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Facing The Future

Social Security and Medicare Creep Towards Insolvency

Jun 15, 2022
Special Guest: Av Harris, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at challenges ahead for Social Security and Medicare. According to the latest reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, we are creeping towards insolvency for both programs by the next decade.…
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Breaking Down the CBO 10-year Baseline

Jun 4, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robison, Phil Smith, Av Harris
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This week on Facing the Future, we relied on a panel of Concord Coalition staff to help us break down the latest 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. I gave my own interpretation of…
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Congress has a Tall Agenda and a Short Clock

May 12, 2022
Special Guest: Jon Lieber, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with one of the top experts on Congressional process and economic policy – Jon Lieber, managing director for the Eurasia Group’s United States Practice.   Lieber has extensive experience in top policy positions…
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The Economic and Budgetary Challenges of Climate Change

Apr 20, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Keane
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This week on Facing the Future, we explored the connection between environmental and fiscal sustainability with Brian Keane,  president of SmartPower, a Washington, DC based non-profit renewable energy and energy efficiency outreach organization.  Keane also has years of experience working on…
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Sizing up the Biden FY 2023 Budget

Mar 31, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman, Chief Economist Steve Robinson, and I took a look at President Biden’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 $5.8 Trillion federal budget proposal, measuring the new spending and revenue…
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Facing the Future in America’s Heartland

Mar 23, 2022
Special Guest: Phil Smith, Dr. Josh Gordon, Ben Ritz
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This week, Facing the Future took to the road to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where The Concord Coalition’s national field director Phil Smith helped run our Principles and Priorities federal budget exercise with students and local community members,…
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National Debt Outlook After Two Years of COVID

Mar 17, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Riedl, Wendy Edelberg
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This week on Facing the Future, we have a special edition of the program featuring excerpts from a recent panel discussion at the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin…
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Inflating the Budget, and Three Healthcare Myths

Mar 3, 2022
Special Guest: Richard Jackson, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we focus on healthcare costs and inflation, two factors that have an enormous impact on the federal budget and our national debt.  In the first part of the program, we spoke to friend of…
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Leadership in Time of Crisis

Feb 23, 2022
Special Guest: Professor David Gergen
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This week on Facing the Future, we got a rare opportunity to speak about leadership in a time of crisis with a real scholar of presidential politics: Professor David Gergen of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Gergen served as a…
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A Blue Dog Keeps Barking

Feb 9, 2022
Special Guest: Jim Cooper
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This week on Facing the Future, we listen to a veteran Blue Dog Democrat bark one more time. That would be Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) who has represented his Nashville area district for more than three decades. Concord Coalition national…
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COVID Makes a Mess of Economic Data

Feb 3, 2022
Special Guest: Mark Zandi
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman and I spoke with Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, to help us parse through recent economic data crosscurrents, seemingly buffeted by the effects of the Omicron…
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A ‘New Normal’ for COVID-19?

Jan 26, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Michael Osterholm
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, one of the world’s leading experts on infectious disease and epidemiology. Osterholm is the Director of the University’s Center for…
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