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In football terms, it was fourth and long… very long. The chances of passing appropriation bills to fund government agencies for the current fiscal year, which began on October 1st, were slim. So this week Congress did what they have…

Over the last 27 years, I have followed The Concord Coalition’s initiatives on fiscal responsibility as I raised my family and continued my logistics career in central Indiana. In recent years, however, I became more than a passive supporter. I…

It’s official. The federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2019 was $984 billion, an increase of $205 billion from 2018. That was the grim news delivered on Friday, October 25th by the U.S. Treasury Department. The deficit increased as a…

The federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2019 was $984 billion (4.7 percent of GDP), according to a preliminary estimate issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday. This would be an increase of $205 billion over the 2018…

Last week The Concord Coalition kicked off our new project: Toward a Fiscally Responsible Economic Growth Agenda. At the kick-off event we featured a selection of authors of the project’s initial five policy papers. All of the authors discussed…

In the past week The Concord Coalition joined with a diverse group of policy experts to release and discuss two new papers as part of our new project on fiscally responsible economic growth. On Thursday, September 19 we released “Promoting…

This event summary was written with the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. On September 12, 2019, the Concord Coalition joined with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to hold an expert panel discussion in the Rayburn House Office Building upon…

In a follow-up to the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections, the CBO released a report last week analyzing the effect that select policy alternatives would have on budget deficits and federal debt. CBO also produced an “alternative scenario”…