num_pages: 295
description: In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.
language: English
title: Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?
titlecomplete: Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?
ratings_count: 3
publisher: CQ Press