Over the course of two meaningful days—May 1 and 2—I had the opportunity to travel to Tyler and Longview, Texas, to lead our signature Principles & Priorities federal budget exercise for U.S. Representative Nathaniel Moran. Congressman Moran, who represents Texas’s…
This past Thursday and Friday, I had the privilege of visiting the University of Iowa in Iowa City to engage with students, faculty, and community members on the pressing issues surrounding our nation’s fiscal policy. Hosted in collaboration with the…
This week I had the privilege of traveling to Carrollton, Georgia, to visit the University of West Georgia and facilitate Principles and Priorities, The Concord Coalition’s interactive federal budget exercise, with students from Professor Mary Kassis’s public finance class. Over…
This past week, undergraduate students from across the country gathered to present in-depth budget proposals to improve the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook– and they did not disappoint. Held against the backdrop of rising national debt and ongoing congressional debates over…
Concord Coalition Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux, Senior Advisor Bob Bixby, and former Chief Economist Steven Robinson joined a recent statement with budget experts from across partisan divides who agree on one thing: how the costs and savings of legislation are…
In my role as National Field Director for The Concord Coalition, I’ve had the privilege of traveling to all 50 states and visiting countless college campuses across the country to facilitate our signature federal budget exercise, Principles and Priorities. From…
Introduction As debate in Washington continues over how (or whether) to pay for the latest infrastructure plan, someone will inevitably claim it will pay for itself. (1) Such optimism reflects the belief that government spending creates jobs and grows…
Two deadlines converge by coincidence this year. They are not related to one another and the precise consequences of failing to deal with them in a timely manner are different. Missing either of the deadlines, however, has the potential to…
Congress voted in February 2018 to again suspend the federal debt limit. On March 1, 2019, it went back into effect and was set at the level necessary to include all debt racked up prior to that date ($21.988 trillion). While…