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 Bob was joined by George Mason University Professor Sita Slavov to discuss her recent essay Making Tough Fiscal Choices to Protect Future Generations and the relevance of long term sustainability to younger generations. Slavov…
This week on Facing the Future, Bob examined how we can better engage young people in the federal budget process. Joining him were two University of New Hampshire professors, Daniel Innis - also a New Hampshire state senator - and…
This week on Facing the Future our guest was former Congressman Reid Ribble, a Republican who represented the 8th district of Wisconsin from 2011-2017. In 2016, Ribble released the Save Our Social Security Act (S.O.S.) with a bipartisan group of…
This week on Facing the Future, we heard from three college students who recently took part in the annual Fiscal Challenge competition where teams from around the country devise and defend their own plans for putting the federal budget on…
This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Chief Economist Steve Robinson discusses his new issue brief, "The Rhetoric and Reality of Taxing the Rich." Then we'll talk with Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute about his new column explaining…
This week on Facing the Future, we heard from Zach Moller, director of the economic program at Third Way, a center-left think tank. Moller recently co-authored an issue brief titled “A Democratic Case for Fiscal Responsibility” and he made that…