U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

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Leaders across categories emphasise the need for government measures to ease GST rates, uplift consumer confidence and ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

As the price of just about everything has risen over the past few years, Canadians looking to rein in their spending usually turn to discretionary costs first.

Thousands of households will soon receive £300 payments through the government’s Household Support Fund (HSF), just in time ...

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the worst of the cost of living crisis is 'truly behind us'- but chilling new evidence says ...

The chances of a Reserve Bank interest rate cut in February have improved significantly as price rises ease. So what's behind the inflation pull-back?

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