Policy Briefs

The next president will face difficult challenges with the federal budget, and younger Americans have much at stake in whether those challenges are effectively met. Three speakers delivered that message Thursday to students at Washington University in St. Louis, site…

The first segment of the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was dedicated to achieving prosperity. As Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby points out in a blog post today, that provided an opportunity for the…

Lawmakers ought to have an opportunity to vote on a common-sense proposal to shift the federal government to a biennial budgeting cycle before leaving town at the end of September, Concord Coalition Government Relations Director Phil LaRue writes this week.…

The nation’s fiscal trajectory is unsustainable, experts warned last week at a panel discussion co-hosted by Hofstra University and The Concord Coalition at the site of the first presidential debate. (more…)

In advance of the Oct. 4 vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, dozens of students and faculty there participated in an interactive federal budget exercise last week. It was the first in a series of programs on…

“Isn’t it a shame,” the late journalist Earl Wilson once asked, “that future generations can’t be here to see all the wonderful things we’re doing with their money?” Chase Hagaman, New England regional director for The Concord Coalition, recalls that…

Lawmakers and expert witnesses displayed bipartisan concern over the nation’s debt and some agreement on its causes, including aging demographics, at a hearing of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week. “The temporary decline in deficits has ended,” said former…

While projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for rising federal deficits are troubling enough, a recent CBO blog post offers an important reminder of the uncertainties involved in such projections -- including how well the economy will perform in…