Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation.
Controlling costs is therefore a job for health policy, not budget policy, he says.
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 Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the main referee of U.S. budget policy, in January estimated the U.S. gap at 5.3% of GDP.
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.
My Tax Policy Center colleagues ran the numbers and they tell two important stories one about budget policy and the other about budget politics.
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However, even an American president faces constraints, and these constraints seem most apparent in foreign and budget policy, perhaps the two fundamental areas of politics.
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.
Yet the true aim of American budget policy these days has to be quite different: to try to ensure the solvency of entitlement programmes well into the next century.
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Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy.
That revenue loss would be overwhelmed by a budget policy of returning every federal line item to 2007 levels, except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, debt interest, and federal employee retirement benefits.
My research focuses on federal tax and budget policy.
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Peter Ferrara is Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy, a Senior Fellow for the Heartland Institute, and Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation.
There is no question that on matters of budget policy and fiscal policy, social policy, and other kinds of policy there are and there will be stark differences between the two parties, leaders of the parties.
Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, formerly serving in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan.
"In view of the fact that many of the proposals for Greece have not been implemented, the suggestion for more control and supervision goes in the right direction, " Norbert Barthle, a budget policy leader for the centre-right CDU party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told Reuters.
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.
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities says 44 states are addressing 2011 budget shortfalls.
But Chuck Marr over at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is no fan.
The Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities wants more help for struggling state governments.
Addressing the cost rises is "daunting", says Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
But according to the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, over half of all entitlement spending flows to the elderly and around 40% is spent on health care.
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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.
Last year, the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities found that only three states had enough reserves to maintain spending through a three-year recession without tax rises: Iowa, Maine and North Dakota.
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.
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