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A nonpartisan public policy center called the New America Foundation analyzes government data in its Federal Education Budget Project. Based on 2008-09 school year numbers, the project ranked Texas 41st in per-student spending of local, federal and ...

We contacted a few experts on the federal budget: Jason Peuquet of the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan public policy think-tank ...

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"(The Reconciliation Act of 2010) didn't take over the student loan industry, it ended a federal program," said Jason Delisle, Director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation. "The semantic problem of the government ...

Although Ryan's budget proposal doesn't include language to maintain the lower interest rate, an expert with the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation told PolitiFact New Jersey that House Republicans passed a bill to prevent ...

"The Ryan budget does not include any proposal to postpone the rate increase," said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation. But, he said, "the House Republicans did pass a bill to prevent the rate ...

Jason Peuquet, research director at the centrist Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said his organization has run its own numbers and concluded that entitlement and debt interest will outpace revenues in 2026.

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Jason Delisle, an education budget expert at the New America Foundation, has made some guesses.) Among those suggestions: "To get program costs back to a sustainable level, the budget recommends a maximum award of $5550." It says the award would be ...

Jason Peuquet, the research director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said he prefers to go with the OMB numbers. Georgia State University professor Katherine Willoughby, an expert in government budgets, said she prefers to use the ...

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the product of a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, also deserves credit, said says Marc Goldwein, policy director for the New America Foundation's Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

... conversation about fiscal reform, the last thing we need is demagoguing attacks against people who have put forward serious policy proposals," said Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...