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...added that there will be three othercategories of discussion at the Decemberconference: Economic Issues, Legal andConstitutional Limits and New FeministScholarship. Alice Rivlin, who was a fellow at theInstitute of Politics last spring and was directorof the Congressional Budget Office, will write apaper on the economic issues women face...
...Rivlin, who teaches a K-School course this semester on the congressional budget, claims that the current budget deficit is a "major fiscal policy mistake." She says that deficits must be reduced by sometime in the 1990s, cautioning that reducing the deficit too fast could cause a recession...
...Rivlin is against a constitutional balanced budget amendment, an idea that has gained acceptance by many politicians. "You don't want to put government in a straightjacket," Rivlin says. "If you set a specific target, it's likely to be the wrong...
...Rivlin's K-School course analyzes defense budgeting and taxation, as well as the process of creating the budget...
...Rivlin says that when she returns to the Brookings Institute, she will begin a new book about the budget process, which will include a discussion of tax and spending issues, as well as fiscal and public policies...