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Restoring Fiscal Sanity

How to Balance the Budget

Restoring Fiscal Sanity( )
Editor: Rivlin, Alice M.
Sawhill, Isabel V.
ISBN:978-0-8157-9639-8
Publication Date:Mar 2004
Publisher:Brookings Institution Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $18.99
Book Description:

The United States is standing at a critical juncture in its fiscal outlook. After experiencing a brief period of budget surpluses at the turn of the century, the federal government will run deficits that add about $4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. Substantial deficits will likely continue long into the future because the looming retirement of the baby boom generation will raise spending in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. At the same time, the...
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Book Details
Pages:138
Detailed Subjects: Business & Economics / Public Finance
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.5 x 11 Inches
Author Biography
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Alice M. Rivlin was born Georgianna Alice Mitchell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1931. She received a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and completed graduate work at Harvard University. She was an economist who spent much of her career bouncing back and forth between The Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, and top government posts including vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Board. She was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and ran the District of Columbia's Financial Management Assistance Authority. She also wrote editorials for The Washington Post in the 1970s and wrote a regular column for The Los Angeles Times. Her book, Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government, was published in 1992. She died on May 14, 2019 at the age of 88.

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