforts, which were based on a mixture of expenditure cuts and tax increases.

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Panelists at this joint American Enterprise Institute and Center for American Progress event will present seven new papers that discuss ways to both improve Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and better monitor the expenditure of Title I funds.

As the president has ramped up into campaign mode, he has studiously avoided mentioning most of his signature accomplishments. One can see why. The one thing President Obama always seems to mention is the auto bailout. His implication that the bailout is succeeding-that it will not ultimately be a loss for taxpayers-is a constant theme of Democrats.

Tax expenditure analysis is founded on the view that some provisions in the tax code are "really" spending. But what if the conventional distinction between "taxes" and "spending" is incoherent to begin with? AEI visiting scholar Daniel Shaviro will argue that this case is correct, but that tax expenditure analysis...

This paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing and shows how to adjust for the capital income bias contained in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.

These recommended changes to Title I--a key provision of No Child Left Behind--could make significant improvements when it comes to what goes on in America’s schools and school systems day-to-day.

The experience of twenty-one countries over thirty-seven years yields a simple truth: cutting spending works, and raising taxes does not.