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Facing The Future

Opportunity Costs and Heroic Assumptions

Feb 12, 2020
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Diane Lim
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Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Diane Lim, Economist Mom and director of outreach and senior advisor at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, joined the latest Facing the Future to discuss President Trump’s budget proposal, the opportunity costs…
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Choppy Waters Ahead

Feb 5, 2020
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Ashley Hunt
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Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Ashley Hunt, a partner at the Iowa-based PR and government affairs firm LS2, joined the latest Facing the Future to discuss the Iowa Caucus, how the recent Congressional Budget Office budget outlook…
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Spending Smarter vs. Spending More

Jan 29, 2020
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Ben Ritz
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Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Ben Ritz, director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Funding America’s Future, joined me on the latest Facing the Future to discuss a preview of PPI’s report on candidate policies and pay-fors,…
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You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers (Again)

Jan 23, 2020
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Phil Smith
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Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and National Field Director Phil Smith joined me on the latest Facing the Future. We spent the program answering a wide range of fiscal-policy related questions submitted by listeners in this second annual…
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Grassroots, Granite State

Jan 15, 2020
Special Guest: Phil Smith, John Bohm
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Concord Coalition National Field Director Phil Smith and Concord Fiscal Lookout John Bohm from Virginia joined me on the latest Facing the Future. Smith provided an update on Concord’s nationwide grassroots efforts, Bohm shared a bit of his history that…
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An Intergenerational View: The National Debt

Jan 9, 2020
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Brian Riedl, Ben Ritz
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute Brian Riedl and Director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute Ben Ritz join me for the show’s…
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Building the Workforce

Dec 18, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Dr. Robert Lerman
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Urban Institute Fellow Dr. Robert Lerman joined me to discuss Dr. Lerman’s recent publication focused on workforce development that also increases economic growth, “Training for Jobs of the…
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Intergenerational Conversations

Nov 27, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Diane Lim
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and “Economist Mom” Diane Lim, a Senior Advisor at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, joined me to discuss generational perspectives on fiscal and economic policy and the role of…
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Millennials and The Fiscal Flywheel

Nov 20, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Layla Zaidane, Steven Borne
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby, COO of the Millennial Action Project Layla Zaidane and newly published author Steven Borne joined me to discuss Millennial perspectives on key issues, building trust amongst members of Congress,…
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Millennial Perspective: Climate Change and National Debt

Nov 15, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Stuart M. Butler, Timothy Higashi
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Stuart M. Butler and Timothy Higashi, a senior research analyst at Brookings joined me to discuss a recent forum co-hosted by Brookings and…
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Reforming the ‘Third Rail’ of Politics

Oct 23, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby, Marc Goldwein
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby and Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Marc Goldwein joined me to discuss Social Security reform and how it fits…
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Fiscally Responsible Economic Growth

Oct 17, 2019
Special Guest: Robert L. Bixby
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On Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby joined me to discuss Concord's new fiscally-responsible economic growth agenda, which concerns key topics like health care, workforce development, R&D investment, Social Security and immigration reform. “Projections from…
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