About the Show
Hosted by Robert Bixby, Concord’s Senior Advisor and former Executive Director, the show dives into topics related to U.S. fiscal policy — like health care, taxes, national security, the national debt and more — with budget experts, industry leaders, elected officials and candidates for public office.
Listen to learn more about how the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges — and possible solutions — impact current and future generations.
The show is broadcast on Concord, New Hampshire radio station WKXL each week on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m., with subsequent rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. and Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
This week on Facing the Future we took a close look at Social Security and Medicare, the two largest programs in the federal budget. Between them they cost nearly $2.2 trillion dollars in 2023, roughly 36 percent of total federal…
This week on Facing the Future, we'll discuss a new report on fraud by the Government Accountability Office, along with a review of the foreign aid spending bill and the latest news on the economy.
This week on Facing the Future we previewed a coming tax mess that Congress created in 2017 when it passed the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA). To limit the official estimated revenue loss of the bill, Congress scheduled many…
This week on Facing the Future, we looked at the economics of immigration reform with Teresa Cardinal Brown, Senior Advisor for Immigration and Border Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Brown gave a comprehensive overview of the nation’s immigration system.…
This week on Facing the Future we examined President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request, submitted to Congress on Monday, March 11. Our first guest was Dr. Josh Gordon, Director of Health Policy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal…
This week on Facing the Future, we discussed the drawn-out Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. Our guest was Bill Hoagland, Senior Vice President of the Bipartisan Policy Center and former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. He gave…
