It seemed to go without saying, but on Monday June 8th, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) made it official: The U.S. economy entered a recession in February 2020. It marked the end…
Concord Coalition executive director Bob Bixby recently moderated a policy discussion on Covid-19, the economy and the federal budget. The event was sponsored by Center Forward, an organization devoted to bringing together Members of Congress and Washington, DC organizations in…
After four weeks of record-shattering initial unemployment insurance claims, the most recent jobs report revealed what most Americans already knew: the current U.S. employment situation is dire. Total nonfarm employment fell by 20.5 million in April, wiping out a decade…
Last year, The Concord Coalition began a new project exploring the building blocks of a fiscally responsible economic growth agenda. The project focused on health care reform, workforce growth, productivity investments, worker training and sustainable solvency for Social Security. In…