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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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Making the ‘Case’ in Congress for Fiscal Discipline

Jul 20, 2022
Special Guest: Ed Case, Phil Smith, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Representative Ed Case of Hawaii, a leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, about his sometimes lonely job of convincing his colleagues in both parties to pay for the programs they…
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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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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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How the Younger Generation Views Fiscal Responsibility

Apr 27, 2022
Special Guest: Diane Lim
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This week on Facing the Future, we go back in for a deeper dive with the voices of our future leaders and how they would address the growing challenge of putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path…
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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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The Vital Role of Immigration

Dec 22, 2021
Special Guest: Richard Jackson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Chief Economist Steve Robinson and I spoke with Richard Jackson, President and Founder of the Global Aging Institute, about the new issue brief he authored, The Vital Role of Immigration in an Aging…
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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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A Reality Check on Reconciliation

Oct 21, 2021
Special Guest: Ben Ritz
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This week on Facing the Future, we heard from Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and the author of a new paper, “Reconciling with Reality: The Top Priorities for Building Back Better.” …
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