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 catch up with Phil Sletten, research director of the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute, a Concord based nonpartisan state budget think tank. Phil walks us through the current state budget snapshot and talks about…
This week on Facing the Future, we celebrate the 88th birthday of Social Security by taking a look back at the history of the vital benefit program for seniors and the disabled, and taking a look at its future. To…
This week on Facing the Future, we got a Congressional update from David Lerman, editor of CQ Budget Tracker. Congress is officially out of town on its August recess, at a time when the risk of a partial federal government…
This week on Facing the Future, we hear from a group of high school boys at New Hampshire Boys State who grapple with what fiscal decisions they would make to tackle the federal deficit over the next decade. NH Boys…
This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition policy director Tori Gorman joins us to analyze the long-term budget outlook recently released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It projects, among other things, a fast growing elderly population combined with…
This week on Facing the Future, we hear a bipartisan plea for action to address America’s long-term debt problem from two veterans of many Congressional budget fights. Those two with their fair share of battle scars are: Tom Kahn, a…
