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 is public education, about fiscal responsibility, that’s it,” said Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby in describing the organization. “That’s what we do on a nonpartisan basis.” Bixby said Concord’s founders wanted it to be grassroots and oriented…
During the latest Facing the Future, Adam Lord, a manager at the CPA firm Penchansky & Co. in Manchester, New Hampshire discussed the 2017 tax legislation and how some of the changes impacted taxpayers. As a millennial and member of…
On the latest Facing the Future Joe Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, discussed the nation's health care system and potential reforms to help reduce cost growth. Robert L.…
New Hampshire Institute of Politics Executive Director Neil Levesque joined the latest Facing the Future program to discuss the institute, the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidates and more. “We are operating here nonstop,” Levesque said. “We have more presidential campaign…
“I think there are a million fiscal issues that we should be thinking about more because obviously it is our children who are going to bear the burden of our profligacy,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor who had…
Wayne Lesperance, vice president of academic affairs and professor at New England College, and Stephan Unger, a professor of economics and business at Saint Anselm College, joined the latest Facing the Future program to discuss political and civic engagement of college…