Blogs

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”…

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…

There are some promising recent developments on health care policy in Congress and in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that are worth highlighting, despite the recent vote in the House of Representatives to eliminate the “Cadillac Tax.”…

As the presidential campaign heats up with the first debates this week, The Concord Coalition has released The National Debt & Federal Budget: 2020 Presidential Election Issue Guide. In the months ahead presidential candidates will make many promises and offer…

We often talk in broad strokes about how “mandatory spending” -- spending that happens automatically based on eligibility criteria set into law by Congress -- is growing as a share of the budget and as a share of GDP in…