The Federal Budget, Third Edition: Politics, Policy, Process
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815777353
ISBN-13: 9780815777359
The federal budget impacts American policies both at home and abroad, and recent concern over the exploding budgetary deficit has experts calling our nation’s policies "unsustainable" and "system-dooming." As the deficit continues to grow, will America be fully able to fund its priorities, such as an effective military and looking after its aging population? In this third edition of his classic book The Federal Budget, Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush. In his detailed anal...