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 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…
This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Representative Ed Case of Hawaii, a leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, about his sometimes lonely job of convincing his colleagues in both parties to pay for the programs they…
In honor of the July 4th holiday, this week on Facing the Future, we are once again running our recent program with David Gergen, advisor to four US presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), CNN political commentator, and professor at Harvard’s…
This week on Facing the Future, I am reminded of the words of Willie Nelson: “Turn out the lights, the party’s over….” After 15 years of extremely low interest rates following the financial collapse of 2008 and the great recession…
