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On November 15, The Concord Coalition and The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service hosted a panel discussion on legal immigration reform aimed at encouraging economic growth, titled “Immigration: Reform for the Future.” The panel of…

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…

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 fiscal…

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…

On August 22, 2019, The Concord Coalition partnered with 20/20 Vision to host “The Economy, the Budget and You,” a forum where candidates in the Democratic primary for President of the United States came together to present their roadmaps for…

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…

The Concord Coalition has teamed up with Mindsumo, a leading crowdsourcing platform, to find new and creative ways to engage younger generations on the problem of a growing national debt and help fellow young leaders better relate to the fiscal…

The House and Senate have now passed a bipartisan budget deal. If signed by the president, as expected, the deal would lessen the chances of another government shutdown when the fiscal year ends on September 30th and suspend the debt…