The trustees report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services out Monday uses strong language to describe the uncertainty of its predictions in both the short- and long-term for the medical insurance program aimed at America's seniors.

With 48.3 million people covered by Medicare in 2011 -- and...

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is keeping secret the detailed and long-term budget projections and parameters that it uses to forecast the deficit in future years.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

Alan D. Viard, a resident scholar at AEI, reviews the budget outlook, the need for tax reform and the benefits of moving to a progressive consumption tax. He also discusses his forthcoming book, Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited, which he coauthored with Robert Carroll of Ernst & Young. The book will be published by AEI Press in the Spring.

S&P lowered the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+ amidst concerns about the government's budget and the rising debt burden. Does this mean the United States is on the verge of default?

The president’s State of the Union address made no mention of what is purportedly his signature domestic policy achievement: the Affordable Care Act.

The annual Social Security Trustees Reports have projected for several years that the current Social Security program is not sustainable over the long term under scheduled benefits and taxes. But a number of commentators have suggested that the trustees are too pessimistic in their projections, thereby painting an unnecessarily bleak...

This volume assesses the options for a sustainable federal budget and examines how the budget process could be revised to be more farsighted and to hold leaders accountable for responsible stewardship of the nation's fiscal future.