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American think tank focusing on national debt and austerity politics
About 21–24 million people were enrolled in ACA marketplace plans for 2024–2025, and roughly 90–93% of those enrollees received premium tax credits (subsidies), meaning roughly 19–22 million Americans...
Current public reporting in 2025 places U.S. gross federal debt in the neighborhood of $37–38 trillion, which converts to roughly $105,000–$111,000 per person depending on which dataset and population...
The national debt rose to roughly $36–38 trillion during 2025, with end‑June estimates around $36.2 trillion (119.4% of GDP) and later daily totals reaching about $37.6–$38.1 trillion by autumn and No...
The answer depends on what "pay" means: measured as a share of total income-tax revenue, the richest 1 percent account for roughly a quarter to over a third of income-tax receipts in common analyses; ...
Independent forecasts under “current policy” assumptions show U.S. federal debt held by the public rising from roughly 100 percent of GDP today to roughly 118–120 percent of GDP by 2035 under mainstre...
The federal deficit for FY2024 was about $1.8–$1.9 trillion (roughly 6.3–6.4% of GDP), driven chiefly by unusually large interest costs on the national debt and rising mandatory spending for major ben...
Since 2025 the federal debt climbed mainly because large annual deficits continued to add new borrowing, the government’s interest costs surged as debt outstanding and market interest rates rose, and ...
Federal gross spending on ACA marketplace premium subsidies rose from about $18 billion in 2014 to $53 billion in 2020, with most sources attributing the growth to rising enrollment and higher average...
The headline: when retook the oath on Jan. 20, 2025, the U.S. gross national debt was reported at about ; by late 2025 and into early 2026 that stock had climbed into the high $38‑trillion range and w...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that advocacy groups or think tanks have been pushing to rename the Social Security program itself in recent coverage; the sources instead document propo...
Multiple U.S. think tanks and official budget agencies produced 2024-era estimates of fiscal impacts; prominent contributors in the material supplied include seven organizations convened by the Peter ...