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By Richard Jackson, Global Aging Institute The aging of America is ushering in a new era unlike any in the nation’s past. For most of its history, America was a demographically youthful society.

After a one-week delay, on April 9th, the Biden administration finally released a peek at their FY 2022 budget.

It was infrastructure week on Facing the Future and we tried to “bridge” the divide between differing perspectives of President Biden’s $2.3 American Jobs Plan.

After enactment of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and the unveiling this week of the roughly $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, it is easy to forget that President Biden hasn’t actually put out a budget.

On this Good Friday, the March jobs report was indeed good. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs last month, vastly exceeding consensus expectations of 675,000, and almost double the gain of the previous month (an upwardly revised 468,000).

President Biden began rolling out his first budget this week and on Facing the Future, we took a look at why it matters and how he might pay for new proposals.

For understandable reasons, the focus in Washington over the past year has been on the nation’s physical health, and its resulting consequences for the near-term economy, rather than on our longer-term fiscal health.

Sequestration is making headlines once again in Washington as federal lawmakers work quickly to avoid untimely reductions in Medicare reimbursements to healthcare providers – in the middle of a viral pandemic. And if one sequester wasn’t enough trouble, Congress must deal with two.

On the latest Facing the Future, we took a wide-ranging tour of the fiscal policy landscape as the Biden Administration prepares to unveil new proposals that media reports indicate could cost $3 trillion or m

Last week, I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. It got me thinking about where we were at this time last year and where things are heading now.