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CBO Trims Its 10-Year Deficit Projections

The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday updated its 10-year budget outlook, making only small changes to its previous forecast. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper now projects:
  • The federal budget deficit will reach $896 billion in 2019, $1 billion less than projected in January, but $117 billion than the 2018 gap.
     
  • The deficit will top $1 trillion a year beginning in 2022.
     
  • Cumulative deficits from the end of 2018 through 2029 will equal $12.7 trillion, but the total deficit from 2020 through 2029 is projected to be 2% smaller than previously forecast, mostly due to a reduced estimates of mandatory spending and net interest payments.
     
  • Between 2019 and 2029, federal debt held by the public as a share of the economy is projected to grow from 78% to 92%, which CBO says “would be the largest percentage since 1947 and more than twice the 50-year average.” If some current tax and spending policies are kept in place, the debt would grow larger, reaching 105% of the economy by 2029.

VOTING RIGHTS

Don’t Count on the Courts to Save Voting Rights

 Florida bill mandates felons pay all fees before voting

 One charter school network’s positive impact on registration and voting

 Our right to vote

 Voting Rights Aren’t Just a Black Issue: They Affect Poor People of All Races

 How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

EDUCATION

Why the High-Achievers Have Moved to 'Shop' Class

 How Richmond's Rodney Robinson became a finalist for National Teacher of the Year

 Can text messages help families applying for early childhood education programs?

 Here's How Education Budget Plans From Trump and House Democrats Stack Up

     
SCREEN


 See Daisy Ridley swap 'Star Wars' for Shakespeare in exclusive 'Ophelia' trailer

 The Best Action Movies on Netflix

 It Makes Perfect Sense That Werner Herzog’s New Movie Is About Mikhail Gorbachev
   
MARIJUANA

    


Illinois Governor Announces Plan to Legalize Marijuana



SPEAKING OUT



This is not about Hollywood. It's not about movies. This is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life.
 
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, telling the Planetary Defense Conference that meteors really are a threat to the Earth




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