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State Budgets and Examining ‘Replacement Rates’ for Social Security

Aug 19, 2022
Special Guest: Steve Robinson, Phil Smith, Av Harris, Phil Sletten
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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…
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Reconciliation Bill on Climate and Health Care Passes While Inflation Shows Signs of an Ebb

Aug 12, 2022
Special Guest: Steve Robinson, Tori Gorman
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The Senate’s version  is much smaller than the original House legislation. It would spend approximately $740 billion to help reduce prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, preserve affordable health insurance through Obamacare marketplace exchanges, and invest in clean energy technologies…
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CBO Long Term Budget Outlook: Rising Deficits, Debt, and Economic Challenges

Aug 3, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Philip Swagel. Steve Robinson, Tori Gorman
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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…
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Budget Reconciliation Package for Biden Domestic Agenda Faces Challenges

Jul 15, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we once again prove the old adage that if you don’t like the way the political winds are blowing in Washington DC, just wait 5 minutes. In this case, our program this week focused…
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COVID Lingers. Have We Learned Any Lessons?

May 26, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Jodie Guest, Av Harris, Phil Smith, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we focus on the persistently lingering COVID 19 pandemic, as we appear to be in another national surge of infections, and have recently surpassed 1,000,000 deaths from the pandemic in the United States. The pandemic…
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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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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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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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Keeping an Eye on COVID and the Debt Limit

Dec 9, 2021
Special Guest: Rachel Snyderman
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Communications Director Av Harris, National Field Director Phil Smith’ and I spoke with Dr. Jodie Guest, an epidemiologist and professor at the School of Public Health and Medicine at Emory University in…
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New Health Benefits, But for How Long?

Dec 3, 2021
Special Guest: Joshua Gordon
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman and I spoke to Joshua Gordon, Director of Health Policy for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget about some of the health care provisions that are contained…
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Alzheimer’s Drug Has Big Costs and Many Questions

Aug 20, 2021
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This week on Facing the Future, we turned to health care and the brewing controversy over Aduhelm, a new drug for treating Alzheimer's Disease that was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Is it effective, will…
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Taxing Choices and Pandemic Progress

May 26, 2021
Special Guest: Donald Marron, Jodie Guest
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This week on Facing the Future we heard from two experts on two pressing issues: How to pay for infrastructure investments and how we’re doing in the fight against COVID-19. My first guest was tax policy expert Donald Marron…
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