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The crucial thing to recognize about the $22 trillion debt is that its size in dollar terms is not as important as the fact that it is on an unsustainable track. It has grown by more than $2 trillion in the past two years alone.

Last week the national debt hit $22 trillion and the president declared an emergency. Too bad the two things were not related.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) sends an annual report to Congress that flags problems with the federal government’s tax collection efforts.

Oriental, N.C. -- Phil Smith, the southern regional director for The Concord Coalition, and Marjorie Dufek, the organization’s North Carolina coordinator, have released the following statement about the recent death of U.S. Rep. Walter Jones:

Economist Diane Lim hopes that Washington policymakers “will somehow become woke and enlightened and . . . say, ‘Hey you know what?

Elected officials in both parties have expressed interest for years in boosting federal investment in the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. So, too, have business leaders and many economists who say that such a commitment would support stronger economic growth and is long overdue.

And the State of the Union is . . . ?

The latest government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history at 35 days, was unnecessary, harmful and costly for the more than 800,000 federal workers and their families impacted by it. The shutdown also cost the economy $3 billion that will never be recovered.

On the latest Facing the Future program, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L.

Students and residents gathered Thursday night for an interactive workshop that imitated the complexities of balancing a federal budget and the policy choices lawmakers face.