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America's Storied History Is a Compelling Budget Story

Shelly McAllister

America's story is a budget story, the ongoing struggle to allocate limited resources between worthy and competing demands, all balanced against the ability to generate and collect revenue. More »

Behind the Debate on Federal Pay

Craig Pettibone

Does the federal pay system fairly compensate employees compared to their private-sector counterparts? Why do studies using a jobs-to-jobs comparison versus the human capital approach reach different results? More »

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Theory of Constraints Reduces Cost of Government

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Kevin Fox

When the economic downturn hit the nation several years ago, Utah’s Department of Workforce Services (DWS) was hit with a double whammy—workloads that tripled and budgets that were cut. DWS is responsible for providing services to displaced workers and those... More »

Back to Fixing the Federal Budget Process

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Steve Redburn

Budget experts have watched the federal government’s budget process fail over the last few years as the policy choices required to put the budget on a sustainable path grew more challenging. The darkening long-term outlook, masked by investors’ willingness s... More »

How the Congressional Budget Office Earned its Clout

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Jason Juffras

In tracing CBOs history over more than three decades in his new book, Philip G. Joyce highlights key points when CBO directors could have bowed to pressure from political mastersbut none did. As Congress and President Obama raced to avoid defaulting on the... More »