But Chuck Marr over at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is no fan.
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities says 44 states are addressing 2011 budget shortfalls.
Addressing the cost rises is "daunting", says Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
And these numbers are from the left-of-center Congressional Budget Office.
Robert Greenstein, who heads the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says Congress can't even bring itself to act on more minor funding recommendations made by its own Medicare experts.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows 37% of public schools cut funding last year and nearly 80% of school districts expect further cuts this year in per-student spending.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the U.S. economy has grown for twelve straight quarters, but the pace of the recovery has been slow and below historical recovery averages.
These findings contradict predictions from liberal critics like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which in 2008 called the Rhode Island waiver a "radical" and "perilous" plan that would hurt the poor.
During 2001 to 2004, when a similar bonus depreciation provision was in effect, more than 30 states didn't allow some or all of the break, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Jared Bernstein, the former top economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Mr. Obama's decision on ozone had little to do with creating jobs.
In its 2012 study "State Film Studies: Not Much Bang For Too Many Bucks, " the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that film-related jobs tend to go to out-of-staters who jet in, then leave.
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Among those are maternity care, substance abuse and mental-health services and prescription-drug coverage, which aren't standard in individual policies today, says Sarah Lueck, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit group in Washington.
On the jobs front, again according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the private sector has created an average of approximately 154, 000 jobs a month for the past 30-month time period though the national unemployment rate remains above 8%.
According to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, just 3 percent of the long-run fiscal problem is due to the ARRA. The rest of this yawning gap is due to projected rises in spending on entitlement programs, primarily Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office and the private Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have suggested dramatically paring back--and in some cases, killing--the programs.
Widely lauded in conservative circles, Ryan's budget plan will become front and center in the campaign.
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The Center for a Responsible Budget says that "if a number of current policies are continued" the figure will rise to 92%.
He's now with the Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments.
As the national debate over proposed reductions in the U.S. defense budget continues to intensify, the Center for Security Policy convened a senior-level roundtable discussion to address one of the most controversial programs for which funding is being sought by the Bush Administration: the B-2 bomber.
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Yet for many governors, the budget-cut fight remains front-and-center and fuels a pervasive sense of frustration with Washington.
The scope of the estimates is "way too narrow" and the tax-revenue figures "are infinitesimal compared to either the county or the state budget, " says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto.
Ask Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf (who was a Tax Policy Center associate before joining CBO).
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Mr. Capretta, a former associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget, is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Assuming the center gets clipped back to something near its 2010 budget and staffing levels, it will lose about 250-300 FTEs (once you factor in the higher costs for each FTE in 2012 compared to the costs in 2010).
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Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy.
Peter Ferrara is Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy and Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute.
These considerations prompt the Center for Security Policy to conclude that, if the budget summit is not to do real violence to the economic health and security of the Nation, the only possible outcome is to slip the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets for FY1991 and the outyears.
Peter Ferrara is the senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy for the Heartland Institute and director of policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy.
Peter Ferrara is the Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute and a Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy.
The speed and level of recovery needed and the available budget all have to be weighed, and they are different for every data center.
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