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…
It is increasingly clear that the U.S. is not going to get the V-shaped recovery many economists predicted when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a substantial shutdown of the economy in March. While there were some hopeful signs in May and…
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…
In a recent guest column, Concord Coalition's New England Regional Director Chase Hagaman explains why elected officials need to work in a bipartisan way to put together a plan to stabilize and begin to reduce the national debt. This piece…