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This is a guest post by Concord Coalition intern Rob Ryan

This is a guest post by Concord Coalition intern Rob Ryan

“I think our issue is in outer space at the moment,” said Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition.

By Rob Ryan

“As we look at keeping discretionary spending under control we do want to be careful and maintain a fiscally responsible approach, but we don’t want to cut the heart out of things that ar

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released an update to its estimates and projections of the cost and use of federal gover

“I remember sitting, looking at the national debt clock projected on the smart board and realizing how much of an issue this is,” said Brittany Brown, a top ten finalist in the national “

The 2018 Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Reports are expected to be released within the next few weeks.

The American economy is at risk for a variety of reasons: high and rising federal debt, mounting interest and health costs, recent tax and spending decisions, and widespread complacency -

“In only a few years we will be spending more servicing our past debt than we will investing in our future,” Marc Goldwein, senior vice president for the Committee for a Responsible Feder