The Social Security system continues to face an immense financial crisis.2 In 16 years, it will begin taking in less money than it needs to pay the benefits it has promised to participants.3 In order to maintain the benefit payments from the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program,… Read more

The interim report of President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security clearly identifies the enormous financial problems facing Social Security.2 Without significant changes in the way the program is financed, substantial tax increases, benefit reductions, cuts in other government programs, or increases in publicly held debt will have to occur. According to… Read more

The time has come to modernize the 63-year-old Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) to meet the realities of the 21st century workplace. The focus of reform must go beyond conventional deliberations about raising the minimum wage. Policymakers should concentrate on removing outdated and counterproductive statutory and regulatory barriers to innovative workplace compensation plans that benefit… Read more

A Note to the Reader This Report is a revised version of Center for Data Analysis Report CDA01?01 published on February 22, 2001. The final results of the authors? analysis of the Bush tax plan presented in this Report reflect revisions to the static revenue estimates used… Read more

The tax and budget plans by Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush represent two different approaches to governing. The Gore plan proposes to increase the size and scope of federal spending while providing relatively small and targeted tax cuts. The Bush plan proposes a smaller and more limited increase in… Read more