Anyone familiar with the federal budget outlook knows that, along with interest on the national debt, the growing cost of health benefit programs is the main driver of long-term budget deficits. According to the CBO, the cost of Medicare, Medicaid,…
It seems that immigration is never out of the news these days. There is of course the crisis triggered by the surge in asylum seekers arriving at the southern border. There is the backlog of refugee applications. And there is…
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. As recently as 1940, there were…
By Richard Jackson, Global Aging Institute When it comes to America’s aging challenge, it sometimes seems as if all of the possible policy responses involve painful tradeoffs between higher taxes and lower benefits. While such tradeoffs are unavoidable, there…
In accepting The Concord Coalition’s 2019 Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriot Award, Mark Weinberger, former Global Chairman and CEO of EY, made a clear, compelling and forceful argument for why our nation's leaders must recognize the magnitude of our…
By Joseph Antos, AEI and Alice M. Rivlin, Brookings This paper was prepared as part of a Concord Coalition project on fiscally responsible economic growth. Generous financial support was provided by Jeff Fox, Chairman and CEO of Harbour Group, St. Louis Missouri. For a full…