Led by senior fellow Michael Boskin, the Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy surveyed 2,000 American voters and asked them about their attitudes and knowledge on the federal budget and social safety net programs.
To read more about the results of that survey, click here: https://www.hoover.org/research/polic...
To see more from the Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy, click here: www.hoover.org/fact-based-policy-program
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Show Notes: "Policy Knowledge in the Public" by Michael Boskin and Douglas Rivers (PDF): https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/...
Current Social Security Trustees Report summary: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
Simpson-Bowles Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
Congressional Research Service summary of the Sequester: https://crsreports.congress.gov/produ...
BEA National Economic Accounts: https://www.bea.gov/data/economic-acc...
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Historical Tables: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget...
CBO Outlook for the Budget and the Economy: https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget/out...
The Boskin Commission Report of 1996: https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/b...
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