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 hear excerpts from a panel discussion I participated in at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin focusing on America’s long-term fiscal and economic outlook. It was…
This week on Facing the Future, we check in with Bill Hoagland, Senior Vice President of the Bipartisan Policy Center, about the growing national debt and how that debt is getting more expensive to carry as interest rates go up…
This week on Facing the Future, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Concord Coalition with our national co-chairs, Democrat and former Nebraska Senator and Governor Bob Kerrey, and Republican and former Missouri Senator and Attorney General Jack Danforth, about…
This week on Facing the Future, we take a closer look at the healthcare provisions in the recently passed “Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)” and examine whether any of these measures could possibly lower the cost of healthcare. Since $1 out…
In our first segment Concord’s communications director Av Harris and I looked in detail at the New Hampshire state budget with Phil Sletten, research director for the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute. Later, national field director Phil Smith - who worked…
This week on Facing the Future, we welcomed back Dr. Phillip Swagel, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to give us more insight and analysis following the CBO’s release of its annual long-term budget outlook last week. The Concord Coalition’s chief economist Steve…
