Budget and Spending

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Federal spending has grown rapidly over the last decade, leading to substantial budget deficits that have crippled the economy and financially harmed Americans.

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The Road to Inflation: How an Unprecedented Federal Spending Spree Created Economic Turmoil

Sep 21, 2023 Over an hour read

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BACKGROUNDER

Funding Leftism: The Biden’s Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

Apr 18, 2024 30 min read

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David Ditch

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Commentary

Pay college athletes on the open market Salim Furth, Ph.D.

Apr 18, 2014 2 min read

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Who Shrank the Deficit? Stephen Moore

Apr 17, 2014 3 min read

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Wasteful Spending Continues Despite an ‘Evidence-based’ Policy Agenda David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D.

Apr 16, 2014 1 min read

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President Obama’s 2015 Budget: How Government Expansion Will Limit Opportuni... Paul Rosenzweig

Apr 14, 2014 34 min read

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An Analysis of Selected Budget Process Reforms Patrick Louis Knudsen

Apr 11, 2014 About an hour read

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Liberal Economists Are Caught in a Bind Trying to Sell Obama’s Overtime Laws James Sherk

Apr 2, 2014 2 min read

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The Federal Budget in 2013: Dysfunction Revisited

Apr 1, 2014 4 min read

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Why we do not need another pre-school program Edwin J. Feulner, PhD

Mar 24, 2014 2 min read

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Rachel Greszler

Senior Research Fellow, Roe Institute

Parker Sheppard, PhD, PhD

Director, Center for Data Analysis

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David Ditch

Senior Policy Analyst, Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

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Richard Stern

Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

Thomas Dans

Visiting Fellow, Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies

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Budget and Spending