Jessica Riedl
Demystifying federal spending, taxes, budget, and economic policy.
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Why Surging Federal Debt Matters
(Originally appeared in The Dispatch)
It has become commonplace to dismiss concerns about soaring government debt as much ado about nothing—a modern case of the boy who cried wolf. Indeed, voters have cycled through catastrophic warnings a...
How Did the Budget Get Balanced in the Late 1990s?
(Originally appeared as Brookings Insitution blog post)
Editor’s note: Spending, Taxes, and Deficits: A Book of Charts contains 132 pages of conventional-wisdom-defying insight into federal spending, taxes, budget deficits, and debt in 202...
Social Security in the Red: Implications for Federal Debt
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May 6, 2026
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Jessica Riedl: Budget and Tax Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax...
2026 Chart Book Examines Spending, Taxes, and Deficits
Debates over federal taxes, spending, and deficits will always be contentious due to deep disagreements over fiscal priorities, ideologies, and values. Yet these debates are often further hampered by an inability to agree on even the most b...
Why Presidents Don’t Care About Inflation as Much as You Do
(Published in the Dispatch)
Inflation-weary voters are now watching gas prices spike from $2.80 to nearly $4 per gallon, an increase expected to drain hundreds of dollars from the pockets of typical families if they persist for a year or l...
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Budget and Tax Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Former chief economist to Sen. Rob Portman (2011-2017), budget advisor to 4 presidential campaigns, and tours at the Manhattan Institute and Hertage Foundation. Fiercely independent.
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